For various reasons, which you can ask me about if you’re interested, I need to make a Fallout New Vegas costume by the end of the year. I wouldn’t go as far as to call it a cosplay, because the … Continue reading
Recently I went shopping for a new car stereo. I wrote about my experience here, but also hinted at a problem with the Pioneer DEH-4700BT which is not quite enough to justify returning it to Halfords (I never want to … Continue reading
Attentive readers will recall that the display on our car stereo has been going for a while. Inattentive readers may wish to refresh their memories. Since October, and that ill-fated dalliance with a cheap car stereo, we’ve been bumbling along … Continue reading
Ten years ago, during the previous incarnation of Uborka, I gave a Christmas gift to you all in the form of a song. Here’s the post, and though I had taken down the link, I’ve resurrected it temporarily. In the … Continue reading
Preamble I can’t remember much about my first car stereo. I think it was a Goodmans, and it had a 6-CD changer which might have been in the glove box of my blue F-reg Ford Sierra, or it might have … Continue reading
Remember back in January, when I got all my old mobile phones out of hiding and had a little party, and we were sad that my first ever phone, my Siemens C35, old “Siemy” himself, was no longer with us? … Continue reading
When I spotted the topic for this month’s Skeptics in the Pub, I immediately started casting around for babysitters so that Pete and I could go. Not because I felt we were experts, or indeed because there was anything else … Continue reading