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More Amazon Food

William_T_Goodall — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:49:56 +0000

Free delivery.

Punjabi Choley and pea soup with pork sausage. The ‘Do Not Split’ stickers are amusing

Amazon Groceries

William_T_Goodall — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:45:39 +0000

Bought some food from Amazon’s grocery department. Free delivery.

That’s spinach and cottage cheese curry and pickled cucumber soup. Delicious!

New Tassimo

William_T_Goodall — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:43:25 +0000

The old one died (the scanner couldn’t read any barcodes) so it got replaced with this one:

iMac RAM upgrade

William_T_Goodall — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:14:49 +0000

I upgraded my iMac from 2GB to 3GB so I could install Lion. My iMac is a late 2006 model Core 2 Duo at 2.16 GHz.

Package from Amazon.

The Crucial DIMM.

Instructions for accessing the RAM are thoughtfully printed on the underside of the stand.

Two original 1GB DIMMS with one removed (Samsung).

New memory inserted.

Reboot with 3GB RAM

New Bathroom Fan

William_T_Goodall — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:12:50 +0000

I bought a new bathroom fan from Amazon a while back but hadn’t got around to installing it.

Until today. My new drill came in handy as the knock-out for the wiring was in a different place and I had to make a new hole to feed the wiring through. The timer runs a little long so I may turn it down in the future – but the bathroom gets quite steamy so maybe I won’t.

(The fan is actually turning, the flash just froze it in the picture.)

New Operator Chair

William_T_Goodall — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:19:39 +0000

My old chair was manufactured in 1997 (it says so on the inspection label pasted under the seat) and I must have had it since not long after that. The padding on the seat had compressed and the gas lift was sticking. Time for a replacement

DrayTek Vigor2710n

William_T_Goodall — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:33:25 +0000

My ISP recently notified me that my ADSL was getting a free upgrade to ADLS2+ sometime between February and April. This was good news apart from the fact that my existing modem/router was so old that it didn’t do ADSL2+ It was a DrayTek 2600We that had been running pretty much 24/7 without problems since November 2002 when I first got ADSL. It also only supported WEP on the wireless LAN so that was a bit obsolete.

Today my new modem/router/firewall/wireless access point arrived and was quickly installed ready for my line upgrade.

Big box.

Littler box inside.

Neat and tidy. Template for drilling holes for wall-mounting.

Curvy.

Screws and plugs for wallmounting and a pad of DrayTek post-its included.

Light compact switching power supply.

Set up and running. Now I get wireless on the other side of the house too

SATA/IDE to USB

William_T_Goodall — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:00:00 +0000

Handy gadget for attaching bare drives by USB without having to mount them in a caddy or case.

GoFlex

William_T_Goodall — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:11:06 +0000

My pair of Formac 160GB rotating back-up drives were full so I needed something bigger. I got a pair of GoFlex 1TB drives which came with USB interfaces. I got a single Firewire pluggable interface to share between them. One drive is sitting in the Firewire dock getting backups stored on it while the other is rotated out offsite.

A £5 Firewire 400<->800 cable let me plug it into my iMac.

Noodles

William_T_Goodall — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:43:55 +0000

A large parcel of 48 assorted bowl noodles and three packs of spicy shrimp crackers arrived this morning.

Pip was intrigued.

These ones are Vietnamese.

Kimchi flavour !