Our old microwave expired so we got this one on sale.
It has a 900W microwave, an 1100W grill and a 2500W convection oven that goes up to 240°C. The turntable diameter is 315mm so it is quite a bit bigger than the old one. All stainless steel.
February 27, 2012
November 22, 2011
More Amazon Food
Free delivery.
Punjabi Choley and pea soup with pork sausage. The ‘Do Not Split’ stickers are amusing 🙂
November 3, 2011
Amazon Groceries
Bought some food from Amazon’s grocery department. Free delivery.
That’s spinach and cottage cheese curry and pickled cucumber soup. Delicious!
New Tassimo
The old one died (the scanner couldn’t read any barcodes) so it got replaced with this one:
August 25, 2011
iMac RAM upgrade
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 🙂
August 15, 2011
New Bathroom Fan
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.)
January 17, 2011
New Operator Chair
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 🙂
January 11, 2011
DrayTek Vigor2710n
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 🙂
December 20, 2010
SATA/IDE to USB
Handy gadget for attaching bare drives by USB without having to mount them in a caddy or case.
December 6, 2010
GoFlex
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.
