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Football

14 Nov 2009

Out up and early today, off to watch Josh play football v Hepworth, near Holmfirth. The rain seems to have blown over but it still doesn’t look too appealing out there! Very windy and cold I expect too, especially stuck on the touchline, half way up a hill. Hope it’s worth it and they get a much needed win.

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Modern Warfare 2 Servers Down

In: Techie Stuff

11 Nov 2009

1 day in and the servers for the epic new Modern Warfare 2 appear to be down. For me on my PS3, the online is stucj at “Connecting To Matchmaker Server”. The blogosphere is speculating this is all due to the latest patch which was released to fix an entirely separate problem.

Has anyone else been affected by this?

UPDATE

It appears a patch is due this Friday. Big screw up me thinks.

UPDATE 2

Some people are saying this was a temporary server problem and it’s now resolved. Can anyone confirm?

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Google Wave Invites

In: Freebies| Techie Stuff

11 Nov 2009

I have 20 Google Wave invites to give away. If anyone wants one, please register on this site using the button at the top right corner of the page and comment on this post, or tweet me at @mcollinson. Google don’t always send the invites through immediately, so have patience!!

Good luck!

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Tags: Google Wave

Losi Micro-T Radio Upgrade

In: RC Cars

8 Nov 2009

My new receiver came yesterday, the Spektrum SR3500 2.4Ghz micro receiver. It costs £60+, which is as much as the original Micro-T cost me in total!! I’ve been very reluctant to part with that kind of money for one part of such a small car, but, bearing in mind the amount I’ve already spent on it and it was undriveable with the Losi 27Mhz transmitter (upgraded for the brushless conversion) I had to give it a try.

By and large, it’s solved most if not all of my problems. The steering is now rock solid, and interference free. I still intend to upgrade the servo to the SM22 at some point but for now, it’s fine. The only problem I now seem to have is the damn thing cutting out every so often. I don’t know if thats down to the ESC overheating or not but it is quite annoying. I’m on the smallest gear, so I don’t know what to do next to resolve it.

Anyone got any ideas?

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Tags: Losi, micro-t

Resurrecting The Micro-T

In: RC Cars

6 Nov 2009

Since I upgraded my Micro-T to brushless, it’s never worked properly. The radio side of things was just so full of interference, the steering didn’t work properly and it was an alltogether unsatisfactory affair. I think I did it on the cheap basically and although the Xcelorin motor and ESC are fine, the servo and stock receiver are less good.

So, I have today resurrected the project and ordered a SR3500 receiver for my Spektrum transmitter, in an effort to eliminate any interference from crystals etc. Next step is a JR SM22 servo but that will have to come from the US I think.
Does anyone have any experience of this sort of upgrade? I’d love to hear from you – I’ll be posting my upgrade experience on here very soon.

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Typekit Invitations

In: Techie Stuff

6 Nov 2009

OK here’s the deal. I’ve recently signed up for Typekit, and new technology that allows you to embed fonts into your own website. The site is currently invitation only and I’ve got 5 invites to give away. To get one of the 5 invites, please add a comment to this post and I will send on a first come, first served basis. You’ll also need a twitter account and you’ll need to tweet the following:

“5 Typekit invites available @mcollinson”

Once they are gone, they are gone!!