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What disturbs me most about this incident is that a failed sensor could not be replaced, but instead a new gearbox was required. WTF...

For a nice change, I got an email this morning from The Pi Hut (seller of Raspberry Pi and related stuff): "Today is Black Friday. 20%...

The document states it'll be part of renewing VED, so presumably not all on 1st April, but speed (edit: SPREAD) over the year as each EV...

Not sure if it was the same scheme, but in the early 2000s I worked briefly on the early stages of a road usage scheme specifically for...

Duty on petrol & diesel is 53p a litre, so for a typical 10 miles/litre, that's about 5p a mile. So the EV charge of 3p/mile is a little...

Thanks for everyone's input. It looks to me as if there are a large number of clubs that are happy to continue playing on frost-covered...

There used to be a 3 hole par 3 layout above Siviez (bottom of the lift to Verbier) and you could rent clubs and a (yellow) ball in...

What's peoples thoughts on whether temporary greens are necessary after a frost? My current club insists on putting us on temps...

Talisker is my daily tipple. It's much more widely available than it used to be, and you quite often see it on offer in supermarkets...

I am somewhat reluctant to admit I once worked for McDonnell Douglas. The less said about the DC9 and DC10 the better. At least the...

Many years ago I often used to go skiing with Silver Ski, who chartered a Tristar. I vividly remember how it rattled and shook on...

One final experience with Hive... Decided that since I've now returned the system, I should delete the Hive account that I had to set...

When I logged on, got the message "sorry, your hub is not talking to us, it's appearing offline". That's what I'd expect, given it's...

Update: For various reasons I wasn't able to install the Hive system until today. DOES. NOT. WORK. 🤬 The Hub connected fine, and is...

I guess it's just that the concept of jewelry that cannot be taken off sounds weird to me. But I'm old and don't understand a lot of...