Friday Plant Blogging! A cactus is for life, not just for Christmas

Posted by Paul Raven @ 28-07-2006 in General
A lovely view of the bins in the background, there

Oh yes…it’s Friday. And Friday is plant blogging day! Continue reading “Friday Plant Blogging! A cactus is for life, not just for Christmas”

June’s bag o’ schwag

Posted by Paul Raven @ 09-07-2006 in General

Time flies when you’re having fun (or working constantly) – it’s that Valleyschwag time of month again! Continue reading “June’s bag o’ schwag”

Legislating against robot rape

Posted by Paul Raven @ 20-06-2006 in General

As mentioned previously, yours truly is off to a ‘Cafe Scientifique’ about conscious machines this evening. So what better time to discuss robot ethics? Continue reading “Legislating against robot rape”

At last, the Valleyschwag has arrived!

Posted by Paul Raven @ 10-06-2006 in General

Well, it was a long time coming (thanks to the ‘schwag team having to cope with much higher demand than they expected, and Royal Mail being tardy b*ggers as always), but my first Valleyschwag care package has arrived. Continue reading “At last, the Valleyschwag has arrived!”

Where’s my damn schwag?

Posted by Paul Raven @ 04-06-2006 in General

I have a bone to pick with Royal Mail, and not for the first time. Continue reading “Where’s my damn schwag?”

Valleyschwag on its way!

Posted by Paul Raven @ 29-05-2006 in General

Cool stuff heading for the Hall of Mirrors! wh00t! Continue reading “Valleyschwag on its way!”

Real movement in virtual realities

Posted by Paul Raven @ 04-04-2006 in General

If you wanted to play a first-person-shooter in VR, you’d need a damn big room and some lengthy cables, right? Well, not any more, thanks to a new device called the VirtuSphere.

Continue reading “Real movement in virtual realities”

Water-cooling for the hardcore

Posted by Paul Raven @ 30-03-2006 in General

If the earlier post on water-cooling looked a bit namby-pamby to you, then maybe this conversion using a car radiator would appeal more to your ‘Mad Max’ sense of aesthetics and lo-fi DIY:

Car radiator PC case-mod

Link rebuilt from MAKEBlog.

Water-cooling for beginners

Posted by Paul Raven @ 30-03-2006 in General

Fast-running processors get real hot, real fast. Conventional out-of-the-box fan cooling ends up being loud as hell, and rarely copes with severe overclocking. Continue reading “Water-cooling for beginners”

Only in Vegas, baby…

Posted by Paul Raven @ 29-03-2006 in General

…can you find vending machines that sell iPods and accessories. Hasn’t everyone already got one by now?

iPod Vending Machine

Link purchased at TechEBlog.

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