The pleasures of Astronomy from childhood to adulthood
April 11, 2009 – 00:02 | One Comment

Amateur Astronomy is a hobby I’ve been engaged with since my early teens. I recall my first encounter with Astronomy after my father bought me a cheap rickety telescope that wobbled and never really focused …

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Tata Nano: Good? Bad? Or just plain stupid?
March 24, 2009 – 23:39 | One Comment
Tata Nano: Good? Bad? Or just plain stupid?

A recent Twitter message to the @JagritiYatra twitter ID said the following:

oscar_soria @JagritiYatra you can mentor Mr Tata and tell him that extinction is forever and maybe he needs to review his decision to build a port a …

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Using Solio for power hungry devices
June 16, 2008 – 12:43 | One Comment

When I first bought my Solio solar powered battery charger, after one month of use I came to the conclusion that you would never in your right mind need to or even want to use …

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Office energy
June 13, 2008 – 12:31 | No Comment

Through my career, I’ve always worked in large cavernous offices. The sort that have wide open plan floor spaces and rows upon rows of desks with computer, monitors, mobile phone chargers, printers, fax machines, water …

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Trekking in the English countryside with Solio
June 1, 2008 – 10:35 | No Comment
Trekking in the English countryside with Solio

This weekend, my better half and I decided to go on a lovely trek through the English countryside. We had planned to make it a rather technology intensive trek in the sense that I was …

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Solio – Conclusions after one month
May 28, 2008 – 17:02 | One Comment

It has now been one month since I started using the Solio portable solar charger. I’ve used it at home, taken it on holiday with me and had a good chance to play around with …

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Solio – Five flashes of the LED
May 12, 2008 – 07:43 | No Comment

Oddness. Although I had four flashes of the LED on the Solio day before yesterday, meaning that it was in theory 100% charged, I actually managed to get it to flash five times yesterday! I …

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Solio: Long term solar charge up today
May 8, 2008 – 13:32 | No Comment

Today is sunny all day! Nice and warm, about 25C. Summer is here! I got my Solio charging on the balcony at work as soon as I got in this morning. This means it’ll get …

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Solio: half day on charge
May 7, 2008 – 22:00 | No Comment
Solio: half day on charge

Today was a very sunny day. Unfortunately my office is North facing so I don’t get any direct sun-light at my desk. I decided to go up to the west end of the building and …

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Experiments with Solio
May 5, 2008 – 10:29 | No Comment
Experiments with Solio

I’ve been toying with the idea of buying a Solio solar charger or almost two years and I finally gave in to temptation and bought one a few days ago. I thought I’d blog about …

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