Akciddento estd. 2003

doing the things that we want to

Month: June 2003

  • Vw action beach party…

    Sitting under the stars. Listening to the M1. What strange lives we lead. posted by phone

  • summernationals racing!

    spencer tramm from the vwdrc has just posted the current entry list for the summernationals, the next racemeet in the points of the championship so here it is.. the list looks quite long already and there should be a few more to add. various people have engine/car/mechanical/crew/etc problems so we shall see how it goes…

  • it’s a rotbox, what can i say ?

    i had a call from my friend guy, the bass player with the most excellent band ‘actual size’ who told me he was looking to buy a bus…. …stop me if you’ve heard it before… so anyway, we chat on the phone and i agree to look at a baywindow camper that he and his…

  • how much !!!

    i truck down to the local apple centre to see about getting my laptop repaired. the receptionist calls the head technician down you has a quick look at the it. we chat a bit. not a problem as it turns out. its just the hinge that is broken, apparently it’s a common fault. luckily enough…

  • volksfest – Oh…

    After a great day at bristol volksfest im back in the studio sunburned and happy. sadly i dropped my laptop and ripped the screen off. So this is posted by phone while all the other machines are busy trying to resurrect it. — a glorious morning, i get up earlier than i’d like but still…

  • friday the 13th !

    back up north, talking this talking that. on a mission to drop the new engine over at martin tayloprs workshop in bradford so he can fit up the fuel injection and dyno it and map the ECU. i call over at steve walkers and have a look at his new audi estate. nice car. nice…

  • onward tech!

    i was so impressed with the basic ability to post straight into the weblog databse that i registered the software i’d downloaded into my new nokia 3650 phone. the application is called Kablog and you can get it at www.rawthought.com. unfortunately there was a problem with the registration code so i mailed the software author…

  • O my god

    It actually worked. Post from a phone!

  • Tech a go go

    Well here i am tapping away on my new cell phone . With luck this will work as a masterpiece of technological achievement

  • legal hassle now? cool!

    just received an interesting email from Shabbir Zainuddin, the Intellectual Property Rights Assistant at cafepress. one of the sources i use for merchandise for the akciddento store. seems that they don’t like the use of the word ‘volkswagen’ in the expression ‘volkswagen drag race championships’. i’ll write to him/her and see where this leads. read…