Month: September 2003
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who gets evicted tonight ?
ok, after an odd but semi productive day of too much coffee, interleaved spreadsheet mayhem and lots of crawling about under the bus halfheartedly changing gearbox mounts and attempting to disassemble drive shafts and CV joints i’ve decided not to write about the joys of crawling under a bus on a foam mat (very comfy)…
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a lazy sunday…
captain venners called over to finish off the welding on the fugly so while he got stuck into that i did some quick electrical shopping at maplins… ten minutes later and i’ve got enough cable to plug the laptop into the ECU brain on the fuelinjection and secure the laptop into the harness on the…
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success!!!!!
After consulting the DTA ECU wiring diagrams i know the proper pin connections for the serial cable i need to plug into it… and after sopme twiddling i’m successfully running windows 98 as a virtual machine inside virtual PC on my mac laptop. sadly i doesn’t have serial ports, only firewire and USB, so… i’m…
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bringing them up right!
My twelve year old daughter just wandered into the studio and picked up a copy of the new UltraVW magazine and read the strapline about the mad porsche powered samba in the US ‘‘is this the ultimate samba?’ …ha ! NO because ours IS!’ bless her, she’s a star.
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some tlc & more tyres !
getting my head straight after the vwaction show at the weekend and after a quick call to peter englezos at cogbox about the spec for a new transmission it’s off on a shopping trip in the bus, first stop protyre in bristol for MORE tyres. they’re nice people, helpful and have got a full lazer…
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off up north, again, again!
off early to the train station with a bag full of stickers and t shirts and a head full of anticipation and apprehension. i’m taking the train to Bradford to taylor machine services to collect the bus. Martin has had the bus there for the last two weeks installing and plumbing and wiring and theoretically…
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return trip to akciddento -?589
a worthy contender from timBBB and friends in newquay!
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curiouser and curiouser
you remember the spam email i told you about, the guy looking for parts for a time machine…. well……. on the auto-ping feature of the movabletype weblog software i use, some guy called OzGuru in australia picked up the story and commented that i’d replied to it but ALSO included a link to someone that…
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we’re back !
after a week in the alps without web access, computer and at time electricity we’re back at akciddento HQ and raring to go. the months has started well. we have a ‘post an akicddento’ winner for august. Carol from London who posted a magnificent tag of the top floor of the eiffel tower. despite suffering…