Akciddento estd. 2003

doing the things that we want to

Akciddento. Doing the things that we want to

  • Tdpt

    KABLOG Pgmgmgt OH WOW! it actually worked properly… kinda… after a fashion.. i actually got my phone and server set up correctly to be able to update the blog AND post pictures direct from my phone. theoretically from anywhere in the world. ha ha! now all i need id to be able to publish audio…

  • sleep, please !

    well, its about 3 am and i’m still up, well i mean that i went to bed at about 11pm but couldn’t sleep and grabbed the laptop and sat in bed checking some of the automation on the web site. wild life i lead huh ? i also did some wandering around other websites and…

  • sadly…no

    well, the guy at the MOT station was impressed that i bothered to return to try again but sadly… no. almost all was well but… he wanted two or three little bits of the welding ‘finished up’ with proper seams and the headlights seem to kickup to the wrong side, as if they were LHD…

  • remember the fugly ?

    well, the winter is drawing in and the bus’ lack of heating is starting to show up as somewhat of a drawback in this climate… so perhaps it’s time to take the fugly 412 to get an MOT. the fugly is orange, and has heating (after a fashion) time to get it booked it.

  • don’t fence me in!

    had a quick chat with paul ‘botch’ venners today. paul has styarted a new workshop in the oxford area. continuing on in the same tradition as the fabled ‘der botcheinvolks’ workshop in days of old. all being well i will be rolling the bus down to the new workshop next week for paul and his…

  • desktops and downloads

    spent a few hours yesterday avoiding doing useful things and noodled through a few image variations and came up with this. i thought that people might like some desktop picture downloads… ?

  • today i broke

    my toe. i think. last week i incorporated akciddento as a limited company. to put things into a fore focused setting (and so that the drag racing next year is tax deductable hee hee…) so getting ready for a meeting with the new company bankers i stubbed my middle toe on some furniture in the…

  • how times change!

    i just found an old timing sheet from doing a ‘run what ya brung’ at santapod raceway. its for my old splitscreen van running at bigstock 12th august 1995 reaction time 1.330 seconds 60 ft time 3.427 1/8 mile time 16.652 1/8 mile mph 40.47 1/4 mile time 26.553 1/4 mile mph 48.96 sambasaurus now…

  • **** me !

    followed a link someone posted on the VZi forum to quarter mile performance ratings of production cars. its here at syclone. my ‘caravannette’ (as the commentators at the summer nationals described it) does the quarter faster than….. porsche boxster bmw 325i mazda 323 turbo audi a8 4.2 jaguar s type V8 auto caterham 7K mercedes…

  • accident – oh

    just found this… —- ac?ci?dent (?k?s?-d?nt, -d?nt’)?Pronunciation Key n. 1. a. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm: car accidents on icy roads. b. An unforeseen incident: A series of happy accidents led to his promotion. c. An instance of involuntary urination or defecation in one’s clothing. 2. Lack of…

what’s up? let us know….