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• I migrated this site to Hugo (2024-12-06) - Boring technical nonsense with a tangent or two.
• A tiny Saturday project (2024-12-01) - Cutting up some metal with an angle grinder, and sticking the pieces together with a MIG welder.
• Overkilling the Rover P5, part 2: the gearbox (2024-11-21) - Let's put a BMW gearbox on the Corvette engine in the Rover.
• The one where Lewis totally, irreversibly loses the plot (2024-10-10) - Doubling down on some fairly questionable life choices.
• A fully-dressed Chevy LS1 engine weighs 215 kilograms, or 474lbs (2024-07-08) - No need to even read this page. It's in the title.
• Some angle grinder wall brackets (2024-05-01) - Some instructions for making brackets for hanging angle grinders on a wall.
• Rationalising the 323 GTX, part 7: the rocker cover (2024-03-03) - In which I make a B6T rocker cover look nice.
• 🎵 happy to be here 🎵 (2024-01-31) - A song by Todd Snider, the best musical artist of all time.
• Rationalising the 323 GTX, part 6: the turbo (2023-12-20) - What do we do with a worn-out IHI VJ9?
• Rationalising the 323 GTX, part 5: the heat shield (2023-11-23) - In which I do my best to rescue a disintegrating 36-year-old turbo heat shield.
• Rationalising the 323 GTX, part 4: making a hole in it (2023-11-04) - Putting bonnet vents into the Mazda 323 GTX.
• Rationalising the 323 GTX, part 3: pipe (2023-07-20) - In which, among other things, I learn to cut reinforced silicone hoses neatly.
• Rationalising the 323 GTX, part 2: the air filter (2023-07-11) - Making a short story long, I put a different filter on it.
• Rationalising the 323 GTX, part 1: the intercooler (2023-06-24) - In which there is nothing rational about owning a 1980s rally car.
• Onslow's Cortina, or, cars don't age like they used to (2023-02-21) - Onslow's Cortina was a 12 year old car, and implications thereof.
• Cat, "it's that time of year" configuration (2022-09-24) -
• The desk chair post, part 2 (2022-08-29) - In which Lewis over-solves a problem that does not exist.
• Let's play: "remove suspension bushes", on easy mode (2022-04-29) - How to remove suspension bushes with random junk you have kicking around the workshop.
• The desk chair post (2022-01-30) - I built the best desk chair.
• Cat, box-optimised configuration (2022-01-21) -
• Cracks (2022-01-13) -
• Assorted things that happened to Lewis (2022-01-07) -
• Cat, winking configuration (2022-01-02) -
• "Ain't that some bullshit", 365-to-Migadu-migration edition (2021-12-29) - TL;DR: Use DavMail and imapsync.
• Rail Alphabet survivors at March station (2021-11-20) - In which I visit March station to find remnants of British Rail branding.
• Cat, official royal portrait configuration (2021-11-16) -
• Experiments within a project within a project (2021-09-26) - In which I experiment with electrolytic cleaning.
• goodnight sweet prince (2021-09-04) - wiv da angles now
• 🎵 I never really trusted folks who have to talk so loud 🎵 (2021-09-03) -
• A visit to the body filler mines of Norfolk (2021-08-31) - In which I mine a lot of filler from an old Land Rover, and other fun.
• The little things (2021-06-25) -
• 🎵 and all that is left, is snow on the pines 🎵 (2021-05-20) -
• Cat, "I'm gonna stand here being cute until food appears" configuration (2021-05-16) -
• Cat, "I brought you a present" configuration (2021-05-03) -
• Visiting some remnants of the Lynn & Wisbech railway at Magdalen, part 2 (2021-04-19) -
• In which I make an uncharacteristically sensible decision (2021-04-12) - Mazda Amy goes into temporary retirement, and I acquire The Shed.
• Fitting a Chinese-made F10A engine to a Suzuki SJ 410: what you need to know (2021-04-04) - Minor modifications required. But, brand new engine!
• A timeless response to current events (2021-03-28) -
• "When all you have is a hammer", label printer edition (2021-03-27) -
• In which I explore just how bad a decision this P5 was (2021-03-24) -
• 🎵 if faith moves mountains, what's it take to leave em alone? 🎵 (2021-03-22) -
• Introducing Project Penny (2021-03-18) - In which I acquire a Rover P5.
• Cat, "your taste in books bores me to sleep" configuration (2021-03-14) -
• Cat, "please turn the light off" configuration (2021-03-11) -
• Strange things happen when you put your stuff on Wikimedia Commons (2021-02-28) - In which my photo of a train takes on a life of its own.
• Self-archaeology and the Internet Movie Car Database (2021-02-17) - In which a car from my past is immortalised in a very tiny way.
• One more job from the giant pile of necessary jobs (2021-02-16) - In which Autoglass source a windscreen for a BF-generation Mazda 323 GTX.
• Wordoid is crack cocaine for word nerds (2021-02-07) - In which I spend far too much time on Wordoid.
• It ain't me (2021-01-30) - Todd Snider - Fortunate Son.
• Visiting some remnants of the Lynn & Wisbech railway at Magdalen (2021-01-17) - Visiting MMR/2333, a pair of bridge abutments in Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen.
• And that, is the end of that (2021-01-12) - In which I pay off my credit card debt.
• Gratuitous car post (2021-01-04) - Apropos of nothing, a gratuitous photo of my car.
• In which I get a little boost to my faith in humanity (2020-12-30) - Losing my wallet, with a happy ending.
• Cat (circular configuration) (2020-12-28) - A gratuitous photo of my cat.
• Fuji X100: reloaded (2020-12-22) - In which I buy my second Fuji X100.
• The Suspension: the final episode (2020-12-12) - Cleaning up my old Gaz shock absorbers.
• Backroads are fun (2020-11-29) -
• A cheap Ubuntu-friendly drawing tablet recommendation: XP-Pen Star G640 (2020-11-28) - The XP-Pen Star G640 works perfectly on Ubuntu!
• Coming soon: Banging choons (2020-11-23) - In which I acquire a Blaupunkt SQR 45.
• Sitting pretty (2020-11-22) -
• Priorities (2020-11-03) -
• In which I spend a weekend on my car and don't make it worse (2020-10-25) -
• Rest in peace, Jerry Jeff Walker ❤️ (2020-10-24) - 1942-2020. Rest in peace.
• Fitting the K-Sport coilovers, episode "the rear" (2020-10-17) -
• Fitting the K-Sport coilovers, episode "the front" (2020-10-12) -
• They're here (2020-10-01) -
• Today I found: Bastard Tetris (2020-09-23) - A game which is the stuff of literal nightmares.
• A parcel shelf! (2020-09-21) -
• TIL: those Werther's Original adverts, and the power of marketing (2020-09-15) - The name "Werther's Originals" only dates to the 1990s, among other fun facts.
• Amy goes to her first car meet! (2020-09-13) -
• Your deactivated Facebook account really is reactivating itself (2020-09-12) - If anyone tells you otherwise, they are gaslighting you.
• Not saying I don't totally trust this car, but... (2020-09-06) -
• Oh no not again (2020-09-02) -
• In lieu of being productive (2020-08-31) -
• One last teething problem and then it'll never go wrong again (unless it does) (2020-08-30) - In which my car has a working clutch.
• TIL: old logs can take up a nontrivial amount of disk space on Ubuntu (2020-08-29) -
• Biting the bullet (2020-08-28) -
• No promises (2020-08-27) -
• Another eBay find (2020-08-24) -
• An eBay find (2020-08-18) -
• "consciousness causes collapse" (2020-08-17) -
• She's alive, and teething problems (2020-08-15) -
• Towards something that almost looks like a blog (2020-07-01) - In which I start a blog like it's 2005.
• Lazy reviews (part 1?) (2020-06-28) -
• If you drive really fast in reverse for a year... (2020-06-24) -
• BRB, MOT (2020-06-22) -
• Towards an interior less terrible (2020-06-13) - In which I clean my car.
• No more ditchfinders (2020-06-10) - In which my 323 GTX gets some new rubber.
• Short shifter! (2020-06-08) - In which Jeff Sylvester makes me a short shifter and I can find all of my gears.
• Gtechniq C4 is magic (2020-04-04) - GTechniq C4 really works and you need it in your life.
• The one where I didn't do the things I was going to do (2020-04-03) - A short review of the Driftworks Basics 350mm leather steering wheel
• pumped up kicks (2020-03-23) - The one where my car starts.