Philip Bragg
@synx508.bsky.social
Technology person, vintage synth and electronic test equipment enthusiast & restorer.
Activating the contingency broadcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRI7...
Sunny Woodlands
YouTube video by Johnny Pearson - Topic
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November 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Activating the contingency broadcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRI7...
The sofa maps.app.goo.gl/5jCqhNoBzn94...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The sofa maps.app.goo.gl/5jCqhNoBzn94...
Sometimes I look at houses on rightmove with the mind of someone who wants to buy a house just to dismantle a particular feature. For instance…
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Sometimes I look at houses on rightmove with the mind of someone who wants to buy a house just to dismantle a particular feature. For instance…
Just progressed through a step-by-step "upgrade" on Windows 10 on the Microsoft slablet thing, specifically saying I didn't want to sync anything. Reboot. It then syncs everything. It's not safe to use, it does the opposite of what I asked …and I don't suppose Windows 11 is any better.
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Just progressed through a step-by-step "upgrade" on Windows 10 on the Microsoft slablet thing, specifically saying I didn't want to sync anything. Reboot. It then syncs everything. It's not safe to use, it does the opposite of what I asked …and I don't suppose Windows 11 is any better.
I do not want to spend my time periodically looking out of the window to check that Bella the cat, who is scared of the scaffolding lorry, has not climbed onto the filthy top of its diesel tank, perhaps in an attempt to conquer her fear. At the same time, I do not want Bella to be driven away.
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I do not want to spend my time periodically looking out of the window to check that Bella the cat, who is scared of the scaffolding lorry, has not climbed onto the filthy top of its diesel tank, perhaps in an attempt to conquer her fear. At the same time, I do not want Bella to be driven away.
Windows has a setting that can warn about what it calls potentially unwanted apps but enabling the setting does nothing to stop Microsoft installing unwanted apps and recommending other unwanted apps.
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Windows has a setting that can warn about what it calls potentially unwanted apps but enabling the setting does nothing to stop Microsoft installing unwanted apps and recommending other unwanted apps.
SDRconnect really doesn't like communicating with my shairplay device. Every time it breaks for some reason it must create a new OS device - though these don't show on the system volume control - only in SDRconnect.
November 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
SDRconnect really doesn't like communicating with my shairplay device. Every time it breaks for some reason it must create a new OS device - though these don't show on the system volume control - only in SDRconnect.
Reposted by Philip Bragg
Hello!
Do you have access to an x-ray system, CT, Radiography, or a few seconds on the LHC main beam with a homebrew pixel detector?
Do you want to take part in #xraymyadvent this year?
You know you do.
Do you have access to an x-ray system, CT, Radiography, or a few seconds on the LHC main beam with a homebrew pixel detector?
Do you want to take part in #xraymyadvent this year?
You know you do.
November 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Hello!
Do you have access to an x-ray system, CT, Radiography, or a few seconds on the LHC main beam with a homebrew pixel detector?
Do you want to take part in #xraymyadvent this year?
You know you do.
Do you have access to an x-ray system, CT, Radiography, or a few seconds on the LHC main beam with a homebrew pixel detector?
Do you want to take part in #xraymyadvent this year?
You know you do.
Day two of week two of our neighbours one week bathroom install and they're hitting stuff with hammers again.
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Day two of week two of our neighbours one week bathroom install and they're hitting stuff with hammers again.
One of those days where I wake up and immediately go to Youtube to verify my suspicion that there's no consensus on how to use a can opener correctly. (tin opener if you're old and British). Sure enough, videos of people doing it through the wall or through the top, both claiming to be correct.
November 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
One of those days where I wake up and immediately go to Youtube to verify my suspicion that there's no consensus on how to use a can opener correctly. (tin opener if you're old and British). Sure enough, videos of people doing it through the wall or through the top, both claiming to be correct.
How does this ancient Compaq keep working? *
* the trackball will only move the cursor left or right
* the trackball will only move the cursor left or right
November 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
How does this ancient Compaq keep working? *
* the trackball will only move the cursor left or right
* the trackball will only move the cursor left or right
Oooh, I've just seen the ad that my mother has clicked on three times now, I strongly advise against clicking on it if you see it. What'll happen is a series of redirections until you end up on a relatively convincing page that tells you that you've got a virus and your facebook account is suspended
November 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Oooh, I've just seen the ad that my mother has clicked on three times now, I strongly advise against clicking on it if you see it. What'll happen is a series of redirections until you end up on a relatively convincing page that tells you that you've got a virus and your facebook account is suspended
I have dug out various old books. This one is entirely dot matrix printouts inside!
November 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I have dug out various old books. This one is entirely dot matrix printouts inside!
Ah, Laskys, I had forgotten that they had a shop in Slough’s Queensmere
November 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Ah, Laskys, I had forgotten that they had a shop in Slough’s Queensmere
At the transmitter site I didn't recognise the name on the cavity filter, but I did recognise the address, it was down the road from where I used to live in Chesham. Turns out the business-wreckers paid a visit. toniejeststal.wordpress.com/2019/08/23/i...
Interesting times ahead
After just over 30 years, in fact, two days short of 31 years, working for (ostensibly) the same company in its various incarnations, I am now unemployed, redundant. When I started back in 1988 it …
toniejeststal.wordpress.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
At the transmitter site I didn't recognise the name on the cavity filter, but I did recognise the address, it was down the road from where I used to live in Chesham. Turns out the business-wreckers paid a visit. toniejeststal.wordpress.com/2019/08/23/i...
Now we're talking interior design, garden's got the same feel. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 6 bedroom farm house for sale on Rightmove
6 bedroom farm house for sale in Snailholt Farm, Watchet, Somerset, TA23 for £700,000. Marketed by Nest Associates Ltd, National
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October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now we're talking interior design, garden's got the same feel. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Neighbours have put an orange cackling inflatable skeleton, or is it a cackling orange inflatable skeleton? Apparently getting the order of these things wrong is a sign of … I don't care, my cat is terrified, just staring at it from across the road and asking me "Why?!"
October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Neighbours have put an orange cackling inflatable skeleton, or is it a cackling orange inflatable skeleton? Apparently getting the order of these things wrong is a sign of … I don't care, my cat is terrified, just staring at it from across the road and asking me "Why?!"
So does Opus III - It's a Fine Day really sample Temper Temper - It's All Outta Lovin' You? For years I thought they just sounded very similar and if anything Temper Temper sampled Opus III but I've checked the release dates on discogs and Temper Temper is a year older.
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
So does Opus III - It's a Fine Day really sample Temper Temper - It's All Outta Lovin' You? For years I thought they just sounded very similar and if anything Temper Temper sampled Opus III but I've checked the release dates on discogs and Temper Temper is a year older.
I've asked it if there are any owls near me and it says there are, but I have to learn to look for them before they'll reveal themselves.
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I've asked it if there are any owls near me and it says there are, but I have to learn to look for them before they'll reveal themselves.
Suddenly needed to ask the big computer a reasonable question. It failed.
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Suddenly needed to ask the big computer a reasonable question. It failed.
Given up on Radio X, dipped into Rinse FM but it's very distorted, not sure if that's the weak signal or just terrible processing. While I was listening I noticed Reprezent 107.3 go silent. A few minutes of silence now…
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Given up on Radio X, dipped into Rinse FM but it's very distorted, not sure if that's the weak signal or just terrible processing. While I was listening I noticed Reprezent 107.3 go silent. A few minutes of silence now…
I decided to try to listen to Radio X. I think I've heard one new track in a few hours, but mostly it's stuck in the 1990s. Also nothing from before the 1980s, so really stuck in a demographic rut. Maybe that's what it is now, but Q102 wasn't like that.
October 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I decided to try to listen to Radio X. I think I've heard one new track in a few hours, but mostly it's stuck in the 1990s. Also nothing from before the 1980s, so really stuck in a demographic rut. Maybe that's what it is now, but Q102 wasn't like that.
Has Heathrow switched to new departure routes? I am sure I've never seen them follow the paths that several have followed this morning.
October 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Has Heathrow switched to new departure routes? I am sure I've never seen them follow the paths that several have followed this morning.
I am listening to Hayes FM. The local news presenter has described a local SEND school as having a "neutering environment". I think that was a misreading of "nurturing".
October 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I am listening to Hayes FM. The local news presenter has described a local SEND school as having a "neutering environment". I think that was a misreading of "nurturing".