HOMEBREW RECORD

FERMENTER

Base: Brewcraft Beez Neez Kit (traditional lager plus jar of honey)
Sugar/Malt: 1 kg of Brewcraft malt
Hops: 25gms of hops (kit)
Date into fermenter: 28/05/07

BOTTLING

Date into bottles: 24/06/07
Volume: 30 bottles marked B
Drink: 22/07/07 onwards

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I read this book when I was about 10 or 11 and promptly forgot the title and author. It’s been annoying me that I couldn’t remember the title for about 20 – TWENTY! years. It was the first post-apocalyptic fiction novel I ever read and it spawned a obsession with the genre that continues to this day.

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I am sitting looking at a brand new Blackberry Pearl 8100. Yes – it’s true – I’ve been Crackberry’ed again. It’s much, much nicer than my old Blackberry and yes Ruth I promise not read my email at 4am. Well not too much.

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I had an old Engin ATA – a Sipura SPA-2000 – which I had unlocked from Engin but due to the weird firmware Engin installs I only had access to Line 2. I decided I wanted both lines so I did some more research to see if anyone has had any luck luck getting done lines free. And lo and behold in the world’s longest Whirlpool thread on the topic someone had. It involves replacing the Sipura firmware with Linksys PAP2 firmware. And it worked perfectly. Very impressed with a very clever solution.

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So it’s done – MIT has managed to get wireless electricity to work. Research chappies transmitted electricity from “a power source to a 60 watt light bulb more than two metres away using magnetic resonators”. If it works well, can be scaled and commercialised then this could be a truly revolutionary development.

Imagine no more batteries. Instead of having to charge battery-powered devices you can walk down the street with your mobile/PDA/iPod/etc automatically charging from resonators mounted on power poles. Link the cost of powering your device back to your home electricity bill and bingo. How about “mobile” power tools – charged from nearby resonators and never requiring battery charge. Or electric cars – charged as they drive – the cost added to your home electricity bill. The potential is truly endless. Amazing stuff.

UPDATE: You can see the MIT announcement here.