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  1. I suppose you could get one of those mini-ovens (like they have in 80's bedsits) from Currys, wire it into the mains from a lamp post in the Peace Gardens, while its warming up get the kitchen tools from John Lewis. Back in the Peace Gardens, assemble your pasty as per the recipe, wait until cooked. Eat. You'll probably need to extend your lunch break slightly. K.
  2. The Proper Pasty Company not really a small business, they have nine shops plus six franchises. Although, curiously, none in Cornwall. http://www.properpasty.co.uk/pasty-shops/ Why not pop into the co-op next door and get the ingredients to make your own? http://www.properpasty.co.uk/pasty-recipe-proper-pasty-ingredients/ K.
  3. The councillor's not trying very hard, there are meeting rooms in Upperthorpe Library as well as one in the tower blocks. Which councillor was it? K.
  4. Because the people who live in the area are not the target market for an event live this. Especially those who live in the estates closest to the Ponderosa, I've seen this at the almost annual Peace in the Park event. K.
  5. Interesting that the Tramlines people haven't bothered consulting with any of the local residents. A very large, ticket only event that excludes almost all that live in Upperthorpe and Netherthorpe and brings no benefits to the area (no shops sell alcohol apart from Tesco). K.
  6. I used a solenoid to make the water drops and a phototransistor/laser combo to detect the drops as they go past. These are connected to an Arduino and some home-built electronics to control the camera and flash. K. An Arduino: http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction
  7. Been messing with drops of water. This is what you get when two drips meet. K
  8. looks a bit like madness to me, but google found this: K.
  9. http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crime/police-arrest-two-over-sheffield-gunshot-murder-1-7021607 "Detectives are trying to find a red Mitsubishi Shogun car seen in the area of Derek Dooley Way around the time of the attack." So that Red Mitsubishi Shogun the police recovered from the Ponderosa was a different one? Or is this traditional Star reporting? K.
  10. I've got a Joby Sling, its quite good, reasonably comfortable with a heavy DSLR even after a few hours. Its possibly the most complicated camera strap on the market today. Having the camera on the hip can cause switches on the camera be knocked if there are any in the way, keeping it at waist level avoids this. I was going to say have a look at the Pap Strap, but they appear to of gone out of business. K.
  11. A story about this has appeared in The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/the-northerner/2014/oct/23/sheffield-devonshire-quarter-petition-development from the article: "Murray claims the redevelopment will look almost identical to the current building”. So it'll be a building in the style of a Victorian row of shops but without any of the authenticity, builders nowadays cannot build a Victorian building, they just end up with some unconvincing mockery. If these people are going to kill off some high quality small businesses for yet another coffee shop and 'local' supermarket, they could at least do it with some high quality architecture, for a change. K.
  12. I'm more concerned about how much energy is being wasted in the name of saving us energy/money. Yes 10p a year is a small amount of cash, but an energy meter being 'sold' on the basis that you can use it to save energy, while it has been designed to waste energy with an unnecessary screen illumination is wrong to me. You wouldn't buy a mobile phone with a battery life of half an hour because the screen was lit all the time. K.
  13. Hello The council are replacing the meters they use for district heating and local heating. These are pay-as-you-go smart meters that have a fancy display with graphs and stuff, it has a mobile phone inside that shows how much credit you have paid for and reports back in a not at all sinister way to the council how you have been using your heating. The council are touting this as some kind of saving you money by managing your energy through the medium of graphs nonsense. I don't have a problem with these meters, but the display is permanently lit in a pointless and irritating way, which left me wondering, how much does that cost? On Farnell's web site I found a similar screen, same size and colour and the data sheet gives the current required for the LED illumination as 30mA. So, to work out how much it costs just to keep the screen light on: Electric Unit Price: 13.10p/kWh Number of hours in a year: 8776 Amps x Volts = Watts 0.03A x 3V = 0.09W (Watts x Hours) / 1000 = kWh Consumption (0.09W x 8766 hours) / 1000 = 0.789kWh Unit Price x Consumption = Cost 13.10p x 0.789kWh = £0.10 Ten Pence a year just to keep the light on! and the council are having 6023 of these installed around the city. 6023 x £0.10p = £602.30 To conclude, the council is spending over £600 a year of other peoples money just to keep the lights illuminated on a meter that's stuck away in a cupboard and will only get looked at occasionally to check how much credit is left. For a smart meter, isn't that a bit dumb? K.
  14. Sheffield - City on the Move Filmed last year..... K.
  15. Went up there this weekend. Quite interesting if you like rust :-) The site now has Sheffield University's Geography Outreach Centre. More pictures of the site, and others taken in the Bradfield area: K.
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