Random gibberish

Well after starting sizing all the Oak for a new DVD cabinet for the lounge, I decided it was time to change my thicknesser.
I no longer used the planer part of what was my Fox22-200 – I just couldn’t get on with it. So I decided to flog it and get a bigger thicknesser. I’m not going to both with a planer and intend using just hand planes for that job.
The fox was sold on via the ukworkshop forum – nice that as it’s where it came from – and a quick trip to fleabay saw a DW733 winging it’s way to me.
The DW733 arrived and so did the snow and very cold weather. Other than put it in the workshop I’ve not even ventured out there for the past week.
I do need to though. I need to get this Oak to size and get it indoors to aclimatise – the cabinet is going to be in the lounge which is one room we tend to keep reasonably warm. Making it in the 0deg workshop then moving it to 20deg is just asking for trouble.
In the meanwhile, I have a stool to make fo rin the bathroom so my lad can see in the mirror to brush his teeth – I reckon a nice chunk of mahogony should sort that tuit suite.

Well I finally got fed up with the intermittent mobile signal in my house. NOTE, I don’t blame vodafone for a lack of signal – why people think they should automatically get a mobile signal indoors is beyond me.
However, I do rely on my mobile so I went and got one of these gateway thingys.
I’ve been reading online about how they can take like 24hr + to set themselves up. Hmmm, within 10 minutes of me registering the box all the lights are lit – now to try a test call.

I will be digging a bit more into how this works though. From what I can gather it uses an IPSEC connection to vodafone – ie a VPN. Now from my experimens IPSEC is a bitch when behind NAT, so how have vodafone achieved this – I’ll have to find out.

ADDED:
So far I’m impressed. Very easy to set up – almost plug and go.
I now have a full 3G signal when sat on the couch – previously I was lucky if I got one bar of 2G signal and only then if I didn’t have the phone in my pocket.
I’ve made a test call – from the couch to swmbo in the kitchen. This previously would have been impossible. So I’ll class this box as well worth the £5 per month it is costing me.
OK, so it adds five quid to my monthly bill – bearing in mind that my mobile bill has reduced by £15 per month (now £30 where is was £45), and I’ve got more minutes and txt’s than I used to, I don’t begrudge spending another fiver.

After having an Nokia N97 for the past 2 weeks I’ve been waiting for the new firmware v2.0 to get released back to Nokia by Vodafone.
Checks on NSU and well at long last it’s there.
Everything is backed up, fingers crossed now

Well, I’ve not run a blog for quite some time so I thought it about time I got back to it.

Not sure if I can be bothered to resurrect any of my old ones so here we are with a new one – new categories and all .

Don’t expect to be blown away by my rambling though.