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Moccamaster
Moccamaster, 17.10.2009, originally uploaded by FransBadger. I am gradually realising that best tools are often specialized. Take coffee machines, for example. I have tested various combo systems with...
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Windows 7 Ultimate & WD 1,5 TB disks
Windows 7 Ultimate The weekend was too busy for this upgrade effort really, but at least I made a decent start: getting rid of the old hard disks in my old workstation (they were getting too small for...
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Bird table in the night
Lumiyö / Night with snow, originally uploaded by FransBadger. These days you can find pretty nice bird tables, like this little house we have now in our front yard. It was originally designed to be...
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New faucets
27.11.2009, originally uploaded by FransBadger. This is probably the least sexy topic for techno-blogging like, ever, but here we go. Our old faucets were having rather bad leaks over the tables and...
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Harvia Figaro
Sauna enjoys a semi-religious status in Finland — there are over 2 million saunas in a country with a population of 5,3 million. Choosing details of your own sauna is therefore not a joking matter....
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On reception and playlists
iPhone, RadioBox, Philips Originally uploaded by FransBadger Working today in our cellar I developed a theory that people generally fall into two categories in their attitudes towards music: the...
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Canon LBP5050n “Network Board Error”
This has been a continuing problem since I got this printer: our Canon LBP5050n network printer only works occasionally, throwing up “network board error” messages when used under Windows 7. All...
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iPeng. iPhone. Spotify. And Squeezebox.
iPeng. iPhone. Spotify. And Squeezebox. Originally uploaded by FransBadger This has been one of the most fun recent everything-is-now-connected experiences: after upgrading into a Spotify Premium...
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Garden working
Garden working, a photo by FransBadger on Flickr. Sure sign of summer: our garden work has begun again. I have e.g. operated our overgrown apple trees with a chain saw, washed away old paint and...
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XBMC in Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi My Raspberry Pi had arrived while I was at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, and I got finally some hours to test drive it. As far as contemporary PC hardware goes, RPi is of course...
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Time Capsule
Airport Time Capsule Continuing to troubleshoot our persistent home networking problems: while we have got a high pile of various routers, last several years the heart of the network has been Asus...
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Building a greenhouse, pt. 1
Digging in the dirt. The building project of this summer has been to make a greenhouse – for my chilli peppers, as well as other vegetables for the family. Construction of proper foundation for a...
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Building a greenhouse, pt. 2
The method of building the foundation for our greenhouse has proved to be a bit more demanding than perhaps some others – hopefully the final outcome will be worth the extra labour. The tricky part is...
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Building a greenhouse, pt. 3
The foundations for the actual greenhouse are now ready, I think. The last steps in this phase included e.g.: using fine gravel and sand (“kivituhka”) to create a top layer that was at right angle and...
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Building a greenhouse, pt. 4
Today my role was more as an assistant – Laura is our resident IKEA construction expert, and even while there apparently was some unclear (or plain wrong) instructions in the Juliana guide sheet, the...
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Building a greenhouse, pt. 5
The actual greenhouse construction has been going on for some time now (myself again more in the assistant roles). I must admit that there are times when I am getting tired of the entire project, even...
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Building a greenhouse, pt. 6. Ready?
The final part of setting up the Juliana Compact greenhouse kit involved fitting and fixing the actual glass parts. This was pretty simple and straightforward in theory: if the base structure is...
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Building a greenhouse, pt. 5
The actual greenhouse construction has been going on for some time now (myself again more in the assistant roles). I must admit that there are times when I am getting tired of the entire project, even...
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Greenhouse: the water pipes
Today the watering system of our greenhouse took some nice steps towards completion – the photos below pretty much tell the story, but: we installed a (Bauhaus) black plastic water barrel for...
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Greenhouse: the heater
Yesterday, the heater for our greenhouse finally arrived and we can now actually keep the plants in the greenhouse, around the clock. As you can see from the Netatmo screenshots from below, the morning...
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