Archive for the 'amusement' Category

alternative Nespresso capsules / pods from Casino in France, April 2010!

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

For my recent birthday, I was lucky enough to be given a Nespresso machine by my brother and his wife. An avid user of a Bialetti Moka, I am now a convert to the totally un-messy nespresso machine, despite its shady Nestle origins :/The purchase of the capsules is unfortunately locked-down (in a way that […]

Smiths past

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Lying in bed, warmed by an oil heater and an hour of smiths singles. Sound sooooo good on my mega hifi setup; remastered;repackaged;remembered!

Blog overhauled - battez.org is no more!

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Hi for anyone who has ever been to my website before, it was battez.org but I rather lacksadazeically (sick) omitted to renew the domain before it expired a few days ago, incurring a charge of $100+ or let it slide…so it has slid.
Anyway I wanted to move things to this Fianchetto domain, as that […]

Advert project from Uni!

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

made this several years ago (end 2003 /early 04?) as part of our Animation class using LightWave at University of Paisley - Multimedia BSc Honours . Nicolas Blanchard, David Gallagher and Sophie Godard - Nicolas really knew his stuff (like the textures and more fancy Lightwave effects) but I think we all contributed a fair […]

Scotland Euro Qualifiers campaign by Tennent’s - made by Infinite eye

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Nice work Craig (of Glasgow’s Infinite Eye) on Stand/ Tennent’s new site for Scotland’s Finest bars — including supporters and bar photos!
And well done to all the bars who have got passion & belief that we will go through, as you can see from all the photos!

Update on G4 bargain box!

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Another update.. damn power supply seems to have gone!! Gah..what a rip off
hmm think I can fix it easily enough… too much forum 31 activity brought it down I think :p
Oh yeah! Another update
Today I swapped out the CD-RW of the original 733 quicksilver edition I have, and after some […]

New project - record store community site

Friday, August 31st, 2007

this is my latest project - very much in alpha stage still, a record shop and vinyl junkie (secondhand collectors kind of people) community web site:
Vinyl Passion
Not sure whether to go with the domain as it is now or another on vinyl-passion.com that I have. Thoughts?

Anti Position

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Cool, but messy blitz game:

Upgrading a G4 Quicksilver PowerMac in 2007 …

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

I recently acquired a PowerMac G4 quickSilver for £50 from a friendly Guy.
He threw in a ProMac keyboard and a Promouse. the machine had 256 Mb RAM but has no Airport or ZIP and all else is standard as per its initial Apple release. I have put Tiger on it and it works. It was […]

Moka slime!

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Someone on the “Pile of Discuss” posted this interesting question, which I also have often wondered:
i have a octagon aluminum moka pot that i make ‘espresso’ in, in the morning with. and for some reason there is a clear slime left on the bottom where the water goes. Any ideas why or […]