Pete Hindle

I’ve just finished writing a small program that generates our website banner. I’m not a great programmer, by any means, but I’m pretty proud of this program. It’s been a long evening where I could have blamed my lack of programming skills on a stinking cold and slouched off to bed at any point, but [...]

There’s been a lovely drop in audience figures for my blog since installing a truly hostile end-user environment.

YouTube – Uncut Buck and Wilma kissing scene from Buck Rogers Pilot. Anybody who knows me, knows that I really like the Buck Rodgers TV show from the 1980′s. Idly browsing Youtube over the Christmas period, I’ve found this outake from the original pilot, where Buck and Wilma kiss. Awwww. I don’t think they ever [...]

As part of Newcastle’s Science Festival next year, Make Magazine is having it’s first UK based MakerFaire. This is great news, because it’s IN NEWCASTLE. Where we at the Unnamed Laboratory are based! So what is a Maker faire? Well, according to their website it’s a family-friendly event that celebrates the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. Over [...]

Now that we’ve shaken off the annoyances of changing themes, let’s talk fun stuff. The video above is such a classic piece of mid-1990′s footage. The style of it is pretty eye-catching, washed in original sentiment grunge, but gear-heads like me will notice the reel-to-reel tape recorder in some of the session footage. Do you [...]

If you are an RSS reader of this blog, you’ll not have noticed that I’ve made the site look different. Go take a look. Cool, huh? I’m going to keep my site this way for a while, as I feel that it’s a bit of a baffle that stops the less-nerdy and those people who [...]

I had to buy a new helmet, because my old one broke when I was going round the corner near Heaton Park Road (actually, the junction at Heaton Hall Road and Wandsworth Road) and did a huge swerve to avoid some numpty riding a downhill bike. I mounted the pavement and ended up gently crashing [...]