Cutting it a bit close at 15:24!
Category Archives: Ramblings
Microsoft B15 Robot Powered By Raspberry Pi
Apple Watch – Unboxing (UK)
Jaguar XJS V12 ECU
A pleasure to meet Ray and Roger again at AJ6 Engineering today and watch Roger do battle with some “old” electronics aka the Lucas 16CU from my XJS V12.
http://www.jagweb.com/aj6eng/lucas_efi.php
Those hand written notes and schematics could tell a story or two! NEC Ireland on the CPU … perhaps some commonality with the BMW E30 320?
http://www.bimmerforums.co.uk/forum/f17/1991-e30-320-remap-t71355/
Xmas 2014
Apple iWatch
Jukebox Hacking
I bought a second hand Jukebox from eBay and could not resist trying to understand how it all worked ….
Those were the days …
Programming the hard way!
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=C+VG/Issue033/Pages/CVG03300104.jpg
Before I owned an iPad
Financial Markets
For the last couple of years with the onset of 40+ life (aka grumpy old man according to this kids!) I’ve been tracking the financial markets and in particular the UK housing market as a general financial indicator.
There are lots of websites out there but the two I read regularly are http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/ and http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/.
In relation to UK house prices the following chart keeps appearing:
Despite studying Math at degree level and thinking that I understand Fast Fourier transforms and associated Complex numbers I still have a problem understanding what the chart above shows!
Does it mean (accoring to the Nationwide) that in February 2009 the average UK house price was down 17% but as of Sepember 2009 there has been a recovery and the average price is now the same as the start of 2009 – I don’t think so. Anyway, if that was the case the figure in January would always be 0%.
Surely a simple chart showing the average UK house price on a per month basis would be easier to understand?
Regardless, as somebody looking to purchase property in the near future I still prefer to use this chart from http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/
