I've recently noticed that my last blog post was way back in February, and now we're in the middle of June - so let me apologise for my lengthy absence. I do have a good excuse though.
It would appear, that after much stress, we're moving house at the end of this week. We put our house on the market at the beginning of March, and finally, last weekend we exchanged contracts on our new property.
I hadn't realised quite what an all-consuming exercise moving house would turn out to be. Between that and work I've done nothing else in the meantime. There have been no new gadgets, and no new projects at all - obviously they've all been on hold pending the move.
What this does mean - now that we're finally going - is that the new house will present all kinds of new opportunities for gadgets, tech and tinkering. I'm very much looking forward to it.
Some ideas that I've had so far:
- A wired gigabit whole-house network
- A dedicated home cinema room, possibly with a projector
- A Network Attached Storage media library
- An Apple TV and Airport Express house-wide audio/video system
- A new, upgraded, bigger, better lounge hi-fi
I dare say there will have to be some decorating and general DIY that will have to come before any of these projects, but it's nice to have a plan isn't it?
As a starter for ten, I've got the Virgin Media engineer coming on Monday to install my new Tivo system so at least that's one new gadget to be getting on with. I've also got a new Fatman iTube valve amplifier/iPod dock system on the way courtesy of Audio Affair, which I won in one of their Twitter competitions last week. Once I've unpacked all those cardboard boxes I'll try and blog about both these additions to my gadget world. Stay tuned, and bear with me please... this may take some time!
VERY exciting things!
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued as to where you had all those empty (now full) boxes stashed. And could I also suggest home-hosting your blog (for the list). I could build you a lovely Linux server.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I think I get more excited about command line jiggery pokery than you do.
@Rich - All those empty boxes were hiding in the loft. There's something therapeutic about rehoming gadgets in their original boxes - it's nice knowing they're properly packed and protected for the perilous journey to their new home five miles away.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, you do get more excited about the command line than I do. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that my level of excitement about such things is almost non-existent.
Your first assignment is to plan out the gigabit network. Get on with it!