Author Archives: inksmithy

About inksmithy

I moved to the United Kingdom in December 2003, to marry a wonderful lady in 2004, which union has produced 2 lovely children. My interests lie chiefly among the technical areas, robotics, programming, artificial intelligence, that sort of thing. I have a love for technology and firmly believe that properly used, tech can solve some of the most pressing problems the world is facing. Unfortunately, it isn't being used properly most of the time, with software patents and pointless bickering over recyclable ideas and hardware. I'm a bit of an inventor, and I'll often spend time on this blog typing up ideas which may never come to fruition. I have a couple of projects which I do work on a fair bit and I'll be writing about them as well.

Arrogant

Posted on December 11, 2011 by inksmithy

This is my little boy Duncan, who is four.  I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a child with so much confidence and scorn on such a young person. He frightens me at times.

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Eventful Time

Posted on December 3, 2011 by inksmithy

Things seem to be looking up for me at the moment, there have been some exciting things happening. As any regular readers of the site might know, I was made redundant from my position as court security officer at the … Continue reading →

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Usurping my opinion

Posted on December 2, 2011 by inksmithy

Yeah Unison, I’m looking at you. I’m also looking at the councillors who say “I think I speak for everyone” as well as every noisy busybody who feels they need to inflict their outrage on the general public, justifying their … Continue reading →

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My first go at Jupiter

Posted on November 28, 2011 by inksmithy

Anyone who’s at all been following this blog with its spotty updating and almost random subject matter may be aware I have a couple of long term interests I have recently had the ability to take up, astronomy and photography. … Continue reading →

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Evil haxxors

Posted on November 27, 2011 by inksmithy

Some bottom feeding oxygen thief of a hacker tried to hijack this site on the 13th of November and may well have succeeded in infecting some people’s computer between then and now. I can do no more than let people … Continue reading →

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First lunar photo

Posted on November 12, 2011 by inksmithy

As some of you may or may not know, I’ve been pretty interested in taking some pictures of the wonders I see through my telescope. Not necessarily full on long exposure astrophotography, but little ten second exposures which are enough … Continue reading →

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Iridium Flares

Posted on October 31, 2011 by inksmithy

My little patch of Northumberland had a fairly busy sky last night between 17:30 and 18:00, which I suspect not many people noticed. I wouldn’t either, were it not for a really useful little application called Heavens Above, which takes … Continue reading →

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Top Table Prepared

Posted on October 18, 2011 by inksmithy

I’m finding more and more opportunities to practice with my camera – I’ve decided to pretty well adopt the policy that if I go out somewhere, the camera comes with me. I can’t say I’m a fabulous photographer, but I … Continue reading →

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Junior Warden – Hextoldsham No. 5577

Posted on October 15, 2011 by inksmithy

Not something I spend a lot of time talking about really, since I believe the spiritual aspect of a person isn’t something which needs to be blarted about all over the place. My beliefs are my beliefs and your beliefs … Continue reading →

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Crossing Your Fingers

Posted on September 29, 2011 by inksmithy
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