Stephen Gentle

I have been reading a lot about building homemade turbojet engines at this site. I would really like to make one, and it’s quite simple if you use a turbocharger for the main turbine. The main problems that I would have making one of these is that I don’t have any metalworking equipment (Welder, angle grinder, dremel etc), and it would be hard to find a good location to test such an engine. The problem is that they make a lot of noise, and if one of the blades in the turbocharger breaks (spinning at 100, 000 RPM+), then they are shot out of the back of the engine faster than a bullet.

Sounds likem fun, doesn’t it!

By the way, I didn’t notice that Dan Saunders had posted a comment on my blog, because now I have to approve them… I just noticed that i had five unmoderated comments earlier tonight! (I guess I should add that three of them were spam, but anyway…)

-Stephen

The IT Crowd, a funny, brittish tech-related sitcom written by Graham Lineham (who wrote a series of Black Books) is coming to Australian TV on Wednesday. It will be on ABC on Wednesday at 9:00.

It’s a really funny show, so check it out. If you miss it, or don’t want to wait until Wednesday, you can find a torrent here.

For more information about the IT Crowd, see the Official site, or the Wikipedia article.

-Stephen

Ok… I thought that a USB beverage chiller was going a bit over the top, but now someone’s come up with a USB aroma fragrance oil burner and USB heated gloves…

-Stephen

This is a funny Joy of Tech comic about using Windows on a Apple Computer:

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/802.html

-Stephen

Well, I haven’t posted for a while, so…. Here are some cool videos!

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ – This is a very cool touch screen that you can use multiple fingers. There are some very cool demos in the video.

This is a cool video of some guys climing up stuff and jumping from great heights and doing other dangerous stuff…. There’s some dialogue at the end, but its in russsian, so I’m not sure what they say….

-Stephen

This is pretty cool: Ten Uses for the Altoids tin with an iPod

It has some awesome mods, like battery packs and amps and so on.

-Stephen