You can choose any colour you like as long as its black...
This is what happen recently when I want to ask someone to "tailor make" a home office unit for me. We went to this shop and we show the shop assistance a drawing and dimension of the furniture we intended to get, he then explained to us that the furniture can only come at a particular sizes. We than ask for some cupboard and shelves...Again the same answer.. "this can only fit to such and such size and that can only fit to such and such size" At the end we looked at what they have come up with...guess what it doesn't fit the room dimension at all...
what is the point of tailor making furniture then...
Monday 23 June 2008
Saturday 14 June 2008
DIY Long weekend
In this part of the world long weekend means Saturday, Sunday and Monday off, no work. I remembered when I was in England, the definition of long weekend also mean Saturday, Sunday and Monday off in addition the sky will become pitch dark with clouds and it will rain for 3 days starting from Saturday morning. I wish this is the case in Cyprus now with 3 full days of rain fall to fill up the dry reservoir.
I just remember another thing about what people do in the UK for the long weekend, yes the good old DIY. For me I am planning to do some "investigative DIY" too for this long weekend. Last week I brought a digital receiver along with a satellite dish so that I can watch satellite TV. The grand total for both the dish and the received come at around 222 Euro. (for Cyprus it is a very good offer). The receiver is a dreambox. For those reader of this blog who don't know about dreambox receiver. it is a machine which interpret the signal received by the satellite dish to a TV output. What so special about dreambox is that it uses a free open source computer technology called Linux to run the receiver. Effectively it is using a mini computer to do the signal interpretation.
Why I am saying I am doing "Investigative DIY"? well it is because I am not actually installing the dish. I am trying to do as much investigation as possible so that when the installation person come, he/she can actually able to complete the job. The most difficult task is to get cable from the roof top to the TV room on the ground floor.
Some of my friends and colleagues ask me why I am so much silly spending time on it, shouldn't the person installing the dish should carryout the investigated task? Well the simple reason is because I want the installation guy to do it the way I want it to be done. I don’t want to be push around by others.
I just remember another thing about what people do in the UK for the long weekend, yes the good old DIY. For me I am planning to do some "investigative DIY" too for this long weekend. Last week I brought a digital receiver along with a satellite dish so that I can watch satellite TV. The grand total for both the dish and the received come at around 222 Euro. (for Cyprus it is a very good offer). The receiver is a dreambox. For those reader of this blog who don't know about dreambox receiver. it is a machine which interpret the signal received by the satellite dish to a TV output. What so special about dreambox is that it uses a free open source computer technology called Linux to run the receiver. Effectively it is using a mini computer to do the signal interpretation.
Why I am saying I am doing "Investigative DIY"? well it is because I am not actually installing the dish. I am trying to do as much investigation as possible so that when the installation person come, he/she can actually able to complete the job. The most difficult task is to get cable from the roof top to the TV room on the ground floor.
Some of my friends and colleagues ask me why I am so much silly spending time on it, shouldn't the person installing the dish should carryout the investigated task? Well the simple reason is because I want the installation guy to do it the way I want it to be done. I don’t want to be push around by others.
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