Posted by Danny on Feb 10, 2009 in
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A bit of an update from the previous post about modifying my Leatherman Wave multi-tool, I have decided not to go ahead with a modification because the blade is quite loose without the lock and it will end up being quite dangerous and difficult to use. I posted a thread on the Bushcraft UK Forums about what I was planning to do and plenty of people thankfully talked me out if it. You can view the thread I started here if you want to have a read.
So now what are my options? Well I could of course continue to use the Leatherman Wave for EDC regardless and hope that if stopped by a police officer he has some common sense and lets me go on my way. Or of course there is the safe option of replacing it with a non locking knife.
Since I lack confidence that most police offers have common sense I’m going to go with the safe option and eventually find something to replace the Leatherman.
Posted by Danny on Feb 6, 2009 in
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Ok so its personal rant time, last year I purchased a Leatherman Wave multi-tool with intent to have it as an EDC (Every Day Carry) knife, I knew that to be legal it had to be Under 3 inches, fair enough i thought, a 3 inch blade is adequate for most tasks. The Leatherman Wave is just under 3 inches, perfect knife for EDC.
Well thats what I thought anyway, I’m not one for reading news but m increasingly aware of the media talking about knife crime whilst listening to Radio 1. I decided to look up the exact law on them and then came to realise that my EDC knife was infact illegal.
Our law states that an EDC knife has to be under 3 inches, folding, and non locking. Bugger! Now why the hell does it make any difference! You could kill a person with any size blade and with a folding knife. So why can’t you have a locking one?
What our thick goverment does’t seem to understand, If somebody is going to stab someone, they dont give a shit about the law in the first place, And they have to have the will to be able to do it. It’s the person thats the problem not the blade, You could stab somone with a chop stick. Infact, I believe the majority of stabbings that occure are from a £1 kitchen knife from a supermarket.
So now I need to find a way of modifying my Leatherman to make it non-locking. I will probably update about how I do it.
Posted by Danny on Jan 19, 2009 in
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In my opinion, the most convenient HD format for both consumers and professional camcorders has to be HDV. Yes it’s a tape and requires real time capture, but It’s advantages far outweigh the competing formats for me.
AVCHD – Which either uses Mini DVD, HDD or flash memory sticks, is a very convenient format as you don’t have to capture it in real time, but when it comes to playback and editing it requires a much higher specification computer compared to HDV.
HDV – Uses MiniDV tapes and requires real time capture, however it’s easy to edit, playback and contains less compression artefacts.
So why don’t the camera manufacturers mix the best of both worlds? Record HDV to flash memory or HDD, yes Sony have the HVR-DR60 or HVR-MRC1K but these are expensive external devices designed for their professional range of camcorders. (Though the HVR-MRC1K will work with any HDV camcorder, both consumer or professional.) If you took Sony’s HDR-HC9 or Canon’s HV30 and designed them to record to Compact Flash instead of MiniDV tape, I personally think sales would improve dramatically.
Posted by Danny on Jan 4, 2009 in
General
Well today hasn’t been all that much different to any other day really, except you get birthday cards and presents, I don’t really do much for birthdays, never had have a birthday party and probably never will, not that I’m scared of getting old or anything, I’m actually pretty relieved that I’m no longer a “teen”, though sods law says I’m going to start getting asked for ID all the time now.
There’s one thing I absolutely hate about birthdays, and that’s checking my email on it, your birthday is the day you realise all the forums that you have joined over the years, they send you a happy birthday email! Now it’s a nice little gesture when you’ve joined maybe 10 or less, but when you join as many as I have you get a couple hundred. What can we call that? Happy birthday spam?
Posted by Danny on Jan 1, 2009 in
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Well everyone seems to ask what my new years resolution is going to be so I came here to write that I’m not making one, however in doing so I think I’m going to change my mind and say it’s to keep this blog updated!
How often?
That I can’t say, but I’m going to at least try.
Posted by Danny on Jan 1, 2009 in
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If this isn’t your first time visiting DannyGilbert.com then you might have noticed the site and previous blog is totally different. I decided to do something I never thought I would do, that being pressing the delete key on it all.
Why? Well the website was pretty bare, plenty of pages with nothing much on them, it was just a standard HTML web page which I used to manually edit and therefore I never got around to updating it. As for the blog, that was just too random, and was pretty much just like every other personal weblog out there, I also never really posted too it much purely for that reason.
Having chosen to delete the database and start fresh I want to focus more on the discussion of technology, anything from consumer electronics such as portable gadget to server and network hardware. That being said I’m sure I’ll be throwing in plenty of random thoughts and occasional rants too.
So that being said, Happy New Year!