I’m probably completely, totally jinxing myself by posting this, but if everything comes together as I hope, this place is about to get a lot more interesting. Of course not that you, dear reader, ever found it uninteresting. Watch this [...]

I was brought up as a fairly devout Catholic. During my late teens I became devoutly atheist, if that’s not a contradiction in terms. Lately I’ve started to feel a distinct absense of spirituality in my life. I can’t say [...]

Not a lot of progress on the layout at the moment. New track arrived tonight, along with a nice (second hand) set of Alco FA1/FB1 locos: I’ve re-laid the track including a couple of bridge sections to I can fine [...]

Parental Advisory: It’s gonna get a little N-Scale up in here for the next few weeks at least. You’ve been warned. I regularly do dodgey electrical stuff. Possibly risky, but I’ve only once actually electrocuted myself on 240v AC [...]

To be honest, I never saw myself as a train geek. Sure, I’ve always loved seeing model trains rolling around nicely designed layouts. I think my first experience was the grand old layout at MOTAT, and since my [...]

So HDTV has finally arrived in New Zealand. I have to say I’m very impressed. After some tips from my last post, I ended up with a 32″ V Series Bravia and a terrestrial Freeview box. I’m positive there [...]

So I’ve been tasked with buying a Freeview box and HDTV for the in-laws this weekend. Anyone got any good suggestions for a medium-sized LCD in the $1500-$2500 range? Current thinking is to go and look at Panasonics [...]

I sense an obsession coming on…

In case you are a hadn’t noticed, I’ve changed my main domain name.  Gadgetophile.com still works fine and will continue to redirect all traffic to the new domain, but I just didn’t feel it described the site anymore.  Back in [...]

Tip for young players: don’t place your cache near a building in the city with CCTV cameras. I’ve just spent 90 minutes with the police explaining geocaching, convincing them it’s not a problem, and viewing CCTV footage to confirm the guy [...]