Recent Blog Posts

Waiting is the norm in the UK today?

By Lester Caine
Sunday 17 of November, 2024
Posted to Lester's New Blog
Still waiting for Brother

Waiting on Brother repairing printer

By Lester Caine
Friday 01 of November, 2024
Posted to Lester's New Blog
Having identified that there is a fault on the scanner of the printer getting it repaired is being painful

More haste less speed ... redoing work

By Lester Caine
Monday 28 of October, 2024
Posted to Lester's New Blog

First batch of recycling
Having worked through all the A4/3 sized magazines I realised that the last batch had a shadow line across the back pages of the scan caused by dirt on the scanner. I should have been checking the quality a little more often. It was not a major problem, but with my plans to dispose of the originals I knew it would annoy me latter, so that batch of 50 has been rescanned. While the process was quicker than it had been, it was hampered by more mags hitting…

THAT is what was slowing down the page display

By Lester Caine
Thursday 24 of October, 2024
Posted to Lester's New Blog
Changing page layout speeded up page responce

Todays scanning problems

By Lester Caine
Friday 18 of October, 2024
Posted to Lester's New Blog
Where we are upto in scanning Model Engineer magazines

How I came to be here.

By Lester Caine
Sunday 01 of January, 2023
Posted to Lester's New Blog, Lester Caine's Blog

Having been recalled to prison for a 'breach of licence conditions for which there was no evidence', I completed the whole of the prison sentence inside and was finally released back in May. Since then I have had a number of brick walls to break down and I have hand written notes about that time which I will transcribe but probably on the main LSCES website blog. I what to keep this thread to more model engineering related material. Such irritations as the fact that when I went into p…

Wednesday 25 of November, 2009

By Rick Sparber
Wednesday 25 of November, 2009
Posted to Rick Sparber's Blog

I've always used email or a BBS to communicate. Using a blog is new for me.

Being dragged kicking into BLOG space

By Lester Caine
Sunday 22 of November, 2009
Posted to Lester Caine's Blog

With all of the other developments going on, the site news section is a little inappropriate for recording some of the activity they is going on and to post development material. So I've switched on the blocg package and started posting.