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IF YOU FOUND THIS WEBSITE WRITTEN ON A CD
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Hi. I'm Pigeon, welcome to my nest. Beware of
imitations. Ignore any other websites named
"Pigeon's Nest", which are nothing to do with me. I am the real Pigeon, and this is the site
you were looking for. Scroll down, click some links and prepare for delights beyond your
wildest dreams...
Non-technical people :-) are advised to check out the
Burblings, the
Peculiar Pages and the
odds and sods first...
Or there's always the
photo album -
contact me for shoots/commissions etc.
Landscape is my thing.
Pigeons -
Automotive - Photos -
Computers - Engineering -
Odds and sods -
Rants and Burblings -
External links
Peculiar Pages -
Authenticity -
Contact me
Keep scrolling... This page is several screens long :-)
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This website does not have fancy layout, background images/music, multi-coloured text, Comic Sans
font, frames, pop-ups, or flash, and has only two lines of javascript. It's just like a really whole-earth acoustic website,
just, like, voice and guitar. Er, I mean it's just a minimal no-frills website. There's no
pretty-pretty crap on it, it just presents the information in an unadorned fashion, in clear
straightforward easy-to-read black text on a white background. Linux users often produce such
minimalist websites, because we don't see the point in cluttering up the page and wasting
bandwidth on decorative bullshit. (The little pictures above are not purely decorative, they each
serve an important function and have been selected with great (if not apparent) care. And while there is
music on the site, you only get it if you click on a link to a music file - ie. if you deliberately
decide that you want it.)
I do admit that it could be a bit better organised though. Somehow I always seem to have
something else to do rather than tidying it up... :-)
This website is not optimised for any particular browser. It's just standard HTML. Any
browser should be able to cope with it.
It seems that PistonHeaders do not find what they are looking for on this site. This could
be due to the fact that I don't know what you're looking for - feel free to tell me :-)
Pigeony stuff
Pigeon's nest webcam. The hardware fault on
the computer that runs the webcam has now been fixed (by replacing the
computer), so this is now working again.
Hourly snapshots from the webcam over
the past 24 hours.
Intergalactic Federation of Space Pigeons Ensuring the welfare
of pigeons throughout the whole of known space.
Pigeon Impossible
Absolutely superb animation (requires flash). Definitely recommended.
Some photos of my pigeons.
Pictures posted to fprc@yahoogroups.com over the
past week. This page is generated automatically from current content on the mailing
list so its contents are unpredictable and may sometimes be null. It is provided as
a service to fprc posters, many of whom seem to have difficulty in viewing images
that other people post to the list.
Diflucan (anti-fungal, good for pigeons) Info is about the human
uses of diflucan though; dose for pigeons is 5-15mg/kg every 12-48 hours depending on what they've got.
AFAIK it is available over the counter without need for a prescription.
The Pigeonator awaits those who do not heed the admonition to
be kind to pigeons.
Injured pigeons - contact me and I will do
my best to help/advise.
See also external pigeon links.
Automotive - Motorcycles and cars
The MZ Page A collection of
information about two-stroke MZ motorcycles.
LED lighting system for 6 volt motorcycles
Optical
ignition trigger, a more reliable replacement for the mechanical contact breaker
Electronic
thermostat for electric fan, as fitted to my Volvo 164
Converting a
Volvo Amazon or 1800 from dynamo to alternator. The wiring of such a
conversion need hold no terrors.
Photos
Photo album Mostly landscape,
cars and bikes.
Computery stuff
The sarge page: Miscellaneous problems and their solutions with Debian sarge.
Includes a section on problems encountered when dist-upgrading Debian woody to sarge.
ClockProg for SiS6326 graphics card and SVGATextMode
Conexant ADSL PCI modem driver for Debian - not a
pukka .deb, but a hack of the RedHat driver tarball. I first tried it with Debian woody (with
backports.org backports) and kernel 2.4.24, then later dist-upgraded to sarge.
YMMV on other combinations.
Setting up Debian woody to boot a root filesystem on LVM. This is
what I did. Recipes for LVM1 / 2.4.x kernels and LVM2 / 2.6.x kernels are included. The information
is still useful for sarge.
Debian and Dueling Banjos: Solving the Mystery For
years the Debian developers' mailing list has received occasional bizarre requests for the sheet
music for "Dueling Banjos". Nobody ever worked out what it was that had caused that very first
misguided poster to approach Debian about it and start the whole thing off. Trouble is, nobody
had a beak. I've been pecking around and can happily announce that I have found the answer.
Linux 2.6.x kernels, cdrecord and the CyberDrive CW-088D CD writer.
This drive has a bug which stops it working with any 2.6.x kernel, not just kernels < 2.6.10.
Sanyo LMU-TK12AT touch screen monitor - good user manual
and a few notes; what to do if you've lost your OSD controller.
Pigeon says: Say NO to
msplinks! Myspace's so-called security feature is a crackers' and
phishers' paradise. Find out how to get rid of it here.
Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T USB Stick Firmware for Linux This page lists a
collection of firmware files for use with the Hauppauge WinTV
Nova-T USB Stick under Linux - at least that's what they were
advertised as being for, I don't know if all of them actually
are or not.
Pigeon's Device - You've heard
of Duff's device, this is the feathered equivalent.
Mirror of http://lkcl.net/rtmp/ dated 24-05-09.
Information on the RTMP streaming protocol.
Ubuntu jaunty udev rule for USB scanner.
What to do if your USB scanner works as root but not as a normal user.
Restore "Cached" links on Google search results pages
Towards the end of 2011, Google decided to be cunts and remove the very useful "Cached" links from the
search results pages. Here's how to get them back.
Google-sanitising UserJS for Opera Stops Google redirecting
search results links, unfucks image searches, and stuff.
Hardware and software details of a
parallel-port programmer for the MX25L8005 1MB serial flash RAM (often used on PC motherboards to
hold the BIOS) or similar chips.
Building the medibuntu version of mplayer from source - This
page answers an important question which is not addressed on any other page known to google.
Engineering oddments
Some
Unusual Engines - LJK Setright Download a scanned
version of this fascinating but out-of-print book.
Article on the Class 66 from RAIL 492
Napier Deltic T18-37K Manual
Clerk "Trilink" hydrostatic transmission for road vehicles
Multiple coupled inductors in SPICE - don't forget
to include ALL the coupling coefficients!
Combination hot water cylinder problems? Pigeon's Self Purging Balls
empty themselves automatically to avoid those embarrasing overflows.
Electronics design and
PIC programming
Odds and sods
But being as this is Google, the most powerful search engine in the
world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself
a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
GROAN WITH TWOTW An implementation of GROAN
in Perl by Angus McIntyre is used to generate this web page.
Intergalactic Federation of Space Pigeons Ensuring the welfare
of pigeons throughout the whole of known space.
An unusual cure for gutsache. How I defeated the dangerous yogurt.
Pitspeak - dull hang were judder fuchsia.
Best not let Finbarr Saunders see the cereal packet...
Remembering Joey Deacon... an unlikely
kind of hero who seared the minds of a generation. Nnnnnnyyyyyyyggggnnnnn uuurh ngflg.
Quantum behaviour of macroscopic objects.
Where's my bloody 13mm socket gone?; International secret agent paramilitary pigeons;
How to send secret love letters (but not battlefield situation reports).
Fitting a Volvo Amazon with a B30 straight-six engine.
Placed here rather than under "engineering oddments" because it also expands on some of the anomalous
quantum phenomena mentioned in the abovelisted page.
Anomalous quantum phenomena are
affecting my CD collection. If you find CDs mysteriously appearing
please read this page.
Nuclear water pump - just
the thing for those long-term irrigation projects.
Nuclear dogshit
vaporiser - another application of the same principle.
Three films with Bruce Willis (in a
vest) - Ben's 15 seconds of fame.
NASA Fakes Moon Landing!
Photographic Proof! Originally on brainsluice, the original page
was defaced by unimaginative morons. An undefaced archive copy is
presented here.
Rocket Car Crashes Into Cliff The
actual story behind this well-known urban legend. Copied on here
because the original site is dead.
Bruce Everiss -
Screenshot of Google image search result. Plus another pic of him.
Top Fuel Dragster Facts. Yes,
those top fuel dragster facts. Here presented in a handy web
page format which you can link to from a forum post instead
of pasting the whole bloody lot in all over again when 99.999% of the
readers will have seen it so often already that they are sick of it.
The Thieving Gypsy
Bastards - The classic cartoon from Viz.
Bloody silly version of the Spiderman
song.
Twitter Shit - Shit I write on twitter.
Casabianca - The boy stood
on the burning deck, and all that.
A Zebra's Cock through the Eye
of a Wormhole - a science fiction story which is both extremely
shit and incomplete.
Fifty Grades of Shay -
the Reverend's geared steam locomotives.
Rants
Crap stuff. Things which are done badly through greed,
ignorance or stupidity, and piss me off.
Burblings
Pigeon's Cack. Me burbling on from
my variant columbine viewpoint about stuff I've done or thought about.
Or just anything really. Not really a blog. Just me being a pigeon,
doing my pigeony thing. Anyway, any proper pigeon's nest should have
an associated mound of cack.
Peculiar Pages
Peculiar Page Ring Index. An
index to various pages on this site which have little in common apart
from being peculiar. Many of the best pages are in here.
Other people's stuff
A collection of links to sites I consider interesting.
If you should discover that any of these links don't work, please tell me.
Lucy Pinder - Television
Presenter
Lucy Pinder on the Lucy
Pinder Television Website
Lucy Pinder Videos Index: one of the
largest collections of Lucy Pinder videos on the net. Includes her Nuts TV work plus
modelling videos, PAs and more...
Lucy Pinder News on Twitter
Lucy
Pinder TV youtube channel
Video collection: Lucy Pinder on Nuts TV Here is the
largest available collection of Lucy Pinder's television work for Nuts TV.
Lucy Pinder in "Level Crossings:
Don't Run The Risk" I know they're a major pain
in the backside, although I can't be arsed to list all the technical reasons
why they're like that. The point is, pain in the backside or not, being an
idiot and getting squished is a much bigger pain all over...
Promotional blogs for the Lucy Pinder Television website:
Lucy Pinder - blogspot (1)
Lucy Pinder - blogspot (2)
Lucy Pinder - vox
External pigeon links
Pigeon Recovery. An excellent page
on providing help to injured and otherwise needy pigeons.
Pigeons.com (soon to move
to pigeon-life.net). Lots of useful info on rescuing pigeons.
Austin Duck Police More avian rescue resources.
Barclay James Harvest
The Barclay James Harvest Site Everything you ever
wanted to know about this unique and superb progressive rock band, with link to a lively
and enthusiastic discussion group. Also BJH CDs for sale, including hard-to-find stuff and
remastered versions of the classic albums. Lacking in information on Les's activities
after "River of Dreams", for which see this site.
The Woolly Wolstenholme Site The Mellotron
Maestro from Barclay James Harvest is still playing in what many fans consider to be the
quintessential BJH style. Find out what he's
up to on this site, and order his new CDs "One Drop in a Dry World" and "Grim".
Barclay James Harvest Featuring Les Holroyd The
Les Holroyd branch of Barclay James Harvest's developmental history. What Les is doing now and
who he is playing with. For information on Les's time with the "classic" and "classic-minus-Woolly"
incarnations of BJH, see the comprehensive site.
John Lees's Barclay James Harvest Up to date
information on the John Lees and Woolly Wolstenholme branch of the BJH evolutionary tree. Again
see the comprehensive site for information on their time
with earlier incarnations of BJH.
Barclay James Harvest web forum
Barclay James Harvest on yahoogroups:
discussion list for all branches of BJH,
and announcement list for news of new
releases, tour dates etc. of all branches except Les's.
BJH featuring Les Holroyd on yahoogroups:
discussion list for Les's branch of BJH only.
Myspace: Barclay James Harvest
Myspace: Woolly Wolstenholme's Maestoso
Myspace: John Lees's Barclay James Harvest
Myspace: Barclay James Harvest featuring Les Holroyd
Other stuff
The Douglas Self Site. The fount of all knowledge
concerning audio power amplifiers. If this guy doesn't know it, it's not worth knowing. He's also
got lots of stuff on unusual steam locomotives, road vehicles with unconventional wheel layouts
and other cool technological oddities.
Debian GNU/Linux Fed up with Microshite crashes, viruses,
trojans, spyware, total ignorance of security and general endemic dysfunctionality? Linux is a
REAL operating system, and Debian is arguably the most stable, secure and well-organised Linux
variant, as well as being the most "free". Find out more here.
Knoppix Linux Live CD Linux for people who are scared of
computers. Download the CD image, burn it to a CD, then reboot off the CD, and magically
everything works. Won't damage your existing system. Based on Debian.
The RatBike Zone Motorcycling as it should be. Ingenuity,
guts, originality and a distinct lack of chrome and plastic.
The "peace65" site,
an extremely comprehensive listing of diesel motorcycles.
Diesel Motorcycle discussion forum
Stefan Osswald's bike site - or at least the
navigation links from it, since the site's own navigation code doesn't work.
PistonHeads.com For those to whom a road vehicle is
more than just a means of getting from A to B.
The chew-the-fat forum, which is full of
refugees from Pistonheads.
The TRUTH about speed cameras.
A very good, clear explanation of
why the idea that human activities contribute to global warming is bollocks. There are plenty of
good reasons to use less oil - like the economic chaos that will happen when it begins to run
low (which is imminent) if we don't have alternatives in place, and the lunatic perverters of
the Muslim religion running many of the major
oil-producing states who we would be better off having no economic dealings with - but
anthropogenic global warming is not one of them.
The uselessness of the
Government's "act on CO2" policies. Taxing
the shit out of motorists won't affect global warming, which is
nothing to do with human CO2 emissions anyway.
CO2 is an effect, not a cause, of global warming, with
rises in CO2 levels lagging, not leading, rises in
temperature.
Keswick Mining Museum Fascinating and
comprehensive museum of mining. Well worth a visit.
Underground oddities - a wonderful site about the
hidden parts of the London Underground system.
Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Passenger trains are once
more running on this much-missed narrow gauge line. This is extremely cool and froody. Find out
more here.
Info on Savvis Communications Corporation - an
ISP known for hosting spammers. I have included this link on my site because Savvis have tried to suppress
this information by stealing the original domain: http://www.savvis.info now resolves to 127.0.0.1.
If you are trying to reach http://www.savvis.info try the above link instead. The site also provides
the information as a tarball
which I have mirrored here. I
became aware of the original site by reading this page
from The Register.
Be kind to pigeons
