We all know the hassle of finding spare change for parking meters on busy city streets. Well, the council of the London borough of Richmond has a novel solution: parking vouchers. It's a fun way to pass a Friday afternoon in St Margarets, as I discovered recently.
There's an uncompromisingly negative review of the Hyundai i20 1.2 in today's Guardian (via www.hyundaibuzz.com). While its i10 and i30 sisters have mainly broken past the lingering doubts in European minds over Korean cars, the i20 still gets a decidedly mixed bag of reviews.
Last night Ania and I ventured into deepest Feltham to see a movie at the Cineworld cinema complex at West Liesure, a mass of American-style commercialism and fast food joints huddled in an industrial zone.
A couple of stories on hyundai-blog.com show some leaked images of the i40, the new mid-luxury sedan soon to take its place above the i30 within the i range in Europe (it's still called the Sonata in the US). The car looks like a winner judging by this post and especially this one.
A Korean TV commercial shows the new Hyundai ix35 SUV crossover. To me this seems like the most exciting new car from Hyundai yet.
Since most of my coding at work involves geometric algorithms, I've had some exposure to the limited numerical accuracy of geometric calculations. In this first of potentially several articles I'll try to introduce the problem and describe some of the approaches available in dealing with it.
Much of the motivation for driving all the way to Scotland was the strong urge for some kind of road trip. Since we got the i20 in March I've been itching to put it to good use -- to find out what it can do.
The past few weeks I've been having a spot of bother with uneven pours on my Silvia. After some head scratching I decided it might be time for a new group head gasket. But having now replaced both the gasket and the shower screen, I reckon it might have been the screen that was at fault.
4 days
1545 miles
30 hours of driving
15 cups of coffee
200 liters of petrol
39.8 mpg
As a C++ programmer who uses templates a lot, I've often found myself writing something that I call a static class. Roughly speaking, static classes are to types what traditional classes are to data. But the ability to weild them satisfyingly in C++ is hampered by what look like quirky design flaws in the language.
Having recently bought a spanking new Hyundai i20, I was initially excited by the claimed fuel consumption figures, then duly disappointed that my own real-world results seemed pretty far off. But then I found out a few things about how the official figures are measured.
Taking pride of place in our kitchen are a Rancilio Silvia espresso machine and Rocky grinder. Because this combination produces pretty good results, friends in the market for a home espresso machine sometimes ask me what I would recommend.
Next time you're standing at the counter in Caffe Nero, order a single espresso and watch carefully as the big four-group Faema machine pours your shot.