Archive for March, 2009

Mar25th

Getting a toothache is no fun at all

Getting a toothache is no fun at all. And so it was when I got a rather sizeable one a couple of weeks ago. Needless to say, there was no other option than to visit the local dental surgeon to discover if he had any miracle cure up his sleeve. (more…)

Mar18th

Purity Soft Drinks

Purity Soft Drinks, the UK family-owned soft drink manufacturer, recently hit the headlines when it was fined GBP9,000 and ordered to pay GBP2,376 in costs at West Bromwich Magistrates’ Court after failing to join a recycling scheme between 2004 and 2006. (more…)

Mar11th

Designer Oliver Blackwell apologised for being late when we met three years ago at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London

Designer Oliver Blackwell apologised for being late when we met three years ago at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London. He was running late, he explained, due to the enormous amount of interest that certain other members of the press had expressed in his new invention - a machine called the WashIronDry. (more…)

Mar5th

When the tyres on the front of my car started to look as if they had seen better days

When the tyres on the front of my car started to look as if they had seen better days, I took a little trip into the local tyre warehouse to have a new pair fitted. (more…)

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Engineeringtalk and this Editor's Blog is now edited by Dave Wilson

Dave Wilson

Dave was the Editor of Digital Design, Electronic Systems Design and The OEM Integrator in the US between 1980 and 1990. More recently, he founded e4engineering (now The Engineer Online) at the start of 2000 and Technology Horizons in 2006, both for Centaur Media. His mood varies with the fortunes of the NASDAQ and Nikkei indices.

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