Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Looks like this mornings soldering has paid off – I’ve now got what appears to be a functional PIC microprocessor programming board. Sure, this isn’t much of an acheivement for most people, but I haven’t soldered for ten years, I was surprised how easy it was….gotta install the software now and actually *do* some programming.

And confirmation today that after six months here I still don’t know how to use the green bin, its for ‘organic waste only’, so I’ve been especially digging out the biodegradable carrier bags (you’ll notice that not all carrier bags are these days, having made a big sales pitch about it a few years back) to bundle up the mouldy oranges and teabags, but they’re not taking those – I got a big nasty ‘contamination’ sticker. OK, well, if thats the way you want to play it everything goes in the black bin, its not like I actually produce that much in the way of organic waste anyway (three bagfuls over the last fortnight) and if you’re going to make it impossible to package then it’ll go with the rest of the landfill. I tried.


9 comments

  1. pity we cant recycle the bureaucrats!

    they’d probably be bad for the environment and condemned under RoHS (Reduction of Hazadous Substances) and WEE (erm, Waste Electric something?) legislation…

    • They said to either just put things straight in the wheelie bin or wrap them in paper, both of which are somewhat impracticle, though paper is more likely, problem really is where to keep it while its inside, I don’t want to have to go out every time I want to throw something away.

      Their attitude was “Well, thats how we’ve designed the system, now live with it” and “btw we’re not actually going to bother to tell you anything about how the system works” rather than actually making a system that is either obvious or useful.

      • hsb

        Then I would use whatever kind of bag is handy, and tip it out in the bin at the end of the day/whenever you would normally take it out.

        H

    • Thats all very well, but I’ve got to keep the yucky stuff somewhere until theres enough of it to make it worth wrapping.

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