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I’ve been reading a fair bit about startups (revisiting Paul Graham of course) , not that wehuhu is a real startup. This Christmas eve I was humbled and reminded me particularly of rule #10  of Evhead’s rules of startup.

I found a letter to me screwed up in the rubbish I was clearing up last night (Christmas eve), it was written by my wife (Ruth) to me on Christmas eve, it was a rant in true Ruth style, and was particularly colourful!

Shit!!!

Why…..

I’ve been polishing up the Wehuhu app that me and Ruth have been using for a while to manage our personal finances and project forward our budget. I recently mentioned it on twitter to get some feedback, I think others will findd it usefull.

I’ve been working on Wehuhu most weekend and evenings for a while, recently getting 3-4 hours sleep a night. It was Christmas eve and I was absolutely knackered and suggested I had a sleep in the evening before Ruth waking me up to do the stockings and final wrapping (the boys HDTV for the XBox - essential to get HDTV with consoles btw!)

Ruth was whacked too from working and sorting Christmas and didn’t like my suggestion. I was tired, the subsequent discussion didn’t go well, I ended up marching off upstairs to wrap Ruths presents, which allowed me to calm down. Ruth wrote this whilst I was upstairs, but then she decided to bin it, and not say much to me directly, probably a good call.

I know I get short when I get tired - I didn’t realise how  angry she felt with me, until I read this and man I am really glad I did.

It was a wake up call to me that my work \ project \ home life balance was fucked, Christmas morning began with the kids coming in at 7 and me feeling very apologetic. I was mainly forgiven and we were able to enjoy the kids stocking (sacks really) opening, Christmas turned out cool, and I’m pretty sure I will have learned my lesson. Ruth is ok for me to share this with others perhaps as a warning for all us geeks working too hard not to take our amazing family support for granted.

If you didnt follw the link rule #10  is ‘Be Balanced’

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I’ve been working on a new project for a while now - check it out….

http://www.wehuhu.co.uk

I was disappointed by existing services - all too US centric or requiring all my security questions, and really slow sites that includes Kublax and Wesabe.

MoneyDashboard looks hopefull - except its silverlight, and that still doesnt work to well on my Ubuntu and Android phone

Tag and categorise transactions - a firefox plugin to upload statements

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Its almost May and time to clean up the bike for spring. As far as I can tell from an initial clean the ACf-50 has done a superb job.

The truth is I’ve probably only ridden the Pan 20 or 30 times over winter so perhaps not quite the test I had hoped but, even so when compared to other untreated bikes I’ve owned and ridden over winter things look good.

After any salty winter wet rides, prehaps 10 or so, I let the bike cool and then splashed it off with a cold hose as normal (never use warm water - it disolves the salt granules more which seep into cracks more) . I’m happy to put the bike away wet and let it air dry in the garage or get it out wet for the next trip.

Next job - a proper clean and polish. (btw I’m using ACF on by bicycles from now on)

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After a few days pissing about, the pan is back together.

I The front mudguard mounting bolt which has been rounded off needs replacing so its not in very tight at the moment.

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The Pan ST1100 V is stripped down to coat everything in ACF-50 to see if it does what it says.

Stripped Bare

All plastic stripped off to get at the bodywork and other parts.

All visible surface rust wire brushed and treated with Krust (a modern day miracle) which turns light rust back into metal.

Frame joints and all fittings sprayed and dabbed with ACF-50.

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Some Notes on installing Oxford Hot Grips on a Pan ST1100.

Oxford Hot Grip

What:

1. The accessory voltage is rectified, not directly connected to the battery.

2. Attaching your hot grips directly to this doesn’t work.

Why:

3. When both grpis are attached the Voltage dips below 12 and the sensor turns off.

4. Attaching one grip and its all fine the voltage dip is less

Accessory Plug Location

So:

Wire up a relay direct to the battery switched from the accessory feed.

I’ve positioned the relay just below the main fuse box, on ABS/TCS models there will be another fuse box here though.

I’ll add a circuit diagram here soon.

After trying the engine running detection with the Hot Grips, I’m glad i wired the relay. As it only detects the running engine by voltage, so with a new fresh charged battery the grips stay on.

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I’ve gone and got me a blog. The Shrimp will be pleased!

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