Re: Recovery by Unrecovery (longish)

Dave Hughes <spambait@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
If the guy who just got sentenced to 20 years is a clue, asking for pool
chlorine, or fertiliser, or just about anything from the cleaning aisle of
your local supermarket is illegal.

I think the state of my kitchen would be sufficient defence.

Oh, having a street directory as well.

I got myself a satnav GPS to play with and to find my way around central
London. Since it's software and hardware, it sucks. Since it turned to be
WinCE-based, with the mapping software written by somebody with even laxer
coding standards than Microsoft, it *really* sucks.

I programmed it to find a route from where I was standing, the top of
Charing Cross Road, to a pub I know in Chelsea, about three miles away, and
then started strolling in a general southwesterly direction.

Somewhere around St. James's Park, it finally saw enough sky to say "hmm,
we're not in Kansas any more", computed a four mile route, burbled a bit and
then gave up with "signal too low". The next useful thing I got out of it
was "in 20 yards you will arrive at your destination" once I'd sat down with
my pint at the far end.

A low-tech A-Z remains in my bag. It doesn't use 50% of its battery for a
three mile journey.

.

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