This page is as much for my reference as yours! Simply a log of every
update to the site since it was launched in its
current format, away back in May 2003. I realise that
some would say that this is a long, long time for a website to go
without a redesign, and you're probably right. This one does
what I need it to though, and is easy to navigate and to maintain.
It doesn't need Flash this and Java that...all that does is
waste bandwidth. Given that the site's running on my own
server now, that is actually something I at least need to think about.
Newest stuff's at the
top, oldest at the bottom. Worth noting
that as there have been quite a few page moves and such since the older
entries, as a result, I've removed links to everything older than this
year, as there were a bunch of dead links, and that looked rather
unprofessional. Pages are all still there in their respective
sections though.
Go Back to the Introduction and News page. 5th July 2010: First flashlight review in a long, long while uploaded!
Picked up one of Mag's newer offerings a couple of months back - the XL100 - and have to admit to being very impressed. 28th April 2010: Another one of the cars pages up. This time the turn of my much missed 1981 Austin Metro. 27th April 2010: What's this? Two updates within a week? Unheard of!
Put a page up for the most recent automotive acquisition - A Suzuki Cappuccino 25th April 2010: Finally, after a full year got around to putting up a
page for my Peugeot 107...only fair that it gets a page like any other
I've had! 1st March 2010: Weeeeee're baaaaa-aaaaack! Things have been a bit
tight financially over the last few months, and the server ended up
getting shut down as part of a wider range of things where I tried to
see what I could do to save every single penny possible. Net result of
the whole lot was nearly nothing...so things are now back to normal!
Fingers crossed they'll stay that way for a while. 12th December 2009: Sorry about the week or so of downtime folks. For
the first time since it was assembled out of a pile of scrap parts from
boxes around my room around May 2008, the gremlins have had a go at
Gorbash (my server), with the network card deciding to lose all
interest in exchanging data with the outside world. As you can see,
this has now been rectified. Sorry for the lack of updates lately,
work's been leaving me pretty shattered and leaving relatively little
time for me to dedicate to the site. I'm hoping that I might get a
chance to put a bit more time into it over the festive period though. 5th September 2009: Added the Megaman Clusterlite 1060i 60W Compact Fluorescent lamp to that section. 13th August 2009: Added the Prolite Daylite SCR-11W Blue
lamp to the Compact Fluorescent Page. There have also been inumerable
behind-the-scenes updates - the eagle-eyed among you may have noticed a
good deal of pages with long-dead wallpapers and links that don't go
anywhere have suddenly been fixed.9th August 2009: Updated the page for the Timeguard TGNL15 Nightlight
with some info on its operating principles - and recategorised it, as
it's not actually a linear fluorescent lamp strictly speaking at
all...it's a cold cathode neon lamp...well...sort of. It's been pushed
into "others" now.
3rd August 2009: Finally got around to fixing all
the broken bits of page on the
Flashlight Reviews Page...only taken me eight months! Still, it's done
now!
21st July 2009: Shock horror...an update! Have started putting together the page for the Toshiba T5200/100 portable computer (I'm not saying laptop...it's bigger than my lap!).25th
June 2009: Okay...nearly two months later than planned, but we're back
in business! The reports of the server meeting its end in an
accident involving a 2nd floor flight of stairs are greatly
exagerrated! I'll probably be playing around with cabling and
positioning of some of the hardware over the next couple of weeks, so
the site may sporadically disappear for a few hours here and there -
but by and large, LOZ is back up! 21st November 2008: Added the Luxina Helix SCR-11W Red coloured compact fluorescent lamp to the compact fluorescent page of the lighting section. 14th November
2008: At the request of a reader, I've started to put together a page
which is basically a compilation of all the spectrograph photos
for
lamps around the site. I'm retaking all of the photos - so
it'll be a while before they're all there. Not really of any
scientific value due to the rather crude equipment used - but I'm sure
some of you will find it of interest. If there's any lamps
you'd be particularly interested in seeing in there, drop me a line and
I'll see if I can find it. 9th November
2008: Added the Panasonic EFG15E50R Reflector lamp
to the CFL page -
been ages since I did a lighting update! Thought it was about
time I sorted that out! 30th October
2008: No real updates recently aside from the addition of my new car, a
1996
Lada Riva 1.5E Celebration to the automotive page.
I'm
struggling really to find time to work on the site at the moment, but
will still endeavour to get things up as and when I can.
Apologies too about the brief outage yesterday - we had a brief power
failure here, and for some reason the router refused to talk to the
server afterwards until I manually removed its device entry and
recreated it. Took me a while to figure out what was going on
there! 5th September
2008: Updated the page for the Bush
VHF71, as restoration of this set
is now fundamentally complete, and the set is in regular use once again. 27th August
2008: First major update since the server move. I am now
working on going through the site page-by-page updating those where
there are currently dead images or links - this process may take me a
while, but aside from the backgrounds shouldn't be TOO extensive a
problem, as the majority of the current format site was produced after
I worked out how relative filenames worked. This has seen the
addition of the Marconiphone T19A to the vintage
technology page,
weeding out of some now defunct links from the links page and addition
of some fresh ones, and the addition of a new section for my interest
in streetlighting
- having decided to keep that separate to the general
lighting section. More to be added to that page soon, time
permitting. 30th May
2008: Sorry for the lack of updates lately folks - I've been
particularly busy, so the site's had to take a back seat for a
while. I did add a small update to the Saab's
page yesterday
though - just to show that I am still alive! 24th April
2008: Updated the Skoda Rapid's page with some photos
from the
rust-location work which took place last weekend. More to
come next week hopefully! Also added the page for my current Saab 900. 8th April
2008: Added the page for a couple of preliminary photos for the Sony
TFM-C580E clock radio which I dug out of our loft last
weekend to the
vintage technology page. 26th February
2008: Updated the Bush VHF71 page - the restoration
is now underway. 20th February
2008: What's this? Three updates in three days?!?
Added a brief page for the Bush
VHF71 radio I purchased today, and put
some more photos up for the Defiant MSH 452AC. I'll
try to
get some more photos up for the rest of the radios soon... 19th February
2008: Minor update. Put some more thumbnails up on the
Vintage Technology page, and linked them into profile images.
If you'd like to see the page for any of the radios I've just put up
done first - give me a shout and I'll put it to the top of the
list! I like user feedback. 18th February
2008: Discovered that Frontpage for some unknown reason was butchering
the coding of hyperlinks in the frame. Having thinned out the
settings it was using, I've recreated the whole thing from scratch,
which has reduced the page size by about 50% as well! This
addresses the fact that Firefox was failing to recognise the link to
the vintage technology section before. 15th December
2007: (Or thereabouts anyway...forgot to update here!) Have started to
rebuild the vintage technology section (formerly called "Computers"
which was a bit of a misnomer as it had a whole bunch of other random
tech in, and had been in such a state for well over a year).
It's a bit of a mess at the moment, with only one working item - the
Kolster
Brandes KV024 television (thought I'd start with one of the
best things to go in there), but hopefully once the dust clears and I
get the tidying up finished it'll be a lot easier to follow than
before. I've made a slight change to the template being used
for pages from now on as well, using larger (100px high) thumbnails in
pages. I MAY go back through some of the more popular pages
and update them. No change will be made to the section
introductions or anything, the current 100px wide images will continue
there. 28th November
2007: Added the Sylvania Mini-Lynx Pastel 11W Apricot lamp to the
compact fluorescent page. 25th
September 2007: Added the Thorn EMI Low Voltage Display Lamp to the
incandescent lighting page. 21st
September 2007: Added the Atlas A1/210 Trufocus Projector lamp to the
incandescent lighting page. I've also tweaked the index page
in the cars section so that another couple of pages which are actually
awaiting a rewrite are still visible - as they were still getting hits
even though there was no link to them! I'll tidy them (Skoda
Estelle and Lada Niva) up sometime soon hopefully. 18th
September 2007: Added the Atlas 100W Blue coated crown silvered lamp to
the incandescent lighting page. Also tweaked the text on the
intro page a bit. Some housekeeping was done behind the
scenes as well, but nothing that should be visible to you viewing the
site (though if I appear to have broken anything - please let me
know!). Everything I deleted was related to the previous
incarnation of this site, and was a leftover from before before the
2003 revamp...so shouldn't actually have been used any more. 16th
September 2007: The Rapid lives! In need of some
TLC...especially cosmetically, but I've finally got an update on the
page. Congratulations if you spotted the deliberate mistake
last update when I forgot to delete the fourth most recent update from
this page too! It was of course completely deliberate, I
never make mistakes...honest! 8th September
2007: After nearly driving myself insane trying to photograph it, added
the Kingston Lamps PS60 green glass lamp to the incandescent lamps page. 4th September
2007: Discovered a half-finished webpage...so finished it.
This was the page for the miniature neon spiral lamp, which has now
been added to the "others" page in the lighting section. 3rd September
2007: New email address again! Finally saw the sense in
getting an email address that isn't tied to my ISP. zelandeth
at googlemail dot com should be used for all future correspondence. 11th August
2007: Made a very, very overdue update to the Philips QL85W page -
finally added its text! Will retake the photos shortly as
well...my photography skills have moved on a bit since 2005... 5th August
2007: Updated my Corsa's "journal" on the cars page. Can't
believe it's been 5000 miles since I got that car! 2nd August
2007: Two new lamps added to the lighting section. A Red
version of an Osram Dulux lamp, and an unusual E27 mains to 12V MR16
halogen retrofit unit by Economy Lighting Limited. 31st July
2007: I'm ALIVE! AS IS THE WEBSITE! Apologies for
the lack of updates of late, this has been due to a technical problem
which left me unable to upload to the server, which as you can see, is
now fixed. Expect normal service to resume shortly!
Updates to come in the lighting section, and the Computers (Soon to be
"Old Tech") section. As some of you may have predicted...I've
now become throughly hooked on fixing old radios as well as computers
and tellys... 16th April
2007: You may have noticed that there haven't been any updates since
February...that's because my internet connection fell over and died,
and it's taken me until now to get it sorted out. I did get a
couple of pages written out during this time, but had no way to upload
them at the time. Will get them up over the next few days I
hope. ...Once I remember which pages they were and where I
saved them...I really need to put a notepad on the desk for scribbling
vital information like this on... 24th February
2007: Aside from a couple of additional photos for the beam profile
section - the LumaRay FL12RX review is now complete! Scoring
a very respectable 92% too I might add. If they keep
producing lights like this I'm going to need a new scoring system soon! 22nd February
2007: Updated the LumaRay FL12RX review page - still a work in
progress, but at least there is SOME text there now. Fingers
crossed this will be completed this weekend. 18th February
2007: (actually did this a little while back, but forgot to update this
page. Sorry guys!!), I'm now in the process of writing up the
LumaRay FL12RX flashlight review. Until such time as the full
review is finished, some photos and such can be viewed on the review
page here. 24th January
2007: Added the Philips MasterColour CDM-R 35W PAR30L lamp to the Metal
Halide page. 18th January
2007: Added the Iwasaki Eye G8T5 Germicidal Lamp to the linear
fluorescent page (and yes, I know there's no fluorescent bit...before
ya start emailing me about it!...it's the category it fits most...just
believe me). 13th January
2007: Added a page for my current transport (Skoda's off the road for a
little while due to a broken gear linkage, and a few other things
needed for the MOT at the end of January), I give you Mr. Eco - my
Vauxhall Corsa 1.5TD. 14th December
2006: Another interesting lamp that's been on my wish list for a long
while - the rose coloured Sylvania Mini-Lynx Pastel CFL.
Given how short a production run these lamps had, they must be at least
somewhat rare now. 12th December
2006: I seem to be on a roll with these updates! New page
added in the Compact fluorescent section for *cue fanfare* My newly
aquired original Philips SL*18. I also have an SL*25 of
similar vintage, which will be appearing shortly as well. 11th December
2006: New page added for the Philips DXX/13162 800W projector lamp, and
an few updates to the Megaman DorS lamp's page from yesterday, as the
donor of the lamp got in touch with some additional info for me, which
is now on the page. 10th December
2006: Finally...an update! No...really...a proper
update! New page added for the Megaman (No, not the little
blue guy from the computer games and the Bob & George
webcomic...) DorS dimming Energy Saving lamp. Interesting,
and very "polished" product this. 4th December
2006: Just a quick note to let any regulars here (I know there are a
couple of you!) know that I'm actually back from holiday now. Normal
service should resume over the next weekend when I hope to get a couple
of new pages up. Sorry for the month of no updates! 28th October
2006: Sorry for the lack of updates lately folks. I've just
moved into a new flat, and have been busy trying to get things
organised. One of the main problems I've been having so far
has been replicating the "Photo Stage" I had set up in my old room - so
I appologise for the slightly sparce and rougher than usual looking
photos on the BELL round LED bulb's page - which I just added! 28th
September 2006: Added the page for the Osram Halospot 70 50W 12V 24°
lamp to the Incandescent section. Can't actually remember the
last time I was one of these out in the "real world" now that I come to
think of it. 23rd
September 2006: Added the page for the Osram Active 60W lamp, the
sister product of the Osram Relax 60W added earlier in the year. 19th
September 2006: Finally got around to adding the webpage for my 1988
Saab 900i. As with the Skoda's page, this will be almost a
diary like thing showing updates as they happen. 9th September
2006: ...By 43 minutes. Effectively a same day
update! Added the General Electric Elegance
FLE20HLX/T3/827/B22-6Y-GE helical CFL to the CFL page. Have
had this rolling around my desk for a while, figured it was time it was
put here! I also added an email link to the navigation frame,
as I just realised that there's none anywhere aside from one buried
away in the "updates" page, which people very seldom look at.
Oops! 8th September
2006: Added (albeit somewhat later than planned!) the final one of the
coloured CFL set here. The Green 15W Impact Color
Spiral. Some of the more observant of you may also have
spotted that the previous lamp took the items on display past the 50
mark. Now...just to get the rest of the actual collection up! 1st September
2006: Added the page for the Impact Colour Spiral 15W Red helical
CFL. If you're thinking this looks suspiciously like the last
entry, you'd be right, as it's part of a set of four lamps.
One more to go! 30th August
2006: Added the page for the Impact Colour Spiral 15W Blue helical
CFL. Okay, so I have a soft spot for coloured fluorescents... 24th August
2006: Added text to the Timeguard TGNL15's page. Interesting
little gizmo that one, technically more a fixture than a lamp...but it
fits here. 21st August
2006: Added the index page for the linear fluorescent section, and the
Timeguard TGNL15 nightlight to it, just pages for now, the text will
happen over the next few days. 6th August
2006: Added a page for my most recent vintage TV acquisition.
A 1959 GEC BT304. Not much to report on it yet, but for those
of you interested in such things, the page is here. 3rd August
2006: Started the MUCH needed update on the automotive
section. For the time being pulled down all of the old pages
as they were desperately in need of redoing - including re-scanning of
the photos taken before I had the digital camera. I have
however added the page for my current car, my Skoda Rapid 135RiC. 10th July
2006: Finally...a new flashlight review! Ed of LumaRay was
kind enough to send me one of their brand sparkly newly redesigned
FL6's - which are due to be released shortly. They've done a
rather impressive job with the redesign...read all about it here... 11th June
2006: Added the Marathon 11W/827 GLS shape CFL to the page.
Bit of a scruffy old lamp this one, but one with a lot of memories to
go with it for me. 10th June
2006: Added the Tesco 11W CFL's rich GE brother - the Elegance 11W to
the CFL page. Corrected A couple of typos in the
aforementioned page too. 10th June
2006: Added the Tesco Value 11W CFL (Rebadged GE "Elegance") to the
relevent page...it's got a crazy-long model number I'm far too lazy to
type out yet again here! Another economy-class CFL to the
list. 4th June
2006: Added the description to the page for the Connect-IT 30W CFL. 7th May 2006:
Added the PowerPlus 9W Energy Saving bulb to the Compact Fluorescent
page. Tiny little thing, this lamp. 24th April
2006: Completed the Iwasaki EYE 160W Blended mercury PAR38 reflector
lamp's page. The text's a bit sketchy in places, but it'll do
for now. Better than having nothing there! 22nd April
2006: Added the framework for the Iwasaki EYE 160W Blended mercury
PAR38 reflector lamp to the mercury vapour section. Hope to
get the description up tomorrow evening. Know a couple of you
have been waiting for this one, sorry for the delay! 28th March
2006: GE 15W red "Pygmy" lamp page added to the incandescent
section. Remember I used to see these things all over the
place when I was younger, was a bit of a trip down memory lane finding
one the other day. 24th March
2006: A non-lighting related update! A very good friend of
mine gave me a rather old television recently, a restoration
candidate. A Kolster-Brandes KV-024. I haven't got
very far with it yet, but here's a webpage about it! Only one
of its type I've managed to find anything about so far. 17th March
2006: The LED section finally makes its much awaited (okay, maybe at
least one person's been waiting for it anyway...maybe) appearance, with
the Pro-Lite DioTronic orange GU10 1.8W lamp being the first exhibit to
be added there. If anyone knows where Pro-Lite have hidden
their website (if they have one), can you let me know please!
I sure can't find it. 16th March
2006: Sorry for the lack of updates lately, weekends have been pretty
busy of late, and I've not had a huge amount of time to work on the
site. Managed to get the page for the Philips HPI-T Plus 400W
lamp up tonight though. Glad to get something new up in the
Metal Halide section...though it did remind me that the pages already
there need rewriting! D'OH! 28th February
2006: After a bit of a delay, I finally completed the page for the
Philips PL E-T Pro 23W. I did have a page up for this before,
but it was one of the very first ones I put up...the original one was
taken down when the lighting section was rewritten, so this one was
just rewritten from the ground up. 12th February
2006: Same day update! Well, actually the last update was at
just after midnight...this one's the following evening...Have added a
full description for the Saverlamp 85W Spiral Compact Fluorescent
lamp. Yeah, the really big one that has been here for
ever...but never got a description to go with it...all there now! 12th February
2006: After spending what seemed like forever writing its page, added
the Philips Master PL-C 10W lamp to the Compact Fluorescent
section. First non-integrated CF lamp in my collection. 28th January
2006: Finally got around to reformatting the Flashlight Reviews page as
per the new site format. No new reviews added
though. I just really don't have the time to write them at
the moment! I also got rid of the "coming now" list...as it
was pointless and confusing. If something important it coming
up, it'll get shown. Otherwise, you'll just have to watch
this page! 23rd January
2006: Added the basic page for the Philips 2-in-1 CF/LED
Nightlight. First Hybrid lamp! Text to follow
tomorrow or later in the week as time permits. 21st January
2006: Added the GE Daylight incandescent lamp to the Incandescent
section. Finally got the full description up for the Deren
20W CFL in the Compact Fluorescent section. Also finally
remembered to get rid of the Christmas greeting in the page title...so
you can quit emailing me about that now! 16th January
2006: First update of the new year. Added the Osram Relax 60W
lamp to the Incandescent page. 22nd December
2005: Added page for the GE Lightstream 12V 50W green dichroic halogen
lamp to the Incandescent section. 21st December
2005: Started work on updating the Gallery pages. This is
probably going to be a somewhat ongoing project, but I want to get it
cleaned up a bit in the next week or so. No new material
there yet - but it's a lot easier to find your way around at
least! Hand drawn section up this evening. And I
also shifted the clock which used to be at the base of this page to the
updates page...as it was rather random. I didn't want to get
rid of it entirely though, so just moved it somewhere less visible! 13th December
2005: Boring update! Put up the Legal Info page.
Also been fixing up the Mercury Vapour lighting index pages.
All the subsections are there now. 10th December
2005: What? Two updates in as many days?
Yep! Finished the Osram Dulux EL 23W Vario's Page, and added
the basic page for the Deran 2U 20W. Text to follow tomorrow
for that one. 9th December
2005: Added the basic page for the Osram Dulux EL 23W Vario
self-dimming compact fluorescent lamp. There'll be more text
to follow soon on the page. Images are all there though. 25th November
2005: Excuse the lack of updates this week, work's been busy, and I've
not had much time to myself to work on the site. Just added
the General Electric BIAX Electronic FLE15TBX/XM/840 to the Compact
Fluorescent section though. Hopefully get another couple of
pages up over the weekend. Don't have a huge amount of info
on that lamp, so any feedback is most welcome. 18th November
2005: Added pages for Philips SOX-E 18W and Philips 93123E low pressure
mercury spectral lamps to their respective sections. Text to follow,
maybe tomorrow even. Think I'll try to get a few pages up this weekend,
then work on the text as I get time. 13th November
2005: Completed the entries for the Philips 250W SON-T and the Osram
SuperSOX 18W lamps. Osram SOX/H 55W lamp added to Sodium
Vapour Section. 9th November
2005: Added the index page for the sodium vapour section, and basic
pages for the Philips 250W SON-T lamp, and Osram SuperSox 18W
lamp. Also played around a bit with a few things under the
skin of the site. Information on the aforementioned pages is
to follow. 2nd November
2005: Updated the Morrisons Red Bulb's entry on the Incandescent
lighting page. Full description now online. 1st November
2005: New lamp added - Incandescent Section. Morrisons Red
Bulb. 21st October
2005: New lamp added - Mercury Vapour Section. Radium MRL
160W/235/E27 Mercury Blended lamp. 9th October
2005: New lamp added - Incandescent Section. The Easydim Self
Dimming Lightbulb. Interesting little thing.
Spotted it in Maplin today, and couldn't resist! Has been a
rough week...so my answer was to buy a lamp...sounds reasonable to me! 28th
September 2005: New lamp added...rather an unusal one too.
Philips Master QL 85W. Electrodeless induction lighting sound
interesting? Go take a look then. Data is to
follow, I just wanted to get the page up ASAP. 26th
September 2005: Two more lamps added, both to the incandescent
section. Osram Decostar 51S (Actually a complete rewrite of
its old page), and the Instant Gifts International "Blacklite Bulb". 25th
September 2005: And the updates to the lighting page
continue. Omicron SYE-11 has been re-added to the CFL
section, and the Possibly custom made sign lamp added to the
Incandescent Section. 23rd
September 2005: Updated the frame with new button images, and got rid
of those silly mouseovers. Updated all thumbnails on the
lighting index page. Set up the "Wanted" page.
Added Two new lamps to Compact Fluorescent Page. Under the
skin, messed around with a lot of the file structure of the site
itself. Not visible, but that's made life a lot easier for me! 22nd
September 2005: MANY! Incandescent section on the Lighting page now
active - 5 new lamps added. Compact Fluorescent page - 1 new
lamp added. Lighting index page - Thumbnails all
updated. I've got a new camera now - so expect to be seeing a
lot of updates to photos throughout the site. I have also
finally worked out how relative file addressing works! This
has allowed me to significantly speed up the update process! 17th
September 2005: WE'RE BACK! As you probably noticed, the site
has been down - for several months in fact. This was due to a
problem with the DNS Nameservers apparently (Artamir, the server
actually never went down!), the problem has now been sorted - normal
service shall resume! 15th July
2005: Why am I up at 2:39AM again? Oh yeah, was finishing a
review off. Got the LumaRay FL-12 review done. It
achieved a very respectable score too. 11th July
2005: Work goes on on the LED & Lighting page. Metal
Halide and CFL sections are up and running now. The rest
hopefully tomorrow. I realise a few of the pages are lacking
in text. That will follow shortly, right now, I'm just
concentrating on actually getting all the new framework up and
running. Just deleted over 10Mb of junk files that were no
longer doing anything! 7th July
2005: Pretty major update. The LED & Lighting page is
now being updated. Not just a little touch of paint, I'm
tearing the whole lot out and remodelling it from the ground
up. New index page, new format, new text for all the old
pages (though that will occur over time). So bear with me if
a few things are inaccessible for a few days, I'll do my best not to
break anything, but given that I've had to take the old index down,
there will be a few things you can't get to. Advance warning
that the frame will be undergoing surgery shortly as well.
Though I am hoping that will only involve being down for five or ten
minutes as it'll just be a matter of uploading a new frame.htm file. 6th July
2005: Added new metal halide lamp to the lighting page.
TopSpot BLV 225101 HIT-150 G12/WW 5th July
2005: Added three new lamps to the lighting & LED
page. Osram Decostar 51S, Realite MR11 Blue, Osram Powerstar
HQI. 12th June
2005: Updated text on intro and Flashlight Reviews pages.
Fixed a dead link. 8th May 2005:
Again, 2:18AM, but new review up! Got the LumaRay FL-6 review
up. 24th April
2005: Okay, it took me until 2:45 in the morning, but finally got the
Heliotek HTE-1 review done! Also got a prelim page for the LumaRay FL-6
up. 15th April
2005: Added a couple of preliminary review pages to the Flashlight
Reviews page, including that for the new Heliotek HTE-1. Not much text
yet, but there are some photos for you to look at. 17th March
2005: Excuse the long period of inactivity. Should have some updates to
come soon. Have added some items to the review listing, will get
working on the reviews ASAP. 15th November
2004: Finally added the Bell Flicker Flame effect bulb's page in the
LED & Lighting Section. 31st October
2004: Added new link to the Links page. Site run by a good friend of
mine, and well worth a look. 10th October
2004: Added the Energizer Illumifold Lantern Review Page. Final Score:
88% 21st August
2004: What the?!? ANOTHER UPDATE...this is becoming an ugly
habit. Added the Princeton Tec Impact II Review
Page. Final Score: 80% 13th August
2004: What?!? Two updates in one week...this is unheard
of! Yes, unusual, but it's true. What's more, two
reviews written in one week! FINALLY got the Osram Dulux Mini
review done. Final Score: 78%. That thing's number
SEVEN on the reviews list...that's over a year it's been on the to-do
list...oops. Also, added a new feature to that review, a
Mini-review done by a friend of mine, intended to give an impression of
what someone who's not reviewing lights every other day will think of
it. Well done on his part I think, hopefully will see this
more in the future. 10th August
2004: Completed the Solar LED road Marker Review page. Final
Score: 94% 16th June
2004: Completed the Dorcy 2AA 4LED Flashlight review page.
Final Score: 78%. 8th June
2004: I've been busy...okay...that's why there haven't been updates for
four months...honest! Added the Dorcy 2AA 4LED flashlight
page, albeit without any text at present, and updated the Flashlight
Reviews Listing page. 11th February
2004: Added the Nuwai ALX-113AA Review page. Final Score:
88%. No other updates. 8th February
2004: Updated this intro page and tweaked the frame a bit. I've removed
the links to the pages that are no longer in use. This does not however
mean that they won't necessarily reappear at some point in the future,
but for the time being, I'm going to slimline the site layout a little,
get rid of bits I don't need...like buttons that don't go nowhere! 25th December
2003: Completed and uploaded the CMG Reactor 3 review page.
Tried a different review format this time, think it works a lot
better. Apologies are due there to Chris Millinship, the
owner of The Torch Reviews Site, I based a lot of the new format on his
work (Because it's a work of nothing short of sheer web design
genius!). What I had not however intended, was for my review
format to end up quite so similar to his - which is has - apart from
the fact that his reviews are a lot better written, and his photographs
are a few million times better. I'll of course change it if
you wish me to Chris, it wasn't a deliberate copy, just that it's hard
to stray far from a page format like that when it's so clearly
brilliant! 4th October
2003: Updated the Johnlight Search Guard Review. 25th
September 2003: New Sketch in Hand Drawn gallery. "Artists
Block Sucks" I'll let you figure out where the inspiration for that one
came from (or not as the case may be! As that's the whole reason it got
drawn). Might finish it sometime, just a random scribble
right now. 3rd September
2003: After much faffing around trying to get it to work, finally got
the Nixie Clock working on the intro page. Might move it to
the NavFrame when I get around to resizing the images to fit...whenever
that happens! If you don't know what a Nixie is, go to Mike's
Electric Stuff site and look at the relevent section. On the
other hand, if you're looking for a place to buy them (especially the
more rare types), Sphere Research have a HUGE selection, mostly new and
boxed as well. 18th August
2003: Played around with the Flashlight reviews page yet again, and
FINALLY got the Nuwai AT-100 Review up. Found a few photos
that are worthy of being added to the gallery, will hopefully get them
up in the near future. 10th August
2003: Added the Osram Mini Combi Review to the Flashlight Reviews page. 7th August
2003: Redesigned the Flashlight Reviews page, looks a bit more
reasonable now In My Humble Opinion. 6th August
2003: Added The Nuwai FX-602 Review to the Flashlight page. Changed the
date format of the site history to avoid the confusion that it seemed
to be causing. Cleaned up the Flashlight reviews index page,
and altered the template a bit. Will alter the image there
soon as well, possibly introducing an imagemap that would allow you to
simply click on the image and go to the relevent review.
We'll see. 12th May
2003: Erk...how long has it been since I updated the
history!?!? OOPS! A fair amount has been done since
I last updated this page.
As you probably noticed,
I finally added the flashlight &
Illumination page. I am going to write a full page for it and
put a proper button in the NavFrame but for now, I've just set up a
pasic index of the reviews and a text link so that those from CPF and
anyone else interested can get to the reviews in the interim.
Presently, the following are working (Though most incomplete). Johnlight Search Guard,
Marksman 2AA, Panasonic PowerLight FH-304,
Nuwai AT-100
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