How geeky are you?

[Flashheart]

I find it therapeutic to watch my hard drives being defragmented.

Beat that!

[Batch]

I have bought a cheap weather station. Its currently lashed to a drain pipe with gaffer tape and cable ties. Its never going to be accurate because there is no place in our garden for it without the house or trees or something.

But the extra geeky bit is this:

www.batch.me.uk

[janaage]

Loving that Batch, whereabouts in North Swindon are you? And how much was the station?

[Batch]

£40 from http://www.clasohlson.com/uk/Weather-Station/Pr363242000 (it's a fine instruments WH1080) and the software was free from http://sandaysoft.com/products/cumulus , didn't even install the bundled software. My website is the bog standard default web output from cumulus.

I'm guessing its not going to be too accurate being as the good ones cost £1000s, but as I have nowhere to site it unless I borrow a big ladder and strap it to the roof of the house its not got much of a chance anyway.

PS. You fail the geek test by not working out my location from the  co-ordinates. (Woodhall Park area).

[janaage]

Cheers for the info Batch.

Yeah I'm no geek, but the weather station plus website is quality.

[stfcinbmth]

Will stick a different OS on the netbook at the drop of a hat, if I feel the need

[walcot red]

I read articles about space, and history.

[Samdy Gray]

Extremely.

I like tinkering with hardware. I've built my own NAS which streams music/films/tv/photos to my HTPC (also self-built), laptop, tablet & phone.

I love using batch files and macros to do even the most mundane of tasks that would only take 10 seconds to do manually, just because I can.

[Samdy Gray]

Oh, and I've spent the last week or so playing Civ2 on a hacked up WinXP virtual machine because it wouldn't work on Win7.

[sonicyouth]

I like bird watching.

[stfcinbmth]

I like bird watching.

Think most of us like that

[Baggins]

Not very I don't think.  I'm less geeky and more boring.  I do like reading, but spend most of my time doing the family man stuff - and I love it.  Quite like a beer too.  In fact, I might go and get one now...

[Coca Fola]

Sometimes I play fifa and don't make any signings in the first season, to give the existing squad a chance.

[Gnasher]

I used to run a website called migrantmoth.com, where entomologists could report their sightings of migrating lepidoptera in the UK. Pretty geeky.

[Baggins]

Having said I don't think I'm very geeky - I do make a point of reading Lord of the Rings once every two years.  It is the best book ever written though, so its not really geeky - just good sense.