In which mode you can do this?

See here Rudolf, or p.15 in the User Guide (not well explained); in Mode 3 a little flag symbol will briefly flash on-screen to indicate a waypoint has been recorded. You can actually be recording a track log at the same time, then change to Mode 3 and record waypoints as well.

In which mode you can do this?

First time stamp: 9 May 2008 11:34:14
Last time stamp: 10 May 2008 01:00:50

That's 9841 track points consuming 7% of available storage, covering approx. 13.5h and costing £1.25 (not including environmental damage!). That's more like it.

I can only assume my lightly-used Uniross 2100mAh rechargeables are either rubbish, or that they too deteriorate after a few years.

Incidentally I hadn't written a cheque for ages. Had the National Insurance Office not received my Class 1 contributions, I would have re-directed some of my frustration at them. I wanted to make an electronic payment but for instructions you have to phone them; their phone only tells you they're too busy so try again later. After several attempts I followed "how to pay by cheque" on the invoice.

I imagine that a bank here would simply bounce the cheque and you would be charged the fee for that.
Your creditor would then be slightly peeved, and either be mean enough to continue representing the cheque (generating more bounce fees) or would attempt to contact you about the problem.

I also vaguely remember a bank here advertising to the effect of - if you accidentally go into overdraft, but have funds in other accounts, they would either use the other accounts to cover the cheque or at very least only charge you the unarranged OD interest rate on the outstanding balance since you clearly had funds available but had erred.

It is always nice to deal with a sympathetic person. It's a shame that so much of banking satisfaction appears to be dependent upon your relationship with your manager or someone who is not the "more than my job's worth" rigid-rule-following type. I can definitively say that my view of my banks past and current is based on the competence and people skills of my regular contact person. What a difference it makes when I feel my banker is my friend.

Good on you for standing up to unnecessarily punitive fees.

It sounds like it might be a combination of batteries and a power hungry Holux.

I am not confident any more that the Energizer and other A brand rechargeable are as great / last as long as they used to be / to do. Plus the lack of memory effect doesn't help with storage necessarily.

I've got some 1 year old Li-ION bricks for pro tools that you're supposed to store charged and keep cool (basement, closet) when not in use for a prolonged time and I just took them out of storage (4 months) and their indicator lights were flashing empty (0/4). So much for holding power. At least these have a lifetime replacement warranty.

Last year I sent a batch of Energizer 2500 mAh back under warranty. They had been marked (permanent marker colored rim per set of 4 (helps to keep track of batteries and separate out different mAh types)) used for a couple months exclusively on a digital camera with mild use, where the camera was used a couple of times a week for a few shots. Charged exclusively with their charger without leaving them plugged in for days at a time. The things wouldn't hold a charge for days without using them. Charge during the week. Pick up the camera on the weekend and a x number of shots later the camera is out of juice.

The other thing we have noticed along that, we think, is that the AA 1500 - 1850 range held up for more months that the newer 2100 and certainly the 2500 series do. We've used the older kind extensively with cameras and anything that uses AA batteries on car trips, and the batteries certainly seemed to hold a good charge for probably a hundred charge cycles and thus lasted several years. Now, the newer new 2000+ ones start flashing in the charger = kaput after a couple dozen cycles.

Of course one can argue that different cameras have different power needs, the chargers changed from whole day to 8 - 4 - 1 - 1/2 hours. We're happiest with the 2100 mAh and 1 hour and 1/2 hour chargers. Which are no longer available :)

Anyway. Didn't hear back any details on that from Energizer (not that I expected it). They were going to analyze my batteries in the lab and gave me two discount coupons for new batteries.

I'm still using the new 2500s with our 'old' 1/2 hour charger that came with 2100s. I'm thinking the 'new' charger was to blame. Or just a fluke where they forgot to put the right mix in a batch of batteries. Who knows ? :)