It is almost 4 years old, so it has served me reasonably well. I have backups of most of the data, but there may be some things I have lost. Ah well. I’ve been wanting to open the thing up and have a look inside for a while now. They are quite nicely built I …
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It lives!
this is a quick post using the browser on the Raspberry Pi. It works pretty well as far as I can see 🙂
Raspberry Pi Update
Yes indeed, that package was a Raspberry Pi 🙂 Now all I have to do is use some of my copious spare time to have a play with it 😉
Raspberry Pi
I just got an email that seems to suggest that I may have one on the way via DHL Express 🙂 YAY!
Nabaztag
I have been having some fun lately playing around with my old Nabaztag rabbit. A little while ago I managed to get the compiler for the little VM running in the Nabaztag working under Mac OS X. The compiler also comes with a simulator, and unfortunately the Linux version that I got running under OS …
FrontDoor
This weekend I built a simple little Linux program that scratches an particular itch of mine. Â As part of my daily work I need to log in to various Linux VMs. Â The problem is that the IP addresses of these VMs often changes due to them being configured to use DHCP. Â I suppose I could …
Squishy circuits
I saw this last night, and can’t wait to try it out. http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/howTo.htm It would be cool if there was a nice way to make a cake that was conductive, and yet still edible….
Failure
I have been looking for this video for ages! http://blip.tv/tucs-tech-talks/an-illustrated-history-of-failure-2729174 I saw it some time ago and it was amazing. The content is great, but more importantly it show how to give a presentation using powerpoint that actually works!
JRuby, Rails and Development mode
Well, that was fun… I spent quite a bit of time today beating my head against a “memory leak” only to remember that JRuby + Rails + Development mode = very leaky. Switch to production mode and the problem goes away. A simple little Rails app with one controller and one model is all that …
Sadness doesn’t even come close
My boy is going to die soon. He has been diagnosed with a degenerative brain disorder. He is almost 4 now and we will be “lucky” if he sees 6 years old. There are is no cure. All we can do is try to keep him comfortable. I alternate between numbness and weeping. He’s such a …