A few grocery stores are offering reusable cloth bags for customers. If they use one of these bags, basically the cost of a paper/plastic bag is subtracted from their grocery total. I think it's a wonderful idea ( Read more... )

I got a replacement battery for my laptop, since the original is now nearly 4 years old and only gives me like an hour or less of battery life. I got a new (non-OEM) one from a shady corner of e-bay that was marked as 12-cell, 8.8Ah, and looks like I'm getting as much as 7 hours! 8.8Ah is downright beastly compared to the original battery.

Some guys tried to rig something on the RA's door (right across the hall from my room) so that a huge fan would blow a tub of sugar into her face when she opened it. It worked, and then all the smoke alarms in the building went off (and still are going off). No sleep tonight!

Project Excelsior

So I'm projecting 80-90 pages for this final report once I include schematics, BOM and assembly listing

Oh man, evidently Yahoo is closing GeoCities. That place has been up since the beginning of the 'nets it seems.

Hurrah for regular expressions making application of custom character styles easy!


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For our design project, I had a problem where, when addressing my LCD module, the  LED bar seemed to be displaying whatever bit pattern I was sending to the LCD, suggesting that the LED port was enabled, despite the fact that I wasn't addressing it in code. I hooked the board up to the logic analyzer and saw that that was true. The issue was that ( Read more... )

I've created a subversion repository for my huge assembly code project. Realistically I don't know how much it'll help but at least if I break something and can't find it I can easily access backups...