If you've ever thought Mad Max lacked a decent soundtrack, that Elvis really was a king, and that Buddy Holly was a bit short of Kung on his Fu, then you really need to see "Six String Samurai"

My advice - be very intoxicated before starting to watch.....

My new FPGA micromodule board; arrived from Trenz electrical today, complete with a lovely CD containing a USB core, example driver software and the carrier board. which brings out all the micro B2B connectors into something more suitable for a clumsy software engineer ( Read more... )

The key between T and U has broken off on my keyboard. ;-(

This is unexpectedly annoying!

Well, that was Openworld.

If you didn't come by and see me on the demo stand, try to make it next year!

Flying back on Saturday, arriving Sunday so I miss everything going on this weekend.

So, it appears that I get to fly business class to SFO for Openworld...if I miss Subspecies and fly back the next day..

Decisions, decisions

http://www.ntnu.no/gemini/2006-01e/julesverne.htm

Thanks to the good graces of a friend of mine, and his father, I have a nice Altium FPGA Nanoboard NB1 development kit sitting on my desk.

This is one hell of an impressive piece of kit.

Now all I need is to figure out how to solder a 600 pin BGA surface mount package.....

Still, these guys claim to make PCBs in one off quantites for cheap

Tonight I shall mostly be working on finalising a demo and copying a ~20G VMWare image to the States.

However, after that the Chief Architect with whom I am working is going to buy me a drink or two.... so I may try to drag him to the Hatchet Inn to sample the various wares....

Work has gone mental again. Major boss flying in from the States via India on Sunday, I have a 9am with him to show him the demo and work out any changes before he gives it to Larry. Meanwhile, the other two programmers who worked on the demo are feeding me bug fixes and improvements right now. Roll on the 11th hour ( Read more... )

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/invention/2006/06/spinning-touchdown.html

Even more evidence that the patent system is fubar beyond belief.