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Pulled the Trigger
I booked the flights for my birthday trip to Japan last night. The price is surprisingly low, at only 500 quid return via Air France, changing in Paris Charles de Gaulle. It's costing me a lot more than the absolute cheapest flight at £393 but that was offered by Turkish Airlines, changing in Instanbul and adding up to about 17 hours bum-in-seat ( Read more... ) -
State of the Nojay
This is a bucket-list update since I've not been, well, updating this Livejournal thing recently and besides it's traditional at this time of the year ( Read more... ) -
Really Useful Box
Just finished hacking on another long-term project, a really useful box. Nobody makes one of these as a retail product, you can't buy them in the shops. So what is it ( Read more... ) -
Using the right tool for the job
My landlord bought a coconut. He had some difficulties opening it. I had an idea.
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Order of Business
Note to self, in the morning its coffee THEN soldering iron. Nothing I can't rework but it's annoying, especially after reassembling the metalwork with its fourteen hold-down screws before discovering my mistake. -
Reprise
Ashinano Hitoshi, one of my favourite mangakas (Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Kabu no Isaki) is back in the saddle again with a new series, Kotonoba Drive running in Afternoon magazine. It's not anything radically different to what he's done before but that's not a problem for me -- basically a girl on a small-capacity motorbike (a Honda ST70, I used ( Read more... ) -
I'm Impressed
I got a S/H last-generation video card for a bargain price at a boot sale a few days back, an Nvidia 8800GTS and I've only just got round to trying it out as I wanted to get through Problem Tuesday without shutting my machine down (I hibernate it at night as a rule ( Read more... ) -
A Bit of a LISP
Digging through the tidal wash of rubble in one corner of the living room we came across a pile of old circuit boards which were originally part of a Symbolics LISP machine, one of the desk-sized workstations from the mid-80s. If anyone has an interest in acquiring these/taking them off our hands or knows someone who might be interested in them ( Read more... ) -
Green Light
Just got a new toy, a small Arduino board called a Nano costing well under a tenner from the usual Hong Kong suspects via Amazon. It's about the size of a USB thumb drive with a ATmega328 CPU on board giving 32KB of program flash memory, 2KB of static RAM and 1KB of data EEPROM and running at 16MHz. It's powered by an on-board USB connector which ( Read more... ) -
Only after I had typed it
did it seem a slightly weird thing to say.
"...measuring the LD50 figure for ingestion of octonitrocubane"
Hmmm. Youtube, no hits. Damn.
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