For the last week or two the neighbours on one side have been parking slightly into my driveway, so that they can try to squeeze two cars into theirs. At first this irked me a little, but I didn’t dwell on it. Tonight I pulled in and then straightened up ’til I was uncomfortably close … Read more
Three weekends ago I went for a ride for the first time in, well, rather a long time. My intention was to head west and see how far I got, which turned out to be work. I’d forgotten how annoying the wind in your face is. The next weekend I made it further, up to … Read more
Yikes… I’d completely forgotten about this little “In the pursuit of” thread I started months ago. I figure I should kick-start it again… it seemed to be having positive effects while I was doing it. And since my life’s a bit less boring now, it should be easier to find things to write about. :) … Read more
1) Helped Tony with his PRJ board. He was having all manner of bizarre issues with his LCD, which – after quite some time – we managed to figure out together. Hopefully he’s figured out the other niggling issues by now. He has most of his physical board soldered up all nicely, so for him … Read more
1) PRJ work. Yep, PRJ is this season’s thesis. I’ve got until sometime this week to get it down, preferably ASAP. Unfortunately the power supply I was given for it is clinically dead, which poses a big problem – I’d really like to try out my power circuitry before I blow up the Z8 with … Read more
1) Finished off thesis. The report is finally don…^W^W^W handed in. :) This is just a good thing ’cause it’s a weight of my shoulders. Now all that’s left is a PRJ, which I think I can handle. And exams and the thesis presentation, but they’re far enough off that I can relax a little … Read more
1) Figured out how to “burn” an iso image to an arbitrary volume, by cat’ing it directly to the relevant /dev entry. Very cool. I wanted to take an iso of Debian Business Card and throw it onto the USB flash disk. I have no idea if it’s actually bootable, but I think it should … Read more