The iPad bashing has begun. Everyone (exaggeration) is trying to figure out what it is. Steve Jobs tells you what it is if you are geeky enough to watch the release at Apple.com and non geek enough to listen. But the geeksters are not listening. At least not the ones I have been reading for the last few hours. No, it is not a feminine hygiene product. That’s typical bash talk from the folks who...
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Christmas 2009 Light Show
Here is a video display of my computerized lighting display for Christmas 2009. There are 32 individual circuits and thousands of individual lights. Elsewhere in this blog is a report on the design of the system. HERE The music is played on a broadcast band FM transmitter and can be heard on (visiting) car radios at 107.3 MHz. The display is not simply plugging in a song and letting the lights do their thing. There...
Continue reading...Wow! A full day’s work!
That means 24 hours, not eight! I have a fairly large and involved web server share where I keep all my web sites alive and well. I have a reason to need a new version of one of the programming languages I use called PHP 5.2 . The old server I was living on only could give me a very old PHP 4.x version. Yeah geek talk but reason to make a change. It is...
Continue reading...iPhone Gizmo
What a joke. What ever happened to battery life? The iPhone is a wonderful gizmo that happens to include a phone. But I have to drag my charging cord wherever I go. I don’t get or make that many calls but all the other tricks this gizmo will do just eats stored electrons like me with a bag of spicy jellybeans. The bottom of the bag shows up way too soon. My old phone,which was only a phone,...
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