Archive for February, 2006

Laser guns and OS X

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

I spent the day soldering, desoldering and destroying components, and managed to drain 9 batteries (3 AA, 6 AAA) due to short circuiting (they still give reasonable voltage, they just don’t deliver any current). Of course, I’m talking about my school project. The circuit board for the gun can be seen here, and I have [...]

Skiing 2.0

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Ok, so I got a little addicted last time, I can admit that. But if I though that was bad, this time it’s worse…
As I’ve said earlier (in the P.S.), I went skiing today, and this time I did more than well, I didn’t fall more than once. Ok then, I actually ended up on [...]

Beats of Ugress

Friday, February 10th, 2006

I heard about Ugress some months ago, and downloaded some of the tracks freely available from his homepage. (Ugress is one man, but when performing live, he has some help…) Then nothing happened, until yesterday, when I thought “why didn’t I download the rest of the tracks?”. So, I went to the homepage and downloaded [...]

The irony of nature, and school

Monday, February 6th, 2006

There is a lot of snow outside right now, and it has been kind of a snow storm (nearly, but not really) all day. Until around 5 pm, when it started raining instead, melting some snow away, while also creating instant ice on some places. The ideal driving leaving-the-car-and-walking weather, that is… :D
In other news, [...]

Technical Knockout

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

So? I deleted all the old entries… So? The backup I had turned out to be a symlink in a tar ball… Shit happens.
Anyway, Firelog is back on track again, but this time it’s got a new costume, even a new body. I spent some hours trying to find a decent blogging system based on [...]