Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Recap

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Ok, I haven’t posted anything for two months and two days, but I’ve had my reasons.
Slightly after my last post (about silly bugs in IE), I had umpteen projects to finish (the website the post was about was one of them) and umpteen tests to study for. (The last week of school, I had four [...]

Bizarre bugs of Microsoft

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

I love Internet Explorer, I really DON’T. I just spent 2 hours trying to find some kind of hack to fix the most bizarre bug I’ve found in it, and the hack that finally fixed it, was almost as bizarre as the bug itself.
Here goes: I have a page with a table (Yes, I know [...]

The joys of blip-blop

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

First of all, I’d like to make clear that “blip-blop” in my opinion is an unfair (but funny) nickname for what I’m gonna talk about… (Read this if you don’t understand why.)
A friend of mine (not to mention any names, you know who you are…) has been constantly nagging on me and trying to get [...]

Weather rantings and Unreal Tournament

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

They talk about global warming, but this winter, there has been exceptionally much snow here down in southern Sweden. Normally, what we get is a week or two with 1-5 cm of snow per year. This year, there has been snow somewhere since the beginning of January. Ok, some weeks at a time, the snow [...]

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 [...]