September 2007

You plug it all together, turn it on and… it’s not working. You have made N mistakes, where N>0. So: 1) Read datasheet, manual and… Read More »Swearing, to an end – Debugging step 5.2

Gloom! Doom! Global warming means we’re all screwed! Ah, forget that. We’re humans, we’re like cockroaches, damn hard to eradicate, coz we adapt1. One adaptation… Read More »Potatoes in Greenland – A Global Warming Feel-Good Story

This is an example of incorrect cat labelling: This kind of japery might be considered amusing by some, but it puts at risk the health… Read More »Incorrect cat labelling

Spoke too soon. Laptop still tits up. Possible bill of $600 expected for new motherboard. Waaaa!!! I’m going to have to return that pie. Then… Read More »Back to your usual LJ emotions

My laptop died. Call the waaambulance and get me the waaartificial respiration. Turns on, hmms for three seconds, falls over. Arse. Took it to the… Read More »I will sleep with anyone who works for Toshiba*

Surface mount soldering – fiddly but doable, hence: Mitochondrion, step 5.2 – built but not yet tested Back to aerials training – arms munted JetPilot… Read More »Cause and Effect

Yes, thanks to modern technology, Man can now make mistakes faster and better than ever before. By using the modern personal microcomputer, mistakes that were… Read More »Making mistakes at the speed of thott