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Morrigan on Android
In an idle moment in a spot of vacation leading up to Christmas and while everyone else does battle with The Snow, I though I would knock up a prototype Android app to work with my media player Morrigan. A couple of days later (don’t worry, I did remember to sleep) I have a something that is working rather better than previously expected. ( Read more... ) -
Morrigan on GitHub
I have finally settled on using GitHub to manage Morrigan’s source code long term and to that end have begun to get properly acquainted with using git for development. I have always liked git’s approach to managing code and my first experience with GitHub’s support staff sold me on it - supported ticket resolved and closed in 7 minutes flat.
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the last time i was in this city i wondered if i would ever return again. the the volcano happened and it seemed that i had been given a few extra days to properly prepare for the possibility that i may never return ( Read more... ) -
Morrigan’s CLI
One really handy feature of OSGi is the ability to supplement the OSGi console with extra commands. This is particularly useful for creating very quick test/debug interfaces for each of you OSGi bundles. The console is only shown to the user when the OSGi environment is started from the CLI and and “-console” parameter is specified, so for ( Read more... ) -
O2’s definition of ‘unlimited’
On the 10th of May I received a very strange phone call from O2 regarding my broad band account. After finally establishing that the caller was legitimate, they informed me that I was over using their service and had to reduce my usage with in a month or I would be disconnected. Well that is the summary, their actual logic goes like this:
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American Sizes
Hopefully I should be flying back to the UK this afternoon. So as a leaving thought, I have a proposal for American restaurants.
Please place some form of indicator next to each item on the menu to give the reader an idea of exactly how much for they are ordering. I propose the following 1 to 5 scale:
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Has the world forgotten how to make decent laptops?
I need a new laptop. While it is true that I am in possession of a number of laptops, they are all at least 4 years old and “a bit slow” does not really cover it any more. My main machine is a laptop with a 2GHz Pentium M and 2 GB RAM and is near-permanently-docked to a 24″ monitor. Eclipse is tolerable but not nice and HD video tends to just ( Read more... ) -
When life hands you lemons…
… make lemonade.
Along with many others, I am stranded until a certain antisocial geological event gets over its angst. But on the bright side, San Francisco is defiantly near the top of my list of places to get stranded in.
Though my brother wins the prize of most failed attempt to fly home. He was scheduled to fly home a few days before the ( Read more... ) -
Arduino serial pain
So I have been trying to make my newly acquired Arduino (mega) talk to this old 16×2 char, serial-interface LCD display I have.
This should have been fairly easy - you just feed the LCD ASCII over serial and it displays it. An Arduino can output ASCII over serial directly. Should be easy.
The short story is “its a bit messed up”. The slightly ( Read more... )
