// Tue 2009.01.6 08:55 // {levity mac os x}// [iphone leak]
tuck into cheek, do not swallow
-->// Thu 2008.11.6 10:44 // {wordpress}// [wordpress content php]
Pardon this post which is about technical trivia unrelated to API’s and Weird Blinking Lights. But I needed to jot it down somewhere. It’s a note about including contents out of WordPress in parts of a site which aren’t under the WordPress installation.
Now that WordPress includes revision management (as of 2.6) I intend to use [...]
// Mon 2008.10.13 08:57 // {broad generalities future}// [dream powerplug voltage]
This morning I woke up doing some dream-design work.
It was about the new international standard power plug. It resembled an American power plug, nonpolarized. The tines were a little bit more widely spaced, and narrower.
The power cord was a little bit thinner and more flexible than normal cords. This was for two reasons. First, the [...]
// Tue 2008.09.30 17:01 // {broad generalities java}// [api book java]
Found and acquired this book today at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Very nice tome on good Java API style. Alas, slightly pricey ($75 retail). The fellow’s a bit ranty at times… but, ah, I can relate. The author was a founding architect of NetBeans , and is still a principal on that project.
Also, look, google lets [...]
// Wed 2008.09.24 23:02 // {wbl weird blinking lights}// [sparkfun wbl weird blinking lights xbee]
The XBee module has an odd connector. It’s 20 pins in two widely-space rows, with 2mm spacing. Nice and efficient, but doesn’t fit into my gridlike 10th inch world view.
I mean, it’s fine, if you’re spinning a board…
But if you’re just dinking around, it’s nice to have it fit into that 10th inch protoboard world.
Thankfully, [...]
// Mon 2008.09.15 19:16 // {wbl weird blinking lights}// [wireless xbee zigbee]
About a year ago, I was vaguely wondering if there were any low cost 802.11-ish WiFi modules, to easily add a net-presence to my dinky electronics doodles. There wasn’t; WiFi modules seem to run around $150 or more. (Which is the same price as a WiFi Kodak picture frame, but that’s parts for ya.) But [...]
-->// Mon 2008.09.15 18:36 // {wordpress}// [plugin wikipedia wordpress]
// Support function for saShowCode wordpress plugin
function showCodeShowHide(id,shown)
{
var outer = document.getElementById(”outer_” + id);
[...]
// Sun 2008.09.14 18:45 // {code scripting wordpress}
In a detour to a detour to some longer term goal, I needed to do some minimal HTML/JavaScript coding. The regularly scheduled hardware and WBL tinkering — including soldering, LEDs, and wireless sensors — will resume shortly.
-->// Sun 2008.09.7 22:01 // {wbl weird blinking lights}// [lazertag leds wbl weird blinking lights]
Specimen: a Lazer Tag target, circa 1987, manufactured by Worlds of Wonder, an early commercial WBL if ever there was one.
I’m doing a bit of dejunking and shedding, but wanted to give a moment’s silence for this one. LEDs and speaker and a tiny cpu, delicious. The LEDs would blink back and forth, a little [...]
-->// Wed 2008.08.13 19:24 // {wbl weird blinking lights}
Getting on towards deep self indulgence, here …
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