My wife has a cheap Eveready radio that she bought to listen to Gareth Cliff on 5fm in the mornings in the office. The radio isn’t anything fancy, its a basic radio with a little digital clock on it.
The biggest problem with this radio is that it appears that the battery only lasts a few weeks and they cost R 25.00 a battery… the radio was only about R 45.00 (it didn’t come with a battery though). The conspiracy theorists in me says the reason it goes through batteries so quickly is because its made (or at least branded by) a battery company.
Battery
Yesterday the battery started to die and the wife wanted me to buy another battery for it… Thats when I had a light bulb moment (to quote Oprah) and decided instead of buying another battery I would hack the radio to run off the mains power.
I got approval from the Wife for this project, although it couldn’t cost more than the battery or a new radio.
Continue reading ‘Hacking an Eveready Radio’
I love this story I found via Boing Boing
U.S. officials say a suspicious material found in a passenger’s bag that triggered a security scare at a California airport on Tuesday actually turned out to be bottles of honey.
My favourite part is this paragraph
Two Transportation Security Administration officers were also treated and released from the hospital after being exposed to what were described as “fumes” from the bottles.
I understand that security is important but I definitely don’t want to fly into America or in America, this is getting a little too crazy.
The office Aircon is at warp speed trying its best to cool the offices down and its only 8:30 in the morning. According to the little weather applet on my Vista desktop its 21deg in Cape Town.
I knew it was going to be a hot day when I woke up this morning and the sheet I tried to sleep under was clinging too me.
Looking at the forecast for the rest of the week it looks like things are going to cool down a little which would be nice, I’m not a huge fan of the really hot days.
Almost everyone who runs a blog, website or even has an email address has to deal with SPAM. Thankfully between gmail (Google) and my ISP I don’t get much spam in my email anymore. My blogs are all running Akismet which appears to work very well, although every now and then a comment slips through.
This comment which slipped through made me laugh:
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Looks like it was translated directly using a “foreign language” to English dictionary, I’m pretty sure even Google Translate will do a better job.
My new years resolution is 1920×1080 (at the very least).
Domain names are like women (or men): The ones you want are already taken, but you can always get one from a strange country.
I’m not sure how many of you remember the “Best Job in the World” site, I posted it here a while back. I came across the guy who got to go to the islands blog today, It’s actually a very interesting read… his time on the island is now coming to an end but its interesting to read back about the things that happened to him.
There are tons of awesome photo’s on the site and if you’re interested in Australia there is lots of cool photo’s and info about it.
Island Caretaker Blog
As I explained in Part 1, I’ve been working on a super secret project (Christmas present for my wife).
Don’t worry my wife hardly ever reads this site so I doubt she’ll read all this and anyway she’s unlikely to puzzle out what I’m up too, but because I don’t want her to know what I’m building I’m going to stick to describing the technology and tools I’m using and show snippets of code but try not give it all away.
Continue reading ‘Super Secret Project Pt 2′
Sssssshhh don’t let my wife see this…
I think this would be perfect for a little one, no one will mess with you (or complain about your crying kid) if you’re pushing your baby around in one of these, although you may have trouble getting into some restaurants.
More info on Design Boom site (found via Make)
I’ve been working on a super secret project (Christmas present for my wife), the coding for the project has been done in C# using Mono on my Windows Vista laptop, although the plan is to run the code on Linux.
Don’t worry my wife hardly ever reads this site so I doubt she’ll read all this and anyway she’s unlikely to puzzle out what I’m up too, but because I don’t want her to know what I’m building I’m going to stick to describing the technology and tools I’m using and show snippets of code but try not give it all away.
Continue reading ‘Super Secret Project Pt 1′
My wife has a cheap Eveready radio that she bought to listen to Gareth Cliff on 5fm in the mornings in the office. The radio isn’t anything fancy, its a basic radio with a little digital clock on it.
