To my loyal fans (fan? Hi mom sorry for the lack of updates lately but “real life” has been getting in the way a little. At the moment my wife and I are drowning in boxes as we pack up our lives into +/- 50 boxes and get ready to move to our new home.
Yes that’s right at the end of this week my wife and I are moving into our own place, no more renting… which means finally I’ll be allowed to drill holes in walls, fix creaking doors and re-arrange stupid cupboard designs.
That means that pages of this site are no doubt going to be filled with articles as we DIY our little place into the awesome place we both want. The move also means I’ll have my own little workshop/workbench where I can finally take things apart without fear of leaving sharp things behind on the floor for the wife to step on.
This afternoon I drowned my mouse with a cup of tea and killed it. The mouse was a Microsoft Wireless 4000 Notebook Optical Mouse which I’ve had for over 2 years and liked a lot… Electronics + tea don’t mix
As previously promised on Google Buzz, I’m going to “autopsy” the mouse and see if I can revive it, below are the photos (gadget lovers may want to look away).
I’ve killed or nearly killed a few peripherals with tea… the trick to keeping things alive is to disconnect power ASAP after the spill, hopefully before things short out and the magic smoke gets let out.
Voyager 2 for those of you who don’t know is a space probe that was sent into space and was designed to study a whole range of things. (You can go read the Wikipedia page if you want more detail.)
For those of you don’t know a few weeks (months?) ago something went wrong and the space probe stopped sending coherent information back to earth. Now remember that this probe was launched in 1977. NASA managed to debug and fix the problem with the on-board computers remotely… which is impressive given how old the hardware is and the fact that it takes 13hours for info to travel from the probe to earth. I’m continually impressed by a lot of the “old school” space hardware that NASA built and how long it lasted and how they’ve often gotten it to work long after its expected EOL (End of Life).
You can find the official account of what happened and how it was fixed here.
Sieg Products Guys who sell the Sieg line of Mill's and Lathe's in SA
Why Minority Report was spot on | Technology | The Guardian How some of the technology from Minority Report is coming true… Although I read somewhere that Spielberg actually spoke to various people and got ideas from things that at the time were being researched or there were basic prototypes of.
Is the BP Gusher Unstoppable? | Mother Jones Not entirely sure how true this all is as its all written based on a few forum postings by a anonymous writer, but its still interesting and scary to read about.
PRISONERS' INVENTIONS OVERVIEW Would love to get a copy of this book, its about some of the stranger items that inmates at prisons make to solve everyday life problems
Victorian Tiny Texas House Awesome "tiny house"… I have a crazy idea of running a B&B / Guest Farm/House type place using these as the cottages you would stay in?
Dale Nunns is a Naive Romantic, Computer Geek, Programmer, Techie and wannabe writer. This site documents the stuff He and his army of dustbunnies find as he grows up, works and generally tries to "Get a life".
sorry for the lack of updates lately but “real life” has been getting in the way a little. At the moment my wife and I are drowning in boxes as we pack up our lives into +/- 50 boxes and get ready to move to our new home.
