30 June 2014
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Following a conversation with one of my colleagues who works in Divisional IT support, it appears that my department has an above average level of Apple computers registered – approaching 50% rather than the 20% figure that represents the mean … Continue reading
28 June 2014
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I had a couple of days this past week with meetings in various parts of Oxford but was able to arrange things so that I travelled from home instead of from work. What difference did that make? It meant that … Continue reading
27 June 2014
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I had always assumed that, without the application of heating, indoor temperatures would follow the same profile expected outside; warmer at day and cooler at night. However according to my thermonitor gadget that isn’t the case. I’ve been putting it … Continue reading
24 June 2014
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I thought the recent BBC article on the development of ‘smart glasses‘ was fascinating. As I understand it, they use realtime processing to manipulate a video stream, creating visual information that compensates for the wearer’s sight problems. What’s more, they … Continue reading
22 June 2014
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Or, at least, don’t trust my circuit diagrams! Having carefully assembled the one I presented a couple of days ago, I was surprised to find that it didn’t work. Strange… it was just fine when it was running on the … Continue reading
20 June 2014
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I have been making further strides with my thermonitor project. I’ve purchased a second temperature sensor and have established that I can connect and read from both. The next step is to come up with a better housing than being … Continue reading
18 June 2014
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A few months ago I had a preliminary discussion with a colleague about putting together some web pages for the group she works with. The trouble was that it took a few days for her to get the material together … Continue reading
17 June 2014
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I am continuing to learn the art of soldering. I fear there is still a long way to go before I can even aspire to reaching the point of average skills, let alone mastery, but I am progressing. Today’s discovery … Continue reading
7 June 2014
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I like the Ubuntu idea of long-term support editions – reasonably up to date, maintained with security patches but not shifting the foundations too often. The most recent one (Ubuntu 14.04) came out in April and there has been enough … Continue reading
2 June 2014
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A hat tip to Paul Moore for pointing me in the direction of dygraphs. This is a Javascript library that facilitates creating interactive graphs from sets of data. Thinking back to my A Level maths, I suspect the name comes … Continue reading