Archive for February, 2007

Easy Sun Viewing

February 28th, 2007

A while back I decided to create a page that was simple, ok, very simple, and provided all the imagery and data about the Sun that I needed. Well, as of late I’ve noticed that people are regularly hitting the page so I thought I’d share. Feel free to take the code, redo the page, […]

WTC7 Conspiracy

February 26th, 2007

I wouldn’t normally write about this sort of thing on this blog, but this just begs for more eyes to see…
Apparently the BBC reported that World Trade Center Building 7 had collapsed, but actually hadn’t. The video on Google video that shows this is here: BBC Report on WTC7
Skip to about 14:40 for the nitty […]

Well there’s something you don’t see everyday…

February 16th, 2007

Jonathon Snook, who never disappoints with his tidbits of knowledge, shows us how to quickly whip up the somewhat lacking, but still possible OOP style programming with Active Server Pages in VBScript. In Self-referencing in VBScript, Jon goes on to give a small example on how to set up a class and how to self […]

Weather Geekery

February 13th, 2007

And now a summary of my recent weather geekery…
Wind Speed Software
I am currently working on a new piece of software for InSpeed’s Vortex anemometer. It’s going to be completely written in Python to ensure that it’s platform agnostic. Currently the backend is written to properly read and calculate the wind speed. I’ve cross referenced my […]

“JavaScript as a personal cash cow” or “Making a living with JavaScript”

February 12th, 2007

The post is a few days old but the conversation is going strong at Ajaxian’s article So you want to write Javascript for a living”. There are several industry leaders and hacks who give their wisdom on making your way using JavaScript (and associated technologies).
Personally I’d love for this to be true for myself. Early […]

Py-TOC v2.5 Released, works with TOC2

February 9th, 2007

When it comes to communicating to AOL’s instant messenger servrices using Python we have several options.
You can get a load of information on the TOC protocols at the Wiki page. The document that describes the nitty gritty of the new protocol can be found here in the TerraIM CVS.
First you have Twisted. Mind you, I’ve […]

TLDs ph34r the Kritikal

February 8th, 2007

I just purchased kritikal.net and kritikal.info.
I’ve got a few ideas on what to do with the .net TLD but I’ll probably just point the .info to my main domain.
Anyone got any suggestions what I should do with either?

Amateur Radio and Linux - A Match Made in Heaven

February 8th, 2007

Dave Freese has just released version 1.2 of Fldigi, a popular new program for Linux and FreeBSD which enables amateur radio operators to join their radios and their computers at the hip and create a new kind of ham shack: a digital ham shack.