I'm grumpy. My car won't start. I've been working on it all day. The problem is that it's flooded and it's a fuel-injected engine. You're not meant to be able to flood a fuel-injected engine. If however, you drive my car a very short distance (

So AT&T is offering free wifi to iPhone users. This is good. But here are the instructions for doing it. The silliness starts at step three... Activate Wi-Fi from the settings icon on your iPhone. Select...message from AT&T with a secure link to the AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot. You will not be charged for the text message. Open the text message and tap on the link for 24-hour access to the AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot.

OK, so after e-mailing Mrs. Ellen, we renegotiated my departure, and I’m not leaving on the 20th of November instead of the 14th. Also, after November 30th, I won’t have insurance any more =..= and there’s... You are constantly thinking about the future. You love living, and you stay flexible. You're open to going wherever life takes you. What Does Your Favorite Candy Say About You?

I've no interest in the game personally, but this is interesting news nonetheless: NCsoft just announced that City of Heroes will soon have a Mac client, joining the likes of World of Warcraft and EVE...through partnership with Transgaming, the creators of the Cider portability engine, which acts as a 'wrapper' for the standard PC client, allowing it to run within OS X on an Intel Mac. Full story

После некоторых раздумий пришел к следующему выводу: т.к. волшебный глаз (и конвертер) стоит запитать стабилизированным напряжением, то имеет смысл сделать стабилизированный источник питания для всего...пихать все это хозяйство может быть неразумно (размер 8"X4"X2"). А может и влезет. Надо разложить мелкие детальки и переменный кондер и прикинуть размеры. Будем посмотреть. Но скорее всего не влезет.

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...×5) connected to a "frequency divider" (÷2). Huh. I asked Hartmut how these things work, and as an example he sketched something resembling this figure. Recursion always seems clever, and even moreso in electronics (where it typically goes by the name "feedback".) Here we have a box that takes in a signal at frequency 2f and produces a signal at half that frequency, 1f. How does it do that? Well, pretend...

So I was on the phone for an hour and a half . Why? Because we weren't getting three out of our four Showtime channels. Result of that hour and a half of my evening? No. Channels. At. All. Yes...year, one reason why we're approaching 10,000 rollover minutes. Noun, verb, 90 minutes. Oh, hey, we did get a $30 credit. That makes up for my spending 90 at home with the phone pressed to my ear

...worse at the beginning lf last week, though, because, for a while, there was no pain free position, and it was rarely less than excruciating. In other news, I have a short term, but demanding, power electronics project to work on. I get to design the power electronics for a high power LED lighting system, that is designed to save considerable energy compared with the system it is to replace. Getting...

Electronics diagram: Today's e_m_s_labs solar circuit article seemed like a place where i could/should start with relearning/remembering circuit diagrams. One frustration is lack of a reference document. Wikipedia's capacitor explanation is OK, but i'm pretty sure i'd benefit from something more carefully written. Wikipedia has no entry on reverse blocking diode.... Anyhow, i think what...