And now for some Donnie

Right, over the last several posts I’ve got well into the tech. I still am, but there is so much more to this world. So, back to some soul.
One of my favourite music blogs is called Soul Sides, it covers more than just what its URL suggests. It delves into funk, prog rock etc. and [...]

Circuit Porn!

It’s 1am and I really should be going to bed. I received my Arduino board today which, for me, is very exciting. I had a few problems setting it up (nothing more than user error, by not selecting the right board). First stop was to get the light flashing, which I did, then to [...]

Arduino!

I am waiting impatiently for something I have been looking for for a while now. A way of programming hardware in a fairly easy way, being able to build circuits and make real life things work. This thing I speak of is called an Arduino Board. There are other controller boards out there, but this [...]

Server Migration

Today something has changed on my site and blog. In fact, all the sites I am hosting myself. I’ve changed servers to sparkly servers up in the sky that everyone is now calling the cloud. The servers are now based in California rather than London. I’ve loved my London based hosts Supanames for about 8 [...]

Wolfram|Alpha, like magic, almost

This weekend something amazing happened. That thing is almost human, it is Wolfram|Alpha (ok, from now on I will stop putting in the |). It is a new way of getting answers, some say it’s like an encyclopedia. They’d be right really, kind of. It consists of a vast database and some very clever algorithms [...]

Open Hack London

I went to Open Hack London by Yahoo this weekend. Anyone who likes programming will probably love this event. As it is a Yahoo event, there is a slant towards PHP which is good and bad. But the main thing is to see what is coming out of the programming community at the moment! I [...]

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