60 Years of Misery...and Then You Die!!!

Entries from July, 2008

List #4927a: Songs to Play at my Funeral

Nitro – Machine Gunn Eddie Napalm Death – Dead, Part 1 Lynrd Skynrd – Freebird Wire – Outdoor Miner Bomb the Bass – Megablast (Theme from Xenon 2) Julee Cruise – Mysteries of Love Electric Light Orchestra/Olivia Newton-John – Xanadu

Michael Angelo Batio

So this is how my Sundays will be spent from now on; wasting hours on YouTube. I promised myself I wouldn’t get sucked into the Y-hole, I’ve seen too many lives lost to the amazing procrastination power of it, but I couldn’t resist when my Mark showed me the frankly stunning ‘shreds’ clips. One in [...]

Auto Mounting Samba Shares in Leopard

Need a quick way to mount samba shares on login without having to write a bash script or fiddle about in fstab? In the Finder, go to Go -> Connect to Server… (Cmd + k). Type in the share loaction, and click the ‘+’ (saving it to your favourites). Now go to ~/Library/Favourites; your shares [...]

Arduino Project: 3×3 LED Matrix

One of my first Arduino projects; a 3×3 LED matrix. Pretty simple design, but based on a few interesting facts… A 3×3 matrix equals 9 LEDs, equals 9 input (+ve voltage) 1 output (ground) pins, equals a mess of wires and breadboard trickery…or so you’d think. Using persistence of vision, we can get by with [...]

Documenting with JsDoc Toolkit

Documenting Code Documentation of code is a necessary evil that all good programmers must, at some point in a project, do. Having let that paradigm slip at the beginning, I’m currently going through the process of ‘refactoring’ my JavaScript documentation for a project I’m working on. Taking time out from that, here’s a brief history [...]