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Silicon Chip books
The good people at Silicon Chip are clearing out their old library, and I have just arranged to buy 43 of their old electronics books for $2 each. Bargain! The gory details are here.
Toilet light cover part 2
Just an update on my toilet light cover. My new screws arrived so I replaced the big (18mm) ones with some more appropriate smaller (10mm) ones. It’s now ready to go back in the roof, will do that soon.
Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic
I read Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic and found this interesting quote:
“They weren’t called ‘controls’ originally. Alan was going to call them ‘waldos’, named after remote manipulator arms. I couldn’t make sense out of that name, so I called them ‘gizmos’. Microsoft must have thought this name was too frivolous, so they renamed them ‘controls’.”
Web browser wish list
Apparently Amazon might be making a browser. Some features I would like in a web browser:
- Full text search over everything I’ve ever seen in my browser
- Image preview and browser for all images ever loaded in my browser
- Ability to download streaming media as a file
- Being able to use HTML tables like a spreadsheet (sort, edit/change/reference, row/col/block select, etc.)
My two cents
This, my friends, is my two cents. And you can not have it!
New shelf
So I installed this shelf. It’s the black wiry thing:
But it was a bit of an ordeal. I managed to snap not one, but *two* screws while bolting it in.
The drill bit on the left was a casualty of trying to repair the mess. One screw shaft was irredeemably stuck in the wood, I couldn’t get it out. The other one I needed to drill around to get it out, it was stuck hard. Then I just plugged the hole I had created with craft sticks and hot glue, then tried again.
The spirit level says I did a fairly reasonable job of it:
Weight loss
So here’s my weight loss since December 2021 in relative and absolute terms. The graph is the 7-day moving average. Still a long way to go!
All You Need To Know About HDMI
This one, also good: All You Need To Know About HDMI To Fix Stuff! – Port Broken No Video Picture Output Repair Replace.
In it I learned about LVDS.
There’s some interesting Fluke equipment to check out.
There’s a follow-up video here: All You Need To Know About HDMI To Fix Stuff – Reprise. How To Repair Broken No Video.
Peg board
My peg board is starting to fill up. Still have a bit of capacity.
