I am about to make the leap into Arduino. I’m collecting links for now. Here is one that was recommended to me:

http://blog.pixelmagic.nl/

and the place to buy: adafruit I think it is:
http://www.adafruit.com/products/418 ethernet version

FTDI cable is needed too:

https://www.adafruit.com/products/70

I created this custom map and changed the icons. It seems to work.

I’d like to investigate this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMonkeyEngine

http://jmonkeyengine.org/

for game development for Mikey.

Fixing the “click of death”.

Basically when you turn the heat up on the Ford Explorer and you get a lot of clicking noises and no heat you have a broken Blend Door Actuator.

Here is a good article on fixing the actuator on an Explorer

Nice article on parsing URL’s with Javascript

If you do a CD in side a bash script it changes the directory inside the script but not in “real life”. This is nice since when the script exits you are still in the directory you started from on the command line but its a pain when you are just trying to write a script that changes directory!

I found this nice article about forcing the cd command in a bash script to affect your command line

just type . before the command

Simple as that! No way I’ll remember this though….so I wrote a blog post about it!

Geek On!

This is just a test:

Need test images to use in your website development? See http://lorempixum.com/
You simply specify the width. height and subject of the image and voila!

Here is an example:
http://lorempixum.com/300/200/nature gets you this:

We went on a Kaiku writing rampage on our trip. I wanted to get these down electronically before I lost the book. They are rather indicative of the general atmosphere…

From Brent:
Lieb Proudly Declares
I will cut no far before
is ripe and ready

Clouds on the mountain pass
the Sierra Nevada
we saw big cat prints

Roll away the dew
said roll away roll away
roll away the dew

Stars, fire and bright moon
the embers slowly dying
its time for more beer

Kevin will be rich
the cash from php code
will line his pockets

Infamous Kevin
he has hiked the Grand Canyon
Iron butt road tripper

From Kevin:
Drinking Biely Brew
sits there in slothful splendor
lasagna comes soon

Summer bounce and fly
around the minnie winnie
silly freaky kid

Trippin cross the states
farting burping and laughing
sucking in the sights

Up and over hills
downshift into first again
i’m glad we made it

Miles and miles of road
Caves and mountains and nature
Dreams of desert peace

Summer chuckles loud
Urban ninja stands no chance
its a bonus round

Drinking biely brew
chillin’ in the RV now
off to Berkeley soon

Summer Silly Feet
Brents bulging gas bubbles fart
Kevin must escape

Work begins too soon
monday starts a new career
Hope I don’t screw up

Miles and Miles of Road
Seemed like it would never end
landed in the bay