One of the most frustrating and annoying programs on my Windows computers used to be the Adobe PDF reader. Back in its early versions it was a fast, light, useful program. Then a few years ago somebody at Adobe drank…
A Remarkable Sentence
Reading through the websitebaker themes website, I came across this rather remarkable, and amusing, sentence, and felt compelled to post it here: Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod…
Blackfin Fast JPEG Encoding
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of embedded uClinux programming for the Analog Devices Blackfin BF537 processor. Writing drivers, application code, things like that. It’s a lot of fun. One of the things I’d been battling with was finding a…
Welec Oscilloscope – Watch Out
Last year I was in the market for a cheap digital oscilloscope. After much looking around I finally settled on a Wittig Welec W2022A oscilloscope. www.welec.de 2 channels, colour VGA display, 1 GS/sec sampling rate, it looked awesome. I purchased…
GoDaddy sucks, and a new web host
I’d been with godaddy.com for a number of years, and back in their day they were decent. But it seems that Bob Parsons became more interested in chasing women and fast cars than running his business, and his company has…