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CheerLights!
I have been having a lot of fun playing around with CheerLights.
What are CheerLights? It's a project with devices connected all around the world. When someone tweets a color to the @cheerlights account, the lights on every connected device change to that color.
Last year I rebuilt a fiber optic Christmas tree with cheerlights and stuck a webcam on it. Well, that was fun, but what if someone isn't on Twitter? What...
11/3/2022 10:33:51 AM
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Oh, Look! It's Windows 11!
So far my cheese hasn't been moved very much.
Took most of the morning to update, but so far so good.
And yes, I'm back at the Journal. More on that later ...
10/5/2021 4:14:57 PM
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DIY Pandemic Clock
I saw this project on Adafruit and knew I had to modify it for an old Android phone. This will run on any modern(ish) web browser, so you can run it on your desktop. And no web server is required!
(UPDATE: See the notes below the code for instructions on how to customize the messages.) (SECOND UPDATE: I embedded this on my web page back when I put this project together. I've now changed the title, bec...
4/30/2020 11:30:43 AM
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Moving Hosts
If you see this entry, it means the move to our new hosting service was a success, at least initially. There is still much to do, but we're getting there. ...
2/4/2020 10:48:24 AM
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Thunderbolt And Lightning, Very Very Frightening
We had just settled in to watch some telly Saturday night, when:
FLASHBANG!
If the house itself didn't get hit, something close by certainly did. There was no damage to the house. We have a large tree in the front yard, so that was obviously a worry.
However, we did lose several bits of electronic equipment including the router, the printer, a monitor, the receiver, and the sprinkler timer. The printer had two levels of surge p...
8/14/2017 11:18:56 AM
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Spam Attack!
Wow, I got slammed with comment spam today. Most of it was, er, of an adult nature. I think I've managed to catch and delete all of them.
This is goinna take some wrangling. For now comments don't work.
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7/26/2015 7:02:57 PM
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My Bot Jeeves
 (For those times when I need to call for an Orange Alert.)
A couple of weeks ago I hit my limit on phone solicitors. The phone rang 10 times. I put three of the numbers on the block list with Verizon, which I discovered the next day wasn't working.
I finally signed up for Nomorobo, and...
7/21/2015 4:57:03 PM
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Blog Housekeeping
Big first aid on the web site today. I'd been noticing some craziness in my links and some other database-driven items, but I'd chalked it up to some bad SQL code. Today I thought I'd take ten minutes to dig into things and discovered that almost every single database table had all the data duplicated - sometimes twice. Removing the data wasn't difficult except for the Journa...
11/3/2014 4:06:02 PM
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A Storm, With Pictures
Along the lines of the previous post I have some pictures to share. But before I do I need to fill you (and my future self, because I sometimes forget dates) in on something.
A couple of weeks ago my husband presented me with a birthday gift - an Olympus OM-D M-5. Read the specs and wee...
10/2/2014 7:52:52 PM
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Oh, Srsly?
So here I am on a major deadline. The software I need to complete the task is on my laptop. The damn thing will. Not. Start. I finally got a revival spell (aka Startup Repair) going, and that's been running for half an hour. Fortunately, the files I need are on the LAN or out in the cloud, so if a total disaster strikes, I may be on the hook for re installing the software as a second-worst case. scenario. Worst case would be a totally dead laptop. And it ain't totally dead yet. My second-w...
8/22/2013 2:50:16 PM
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