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Wires are not good

Posted in Geek Stuff on September 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I love this comercial

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Pirate Bay Trial

Posted in Geek Stuff on February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I am following this days the Pirate Bay trial that started Monday in Sweden. It’s all over the news here, today 50% of the charges have been dropped, the ones related to “assisting copyright infringement”. 
In 2006 I came for the first time to Sweden  for a training. It was the first time I actually got [...]

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Hackable Microcontroller-Powered Valentine’s Card

Posted in Geek Stuff on February 11, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I returned to an old habbit I had, to read slashdot during lunch. So here’s what I found today
“If you have a significant other to impress this Valentine’s Day, consider putting your programming skills to use. This video tutorial shows how to build an LED Heart Valentine’s card, powered by a microcontroller running C [...]

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UNIX time 1,234,567,890

Posted in Geek Stuff on February 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Friday the 13th, 2009 at 11:31:30pm UTC, UNIX time will reach 1,234,567,890 .

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Tesla Downunder

Posted in Geek Stuff on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Really cool pictures on http://tesladownunder.com/

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Linus Torvalds’ blog

Posted in Geek Stuff on October 8, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Here it is and … AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ))

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Posted in Geek Stuff on September 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Anybody noticed that this two names are present everywhere lately? I hear about them when watching the news, I hear about them at work, friends talk about them, Sunday there was a documentary “The True Story of the Internet: Download” on Discovery Science and more than half was about them, and now I am reading [...]

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Nyquist plot

Posted in Geek Stuff on September 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I was searching “automatic control” on books.google.com and found a book that contains just about everything we learned in 3rd year at university in something that would translate to systems theory.
Amongst others, the Nyquist plots . I remember that at the time it all seem so complex and difficult, the exam was a real stress, now [...]

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The book game

Posted in Geek Stuff on February 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »

OK, so I am posting this because of a game Magda involved me into.
I am supposed to pick up the book that is closest to me, open it at page 123 (that is such a lame number), find the 5th phrase and post on the blog the next 4 phrases (you are not allowed [...]

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