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You know, you begin to wonder if you’ve taken things too far when you have to upgrade the firmware and server software for your alarm clock. Mmm, technology.

A friend, Colin (he of the burning batteries), sent me this photo of the first PDP-7 being delivered to Edinburgh DCS: I didn’t recognise the location, but he managed to make out “Hope Park something” on the street sign. Searching for “hope park edinburgh computer science” yielded this AI history page, which reveals AI canContinue reading “A wee bit of detective work”

Dreadful!

On Wednesday, I sat down, redesigned, then implemented my TV recording system’s channel guide. As you may or may not be aware, over the last two years, I’ve hacked my own automated TV recording system together using a Hauppauge Nova-TD dual tuner USB stick, and some perl and php scripts. It works pretty well, andContinue reading “TV recorder redesign”

roof detail of the bank hotel.pngOriginally uploaded by adq_uk

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from the dark.pngOriginally uploaded by adq_uk Some photos from Friday night

We went to the modern art gallery today; heading to the Dean Gallery tomorrow for the photography exhibition. I took some pics of the earthwork/pond sculpture in front of it and messed about with them: Original: HDRed:

Right, time for an etching update. The Senior Etching Technician at Edinburgh Printmakers has sent me an extremely informative email on his techniques and recipes; interestingly they are using the Bordeaux Etch as well, and have abandoned the Edinburgh Etch in favour of pure Ferric Chloride. I’ve just ordered some Copper Sulphate and Citric AcidContinue reading “Etching, dear?”

Phew we’re feeling more recovered, so here are some pics, blog later: All taken with a 30 quid 2-focus-setting on-sale-discontinued 5MP digital camera from Tescos, now known as “the wee blue beastie”.