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Monthly Archives: July 2010
The price of fuel
These aren’t the best photo’s, so I’ll commentate. These are photos of two service stations in Woy Woy. This afternoon while refueling, the decision as to which one to use was pretty much determined for me. It was at the Shell service station that had cars lined up at the bowser.
Their price: $1.137, with a further 4c discount if you had a voucher.
Across the road is the BP service station, with not a single car in the driveway.
Their price: $1.199, no discounts available.
If I had a discount voucher (unfortunately I didn’t), the price would have been more than 10 cents cheaper!!!! This is right across the road from each other!
How do people like these stay in business?
Big Brown Eye
I couldn’t resist. It’s probably more photoshopped than anything, ie the colours for the final effect, but none-the-less, a very impressive image.
These arrived today
Rotary Encoders from Ebay
So I have a fair idea what I’ll be doing this weekend, or hope to do anyway. There are many factors that determine what I do, the least of which is what I WANT to do!
Nah, just kidding, she’s not THAT bad!
I’ve got a micro project that I’ve been procrastinating about for a while, this has just provided some incentive to do some work on it. I have all the parts I need to complete the project, I now just have to sit down and do it!
What was that? What do i want rotary encoders for? 10 of them, no less (I hear you ask)…
I have an old clothes dryer that the mechanical timer continually sticks on. I have on occasion found that after a few hours the dryer has failed to turn off. So I have been procrastinating about building a timer for it, this was (I’m pretty sure) the last component I needed to put it together.
I’ll be prototyping it using an AVR microcontroller (ATMega128), but the final project will be an older AT90S2313 I have lying around.
Of course this is going to have on/off and a timer function, but it would be cool to allow it to have soooo much more! It would be good for it to control the heating element, maybe once internal temperature has reached a certain level, power to the heater turns on and off a minute at a time – I don’t know, just a random thought – would help to save a bit of power. Maybe incorporate a humidity sensor to detect when the clothes are dry.
But for now I’ll just concentrate on the timer. If I ever finish it, I’ll put up a post about it.
My First Born
“I’m going to take a picture of my firstborn and use age progression software to figure out what he’ll look like when he’s 16. Then I’m going to frame the picture and keep it as a centrepiece in our house, something he’ll grow up looking at. Then when the appropriate time comes, and he realises that the picture is of him, I’m going to try and convince him that he is a time traveller.”
Not mine, but I like it
A tow job gone wrong
I don’t normally post random videos, but this one is GOLD! What a winner! (I do like how when the woman get’s back into the car, the tow truck driver just checks to make sure the rear wheels are secure. I can imagine him saying to himself “She’s not going to get out of this!” LOL)
Towing FAIL – watch more funny videos
The new look of dav3
The last year has been pretty out there, and often times I seem to have too much time on my hands and at other times I’m absolutely swamped! My biggest problem is I have so many projects on at the moment I just don’t know where to start. Seriously.
One of the projects has been getting the the new look dav3.net website back up and running. A new look and feel, a new back end, and (soon to be) new and fresh content. The site has been about many things over the last few years, the latest of which has been my attempt at weight loss. It didn’t go so well, and so much of that content has been removed.
I’ve been pretty busy migrating everything across here (it’s taking a lot longer than anticipated). In doing the upgrade I have given WordPress a real workout. I’m pretty happy with it. I have tried a few CMS options over the years and (over recent times) gone to more ‘cloud(y)’ solutions. My favourite of late has been Google Sites, but it too has it’s limitations.
The cloud solution for WordPress limits some of the functionality I was after (eg, using your own domain or editing of certain style rules), unless you opted for paid option packs. Since I have the server space and bandwidth I thought I would run my own and once you get to play with the back-end you can really do quite a lot to it.
As I said, I’m pretty happy, the only major problem is that it’s soooo customisable that I am spending far too much time experimenting with what I can actually make it do!
I need to get outside!
The old site
At the start I was 105.5kg (~232lb). My goal is to get somewhere under 80kg (176lb). If things go to plan I’ll start working on building muscle down the track, but the main goal is to lose my fat. The graph represents my progress so far, not doing too bad for the first month.
The graph represents my weightloss over time. Althought google spreadsheets have gone through some updates, at the time this site was initially created there was no way to customise the Y-Axis. Ideally I would have wanted my peak weight at the top left and the weight going doen to the right, but you still get the picture…
note: I peaked at a loss of 12kg… As at the time of writing this, I have it all back! I have spared all the gory detail of photos I had taken of myself, and rather, I have only imported my more ‘good’ days, such as those that include something of general interest. But the general ‘What I did today’ stuff is missing – for good reason (ESPECIALLY the photos! LOL)