Archive for April, 2004

Tuesday, April 20th, 2004

http://www.conformia.com/ - Vintner software for total grape management.

Monday, April 19th, 2004

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/newyorknewyork/realitysapprentice.php

“What if The Apprentice turns out to be the Quiz Show of its day? I am even more ambivalent about describing what happened to M. I would not have wanted the incident made public if it had happened to me. Although it makes for a good story, there is a difference between telling it to friends or using it in fiction and launching it onto the Internet like some Paris Hilton home video.”

Thursday, April 15th, 2004

Interesting electronics tutorials.

Includes a little piece on desoldering technique and some fun soldering exercises.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/g_knott/index2.htm

“Take great care to avoid damage. Components cost a few pence, an assembled printed circuit board may be worth several hundred pounds.”

the smell of burning op-amps

Thursday, April 15th, 2004

remember, either place a 1k resistor in the power connections for your op-amp, or don’t put the 9v battery in backwards.

Monday, April 12th, 2004

Integrating Snitz Forums (Free ASP Forum) with a proprietary website user schema:

Friday, April 9th, 2004

http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/aspplus/ http://www.sitepoint.com/article/sql-server-2000-database http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/faq/faqtoc.shtml

Homemade Headphone Amp

Tuesday, April 6th, 2004

Been wanting to do this for a long time to complement my Sennheiser 535’s. Links to plans:

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/howto/story/0,24330,3405528,00.html http://headwize2.powerpill.org/projects/showproj.php?file=cmoy2_prj.htm - If you go halfway down the page on Appendix 1 you can see a amp built inside of an altoids tin. TIGHT. http://www.minidisc.org/headbanger.html http://tangentsoft.net/audio/cmoy-tutorial/ - Full tutorial including electronics basics, for construction inside a circular mints tin.