I don’t pretend to be anything of an expert, or even very knowledgeable, in the area of electronics however it is something that interests me. When I read the many science focused articles around the net I eventually find myself absorbing information about the world of the resistor, capacitor, inductor. Recently one such time I found myself reading an extremely interesting article about a ‘missing’ area of electronics that only a decade ago was discovered and only recently gaining speed. When I say missing I mean it in the way that many elements in the periodic table were missing in days past. This missing circuit element is named the memristor (with the memcapacitor closely following).
The Missing Circuit Element – The Memristor
July 14th, 2009Tease!
July 13th, 2009Ugh… have been trying to get this post teaser working over the last few days (which, if you are viewing this from the Comscare blog aggregator, you can see is working since you only see a fraction of the post now). Couldn’t work out for the life of me why it wasn’t working, so I was running through the sourecode for the plugin, making little modifications here and there to no avail.
Mechwarrior is Back!
July 9th, 2009Wow. I think that’s the first word to pop into my head when I read the rumours yesterday and the official announcement this morning. Out of nowhere and the cold ashes of a boxed franchise comes one of my greatest loves – Mechwarrior (Battletech).
RE: Comscare Because I Care :)
July 9th, 2009Over the last month or so I have felt that myself and a few old friends from university have drifted apart and no longer keep in contact or chat about the geeky stuff we used to while we were on our course. Of course not all of us drifted apart. Myself, CWolf & Pringle still keep in regular contact and often play games in the evenings; and I occasionally met up with Karrde/Soupmonster since he lived with CWolf.
968 Miles to Hell
July 8th, 2009I haven’t blogged in a long, long time but no time like the present – especially if it’s a rant. I recently moved back to Cardiff and my company allows for consultants to stay at hotels if they live far enough away. I was told the move was fine and so I did just that. Now they refuse to pay for my hotel room and I’ve enter laborious negotiations to be allowed some sort of accommodation. Meanwhile I drive from Cardiff to Reading every day and that trip clocks in at a massive soul destroying 968 miles a week (luckily I can work from home on the Friday!).
Explorations in Profiling – Steady State
July 4th, 2009Over the past three weeks myself and two colleagues have been attempting to benchmark a component of our companies systems. We’ve never formally defined any sort of performance metrics, used profiling tools or infact have any experience with benchmarking. Over this time we needed to quickly learn new techniques and often make up new ones where needed, and this is one of those topics that was created based on research, empirical evidence and a peculiar few months dealing with stock trading systems.
Steady State – Any state that does not change over time, or is in a dynamic equilibrium[1]
Game of Life
July 1st, 2009This is a quick introduction into a project I have been working on over the last few days using the fantastic Arduino protyping board, Java and an 8×8 Green LED Matrix.
Phase One – How
After following the DirectDriveLEDMatrix playground post in the arduino forums, and learning that pins on electrical components are counted in a clockwise manner (ie 1 top right, 8 bottom right, then 9 is BOTTOM left and 16 is TOP left) I managed to get a working display.
Slip & Slide
February 17th, 2009Was supposed to blog about this last week or 2 ago but might as well do it now 
So yea, a couple weeks ago we got some really bizarre weather here in the UK… bizarre in the way that it was totally unexpected, over a week of snow… snow that actually settled! Was great, everything looked so cool covered in a white layer as far as the eye could see. Then came the realisation that I had to drive on this stuff to get to work. The first couple days were alright cause the serious snow hadn’t hit yet, that was due midweek. However, when Wednesday rolled around I was getting rather nervous since I have no experience when it comes to driving on snow. Luckily my house has extremely easy access to the motorway and once onto there I was safe… until I got to where I worked.
For Fuppes Sake!
February 4th, 2009No matter how much I try I can’t get the stupid media streamer working 100%, really beginning to get on my nerves.
When I moved into the house I’m in at the moment I brought my server (WOPR) with me as well as my enormous media collection, unfortunately the mini-ITX box we had as the media centre wasn’t mine so it remained behind. Luckily I’ve got a 360 which is capable of streaming from a media server and there are a few around for linux.
Walking Dead
February 3rd, 2009Ugh, I can’t believe how tired I feel today… and there I was thinking I had a good night sleep. Didn’t require much effort to actually get up this morning but was still an incredible effort to keep from jumping back into bed during my morning routine of getting ready for work. Although, this was probably due to having a sexy red-head in it at the time 
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