Alasdair Allan - FriendFeed

posted two messages on Twitter

“@astronomyblog This image is a few hours out of date, it's from this morning our time... http://tinyurl.com/5spd5m”

12 hours ago - Link

“@astronomyblog It's still north of Cathedral Oaks road. But the evacuation area is now further south, or at least so I'm told.”

12 hours ago - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“The Gap Fire north west of Goleta has closed the LCO offices. North of the 101 highway is under apparently under mandatory evacuation.”

18 hours ago - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“After the import scripts ran I ended up with 128,000 tables in the database. I rewrote the schema, now I have 9. I think that's better...”

yesterday at 4:58 pm - Link

posted an entry on The Daily ACK

Guide to the iPhone Dev Documentation [del.icio.us]

yesterday at 9:33 am - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“Looking at the imports scripts running, I have a horrifying suspicion that under the current schema I'm going to have over 125,000 tables.”

yesterday at 9:41 am - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“@benburleson How widespread are the outages?”

yesterday at 8:07 am - Link

posted an entry on The Daily ACK

Poorman's oscilloscope (with Arduino + Processing) [del.icio.us]

yesterday at 4:47 am - Link

bookmarked a page on del.icio.us

Poorman's oscilloscope (with Arduino + Processing)

yesterday at 4:47 am - Link

Using an Arduino and Processing you can get a visual representation of an analog signal. - Alasdair Allan

posted a message on Twitter

“Slurping data from FITS MEFs into a MySQL database. I think I've underestimated how much data I've got, the database is getting big.”

Wednesday at 7:45 am - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“@Scobleizer Sometimes I think I'm falling behind then I hear someone talking about something I knew about a year ago as 'new and exciting'..”

Wednesday at 4:30 am - Link

posted two messages on Twitter

“Reconsidering my use of compression joints on the rising water main. They leak. Perhaps it's time to learn how to solder copper pipe?”

Tuesday at 2:13 pm - Link

“Reconsidering the using compression joints on a rising main. Perhaps it's time to learn how to solder copper pipes?”

Tuesday at 2:09 pm - Link

posted an entry on The Daily ACK

SD card read/write with Arduino [del.icio.us]

Tuesday at 1:01 am - Link

bookmarked a page on del.icio.us

SD card read/write with Arduino

Tuesday at 1:01 am - Link

Schematic and code to get an SD card working as a data logger with the Arduino. Not FAT32. - Alasdair Allan

posted a message on Twitter

“Watching data scroll by as it gets sucked out of FITS MEF files, and then back into a MySQL database where it'll live a happier life...”

June 26 at 7:08 am - Link

posted three messages on Twitter

“Hurrah! Connection just came back up. Looks like a brown out, eSTAR servers survived intact with the UPS taking the load.”

June 25 at 3:48 pm - Link

“Internet connection to the University has just died. Picking up my car keys and heading 1/2 hour east to find out what's happening.”

June 25 at 3:42 pm - Link

“Internet connection to the University has just died. Picking up my car keys and heading 1/2 hour west to find out what's happening.”

June 25 at 3:38 pm - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“Writing more SQL today and battling with MEF FITS files.”

June 25 at 5:50 am - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“Just implemented a generic VO Cone Search with optional KML and Google Maps for Sky outputs, in Perl, in a day. Feeling a bit smug.”

June 24 at 11:12 am - Link

posted two entries on The Daily ACK

Rapid prototyping mini circuits for Arduino [del.icio.us]

June 24 at 8:17 am - Link

Tax information for non-US based iPhone developers [del.icio.us]

June 24 at 7:46 am - Link

bookmarked two pages on del.icio.us

Rapid prototyping mini circuits for Arduino

June 24 at 8:17 am - Link

Examples of ready-to-go board for prototyping with the Arudino or other micro-controllers. - Alasdair Allan

Tax information for non-US based iPhone developers

June 24 at 7:46 am - Link

Tax advice for non-US iPhone developers who want to sell their apps through the Apple App Store. - Alasdair Allan

posted a message on Twitter

“For someone who has just spent a day writing SQL I'm feeling surprisingly cheerful. How did that happen?”

June 23 at 10:20 am - Link

posted an entry on The Daily ACK

Worlde

June 23 at 7:16 am - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“Writing database schema, torturous SQL statements and CGI scripts. Yes, that's right, it's import the random science into a DB time again...”

June 23 at 2:27 am - Link

posted an entry on The Daily ACK

Nicotine.app [del.icio.us]

June 21 at 9:39 am - Link

bookmarked a page on del.icio.us

Nicotine.app

June 21 at 9:39 am - Link

This project is an example of how to turn a [Fink] package into an application bundle. Includes an example Nedit.app bundle. - Alasdair Allan

commented on a story on Digg

U.S. motorists brave Mexico border violence for fuel

June 20 at 8:20 pm - Link

"In the UK we just hit UK£1.99 per litre, that's US$14.85 per US gallon. http://www.dailyack.com/2008/0... ... now that's crazy." - Alasdair Allan

posted a message on Twitter

“Half the year gone, it's the Summer Solstice already. How did that happen? http://tinyurl.com/4xpqot”

June 20 at 6:07 pm - Link

posted two links

The squeeze: key factors

June 20 at 3:46 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Good collection of graphs from the BBC that tell me exactly why I'm feeling poor these days. Ouch! - Alasdair Allan via Bookmarklet

Apple mulls GPGPU and iChat; UK stores without contract iPhone?

June 20 at 3:37 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

First hint of pre-paid pricing for the iPhone in the UK. Apple Insider is quoting £350 for an unsubsidised phone bought through an Apple Store. The O2 website still only has "coming soon" without any estimate of how much it's going to cost. - Alasdair Allan via Bookmarklet

posted a message on Twitter

“Still working my way through that stack of overdue marking.”

June 20 at 3:16 pm - Link

posted an entry on The Daily ACK

TS-7800 Embedded Computer [del.icio.us]

June 20 at 11:00 am - Link

bookmarked a page on del.icio.us

TS-7800 Embedded Computer

June 20 at 11:00 am - Link

Single Board Computer (SBC) based on a Marvell 500MHz ARM9 CPU. Boots Linux in 0.69s from onboard Flash memory. - Alasdair Allan

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