since I haven’t posted for a while, here’s a few points of interest.
Bendigo Woolen Mills.
Bendigo Dragon Museum.
3rd year Software Engineering Project.
Lemon and Ginger cordial. Yum.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Tertiary Phase.
FreeBSD firewalls. Yuk.
I have a model train. This is not new news.
However, the model train now has an automatic level crossing. This is new news. This is also very cool: as the train approaches, the boom gates lower. When the train has passed, the boom gates raise again.
Model train also has a manual override switch for boom gates. Flick the switch, the boom gates stay down. Release the switch, the boom gates go up… unless there’s a train coming, in which case they stay down until the train has passed. Again, very cool
Model train now also has one set of electronic points. Flick the switch, track A. Flick the switch, track B. Flick the switch… you get the idea. No more ungainly leaning over the set to change tracks… almost. I am still short a bit of cabling to connect everything up.
How is it all done? By the magic of MindStorms. Woohoo. (oh, and eBay…)
Trans-Siberian Railway: A Classic Overland Route (Lonely Planet Classic Overland Routes S.) by Simon Richmond
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Discworld Almanac for the Common Year 2005 by Terry Pratchett
Leonardo\’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies by Ben Shneiderman
That'd Be Right: A Fairly True History of Modern Australia
Shrek 3 - Der Dritte
The Design of Future Things
The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications (Human Factors & Ergonomics)
Technology and the Future
