Sad news - Pattie died yesterday

Selma and Pattie (pair of black Pekin bantams)

Snowflake and Trixie Bell

Snowflake and Trixie Bell - RIP

Panasonic 26" CRT TV

Purchased this in 2005 and its still going well.

Was moved from the lounge room down to the rumpus room (store room) where it sat in a corner when it was replaced with a Panasonic 42" plasma.

Found a new lease of life when it was lugged back up the stairs and into NJ's study to replace the Tevion 51cm CRT. Nothing wrong with the Tevion, the kid needed more AV inputs for all her entertainment stuff (Tevion only has one AV) which the Pana has.

Fish tank modifications

Fish are out and mice are in, so my older kid MK wanted the fish tank modified.
Job was to replace the hinged timber top with wire mesh.
So I made up two pine timber frames and stapled on cage wire.

 

 

Makita battery pack - continued

 Basically we want to end up with a modified battery pack physically the same as before but with a decent figure 8 flex running from the bottom (offset to allow clip to close) and about 2mtrs long with battery terminal size alligator clips at the end.

 

To drop the voltage down from 12 to 9.6 we can use a few diodes.

We need to loose about 2.4V (12 – 9.6 = 2.4V)

 

Voltage drop across a silicon junction is 0.7 volts so:

3 diodes = 2.1V

4 diodes = 2.8V 

 

However, we need to make some practical measurements…a full charged lead acid battery in good condition stands at 12.6V but most likely we are going to be using an old 2^nd hand one with a lower terminal voltage.

Ideas for Spaces categories

Jasper

2/13/2009 1:39:12 AM

Been thinking about the Spaces categories and modules.  With no surprise to some thinking from the mobile point of view.  At the moment you can post blog entries to Live Space, via email publishing.  Which is a very handy system for blogging from anywhere, eg mobile device, with just an simple email message sent to your email publishing address.  However it’s not possible to set a category for the blog entry if posted via email publishing. 

So an idea/wish for spaces email publishing would be.  In the same way you can email publish pictures to each of your live photo albums.  Via a email publishing address for each of the photo albums, that you have created in your photos.  Could we have a email publishing address for each of the categories that have been created, within your Live Space?  As currently any email published blog entries, just get posted without any category selected.

That also got me thinking.  Within your space you can click on a category.  Which will then list the posted entries with that category, no surprise there.  However would it be possible to have modules that can be added to your Live Space.  Which you can select the category, and the contents of the module are the blog entries for that category?  This would make your space more customisable and help organise your Live Space.  With your important categories in there own modules, up top on the main page.  So possibly you could have a micro-blog category on your Live Space.  Which you can email in frequent micro-blog updates ;)

 

Indian Saffron rice

Indian Saffron Rice



Serves: 6 Ready in: 25 mins (5 mins Prep - 20 mins Cook)