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A neat Twitter site: Twellow

Dec 27, 2008 Internet Leave a comment

Darren over at TwiTip brought a somewhat new site to my attention: Twellow.

Twellow is a site which takes the geographical information and bio information from your Twitter account and uses it to categorize your profile. To give you an example, my Twitter profile looks like:

With this information

Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; and
Bio: Computer Engineering student working on my pilot licence while exploring the world

My Twellow profile is:

You can find me under:

Society > Education; and
Aviation > Pilots

Twellow is a really great concept and I have already been able to find some old friends through it. Read Darren’s post about Twellow and try it out for yourself!

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Let’s pretend that matters

Nov 20, 2008 Comic Leave a comment

Today’s Dilbert comic strikes home with all of us nerds who spend their days toiling on internet enabled computers:

ladyada’s toolbox

Nov 18, 2008 Hobby Leave a comment

Over at ladyada’s ranting, lady ada has a list of her suggested tools to get you started in electronics. Here are a few of her suggestions:

Panavise Jr - PCB holder and general purpose 360 degree mini-vise. I use mine every day, they are the best thing for holding your circuit board steady, and the soft jaws are not conductive so you can do power tests at the same time.
Diagonal cutters (model Xcelite 170M) - the best diagonal cutters, these are comfortable to use and have strong nippers for perfect trimming of wires and leads. I’ve used my pair every day for years. (I need to get myself one of these)
30W adjustable temperature soldering iron (Model XY258) - with a temperature control on the side and indicator LED so you can go from standard to lead-free to silver solder. Comes with a 1/16? tip which is good for through hole and some larger surface mount assembly. (Don’t underestimate the usefulness of a good soldering iron)

There are a few other tools she recommends and she actually sells her kit in the adafruit store. The only thing I would add to that list would be a little fan to blow/suck the solder fumes away. Of course that could always be your first project.

What would you add?