Arduino GLCD shield PCB

Some time ago I wrote on the Arduino forums asking for help (read: “Could someone do this for me?”) with a PCB design. Unsurprisingly, no-one offered their time and effort to design the PCB for me. So, in the end, I just had to learn to use Eagle myself. The project I was working on… Continue reading Arduino GLCD shield PCB

SVN ignore a single file

And another thing that I need to do so rarely that I have to look it up every single time: How do you SVN ignore a single file? The obvious thing to do would be: # cd config # svn propset svn:ignore settings.php .. but that just doesn’t work. The trick is to cd ..… Continue reading SVN ignore a single file

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Rubik’s cube tutorial

I finally got around to writing down what little I know about solving the cube. The results can be found here: xird.fi/cube.

Proposal for an English language spelling reform

Correctly spelling English is horribly difficult when compared to almost any other language. Due to the long history of the language with no real attempts to control the way the language has evolved, English spelling is riddled with exceptions, inconsistencies and arbitrary assignments of letter combinations to sounds. A more phonetic spelling would have many… Continue reading Proposal for an English language spelling reform

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About averages

I’m just posting this here so that I know where to look the next time I need to check one of these terms: Finnish English What is it? Keskiluku Average “the top level concept” Keskiarvo Mean “total divived by number” Mediaani Median “the one in the middle” Moodi Mode “the most common value”

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