it’s been years since i’ve soldered anything beyond medium gauge wire splices, but with a new project, it was time this week to dust off the trusty 12 watt Weller pencil.
the first thing i did was solder nine 26 AWG stranded leads from a hacked up serial cable to the tiny ass pads on this …
“make the donkey light-up when someone breaks the build” – that’s how it all started….
so my GF Aimee is a Software QA – at her work they have an internal application named Death Burrito which has a donkey logo (that’s it’s own story). so i guess this actually started when someone bought one of those …
the favicon.ico
works in Firefox, IE, Safari, Chrome (and others). also works in Windows when dragging a shortcut to the desktop.
at the minimum create an 8-bit 16×16 .ico format icon file
name the file favicon.ico and put it in the root of your website
add this code between the <head> and </head> tags of your html:
<link rel=”shortcut icon” …continue reading ⇨
if you Google “ubuntu java sdk install” you’ll see i’m not the only one that wasn’t sure the “right” way to get the official Sun/Oracle Java SDK onto Ubuntu. Ubuntu has it’s own “standard” JDK and that just confuses things if you’re after the Sun version.
you can of course download a file directly from Oracle. …
since the posts have to start somewhere… here’s an old picture of Brady’s cat Pet with a fresh kill (no, it’s not our cat according to B. it’s his, because he named him):
this weekend i found pet outside the door with some new type of kill (a mostly black bird with some dark green). the …