Holy exploding woodturnings batman!
At the HWA meeting in February Mark Baker demonstrated an interesting arched stand with finialed box.
Optical character recognition on the N900
This week I decided to spend some time playing with something a little different on my n900. Namely optical character recognition. This was inspired by a demo by Cybercomchannel called phototranslator.
A long overdue refactor
For the last couple of weeks, my time on Witter has been spent refactoring the code to be more managable. And hopefully allow easier addition of things like multiple account support.
Guest posting
A couple of weeks ago I was asked if I would like to write a post for TestingBlues. It is a blog by a bunch of IBMers, but represents their own thoughts and opinions on subjects around about software testing. It is not an official IBM blog. This week I put up my first guest…
Proposal ring
It seems that if you are looking for an engagement ring that isn’t a diamond, then options are a little limited. I was apprently left with the option of picking something I wasn’t sure about, or letting on and getting Kat to help pick.So I hit upon the idea of just turning a wooden ring,…
My second commission
A couple of months ago I wrote about turning a doorbell surround as my first paid commission for a colleague at work. Turns out there is some small market for doorbell surrounds, as I recently got a comment on that post asking if I’d be prepared to do another.I guess the metal parts of these doorbells has…
Fixing sofa springs
For some time I have been aware that my sofa has had at least one broken spring. Generally it was feeling a little too soft, and it sagged in the middle where there was one spring missing. Turns out replacing a sofa spring is easier than I expected.
N900 charging from ‘dumb’ charger
I plugged in my n900 as it was on it’s very last gasps of power. Only to discover that it did not register any charge. I previously noted an issue with this charger when I’d completely run out of charge and found that whilst it did register charge nothing became responsive until I plugged it…
Insulating my garage
I’ve not spent a great deal of time in the garage in the last couple of months. Mostly because the work shop is not so appealing when it’s really cold.
Displaying a busy indicator on maemo python app.
This is the post I wish existed when I was looking for how to do this simple thing. I spent hours reading around trying to figure out how to show my app is busy, but to no avail.