Archive for April 28th, 2005
6 Years of Electronic Engineering
Posted on April 28, 2005, by Conor, under Uncategorized.
I bought my first soldering iron and multimeter by mail-order from Maplin when I was about 16 (1984) to build some add-ons for my ZX Spectrum. None of my creations ever worked 
I still have the soldering iron. I finally retired the analogue multimeter only last week after 21 years of sterling service and replaced it with a no-name digital one that I picked up in B&Q for €25.
I spent 6 years in UCD studying Electronic Engineering. In that time, I didn’t make one useful thing. I know, I know, they weren’t teaching me how to solder, they were giving me the skills I needed so I could get someone else to do it 
Every once in a while I get the urge to put some wee electronic kit together, but I never make the time available.
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Blogs for Dummies
Posted on April 28, 2005, by Conor, under Uncategorized.
Actually it’s a great tutorial on how to use Bloglines to track RSS feeds of peoples blogs. I have converted fully over to Bloglines for managing my feeds but they still have a lot of improving to do on the actual blog feature. Blogger is still far better for running your own Blog.
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