Having seen the pixelstick and the neopixel-painter, I decided to build my own. Instead of an Arduino, I decided to build this using a BeagleBone Black. Why? Because I had just recently bought a BBB and wanted to use it in a project! Materials needed: BeagleBone Black – $45.00 Adafruit 144 LED 1m NeoPixel strip… Read more »
If you’ve not yet seen the movie “The Man From Earth”, I highly recommend watching it. It’s one of my favourite movies and has made the Top 5000 list on IMDB with a rating of 7.9. The movie centers around a group of people, with one of them telling a story. Most of the story… Read more »
Download the GeoTrust DV Intermediate CA file from https://knowledge.geotrust.com/support/knowledge-base/index?page=content&id=AR1422 Log in to the openfire admin UI ( http://server:9090/ ) and navigate to “Server Settings” -> “Server Certificates” and click on the “import” link ( http://server:9090/import-certificate.jsp ). Copy the appropriate sections from your certificate into the two text fields. Next, open the GT_QuickSSL_and_Premium_and_Trial_intermediate_bundle.pem file you just… Read more »
The latest addition on Google Maps: Tiles for Sri Lanka, with the ability to search for any address. View Larger Map
I have to travel to London next month, and started the usual visa application process. I’ve grown accustomed to filling these out, as I usually go through the visa process of some country every few months. The Schengen visa application is a two-page affair and is not too bad. The US application application isn’t that… Read more »
In my earlier simple attempts at aggregating my online activities, I had set up my blog to cross-post to my Twitter stream, for my Twitter tweets to post back to my blog, and for my del.icio.us bookmarks to do a nightly aggregated post back to my blog too (which would of course also generate a… Read more »
Facebook has a million and one applications. Among them are a number of IQ Test applications. Even to view someone else’s results, you have to install the app, with the corresponding permissions screen as shown below: Now, maybe I’m not supposed to have the IQ to understand, but why should an IQ Test application need… Read more »
You might already have heard about the Freeze at Grand Central Station in NYC, the Freeze in San Francisco, and many others. Here’s my video of the Zürich Freeze: The beginning of the video is not that great due to the backlighting.
The popularity of social networks can’t be denied, but it was still a surprise to find that the BBC had started adding social-bookmark links at the bottom of their news items. Specifically, they’ve added links to del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, Facebook and Stumbleupon. Although the BBC does experiment a lot with new media, this was still… Read more »
Here’s a test to see what happens when you search for ?????? (Roshan) and ????????????????? (Sembacuttiaratchy) via Google Sri Lanka. Actually, that last search should eventually be a GoogleWhack. 🙂 If you use Firefox, the pages might not render correctly. Make sure you have a font like Kaputa Unicode installed. If you use any flavour… Read more »
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