Still Alive

Posted by stephen on Tuesday, 08th August, 2006 @ 14:47

Wow, it has been a while since I posted, and after my busiest month of postings in June, July somehow ended up being the quietest. Though that doesn't mean nothing's been happening. There's lots of stuff I want to write about, but whether or not I get around to it is another matter. In the mean time here's a roundup of what's been going on...

• Lego Mindstorms NXT is out in the US and is being released here at the start of September. I want it, I want it now! And it's even Mac compatible.
• I've been back east and collected my Amiga 500, Casio keyboard and an array of school books (which I wasn't expecting) before our old house is sold. Amazingly the Amiga still works almost perfectly (with the exception of a leaking battery destroying the 512Kb memory upgrade and RTC). I also found my old Switchport which exposes the Amiga's parallel and joystick ports for digital and analogue I/O. This led to...
• I found Modtronix and now want to buy one of their single board computers that gives a network a convenient interface to regular electronics. Chris has ordered one, so I'll see how his adventures with it go. And in the mean time work out what I'd actually use it for.
• Regenology has scored some more work, which is good news for my mortgage and fun for me. Playing with Asterisk, voice recognition and IVR systems right now.
• Django 0.95 has been released and marks the first formal release of their magic removal branch. Developing with Django is becoming less of a moving target and my two current Django sites worked with very little change on the new codebase. Future Regenology projects will doubtless be Django powered.
• Apple (no link required, presumably) gave us Steve Jobs for 90 mins or so yesterday to show us the new shiny things. Mac Pros and Xserves look all very nice, though I've got no particular strong desire for one. Leopard looks excellent and I can't wait to get my hands on it. Again I find myself asking why does anyone use Windows these days?

Lots of other stuff has or is going on too, but I can't remember it right now, so clearly the most geeky stuff is the most important.

Must. Post. More.