Yesterday, Pete and I hiked the 7 mile King Canyon trail to Wasson Peak. When we made the decision to hike, the weather forecast didn’t say anything about chance of rain, let alone snow.

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The Lifehacker website has a great article on using GAIM to send/receive encrypted IM messages.

An interesting thing about IM without encryption is that any packet sniffer application (ethereal is the one I use most) can pickup and read the entire conversation without any difficulty at all; most IM programs send the entire conversation in plain text for the entire world to see.

Happy New Year. Welcome to 2007!

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/LEDMinifigs

I tend to like reading MAKE’s blog often to get ideas for future projects and came across a blog post recently about using your electronic skills to help celebrate the Holiday season.

I’m thinking of trying my hand at programming one of the character LEDs and building a menorah from scratch. From what I can tell about the project, the following psudocode is a good guess at how the programs work:

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