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Back in Business

My prodigal MBP is back in my hands, in fully working order for the time being.

It'll be a while still until I get fully on my feet again, but at least I can begin the long process of restoring all my stuff. Hopefully nothing else pops up while I...


Dead in the water

Just when I thought things were looking up...

I plugged in my USB thumb drive today to format it, and upon ejecting the volume my machine had a kernel panic. Seeing how I cannot power on my machine until I receive a new top case, I'm effectively dead...


Repair Woes

Since I bought my MacBook Pro just a few minutes after The Keynote in January, the experience has been quite a roller-coaster.

Prologue

It all started with the “Ships February” drama, where Apple pushed the shipping date to the absolute maximum. When...


Boom! (Goes the Gainclone)

Building the Kookaburra was a lot of fun. I managed to not screw up the soldering job, and initial tests indicate that it's doing the right thing.

However, when trying to integrate it into my amp's case and pipe its output to my amplifier, sparks...


Kookaburra in transit!

It turns out that the volumeless amplifier idea didn't last very long. Once the amplifier got hooked up to my MacBook Pro's internal audio source, the granularity of the volume control was not nearly enough for day to day use. Also, thinking of headroom...


pyblosxom to WordPress conversion snags

Before I forget, I should list the snags I hit when moving my pyblosxom posts to WordPress. This post is mostly for posterity's sake, and any Googlers looking for help on the subject.

I chose to import my posts via an RSS 2.0 feed. If you already...


Goodbye pyblosxom, hello WordPress!

I have now entered the modern age of blog management systems.

I switched away from Movable Type a long time ago in favour of pyblosxom, partly because I'm a python-head, and partly because I couldn't easily figure out and extend the system.

Now I...


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