CRC7? Are you mad?

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For the last day or two I’ve been getting well versed on the MMC/SD card protocol. You can’t actually get official documentation, officially, but I’ve managed to find a few documents from SanDisk which do actually cover the important parts. There’s also heaps of existing implementations out there which I’ve been referring to, so development… Read more

The history of the internet

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So let’s go through the net connections I’ve had in my life: 33.6k BBS – Lord-Data used to run a BBS, which was my first encounter with digital telephony. It was awesome. A hodge-podge of warez, games, forums and so forth, which everyone who was anyone frequented. He had only a single phone line for… Read more

Thesis strikes again

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I’m reminded again that I’m no longer a straight-A student, thanks to thesis, on which I got a B (77%). Apparently my weighted average mark (to date) is 88%. I need an average mark of 96.9% for this semester’s subjects to get it to 90%. Hmm… probably not going to happen. Damn thesis.

Paintball

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Last Saturday was the big paintball day. Sarah, Sverra and I drove up Friday evening. Scotty & Gus were supposed to be joining us, but had pulled out during the week. Rob was insistent on driving up there on the morning, which seemed to me a bad idea, but, he did. He also drove back… Read more

Cross Country Skiing Trip – Monday

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So on Monday morning last week I found myself at uni at 7:15am, packing the cars for the trip. Anthony had gone out and acquired some roof racks for his car, and thus eagerly volunteered to carry the skis. We piled the rest of our collective junk into his car and mine. It was a… Read more

Back from skiing

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So I made it back, all safe and sound. I’ll be writing about the whole week in due course, but for the moment I’ve only just finished processing all the photos and whatnot. They’re now available for your perusal.