Stubbed Toe
I stubbed my toe on some concrete steps while wearing sandals. It caused a chunk of skin about the size of a dime to come off of my toe, exposing the flesh of my toe. This caused much bleeding and puss oozing. Continue Reading »
Fixed Lamp
Cheap lamp broke. Quickly fixed with Elmer’s glue. Works well! Continue Reading »
Best Firefox Extensions
My list of most useful Mozilla Firefox extensions:
Adblock Plus:
Blocks almost all advertisements on websites. No more annoying advertisements, banner ads, etc. Faster loading times, too!
My favorite extension. I can’t imagine browsing the web without it.
link: Adblock Plus Firefox Extension
DownThemAll:
Add-on download manager inside Firefox. Adds new download features, including an “advanced accelerator” (splits a file into multiple downloads), pause / resume download, and easy one-click downloads of pretty much anything on a website. Fully integrated into Firefox.
This is a very useful extension if you download many files, especially large files.
link: DownThemAll (dTa) Firefox Extension
BugMeNot:
The BugMeNot Firefox Extension is based of off… The BugMeNot.com service. If you have never heard of BugMeNot, essentially, it is a website which collects user submitted logins and passwords to websites that are free, but require registration. It is a great service, and works most of the time. Don’t expect to get access to paid-memberships of any type, and don’t sumbit any logins to the site you don’t mind sharing with everyone else out there, or care if the account is disabled. Generally, the logins and passwords are created with “throw away” type email addresses and submitted to BugMeNot for others to use.
The biggest problem with this service is that sites catch on when many people login using the same email and password and disable the account. That being said, BugMeNot will usually have what you need for most major websites.
This extension is special because instead of heading to bugmenot’s website and searching for the right login information, at the click of a mouse, the add-on finds the login form and searches bugmenot’s database for logins. As an added bonus, if the login it finds doesn’t work, it cycles to the next one, until one works or it runs out.
Overall, this is a great great plug-in if you don’t want to give up your e-mail address or would rather not waste time creating a free account on a website you may only visit once.
link: BugMeNot Firefox Extension
And, if you have never heard of Mozilla Firefox, download and try it out. It is the best internet browser out there.
link: Mozilla Firefox
Sonar Distance Sensor
//INPUT ANALOG 0 FROM EZ-1 ANALOG OUTPUT
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop()
{
int signalValue = 0;
pinMode(signalValue, INPUT); //ANALOG 0 TO INPUT
int sensorValue = analogRead(signalValue);
int distance = sensorValue * 1.24; //is distance in CM
printInteger(distance);
serialWrite(10);
serialWrite(13);
delay(500); //time between next reading in milliseconds - 1s/1000ms
} // Loops Continuously
Snow Day
School is closed today.
More pictures are in the image gallery.
I am not sure if they have ever closed the school due to snow before.
Finally Finished Finals
Done with all my exams. Time to go home.