So I’ve been reading all about the Arduino microcontroller board and what it can do for quite a while -- between Make Magazine, their blog and a few other sites on my daily RSS Feed rotation (Hack-a-Day, Evil Mad Scientist Labs, oomlout, and plenty of others) I have had my appetite whet for getting back into some microcontroller firmware programming again…

After uploading the LED blinking ‘hello world’ app to and then playing with that, then making the LED fade in and out using PWM instead of just blinking, I had to find a project...

I’ve seen his work done a few other times (http://vimeo.com/keithloutit) but this one is really cool and has a story in it. If you have never seen the tilt-shift photography – this is all real-life scenes, done in stop-motion with a special lens. Anyways, here it is… Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Yes, this is the chair in my office if I get up to go to the bathroom or get a drink… for that matter, if I get up to get a book off the shelf right behind me…

Demotivator - Negotiation, originally uploaded by hypno_bedhead, found on Sadalit Van Buren’s blog (here)

It seems to apply to a lot of things in my life lately – but that’s not all bad – just reminds me to keep an eye on my chair.

I’m already busy enough at work – but there is always something to learn… always.  I have a really long list of stuff that I want to learn – but I don’t get to chip away at it like I used to – because of learning stuff for work…

So, this week, I’ve added a few new bits to my bucket (in terms of trial by fire) so lets see:

I’ve decided to pull all my content and domains into one place and get it all running on Drupal – This was a pretty big step for me, considering my self-boxing in a mostly pure Microsoft stack of technologies for the last 6 years or so.