Reading Atari Cartridges with an Arduino

There are a lot of online repositories to download video game ROM images. Whether it’s from a website or BitTorrent, you end up with a collection of binary files, each file corresponding to the code stored on a cartridge or an arcade machine’s internal chips, which you can then load into a console or arcade … Continue reading Reading Atari Cartridges with an Arduino

Killing whitespace in the new “improved” Google Reader

I know that plenty of people have gripes about the new Google Reader interface.  Those gripes revolve mostly around modifications to the social and sharing components.  I tend to not use those, myself, opting to instead follow the trail of possible blogspam to the original source, then manually sharing that on social sites. No, my … Continue reading Killing whitespace in the new “improved” Google Reader

LJProxy: From friend-locked LiveJournal posts to Google Reader

I have been on Live­Jour­nal since 2001.  I have had a Per­ma­nent Account since 2005.  Many of my friends have used it for sim­i­lar amounts of time.  In the past few years, I have migrated my post­ing and read­ing off of Live­Jour­nal.  I do most of my blog read­ing through Google Reader, but still have … Continue reading LJProxy: From friend-locked LiveJournal posts to Google Reader

My RSS subscriptions

I got into a lunchtime discussion of RSS today. Apparently, one of my coworkers (hi, Helen!) had never really heard of RSS before. As we explained the concept to her, we started to share some of our favorite news sites, blogs, and other things with RSS feeds. I decided this might be of interest to … Continue reading My RSS subscriptions