All articles that do not qualify as “projects” were moved here. Blog should be a section that will contain only a sequence of articles similar to a diary: musings on various subjects not related to a specific “mainstream” project but mostly a collection of day to day topics that cross my mind or things that I do.
I was always interested in learning morse but I did not have my mind seriously set on it until recently. My shack conditions do not allow me do much DX-ing on SSB and I am not very keen of FT8 and other digital modes so I consider CW as the only possible way to get […]
Some tests done with Blackmagic Camera application for iPhone.
… or at least so I think I met a guy that has a small company, “Forcatz” that builds nice window cages for cats, allowing them to lazily lay outside without the risk of falling over.
While doing some research on Raspberry Pi supply filtering, I put together a list of interesting references. All are very instructive reads. Noise countermeasures reference (pdf, 76kB)
Recently, I made my mind to purchase some items that I long wanted to have, various tools and stuff for projects. So here is this list, June edition. Under ongoing revision, permanently adding new items. 🙂
Some photos here from a vintage car show today. Fiat, Citroen, Ford…
I just ran into this show today. Nice memories.
One year ago I got into geocaching. It was during our vacation in Croatia, in the beautiful town of Omis when I discovered this hobby and was suddenly drawn to it. It seemed to be quite fun and I think I found 5 or 6 caches in Omis. Coming back home, I found that it […]
It came to my mailbox today: my new toy, a Panasonic HC-VXF1 camcorder. Many of you might wonder why — in the age of DJI and GoPro mini cameras — would anyone buy a camcorder. True, these seem to be quite obsolete, old-fashioned technology in the age of 4 and 8k (and beyond) and mind-boggling […]
Today I had one of the most awesome experiences in my life. I flew with a small airplane and I was in control.
Last night it started snowing. For the last five years, we barely saw any snow in the city. When I was a kid, like half a century ago, there were winters when one could barely get out from the house without a shovel. Not anymore. We managed to f…k the nature. We enjoyed a walk […]
After quite some time when this space was in a mess, today I took almost a quantum leap: organizing everything and make it ready for my next projects was not an easy job. I miss building stuff and this space is perfect for such things. Some of my favourite tools are in the picture: the […]
After procrastinating for at least five or six years, I decided to give a chance and refresh this website wordpress theme. To be honest, I was very lazy and I had absolutely no desire to start building from scratch an entire new wordpress theme. I know what a pain this is, mostly for the syling […]
This year reading challenge was short of three books. My resolution was to read 40. This is the list and the links on goodreads.com: Nikolai Gogol [27-28 decembrie, 2023) E.T.A. Hoffmann (20-21 noiembrie, 2023) Charlotte Brontë (15-19 noiembrie, 2023) Anaïs Nin (21 august, 2023) Ian Stewart (4-10 august, 2023) George Orwell (3 august, 2023) Daphne […]
Not pregnant. I got COVID, again. Actually WE got COVID again, i.e. my wife and me.
I wrote a list of things I want to finish this year. There are mostly various repairs and small fixes around the house; but there are also some other things like reading a certain book, or a certain number of books, or putting down, on a piece of paper, some resolutions for 2024. 2023 was […]
I got a new Kindle !!! A seven inch Oasis, the latest and greatest from Amazon. After seven years, my previous Kindle developed some battery issues and is becoming more and more unreliable. So I took the opportunity of one of my friends travel to US and I ordered a new one. As I mentioned […]
Greetings ! I completely neglected this website for a considerable amount of time. Simply I didn’t have either time or desire to write anything here. With this coming spring in 2023, with all this war and madness around us, I dug out my older passions, let them see the light again, made more time for […]
Winter is finally here and the weather is suddenly much colder. I bought two styrofoam boxes, the types used for carrying fish, and I made two shelters for the stray cats. Hope will be warm and cosy. It just struck me that this is the 100 post I published on this blog. Nice. I have […]
My new iPhone X is beautiful, a bit too expensive for what it offers but… what the heck. It’s a nice toy. Fancy one. Yet, something annoys me each time I sync my phone with the iTunes. I do this mostly for syncing music from my library. Each time I press the sync button, a […]
This old reel-to-reel was the joy of my teenager days, Back in eighties I was listening to VOA and Radio Kuweit and I was recording mostly on east-german OR-WO tapes (that were quite decent) because the BASF and Agfa were in shortage. Western music reached the black market usually by pilots that were operating civil […]
Today: I am cleaning my old and very dirty Panasonic corded phone. I kept this relic because, being powered from the provider, it does not need batteries and it very reliable. I also own an older rotary phone (kept for the very same reasons).
My friends from YO5KUC Ham Radio Club embarked on a very ambitious project: they want to participate in the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program. Now, for those of you that are not familiar with ARISS, this is a awesome educational project run by NASA: “ARISS lets students worldwide experience the excitement of […]
I bought my first Kindle in 2012. Since then, I read more than 400 ebooks. Not too much, not too few, but certainly a lot more than I would have read without the opportunity to carry a whole library with me at all time. Although a great device, my Kindle Keyboard v3.0 was a bit […]
My old Mac died in a very unfortunate way — the GPU of my previous Mac succombed. It was the last model with DVD drive provided and I really miss having the possiblity to play CDs. Anyway… I did some due dilligence about the costs of repair and the figure was higher that what I […]
For starters, I have to be very clear that I have absolutely no affiliation with this company or another of its kind. This is just about a personal opinion and I wanted to write such posts for some time, but did not find enough momentum to do it. While browsing for some information from their […]
While in a new project (trying to get my Fluke 289 communicate with my PC), I ran into an interesting C# trickie that I thought it might be interesting to share. Here’s the UseCase: getting to have a parent MDI form and several child forms, you want to run selected parent methods from child forms. […]
Again, this time of the year. Got this beautiful fountain pen from my wife. 🙂
Today, while I went over all my posts, I noticed that I have a large list of 43 draft posts. These are articles that I started writing, thought to be interesting, but I had limited bandwidth to finish. I need some planning with these, thus I put them down, maybe getting some input from you […]
