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I’ve been cooking with the solar oven. Here’s a log of how it’s been going.

I made a solar oven last night and I baked some potatoes with it this morning. Two words: best baked potatoes EVER.

I modified my phpstates code include to display countries and Canadian provinces as well. The country codes come from the UPS developer’s API. This is another one of those snippets that I use often, so maybe it will help you out.

Here’s how you can create perl scripts in TextMate, starting from a template instead of a blank screen.

I was looking for a quick and simple PHP function that would validating credit card numbers, but the code I found was mostly clunky and sometimes just wrong. I wrote this function and it seems to work correctly. Feel free to use it and leave a comment here if it works for you.

I find things in my sketchbook that I don’t remember writing or drawing. I have no idea where I was going with this, but I like the way my alternate personality is thinking.

I like the little gems of ingenuity and economy of design found inside crappy toys. I was taking apart some electronic toys yesterday, as is my wont. This particular toy had a few neat mechanisms, but I thought this use of rotary encoders and cams was especially cool.

I created a circuit that zooms a camcorder in and out. This is the path I took.

I’ve been using FreeMind for the past few days and it’s been amazing. I was a little skeptical but it’s been a great way of getting my mess of thoughts into visual form.

I needed to hide a linux server inside a pedestal for a piece of sculpture that I’m working on. Bandsaw and drywall screws, it’s ugly but exactly what I needed.