http://www.ralford.net/Not limited to the outdoors, funky music, and web developmenten-ushttp://www.ralford.net/rss.xmlRalford.netFor numerous reasons, I've decided to transition to Wordpress. Mainly, it already does what I want, and it will let me write without having to mess with code... I enjoy dabbling with PHP, but I just don't seem to make time for it these days. For now, my Wordpress blog will sit at a d....http://www.ralford.net/index.php?comment_view=285JessicaYay it's 2009. YAYYYYY! (banging pots and pans and giving Jessica kisses) For those of you with the funny glasses, YOU CAN'T WEAR THEM NEXT YEARhttp://www.ralford.net/index.php?comment_view=282Good Clean FunThere's this commercial I saw most mornings last year by some company called Areva. I think they make electricity or something. Anyway, the animation and music for the commercial seriously make it. Here it is on You Tube: Areva Commercial And a music video for a band called "Royks....http://www.ralford.net/index.php?comment_view=280HardwareAfter my lengthy complaint about floppy drives, someone at work brought up a situation where floppy may be a necessity: for the case that bootable removable media is required, but bootable USB is not supported by the OS. http://www.ralford.net/index.php?comment_view=279MusicI use subversion religiously at work to keep track hardware designs that are in progress. Subversion and other version control systems have a simple process: Check out a document out of the repository to make changes to it Make the changes, to hopefully better the document After the changes ar....http://www.ralford.net/index.php?comment_view=278MusicI threw this mix together tonight, and am really digging how it turned out. The mix all started when I thought about making a soundtrack for my life, but there were way too many songs to choose from, so I weeded out what didn't fit in . What's left are tunes that span from my middle schoo....http://www.ralford.net/index.php?comment_view=276HardwareFound a website this morning that has an archive of just about every CPU and co processor that ever existed: www.cpu-collection.de. It has pictures as well as blurbs about what makes each chip unique in the history of computers.http://www.ralford.net/index.php?comment_view=274On the WebI stumbled into this new software client called Me.dium on the devnulled weblog (the writer is actually on the development team for the software). It lets you interact with others that also have the client. You can talk with them, and also see what websites they are browsing. The neat think t....http://www.ralford.net/index.php?comment_view=273HardwareHere is a great applet showing how enhancement mode N-channel MOSFETs work: N-channel enhancement MOSFEThttp://www.ralford.net/index.php?comment_view=272HardwareAs we move forward in 21st century, I'm continually baffled that the world is still supporting floppy controllers. I associate floppy disks with old 486 problems - they remind me of resorting to my 5-1/4" boot disk to get me out of weird situations. They also bring back memories of shareware....http://www.ralford.net/index.php?comment_view=270