WD5GNR rambles about microcontrollers, ham radio, electronics, the Internet, science fiction, and other oddball things.
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Welcome Well, as if I don't have enough stuff on the Web,
I've decided to post an electronics-oriented "blog" to replace the defunct Al's Electronic Workshop program.
What can you expect? Who knows? My random thoughts and finds on electronics, microcontrollers, ham radio, the Internet,
and who knows what else? I've been blogging for awhile since the magazine I used to work for (New Architect) has a blog (the "daily")
that I wrote to (along with the other editors). Where else am I on the Web?
Programming and consulting Electronics
Ham Radio and PIC/CPLD/FPGA Tutorial.
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Al Williams
WD5GNR Rambles
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Thursday, October 3
Free Telezapper You've probably seen the Telezapper that sells for about $50. It sends a tone on the line that makes telemarketers think your number is out of servce. Guess what? You can record this same tone on your answering machine and get the same result for free. This page tells how.
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Interesting Web Sites If you want science links, try http://www.scientopica.com/sci/index.php. A large collection of links to tutorial sites at TutorGig. These sites don't really have their own content, they just index other sites. Speaking of tutorials, have you seen our tutorial site at http://tutor.al-williams.com?
08:40
Tuesday, October 1
Spam, spamI get a lot of spam! Really. More spam than you can imagine along with a huge volume of actual mail from readers, clients, press releases, and mailing lists. Two things have helped a lot. First, www.spampal.org.uk is a free program and a great idea. It becomes your POP3 server. When you ask for mail, it checks your real POP3 server and then tags the Spam. You can send all your spam to one folder or even delete it if you are sure. The program supports a white list (so your friends never get tagged as spam). Great stuff.
Another big help, but not free, is Nelson. This program organizes your Outlook (not Outlook Express) mail folders in interesting ways. It doesn't interfere with Outlook so you can stop using it anytime you like. Finally they allow you to tell it to ignore your spam folders, so it works great with the above mentioned SpamPal. You can use Nelson free before you buy it. I bought it because, although it has a few bugs, going back to not using it would be unthinkable.
I can actually look at all my e-mail for the morning or afternoon one ONE SCREEN now! Wow.
10:04
Farscape Cancelled! Rats! Farscape -- one of the best SciFi shows on TV and certainly one of the most original -- has been cancelled early. There will be a few new episodes, but after that, nothing. Sounds like another brilliant, "Let's cancel Star Trek! No one watches it," studio executive decision. Here's the headquarters for the save FarScape effort.
09:57
Blog is back! Blogger has been unwilling to publish for about two weeks, so I finally bit the bullet and reloaded and recustomized some bits to get it to work.
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