Archive for March, 2010

WordPress plugin: withings-scale

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

I just released a WordPress Plugin for the Withings WiFi Scale. The plugin just allows you to easily embed the Withings smaller gadget into the sidebar of your WordPress blog. It should be appearing in the WordPress plugin gallery sometime in the near future. You can download it now (assuming you have a Withings Scale [...]

My First Computer: TI-99/4A

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Between the earlier blog posts on BASIC programming, RobotWar and this article over at PC Advisor, I suppose I got nostalgic for my first home computer. The Texas Instruments 99/4A — what an awkward name that was. At school, I had first experience a couple of different Apple ][+ computers (a Bell & Howell and [...]

Health

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

I’ve started a separate blog to chronicle my journey towards a healthy lifestyle. You can find it at: http://sandro.knot.org/health I’m guessing the day-to-day posts are going to be pretty mundane, but your encouragement and support would be appreciated.

RobotWar

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

This 10 top list of computer games includes an honorable mention for RobotWar. I actually discovered RobotWar when my friend Steve Green created a version for X11. While we had a great time coding robots I think the most interesting things was figuring out how Silas Warner managed to program it on an Apple ][. [...]