Moving servers – will attempt to find out where the last few posts went too. Stuff is going to be messy for a day or so.
Busy
I’ve been rather busy of late, getting funded, doing experiments, writing code for obsolete computers and building building blocks for radio systems. All the usual really. So I’ve not posted anything here.
Have a cat photo to make up this. Because there are not enough cat photos on t’interweb.
2008
Happy new year*
*The Bad Astronomer explains just what a year is these days – saves me having to.
24th Chaos Communication Congress
I was hoping to be spending this week at 24C3. It hasn’t worked out. A shame, as it looks like fun.
Next year.
Sixty today
On on Dec. 16, 1947 – sixty years ago today – the world’s first transistor was constructed and tested at Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA. Those responsible for the device were William Shockley, the theorist and John Bardeen and Walter Brattain who actually constructed the first one.
What started life as a heap of precariously balanced parts…
…ended up kick-starting the microelectronics revolution.
Today’s equivalent to Bardeen and Brattain’s part is one of the myriad sub-millimeter sized black specks you’ll find on the PCB of just about any modern electronics. Yet even these dwarf their tiny sibblings on the silicon die of a CPU, where they are packed with more than 150 million to the square centimeter.