We go through periods where one of the main circuit breakers in our house keeps tripping, which was the main reason I got a UPS. Unfortunately, we've been having one such period recently and 9/10 times my UPS has been shutting down about a second after the mains is cut.
After Hong Kong, I wanted to see another Asian country, so I had booked a flight to Bangkok. I stayed there for a few days before taking the train up to Ayutthaya.
I was fortunate enough to attend this years IEEE International Conference on Image Processing at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). My paper was based on some work I did during my PhD with my poster presentation on the fourth and final day of this multi-track conference.
September 2008
I have just replaced my trusty Nokia 6300 with a HTC Wildfire. The Wildfire is no iPhone, but for the price I think it makes an excellent entry point into the smartphone world. Anyhow, there is a built-in app for transferring contact and calendar data from your old phone via bluetooth. This worked OK with the old Nokia, but I had a load of SMS messages I wouldn't mind importing.
So I replaced the fuel filter on my Honda yesterday. I used an ADL blueprint part - the same as I normally fit, since they are supposedly good quality. Although next time I need one, I will see what other options are around.
When I started the car to go to work this morning, I lifted the bonnet to check the new filter wasn't leaking. Without exaggerating, it was spraying petrol everywhere! Fortunately nothing caused the escaped fuel to ignite and I shut off the engine as fast as possible.
Like most 311s, mine came with a mini PCI-E wifi card with integrated bluetooth (BCM4312). For various reasons I chose to replace this with a different card, and at the time, there were no other wifi options with bluetooth (i.e. no other half-height mini PCI-E cards known to work with the 311 under all OSs). HP's solution for this is a separate internal bluetooth module which connects via a cable at the front of the motherboard. The module and cable are parts 537921-001 and 584687-001 and can be bought from HP, but together become rather pricey.
It looks like my hacked Mini 311 BIOS has become news on Liliputing, Ubergizmo and Netbook Reports, with the latter containing a direct quote from my original post. It is too bad that MyHPMini (the site I originally posted it on) never considered it to be important news, despite doing so for lesser hacks :-S
Having owned this domain name for longer than I can remember now, I finally have a site here! I figured it would make a handy dumping ground for various stuff of mine. The plethora of web content management systems and blogging tools available these days make for little excuse not to have an online presence (since I don't do Facebook etc). I went with the open source content management platform Drupal - it's seriously flexible and makes it easy for any techy to get a slick site set up - no knowledge of PHP/MySQL required.
