bafjohnson's comments

I have a good number of 433mhz switchable & dimmable outlets controlled by an Arduino with a 433mhz transmitter. It was a good weekend project that I am extending at the moment - including real world controls of my Sonos components (the Arduino talking to them via SOAP).

I've just ordered 10m of RGB LED strip, which is the next component I plan to control with an Arduino which will communicate with the first via an Ethernet shield and a protocol I am yet to devise!

Yes, all of this is fairly pointless but it's keeping my brain active whilst I recover from some fairly extensive surgery!

As someone who takes an antipsychotic (300mg of Quetiapine XR once daily for bipolar) I can completely understand why these drugs don't suit everyone.

The sedating nature of them (at least the ones I have personal experience of) is huge.

The side effect I find most interesting is the often mooted suggestion of weight gain. It hit me very hard in the first six months but was more a matter of retraining my mind to ignore hunger pangs for endless sugar filled snacks at 11pm.

I have misplaced Bitcoins currently worth in excess of $700,000 / £430,000. They were purchased a couple of years back.

I've not even started the search for them properly as I know how gutted I will feel if I definitely can't find them. At the end of the day, it's only money and there's always time to make more. Time is the one thing of which we have a finite amount!

My father worked for IBM for his whole career - and as I was growing up there were always a number of Thinkpads in the house right from the 700C.

They were amazing, well made pieces of hardware and to this day I have kept buying them through the years and currently have a Thinkpad X220 (i7 CPU, 16GB RAM). The sad fact is that it now gets so little use compared to my MacBook Air.

Why is that? Purely because I prefer OS X.

Happy Birthday Thinkpad - I'm sorry I have deserted you.