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Depression, Procrastination and Putting One Foot In Front of the Other
Not motivated? Waiting to feel up to it? Plagued by doubts? Maybe, I just have to do it anyway. Sometimes I just have to show up, it seems, and do the task at hand, regardless of how I feel. A … Continue reading
Depression Paradoxes: Isolation
Last night, I was reading something on the self-defeating things we do when we have depressive episodes. Today’s topic is isolating; one of the several things we do which seem to be contradictory to our desired outcome. I don’t know … Continue reading
How To Read The Contents of Program Memory using AVR Assembler
A program which reads itself using the LPM instruction. Why? What Do Instructions Look Like in the AVR Microcontroller In the days of Commodore 8 bit computers, I created a little assembler/disassembler program. So I was driven to know exactly … Continue reading
Brokerage Fees, GST, Duties, Customs, Taxes to Canada
Shipping Raspberry PI from Hong Kong to Canada with no Brokerage Fees NONE! None whatsoever. No hidden charges, no brokerage fees, no charges asked by the post office, no GST, nothing. I bought my PI 2 from http://stores.ebay.ca/hundredpluscom and paid $57.43CDN, exactly … Continue reading
Installing Arch Linux on Raspberry Pi 2
I installed Arch Linux on my new Raspberry Pi following these install instructions. What to expect when the Raspberry PI 2 is booting While trying to boot, if no lights are blinking, it means the PI is not booting. Red light is always … Continue reading
TCNT1 Number must be positive and less than 64 solution
AVR Assembler Arduino To store zero in TCNT1 using OUT won’t work. To set the TCNT1 bits requires this technique. First, you have to write to TCNT1H then TCNT1L but you can’t use OUT. Here is the proper way to … Continue reading
1400 hours, One seventh of the way to 10,000 hours of Piano practice
I’ve been counting. And I track my hours every day. On average, I have practice 160 minutes per day since I started. Today I exceeded 1400 hours, which is 1/7th the way to 10,000. The computer forecasted that I will … Continue reading