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	<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/</link>
	<description>Karl-Martin Skontorp's homepage and blog.</description>
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		<title>Thermal imaging for fun and profit</title>
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This weekend I got the chance to borrow the thermographic camera from work. The idea was to do an inspection of the house insulation, but it&#8217;s also a fun tool to just play around with. Above, my cat. The coldest spot? The moist nose.



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		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/thermal-imaging-for-fun-and-profit/</link>
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		<title>Galileoscope arrives</title>
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Finally! The Galileoscope arrived today! I&#8217;ve never used a telescope before and have been looking forward to trying out this very affordable ($15) product. I&#8217;ve uploaded a few photos from the unboxing to flickr.

Assembly was very easy and I had no problem locating Jupiter and spotting four of its moons with the 25x magnification. Using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/galileoscope-arrives/</link>
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		<title>40th anniversary of the moon landing</title>
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Above, our tiny moon framed by the buildings around Oxford Circus.
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		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/40th-anniversary-of-the-moon-landing/</link>
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		<title>Ham Radio 2009: Day 1</title>
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I managed to get through two out of four halls today. Just finished uploading a bunch of photos. Time for sleep.
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		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/ham-radio-2009-day-1/</link>
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		<title>Ham Radio 2009: Day 0</title>
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Tonight, Friedrichshafen is full of cars with mag-mounted antennas, people wearing t-shirts and hats with their callsign printed on and there is even the occasional RFI on the hotel television. I&#8217;ve uploaded a few photos to my Ham Radio 2009 flickr set. Tomorrow we are leaving early for the exhibition.
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		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/ham-radio-2009-day-0/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m going to Ham Radio 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I&#8217;m leaving for Ham Radio 2009 in Friedrichshafen. This is the largest amateur radio convention in Europe and attracts tens of thousands of visitors every year. I&#8217;ll post photos to my Flickr account and maybe some updates here on the blog. So, stay tuned!]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/im-going-to-ham-radio-2009/</link>
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		<title>New camera: Canon IXUS 100 IS</title>
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A sample photo shot with my new Canon IXUS 100 IS camera:





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		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/new-camera-canon-ixus-100-is/</link>
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		<title>Attaching an MP3 player to a hard hat</title>
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Take one nice and wide elastic band and pull the ends through the venting holes on a Peltor G22 hard hat.
From the inside, adjust the size of the elastic loop to fit the player and tie the ends together with a wire tie.
If you want, add some friction between the player and hat surface by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/attaching-an-mp3-player-to-a-hard-hat/</link>
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		<title>Soldering PCB enclosures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When soldering enclosures out of copper-clad PCBs, two hex keys and a few small clamps come in real handy.



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		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/soldering-pcb-enclosures/</link>
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		<title>Auto-compacting folders in Thunderbird</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often use an SE K610i mobile phone to check my email over IMAP. However, I&#8217;ve got Thunderbird at home and when I delete or move messages out of the inbox it doesn&#8217;t delete them for real immediately. SquirreMail handles these semi-deleted messages fine, but the phone displays them. This has been pretty annoying and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/auto-compacting-folders-in-thunderbird/</link>
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		<title>ISS 2009-03-22</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



I shot the above photo of the ISS at about 20:49 local time tonight with an exposure time of 50 seconds. The space shuttle Discovery (STS-119) is at the moment docked with the station &#8211; according to the plan they will undock on the 25th. There are several visible passes on the 25th and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/iss-2009-03-22/</link>
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		<title>Unwanted &lt;p&gt; tags added by WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I prefer to edit raw HTML for my content and have been bothered by WordPress adding  &#60;p&#62; and &#60;br /&#62; tags at newlines in the source. I initially thought this had something to do with the editor, even though I had checked Disable the visual editor when writing in my profile settings. Actually, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/unwanted-p-tags-added-by-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Brew #3, Coopers Real Ale</title>
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32 bottles of Coopers Real Ale ready for capping and bottle fermentation.
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		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/brew-3-coopers-real-ale/</link>
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		<title>Dotfiles 2009-02-03</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new set of dotfiles is now available in the download area and on GitHub: kms/dotfiles/. Contains configurations for vim, zsh, irb and more. If you are looking for more dotfile inspiration, do a search on GitHub. At the moment they are hosting almost 400 different dotfile repositories.]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/dotfiles-2009-02-03/</link>
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		<title>Fork me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[




I&#8217;ve pushed all code for my projects to GitHub: see kms&#8217;s Profile for an overview. Their web interface to Git repositories is really nice and you can use it to browse syntax-highlighted source code as well as history of my projects. What&#8217;s better is that you can sign up for a free account and press [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/fork-me/</link>
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		<title>Initial update of projects page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent all afternoon updating the projects page with a lot of stuff (mostly old). Maybe someone will find something interesting in there. In no particular order, you can now download things like: avr-cat-smeter, avr-vs1002, nsupdate-web, simplerss, avr-max293, connection-bw-monitor, opml2html, svn2rss, avr-psk31-beacon, di-playlists, tetrinetbot, avr-scout-kenwood, rss-wordcount, url-watcher, avr-tv-tuner and sdr101-java. I&#8217;ve also migrated my personal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/initial-update-of-projects-page/</link>
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		<title>LibraryThing me</title>
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If you are really really interested in what kind of books I have, you can now browse my entire library (almost) over at LibraryThing. A very cool service indeed. They&#8217;ve got author clouds, recommendations based on my books and even an RSS feed if you want to keep updated on the expansion of my collection. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/librarything-me/</link>
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		<title>Fishing vessels at ~46MP</title>
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While waiting for the ferry in Hirtshals last summer, I shot a few photos. Below is a panorama stitched together with Hugin from 29 images. After cropping, the pixel count is ~46M. I think Hugin does a really good job, it is hard to notice any &#8220;stitch lines&#8221; or artifacts.







Grab the full resolution at Flickr [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/fishing-vessels-at-46mp/</link>
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		<title>CruiseControl.rb with Apache as front-end</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I run CruiseControl.rb for a few personal projects on a server on the home LAN. CCrb comes with its own web server running by default on port 3333, but I wanted to use my Apache server as a front-end. Doing this through mod_proxy is normally pretty easy. However, I quickly get into trouble with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/cruisecontrolrb-with-apache-as-front-end/</link>
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		<title>Fireworks 2008-12-31</title>
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I&#8217;ve just uploaded a few photos of the fireworks at the New Years Eve party last night. Get them all in high-resolution at Flickr, Set: New Years Eve 2008.




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		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/fireworks-2008-12-31/</link>
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		<title>Happy new year!</title>
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		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/happy-new-year-2009/</link>
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		<title>Must-have Firefox add-ons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is my condensed list of the extensions I consider give me the most added value to Mozilla Firefox:

 

tweez 
This is the way to bookmark pages. Just Shift-T, type in a few tags (keywords) and hit enter. Done! I don&#8217;t bother with bookmark categories anymore, I just type tag names directly into the AwesomeBar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/must-have-firefox-add-ons/</link>
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		<title>Dotfiles 2008-12-28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just put a copy of some of my dotfiles in the download area. There are configurations for vim, zsh, ssh and svn. Enjoy!]]></description>
		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/dotfiles-2008-12-28/</link>
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		<title>First Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first post! And to kick things off, here is a picture of my cat wrestling a huge rat:



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		<link>http://picofarad.org/blog/first-post/</link>
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