http://uwmike.com Hacker, Engineer, Dancer, Gentleman Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:54:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/10/23/small-world/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/10/23/small-world/#comments Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:57:54 +0000 Mike Purvis http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/10/23/small-world/ When I changed my banner image for the fall, it was more an act of defiance than as some sort of genuine reflection of the reality outside. We've now had several dustings of snow, and there was the small issue of my bicycle brakes being encased in ice, fused to the wheel. Anyhow, I ran into [Matthias Wandel](http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/) at [Swing Club](http://swing.uwaterloo.ca/) this afternoon---he's a UW grad, and has a number of really neat project writeups on his site. It was just funny that I was half-heartedly studying some circuits in the studio, and when I asked him about an [op-amp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_amplifier) question, his response was more about what a useless circuit it was, than what exactly the filter behaviour would be. In other news, I seem to be getting the hang of [Tango](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Tango) a bit more. It's a far simpler dance than [Lindy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Hop), and certainly less flexible, but fun enough in its high-heeled, strutting sort of way. Like any of the more intimate dances, it's more about the subtle communication between partners than big showy spins and tricks.]]> http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/10/23/small-world/feed/ 2 http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/07/06/wordpress/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/07/06/wordpress/#comments Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:54:12 +0000 Mike Purvis http://dev.uwmike.com/articles/2006/07/06/wordpress http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/07/06/wordpress/feed/ 1 http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/05/15/accidental-postage/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/05/15/accidental-postage/#comments Mon, 15 May 2006 19:45:05 +0000 Mike Purvis http://dev.uwmike.com/articles/2006/05/15/accidental-postage http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/05/15/accidental-postage/feed/ 3 http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/03/07/glass-cage/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/03/07/glass-cage/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:57:00 +0000 Mike Purvis http://dev.uwmike.com/articles/2006/03/07/glass-cage http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/03/07/glass-cage/feed/ 2 http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/12/06/quick-server-backup/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/12/06/quick-server-backup/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:32:00 +0000 Mike Purvis http://dev.uwmike.com/articles/2005/12/06/quick-server-backup http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/12/06/quick-server-backup/feed/ 0 http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/11/09/back-online/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/11/09/back-online/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:51:00 +0000 Mike Purvis http://dev.uwmike.com/articles/2005/11/09/back-online http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/11/09/back-online/feed/ 3 http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/10/05/proper-forwarding/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/10/05/proper-forwarding/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:45:00 +0000 Mike Purvis http://dev.uwmike.com/articles/2005/10/05/proper-forwarding http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/10/05/proper-forwarding/feed/ 0 http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/09/19/autumn-again/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/09/19/autumn-again/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:08:00 +0000 Mike Purvis http://dev.uwmike.com/articles/2005/09/19/autumn-again http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/09/19/autumn-again/feed/ 0 http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/09/02/a-modern-portal/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/09/02/a-modern-portal/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:09:00 +0000 Mike Purvis http://dev.uwmike.com/articles/2005/09/02/a-modern-portal http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/09/02/a-modern-portal/feed/ 0 http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/05/18/a-musical-baton/ http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/05/18/a-musical-baton/#comments Wed, 18 May 2005 05:08:00 +0000 Mike Purvis http://dev.uwmike.com/articles/2005/05/18/a-musical-baton http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/05/18/a-musical-baton/feed/ 0