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eclecticc does encrypted logins

nrp — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:00:36 +0000

For the handful of you who login, the login and admin pages now use ssl via a cert from CAcert.

The New Look

nrp — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:35:36 +0000

I finally got around to updating k2 to the latest version, and with it, I got the site looking like I had intended it to. No more weird spacing and awkward half default look.

I tested it with Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 7, Safari 3, and Chrome in Windows and Firefox 3 and Opera 9.52 in Ubuntu. It seems to work as expected, aside from some weird spacing in IE (or maybe that should be expected). Google Analytics claims 11% of the visitors to this site use Internet Explorer, which feels strangely high considering the content. I’m ok with giving the remaining 11% another reason to switch.

I made the Sierpinski fractal background with Context Free. It is quite a fun program, and very simple to pick up. It took a few minutes to write the script for the background (about 1/100th the time it took to get the CSS looking right).

Style

nrp — Sun, 18 May 2008 04:26:09 +0000

This is sort of a rough model of what the site is supposed to look like; more when K2 final is out.

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.cc == Creative Commons!

nrp — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:56:32 +0000

There’s now a little icon on the bottom of this page proclaiming that everything on this site that I hold copyright on is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. That is, everything that does not state its own license; some source code may be licensed GPLv2 or GPLv3.

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What eclecticc is

nrp — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:45:42 +0000

Hello all (though I’m being a bit optimistic with the word all),

I’m Nirav Patel, a rabble rouser, robot herder, meatsmith, moonshiner, psuedocryptozoologist, and all around eclecticc individual. I’m also a Junior in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. This web log, or blog as it may be known, is documentation of the ideas I have and projects I undertake to provide warning to others of what not to do with their lives.

The following is a list of things I’ve done that may or may not end up documented on this site, depending on how bored or lazy I am:

Pac-Man shaped arcade machine
Snowmaking
Microdistilling
Grado mods
Headphone amps
POV (Persistance of Vision) devices
Baking/cooking (meatcake, etc)
Bonfires
Various small things and less interesting projects undertaken for classes

There are far more things that I plan on eventually doing. Most of them are completely stupid and/or unrealistic, but there are a few gems:

CPS (Continuous Pizza System)
Low cost EKG for OLPC
Vision processing for OLPC
Stop motion photography for OLPC
Multimeter glove
Sugar rockets
Portable Dobsonian telescope
Crocheted Amigurumi
Flavored snowmaking
Steam powered robot
Wireless POV display
FM transmitter/amplifier
Candy fab
CNC
Robotic Zeppelin
Mobot

Some other topics that may come up time and again include:

SpongeBob
Open Source Software
Linux
Banjo
Crocheting
Robotics
Pyrotechnics
Classic movies
Politics
Love
Backpacking

It’s Alive

nrp — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:09:03 +0000

at last.

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