Silica are holding a free ARM OMAP seminar in Cambridge on the 21st and 22nd of January. I will be attending the seminar on the 21st. If anyone else is going that wants to share a coffee, please get in touch.

The day starts at 8:30am for registration and ends at 17:00 with a fully packed schedule planned.

There may still be places left on one of the days so if your interested get in touch with Lee Allen on lee.allen@silica.com quickly.

See you there!

So, it seems that everyone is making their new years resolutions around about now, I guess its my turn. In no particular order.

To carry on my initial education with the CurrentCost unit, last night I played around a little with RRDTool using Paul Mutton's tutorial. I must say I'm pretty impressed with the outcome.

I received my CurrentCost unit today from the Eco Gadget Shop. I'm impressed with their service, it only took a few days to arrive. Anyway, as soon as I unpacked the unit and installed the cable grip, it was time to have a play.

As any self-respecting Linux geek would do, the first thing I did was try to hook the unit up to my Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex box. Theres quite a bit of information out there on logging the data that the CurrentCost unit spits out but most of it tends to lean towards the Windows/Mac OS X side or concentrates on the serial port interface of the older cables. What I wanted was a Linux and USB serial cable solution.

I've just installed ScribeFire to my Firefox browser to make it easier to blog. So far I'm pretty impressed to say the least. There are not that many blogging tools out there that integrate well with Drupal but ScribeFire is one of them. Well worth checking out if you have a Drupal, or any other kind of blog.