Michael Torrie created a really handy tool to save your RC plane’s propellers from a spinning death on impact. It’s called a prop saver and it’s based on the “elastic rules, static drules” principle. Read on for pictures and explanation:

After repairing my Super Cub from my first crashes, I ventured onto the flying field again today, this time with the help of an experienced veteran flier, Michael Torrie. Thanks to Michael’s help, the experience was almost totally positive. I learned to land! I also got some much needed practice at controlling my turns, rolls, […]

I anxiously unboxed my long-awaited model airplane today: The HobbyZone Super Cub. I decided to document the assembly process and first flights with lots of photos. Read on for the log.

I’ve updated my LDS General Conference podcast to include the most recent conference, October 2006. If you are already subscribed, you don’t need to do anything. Your podcasting software (like iTunes) will automatically download the latest conference sessions. If you want to subscribe to the general conference podcast, just paste this link into your podcasting […]

Does your firewall block port 25 so you can’t use Thunderbird to send email? Do you have a Linux box on the open Internet? If so, you are in luck. I run Windows on my desktop, and I have a Linode machine that runs my email server. When I discovered that I was behind a […]

A co-worker got this error message today, and I thought it was quite humorous:

Today I discovered a nifty way to do socket programming in bash without the need for netcat (nc) or telnet: /dev/tcp. Say you want to connect to Google and fetch their front page. Just do this: exec 3/dev/tcp/www.google.com/80 echo -e “GET / HTTP/1.1\n\n” >&3 cat

I’ve seen some confusion online lately about the purpose of the “@” operator in PHP. Let’s figure out exactly what the “at operator” does. PHP holds your hand with error reporting during development by printing error messages to the user’s browser automatically when something goes wrong. This often looks something like this: Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: […]

SpeedScheduler, a little Azureus plugin that I wrote a while back, was featured in an article that made Digg’s front page: Top Azureus Plugins Revealed. Scroll to the bottom of the article for a few screenshots and a little write up. That’s pretty nifty.

I’ve update my LDS General Conference podcast feed with the April 2006 Saturday sessions. The Sunday sessions aren’t available yet. I’ll post them when they are. For instructions, see my previous post on General Conference podcasting.