Yearly Archives: 2009

Facebook performance woes

Posted on 10 December 2009 by Bob

Today Facebook launched their new privacy settings and forced all their users to update their settings. We noticed at Yahoo! that we were started to get lots of timeouts from Facebook’s APIs that we use on the Yahoo! homepage. I’ve … Continue reading →

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TGIMBOEJ Part 3

Posted on 10 December 2009 by Bob

TGIMBOEJ has left the building. It has been posted on to a fellow hacker in Kent. In the end I added quite a lot of stuff to the box. Amongst other things a 6MP CCD from an old Fujitsu S20 … Continue reading →

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TGIMBOEJ Part 2

Posted on 3 December 2009 by Bob

It has landed. There is some neat stuff in the box and I’ll been sending it on shortly. I have a bunch of junk to add, and here are the photos. I’ve removed a board that contained a load of … Continue reading →

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TGIMBOEJ Part 1

Posted on 30 November 2009 by Bob

Yesterday I spotted an email in my inbox from a guy named Conrad. He had contacted me because he had seen my name on the TGIMBOEJ.org, a site that coordinates Migratory Boxes of Electric Junk on the Internet. My name … Continue reading →

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Hardware hacking at SkillsMatter

Posted on 30 November 2009 by Bob

So tomorrow is my talk at SkillsMatter on Hardware hacking. Here is an uploaded copy of my draft presentation: View more presentations from Andrew Brockhurst.

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