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Blue Mandarin martini

Posted on 2011-08-28 by Jim

Add equal parts Absolut Mandarin (orange-flavored vodka) and blue curaçao over crushed ice in a cocktail shaker. “Shaken, not stirred.” Pour into a martini glass, garnish with a half-slice of orange.

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The RBN

Posted on 2011-07-04 by Jim

Bill Meara has a cool SolderSmoke blog post about the Reverse Beacon Network. Unlike regular (“forward”?) beacons where a station automatically transmits specially formatted messages, the Reverse Beacon Network listens for real operators calling CQ (“Does anybody wanna chat with … Continue reading →

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New HF propagation widget

Posted on 2011-07-01 by Jim

I modified the SonicChicken homepage today. The “weather pixie” links haven’t been working for some time now, so I finally removed all those. I may add some sort of weather widget back in later. But in the meantime, I added … Continue reading →

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New tumblr user

Posted on 2011-06-25 by Jim

Two weeks ago NPR did a story on tumblr. It piqued my interest, as it sounded like a cross between a blog and Facebook. Also the tumblr terms of service were attractive. So I decided to give it a try, … Continue reading →

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Bad synergy

Posted on 2011-05-29 by Jim

Mac OS X has some great features, among which are Time Machine (which allows recovery of deleted or overwritten files) and Mail.app. Junk mail filtering means I rarely see spam in my inbox, but I keep “junk” mail in the … Continue reading →

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Power supply project

Posted on 2011-05-28 by Jim

I built my 11-amp power supply a while ago, but I just now finished writing up the article about it.

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Home-brewed SWR meter

Posted on 2011-05-27 by Jim

I finished my home-brewed SWR meter last week, but this blog was down. (I failed to heed my hosting company’s warning about a PHP upgrade, doh!) So, now that the blog is back online, I’m posting it here as well.

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Blog updated

Posted on 2011-05-26 by Jim

Well, it’s long past time that I updated this blog! I was given extra incentive when my hosting company updated PHP, which broke the old software. The new version of WordPress doesn’t support my old tags plugin, so I’ve finally … Continue reading →

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January 2011 No-Pressure Cookers Menu and Recipes

Posted on 2011-01-19 by Barbara

New Year’s Good Luck turnovers All-butter cornmeal pie dough: 1 c flour 1/2 c corn meal 1/2 t salt 1 stick cold butter cut into pieces ice water Blend all ingredients except water in food processor, until butter is pea … Continue reading →

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PHP/curl proxy error

Posted on 2010-12-09 by Jim

Yesterday I ran into a tough problem at work, (i.e. Google didn’t return a web page describing the solution). I spent almost a whole day trying to figure this out, and the solution turned out to be incredibly easy. We … Continue reading →

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