Saturday, June 7, 2008
It's funny how things come back. It's not much but since last blog I have managed to make some nice and useful words in Forth.. My implementation of SEE is borked and I have not yet even started on writing the in.line assembler but since it's been years on should not expect miracles.

words .name % u%. %. $ u$. $. binary dump dumphex dumpasc ldump .s S.S $8. $4. $2. .r sign #s #> <# # hold hld abs spaces

Number formatting <# # #S sign hold #> are based on "All About Forth", Glen B. Haydon, Mountain View Press updated towards ANS Forth .. Rest are my own.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
After a long time I have decided to start coding with Forth. It's kinda amazing language but I don't like to use it on normal PC class systems. IMHO it's a lot better for smallish Embedded hardwares .. like for example Parallax Propeller demo board I have been having over a year now (mostly unused, I have been way too busy). There is quite nice Forth (named PropellerForth) that is 10 kilobytes binary and runs native on that board.

There are only Serial port connection (with USB-ser converter) and not much storage on the board (32kB eeprom, having Propller boot image), but I'm hoping to add some auxilary memory and forth+asm code for in chip videodisplay+keyboard.

Parllax Propeller info:
http://www.parallax.com/tabid/407/Default.aspx

PropellerForth author blog:
http://cliffhacks.blogspot.com/search/label/propellerforth
Monday, May 26, 2008
 

Sometimes the oddest things happen. Last saturday I was visiting a shopping center and suddenly I almost walked to this... I don't know what to say, but I was lucky that I had my camera with me at that day. I don't usually carry my Dslr around daily nor do I (nearly) ever visit that mall since it's allmost 200km here.

But, anyhow.. it was nice day and nice accident.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
 

Majestic birds, looking for place to land, to make a nest and have offspinrgs. Pitty though I'll live in urban area so there ain't not much hope to seem them often.

Note: this is backdated ... posted at 26th May, but since the picture was taken 11th it felt more appropriate date.
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
 

Ah.. Finally.

It's been long time but looks like summer is coming.. In a last couple days day temperatures have been 15-20C and trees have seriously started to push leaves.

The picure.. Ain't much to say, it's a typical flower Macro I shoot on May Day..
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Friday, May 2, 2008
Well. what to say... So much has been said, millions of books printed, sold and read. There must be thousands of websites, youtubes and other mass media available.

Imho the best I have found is written my Mr McKnight who worked at 3M in the time company innovate and grew. Link follows: here


On less serious note.. Even cows can fly.. A picture from SciFi convention summer 2007 :-)


Ok, it took some hackery to get image in .. Had to insert Image link manually to html, but it seems to be ok now. Besides, all goofle stuff is beta anyhow so can't expect 100%.