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Coughing kept me awake all night — the last time I remember looking at the clock it was nearly 03:45! Then I finally managed to fall asleep... As a result, today I feel like crap and not capable of going to work.

Dennis just had his brand new Colnago stolen — two days old and someone broke into his house and took it. Sounds suspicious to me! Here's the picture and the email he sent around, if anyone sees it...

I had my house broken into today, and my new bike was stolen.    It had it
official unveiling on Saturday and has been riden twice!!!!!

As it is a Colnago with a non-standard paint job, it should be quite unique
around town.

Can you keep a watchful eye open on the roads, in bike shops, pawn shops or
trading post it.  I have attached a photo.

Details of the bike are:
Frame:         Colnago OvalMaster Titanium 54cm,
                Team Rabobank Colours (Orange, White, Blue)
Fork:                 Colnago Force Carbon Fibre
Group Set:         Dura Ace, 9speed/Dbl ChainRing
Wheelset:         Mavic Open Pro Rim/Dura Ace Hubs
Handle Bars: Eason EC90 Carbon Fibre
Bar Tape:         Orange Colnago
Stem: Colnago 120mm
Seat:                 Sella SLR (black) with Colnago seatbag
Pedals: Look Black (old)
Lights:         Vistalight 5 front with NiMH Battery ,
                Cateye 5 led rear

I am offering a reward for the bike of information leading to the person who
needs to be dealt with.

On a far happier topic, I've finally got my 1-Wire weather station working — been a little scared to unpack it and plug it in, just in case it was broken and I'd found myself with an expensive lump of plastic from the US. A quick edit to mweather.c so that it displays in celsius, a guess at which serial port its plugged into, and here is the time and temperture. (Wind speed and direction are a bit irrelevant here inside the spare room)

% sudo ./mweather /dev/ttyS1

/---------------------------------------------
  NWeather - V2.00
  The following is a test to excersize the two
  1-Wire Net Weather Station containing
    DS1820 - temperature measurement (at least 1)
    DS2423 - counter for reading wind speed (page 15)
    DS2450 - Isolate direction for wind
       or the
    DS2406 - switch to isolate 8 DS2401's for wind
             direction on channel B.
  Press any CTRL-C to stop this program.

Output [Time, Temp1(F),Temp2(F).., Direction Serial Number(s), Wind speed(MPH)]

Port opened: /dev/ttyS1
Found DS2450
9000000000FD1220
Found DS1820
0A000800093AC610
Found DS2423
D60000000156AA1D
The Found Weather Station
11:18:18, 22.7, 14,  0.0
11:18:20, 22.7, 14,  0.0
11:18:23, 22.7, 14,  0.0
11:18:25, 22.7, 14,  0.0
11:18:28, 22.7, 14,  0.0
11:18:31, 22.7, 14,  0.0

Later in the afternoon I finally got around to adding some descriptions for some of the older photo albums, looks like I'm finally making some headway in the grand plan to digitise them all! Unfortunate side effect is that a whole lot of old folders have now been touched, so the “most recently changed” list isn't particularly accurate.

MLP — Pervasive Computing

[http://www.nicholsgrp.com/]

[http://www.computer.org/prevasive]