Ant Ramm

I’ve decided that it’s a good idea for me to start from the beginning. I’ve been dabbling with electronics since I was at senior school, but I’m sure I’ve ever completely understood the basics. Over the weekend I decided to start from the beginning again. I’ve got a 1989 book called Electronic Systems which I borrowed when I was at school, but never got around to returning. It certainly seems to give a good introduction into the world of electronics.

Also Dave Checkley and Rich Hubbard have recommended that I get a copy of The Art Of Electronics which I’ve found in the library at the TIC where I work. I’m off to get it, and the student workbook out later.

So, armed with a borrowed oscilloscope and three large textbooks I’m planning on teaching myself up to first year degree level electronics in the next few months.

Should be interesting…

Today whilst trying to pack our "Zope":http://zope.org database I couldn't connect to the server on the port I needed to because of a firewall issue. I went searching to see if I could tunnel into the server using an already open port. I was unaware that you can forward ports if you have SSH access to the server, for example

    ssh -L 3001:server.example.com:3000 -N user@server.example.com

would forward all local requests to port 3001 on the local machine to port 3000 on server.example.com. The traffic bound for the remote machine is encrypted and sent over port 22 like a normal SSH connection... Brilliant!

I’ve just about finished putting together the first incarnation of my personal blog/portfolio site. Here’s a short post about the WordPress plugins I’ve used to further customise the site.
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