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More Elasticsearch training today. Yesterdays session was very interesting. Lots of new bricks to build new toys with =)

My shipment of miniature big mouthed cats has arrived from element14.

Just ordered a run of 20 PCBs. Chainable Dual Channel triac boards for turning mains (240V) devices on and off with a micro controller. This is an identical circuit to my existing design, but it is fit on a 50mm x 50mm board so that I could get them made at seeedstudio.

The GR211 nixie tube socket PCBs that I designed have arrived! 

They came out excellent. I was worried for two reasons. The footprint for the GR211 and the SOT-23 transistors were untested. I created cusom libraries in Eagle to deal with the unusal transistor that I selected, which can handle up to 300V and for the tube. The tube took some figuring out because its datasheet has the footprint from bottom, rather than the top. I ended up screen grabbing the scanned datasheet and mirroring and flipping it as if it was viewed from the top, I could then create the footprint in eagle - which are traditionally viewed from the top.

Click through to the gallery for photos of the GR211 tube running in the socket.

Cooked some of that Coles portugese chicken on the BBQ tonight. It was on special. The normal price is a bit ludicrous.

Tastes great though. 

The beer I brewed a few weeks ago seems to have turned out well. No off flavors or anything introduced by the old ingredients. One thing though, it's bitter as hell because I used the entire remainder of my hops in the last two batches. I was expecting the hops to have degraded in bitterness, but no... I haven't tried the dark yet.

This boys and girls is what a really big, really busy MySQL box looks like. 32GB RAM, 32 Cores. 6 SSD RAID.

Didn't realise I had a 1E DND book... Cool. Now to re-hide it until the kids can treat books nicely =)