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2023 in review
Personal achievements: * Learned how to build a simple state clock generator to minimize logic analyser memory usage when capturing SPI data (which was useful for high speed SPI interfaces since a Bus Pirate is not fast enough) devinantART achievements: * Figuring out how to pattern Polkadot and Love Heart Pride (rainbow) Bumpbows Disasters: * Cyclone Jasper * Earthquakes in Turkey and Morocco * A major Optus outage in Australia Tragedies: * The Israel-Hamas war * 150 years of death regarding Benson & Hedges Miracles: * All 41 workers trapped in a road tunnel collapse in India being rescued alive Triumphs: * Approximately 220,000 retailers in the US being required to display corrective statements from the tobacco industry Milestones: * 100 years of radio broadcasting in Australia * The World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 emergency * Disney turning 100 * 50 years of the Sydney Opera House * 20 years of my local junk shop (which I am one of their most loyal
2022 in review
Personal achievements: Built a controller for a +12V input server DC-DC converter unit for repurposing as an ATX PSU (it is on GitHub) The Ad Council starting to do the right thing by using geotargeting (location-based targeting) for a number of their online campaigns Reaching a total of 50 titles worthy of being parodied in Rick and Morty on my IMDB list (one of them got parodied after I added it) deviantART achivements: Reaching 10 seasons worth of nominees for the well made Netflix series "Dirty Money" Disasters: Major flodding in Pakistan and the Australian east coast Earthquakes in Indonesia Tragedies: Copenhagen smokeless tobacco celebrating 200 years of satisfaction (and death) Russia's invasion of Ukraine Miracles: Korean Air Flight 631 which overran the runway without any injuries or deaths Triumphs: Beijing 2022 marking the achievement of equality in bobsleigh with the introduction of women's monobob Germany claiming a podium sweep (where a single nation receives first
2021 in review
Personal achievements: Submitted my first working GitHub project being a programmable AC series load limiter. deviantART achievements: Reached 100 nominees for The Counterfeit Report (an online museum for fakes). Disasters: Volcanic eruptions in Spain. An earthquake in Mansfield in Victoria, Australia. Tragedies: More than half a million deaths from COVID-19 in the US. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins who was shot on set. Miracles: Four year old Cleo Smith who disappeared from a campsite and was found alive. Triumphs: The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games going ahead after a delay related to COVID-19. COVID-19 vaccines becoming available. World No. 1 women's tennis player Ash Barty winning her first Wimbleton ladies' singles title. Milestones: 50 years of McDonald's and Mitsubishi in Australia. 30 years of GSM and subsequent 3GPP standards dominating the world over cdmaOne/CDMA2000 and other related 3GPP2 standards. 100 years of Komatsu. Tributes: Controversial figure Larry Flynt. NFL
I've finally found a smartwatch phone...
...that supports LTE B28 (used in my country and I do not compromise on mobile band compatibility even in smartwatch phones) which is a global roaming band for all three ITU regions: https://www.apple.com/au/watch/cellular/ But it only has an embedded SIM card (no slot) which is a problem for providers who use a particular mobile network.
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