Welcome to barnoid.org.uk 2.0 beta

This is the website of Barney Livingston

I occasionally update this site with stuff to do with making computers do useful things, details of my electronics projects, information about my collection of old computers, photographs, perhaps some opinions I have, and more!

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  • That Wedding Playlist In Full

    Dancing In The Street - Martha Reeves And The Vandellas

    Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown

    You Can't Hurry Love - Diana Ross And The Supremes

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  • TwitBeeb

    TwitBeeb is a BBC B microcomputer (vintage 1981) from which you can Tweet (via a Raspberry Pi).

  • Barometric Pressure Readings With A Bus Pirate

    I decided to learn how to use my Bus Pirate by getting it to talk to an SCP1000 barometric pressure sensor chip.

  • Barney is...

    So you're wondering where that quote on every page of my site comes from?

  • 119 Reasons The iPad Is Not For Me

    The Register is running a series called "119 iPad apps for admins, coders, and geeks". I would seem to fit this bill quite securely, the "apps" themselves however appear to be poor approximations of useful.

  • Certificate Expiry Checking Script

    Here's a script I wrote a while ago for checking a bunch of domains to see if their certificates have expired.

  • New Colours

    The current political climate in the UK has prompted me to alter the default colour scheme of this site.

  • Lucid Muddle

    Today I did the Kubuntu Karmic to Lucid upgrade and ran into a few snags.

  • Welcome to barnoid.org.uk 2.0

    A brief welcome and museum of old versions. My first website from 1997.

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