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I was talking to Kent last night about (among other things), Blackwater, the security firm (or private militia if you prefer), that’s being providing “security services” in Iraq, and more recently in New Orleans, where, according to this article, at least some of them were deputised and given the power to use lethal force. It would also seem that Blackwater and other similar firms are hiring top Military and Pentagon staff. I can’t remember all the sources I found, but Kent was interested, so I thought I’d put these here.

At the same time this article (also from The Nation, I’m not sure how I ended up there, it was probably from an article on The Guardian or BBC News sites) goes into how monkey boy has hired some lawyer (and family friend) with no experience of health issues to “[take] charge of the nation’s health and security with an all-out war on the flu”.

Um…

Just thought I’d share.

And I think I might go order one of those Blackwater Hoodies….

And check out the safest vehicle on Earth.

I spent today reading about autism. I started with this Observer Article and led first to this site on which the article was about. This site is totally worth a visit, persevere with the first 5 pages or so, it’s making a point. I then found my self here, and here, and here, and here. That last link is a collection of photos of people diagnosed with autism and Aspergers with brief bios and links to their pages where they have them. For example this one.

03TimeCheck.mp3

oh, it’s tomorrow, I say,
all set? no bird flu cases?

and here is the weather.

thank you,
Goodnight.

Our first test on Sunday 16th Oct was unsuccessful:

We tried connecting the laptop to the projector via the composite* out port of the laptop. We attached a composite to S-Video adaptor to this as the projector has a S-Video input port. The signal was then taken to the projector using a 5m S-Video video cable.

This didn’t produce any picture on the projector! The fault could’ve been one of the following:

1) The Laptop wasn’t sending out any signals due to it not recognising the projector. (I read somewhere that the projector should be turned on way after the computer is switched on). Also, there were 4 options in the display settings (output section):

– CRT
– LCD
– TV
– YPbPi (can’t remember, Martin?)

Both CRT & LED were enabled while the other two were disabled – there was no way to change any if these settings..

Check this PDF file for some tips.

2) The S-Video/Composite video adaptor was faulty – possible?

3) The projector’s S-Video input port was faulty

One test that will show us what the problem was, is to connect the laptop to a normal TV – if that works then the fault is with the projector. and not the computer or adaptor..

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What next?
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We found out that the projector has SCART sockets at the back (2 of them).

We could do the following tests next Sunday (23th Oct):

1) Use a SCART to S-Video adaptor – £13
2) Use a VGA to SCART adaptor – Chris may have one otherwise it’s quite expensive
3) Use a SCART to Composite adaptor – I’ve got one but then we need to use our Composite to S-Video adaptor – not too sure..

The trick will be to get the computer to recognise the projector – the only way we can do this is by testing at the venue…

References:

Some pictures of what different video cables look like and how they work:
http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/howto-av.html

Some very big pictures:
http://t3.k12.hi.us/t302-03/broadcasts/1210/demosmore.htm

Some good how-to-do guides (PDF)

*Note: Composite Video is the same as RCA