[01:28] Started monitoring our power usage again, it's a little shocking; http://hadley.rich.gen.nz/power.png [01:31] how are you doing that? [01:31] what's the cycling thing? [01:32] ibeardslee: I'll blog about it at some stage but we got new meters installed the other day that have little LEDs that flash. I hooked up an Arduino and count the flashes. [01:33] ojwb: Overnight? That's the heaters in the kids rooms. [01:33] Red is the water heater. [01:33] ah [01:33] The spike in the morning is the aircon coming on to heat up the rest of the house. [01:34] heh, i like the hack of counting the flashes [01:36] They flash 1600/kwh so quite easy to get decent readings. [01:37] nice [01:39] I used to have current clamps over the incoming mains but wasn't very accurate. Counting flashes seems much better. [19:23] morning [19:37] morning [19:54] morning [20:07] morning [20:10] apparantly the steam closed beta for linux starts today, might be interesting to try out [20:12] I don't currently play enough games to be of much value ... although maybe needs some not so much game players to get that view of how well it works [20:14] I don't play that many either, but it'll still be fun to try out, it's a good step forward [20:16] especially that Valve seem to be very much 'Windows 8 ... hahaha' [20:24] .. right so umm how does one create an account? [20:24] for? [20:25] oh yeah steam/valve [20:25] well it's a closed beta for now, so you'll probably wait a few weeks [20:25] they were initially selecting 1000 people for the beta [20:27] do they have that 1000 now? [20:29] they probably had several times that number express interest in the beta, judging from reactions online :) [20:31] heh, just reading their announcement of it, they got 60k responses in a week [20:32] wow [21:46] steam? valve? anyone got a link? [21:46] this it -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software) [21:47] http://store.steampowered.com/news/9289/ [21:47] ta