Bits, Bytes and RGB

Bit of a relapse on good intentions tonight and instead of heading out for a walk with a camera or two I stayed in to do a bit more coding on the Arduino. Tonight was spent trying to (re)learn everything I'd forgotten on bits and bytes and how to mix RGB to get the colours I wanted out of the daisy chained HL1606 chips on the LED strip.....got held up somewhat by a problem with the Arduino's bootloader which I eventually resolved by hitting the rest at the sametime as uploading the sketch.........oops! please forgive my lapse into geekspeak....think I must be beyond help ;-)