Archive for August 2009
Gulp. It’s official. Russell has announced the Interesting 2009 lineup, and what a line-up it is. It’s going to be quite difficult to measure up to “Everything You Know About Nuclear Power is Wrong”. My name’s up there, so there’s no going back now.
35 days to come up with something erudite and witty. Gulp. Anybody got an Aldis lamp and a smoke machine I can borrow?
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Welcome to my Morse Code Music page! It includes: 1) an explanation on how to translate Morse Code into music; 2) an online Morse Code Music generator you can play right now on your computer; and 3) multimedia activities that integrate Morse Code with other areas of the curriculum! So, take a couple of minutes and learn more about Morse Code and the wonderful connections we can make between language and music.
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While researching hidden code in commercially released music, I ended up turning up tons of references to albums containing morse code. For some reason, this didn’t seem ridiculous enough for me – it seemed too obvious. I’ve since looked into it a bit more and found a few examples that officially surpass my threshold of ridiculousness.
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While listening to your favorite music, don't be suprised if you hear those strange and annoying sounds of that terrible Morse code!
Case in point, on Joe Walsh's latest solo album "Songs for a Dying Planet" is a song titled "Vote For Me". The song is preceded with Morse code which pounds out "REGISTER AND VOTE FOR ME AR". Brian, KF2HC, states that the same message appears on Joe's first album "Barnstorm" in a song titled "Mother". Joe holds an Advanced class Amateur license.
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The Rhythm of the Code is a revolutionary new method of learning Morse code. We've combined our famous Version 1 and Version 2 to create this interactive and catchy musical rhythm with 43 Characters often used in ham radio broadcasts that will enable you to have loads of fun while learning. This is a lively musical CD and it will keep your brain energized and excited! You can learn code while doing aerobics, jogging or just sitting around enjoying yourself. Each Compact Disc jewel case includes simple instructions!
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"Ever wondering who those "n users connected" are when you look at the Sharing part of the Preferences of your iTunes? Well wonder no more – it turns out fairly easy to figure out in Terminal.app; just type this line:
lsof -r 2 -n -P -F n -c iTunes -a -i TCP@`hostname`:3689"
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"By now, most front-end web developers have heard of the Standalone Internet Explorers (Wikipedia article). Although these are incredibly useful, they’ve always been hacky at best.
Because of that, we need to go the long way. We’ll download the “officially sanctioned” VirtualPC images containing a time-limited version of Windows XP SP3 and Internet Explorer 6.0, and then we’ll convert these images to the kind that work with VMware Fusion (which works on Mac OS X). This should only need to be done every 3 or 4 months when the images expire.
These instructions are loosely based on the ones found at Running IE6, IE7 and IE8 on your Mac."
[UPDATED: slides from the day and some waffle available here]
Russell Davies‘ Interesting “conferences” are about the best value-for-money day out you can find – £20 gets you into a gathering of 350 people at Conway Hall to see 20-odd talks on interesting topics. In the two years it’s been going they’ve ranged from Lego as a cure for global warming, the geophysics of World Of Warcraft, to why horse are scared of crisp packets. Imagine a cross between TED and a village fete. Only lots, lots more interesting.
I’ve been to both of them and took loads of photographs (incidentally, if I took your photo last year I’ve got 10×8 prints for you – let me know your snailmail address and I’ll stick them in the post.) This year I’m going to talk, which is a frankly terrifying prospect even if the audience are one of the nicest you could hope for. So no pressure there, then.
For a while I’ve been intrigued with which skills are going to be of value in the post-Peak Oil apocolypes (“defending your food supply with a piece of 2-by-4″, according to Tom Taylor). I briefly played with the idea of welding together a bike frame with two car batteries and a coat-hanger, but Conway Hall has a long and distinguished history and I’d hate to be the one responsible for bringing that to an end by burning the place to the ground. Most of the audience are going to be people who communicate in some way for a living, which got me wondering what sort of post-peak Oil apocalyptic skills they could conceivably have to offer. Something communicative, obviously. Which then begs the question, how are we going to communicate when the more pressing need is defending your food supply with a piece of 2×4″?
So, combined with those mental meanderings and a vague desire to have a bit of audience participation, I’m going to try to teach all 350 people Morse code in 20 minutes. Or maybe 10 minutes if there are more interesting people who need more time.
So, that gives me about 2 months to panic, get hold of an Aldis lamp and find something to make smoke signals.
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