So I’ve been under the weather recently. About two weeks ago, I started having a weird sensation in my chest. It felt like my heart was leaping, the way it does when you go over the curve on a rollercoaster or get startled. My heart would do a strange thump and it would be as […]
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Slide, slide, slippety slide
One of the things I love most about using the ipad as a musical instrument is that several of my favorite tools (Bebot, Nanostudio) allow me to treat the screen as a continuous or ribbon controller. A bit of history here: though the good old fashioned piano keyboard has always been the primary interface for synthesizers, […]
of iPad magazines and online publishing
So Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily iPad “newspaper” is in the news, mainly because it’s failed to appear. It seems that publishers are falling all over themselves to come up with their own iPad app-based publications — Wired and Scientific American were early, semi-successful contenders in the field. I have an iPad, and frankly, I completely […]
Current Listening 1-13-2011
The Church, Starfish The Chameleons UK, Strange Times Orange Juice, The Very Best Of Black Dub, Black Dub The Lightning Seeds, The Very Best Of Foals, Total Life Forever
This is why NASA is important
This brought a tear to my eye.
Rhapsody Blind
Just a shout-out here on something my friend John has created: Rhapsody Blind, a set of scripts that allow visually-impaired Windows users to navigate Rhapsody, the streaming music service. From what I can tell, there aren’t really a whole lot of good tools for blind computer users; we rarely think about how the traditional GUI […]
Essential iPad Tools
So I’ve had an iPad for a few weeks now; I’m beginning to learn iOS development and it seemed like a useful thing to have, as I no longer have an iPhone. (I lost it.) Also, I needed something portable to carry other than my aging MacBook Pro, which is definitely showing signs of wear […]
Blogging from the iPad
Now that I have a small keyboard for my iPad, I think I should start blogging again here. I haven’t blogged regularly in a very long time, because most of what I want to say I say on Twitter, and because I haven’t really had much of value (I think) to say in general. But […]
More Wikileaks thinking
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the whole Wikileaks thing these past few weeks, like a lot of people who belong to my particular sub-set of the human population. (First World, technology-oriented, somewhat politically minded. White as a goddamn ghost.) I’m massively ambiguous about the whole affair, which has earned me my fair […]
Wikileaks thoughts
Something occurred to me today; or rather, it’s been bubbling up in my subconscious for a while and finally came to the surface. I wonder why I haven’t ever heard anyone else mention this in public. (Maybe they have; I haven’t seen it.) It occurred to me that if I were working in either the […]