Author Archives: Matthew

Birdhouse Snake

Was walking around the backyard this afternoon and was surprised by this guy. Couldn’t see him very well, but based on the eyes and the coloring, not poisonous. A few more pictures in the Flickr stream.

Monome for video

Using a Monome to control video and audio.

Kaossilator

This one I might be able to afford. Still looks fun.

History Meme

Finally a meme I don’t mind participating in. Sadly most of the interesting bits are hidden behind that “sudo”.
% history -1000 | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
194 cd
156 sudo
73 rm
50 ls
45 less
44 vi
31 dpkg
22 kill
21 perl
21 man

Tenori Demo

Following along with my “new instrument” posts, here is the Tenori.

Posting Styles

The keepers of netiquette, have long fought over the correct way to reply to email, mailing list,forum, usenet, etc.. messages. Even though I almost always top or inline post, bottom posting is frequently expounded by digerati as the most appropriate and logical way to reply. Well this week I think I’ve come across [...]

Site Changes

Well I had plans to move this thing over to MTOS, that is on hold for a while. As promised, I have added a “Self Accumulator“. It needs some CSS love, that will come soon. Besides aggregating “me” it has allowed me significantly lighted up the sidebar.

Stopping the spam

I want a place to aggregate/archive my online activities. Something like Mugshot that I do use, but under my control. I tried using this blog to do it, but decided it should only include stuff I write specifically for it and “spam” from my other sources doesn’t work here. I’m going to [...]

Honda Fuel Cell

Why am I just hearing about this now? I would have thought a commercially viable fuel cell vehicle to be big news. I do have some fear of that big pressurized tank of H in the trunk, however.

More Fear of Girls

Not as good as part 1, but worth a view.