The FL-909 is a Flash-based clone of the famous 80s drum machine, the Roland TR-909. This and other interesting experiments can be found at lab.andre-michelle.com. (Hat tip: rekkerd.org.)
If you really like it, you can install his cross-platform desktop version, which uses Adobe’s new AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) technology. Or, you can [...]
I’ve been using Tracks, a GTD web application, to manage my life for a while now. I couldn’t run it with my previous web host (with my “gs lite” account). So I’ve been using the free hosted version at tracks.tra.in. I don’t mind hosted solutions (especially free ones). But I thought [...]
Sometimes, on my drive in to work, I catch
Dick Estell’s
The Radio Reader program on the local NPR
station. Estell reads contemporary fiction and non-fiction. I almost never
catch an entire book on his show, but he’s a nice alternative to talk radio
when I’m not in the mood for music.
So, when I caught a [...]
Looks like blue booties for us:
I’m going to group all the baby pix under this tag:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wheat/tags/baby/
My friend Daniel’s wife Karen was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to undergo immediate surgery for it. It runs in her family. Daniel is helping keep friends and family informed (and keeping his and Karen’s spirits up) through a blog he set up for her: karensprayer.blogspot.com. We are all following [...]
It’s back to school for many colleges in the US, mine included. In addition to my usual composition classes, I’m teaching a section of American Literature II (i.e. since 1865) this fall. I’m pretty excited about that. This week, the kids are reading two by Walt Whitman: “Song of Myself and [...]
SCO’s anti-Linux, sue-everybody business plan has finally caught up with them. Ars Technica reports about a federal ruling that SCO never actually owned the Unix copyrights that they were so busy suing people for violating. Now there’s a revenue model I’d never considered: suing people for violating copyrights you don’t own. [...]
Feel free to help me work out the kinks of my captcha code by posting a comment to this thread. The bit of code I use, in a slightly modified for, to protect myself from comment spam, doesn’t work on the new host because it makes a call to the bcmod() function of the [...]
I had a falling out with my previous hosting provider over the past week. Mediatemple sent me an email, claiming that my sites were eating up too many MySQL resources, and saying my account would automatically be upgraded to their new Grid Container technology. For that unsolicited service, my account would be charged [...]
One of the best things about online teaching–and a technology that would be useful even in a face-to-face class–is the assignment drop box. In a face-to-face class, paper due day is always a bad scene. Students who haven’t finished their papers often skip class in order to finish or in order to avoid [...]