Shouldn’t a URL ’shortener’ service make the URL shorter? perhaps even a google search term would have been appropriate, but then again that might have used up enough energy to boil a kettle*.
* I’ll have to explain this one later..
url shorteners
Get your blog on
Postopolis is happening again this time in LA as opposed to NY (where it was held two years ago). The lineup is about as solid as you can get, as according to BLDGBLOG;
—David Basulto from Plataforma Arquitectura and ArchDaily (Santiago, Chile)
—Jace Clayton from Mudd Up! (New York City, USA)
—Régine Debatty from we make money not [...]
Processing Sketches
I’ve gone crazy overnight, writing out as many of the sketch examples included in Dan Shiffman’s Learning Processing book~
So far I’ve worked my way through to chapter 5 (of 23) and so far it’s still making sense!
Some of the sketch exercises I’ve completed are inserted below;
Not exactly life changing so far, but it’s good to [...]
Pivot
IMG_8230.CR2, originally uploaded by jason.mcdermott.
Pivot played last Thursday night at Beck’s Festival Bar in the Hyde Park Barracks, as a supporting act for Metronomy.
Having only recently discovered this Sydney 3 piece, I was blown away by their intense live set and furiously innovative sound.
Highly recommended!
Summertime Rolls
IMG_7908, originally uploaded by jason.mcdermott.
Isn’t it a wonderful thing?
image uploads
hello all!
I’ve been wrestling with the upload item of my wordpress install – and after many hassles, the upload function works!
broken!
the post links aren’t working..
I’m not really sure why!
My fault.. fixed!
Indecision is the key to flexibility
Classic!
I saw this random line in a joke book in the outhouse at work (yes, we have an outhouse, and it’s great), and thought it was just such a poignant statement, given my current situation of consistently flipping between my homepage, wiki and blog.
More on this to come…
project ideas
Lately there have been many ideas/thoughts flying around regarding potential project outcomes for my fledgeline Ph.D. research.
I wanted to get some of them out into the blogosphere, so I can get them out of my head and into some kind of intelligent format. So here goes;
bus tracker
Web based interface for seeing real-time locations of buses [...]
dokuWiki Snafu
Solved!
Lately I’ve been configuring and (almost) loving the ease of use and simplicity of my brand new wiki. However, there have been some serious teething problems, which have not gone unnoticed. If the wiki page does not load, you know that I have not yet solved my problems!
The wiki page problems have been resolved and [...]