Category Archives: miscellany

the weath­er station/software gen­er­ates a csv file of that col­lects val­ues from the sen­sors every 20 min­utes. it’s not a very nice file — it con­tains all the pos­si­ble val­ues (if you where using all the avail­able sen­sor chan­nels) for me that means that 49 of the fields are unnec­es­sary and do not exist in the … 

Continue read­ing “rebuild­ing an array with­out unused elements”

Intellectually rather than phys­i­cal­ly. That is.  It no longer makes sense to have two blogs.  All the tech/info design/geeky stuff that I’ve been involved in the past three months has been tied to my art, Jim’s pho­tographs, or the small bits of the web for which I am the cus­to­di­an. Making it most rel­e­vant to my more … 

Continue read­ing “Moving house”

John Maeda is one of my heroes. He’s tak­ing a new job at RISD in June. In one of his blog posts at our.risd.org he had this to say: Also, some of the best artists and design­ers are great cooks. There is some­thing to cook­ing that is not only inher­ent­ly inven­tive, but also exem­pli­fies the very … 

Continue read­ing “Cooking and Design”

Boingboing Crunch Gear report­ed this morn­ing the planned clo­sure of the last plant to man­u­fac­ture Polaroid “film”. We had a Polaroid instant cam­era when I was a kid. Instant pic­tures being of course a big hit with the munchkin crowd and then lat­er mess­ing about the emul­sions and mak­ing “spooky” pic­tures being a hit with … 

Continue read­ing “no more polaroids”

I final­ly fig­ured out what it is about the behav­ior of the new (vista) ver­sion of win­dows explor­er that is odd.  When you look at the fold­er con­tents in the right side pane, if there are more fold­ers than will fit WE extends the list to the right (with a scroll bar on the bot­tom of … 

Continue read­ing “scrolling direc­tion matters”