- ARCHIVE / June, 2009
- Algorithmic music: exercise #1
… I finally managed to find time to play more seriously with the fantastic impromptu – here’s a first screencast, it doesn’t sound that good but it made my day! (and maybe it’ll help others better understand how impromptu works..) p.s. I’m intending to start posting more stuff about impromptu (e.g. little libraries and code […]
- Logic and Ontology
I found an interesting article on the SEP this morning, it seemed to me well written and clearly argumented. ‘Logic and ontology‘, by Thomas Hofweber. Defining logic and ontology is not an easy thing – maybe because it is just a truism to say that there is one unifying view of what they they are. […]
- Understanding Google’s BigTable
BigTable is google’s proprietary data storage system – and that’s what you’ve got to learn if you want to work with the Google Application Engine (a web application environment by which you can make use of Google’s powerful IT infrastructure free of charge). The talk below (from Google-IO 2008) helped me a lot in understanding […]
- Share and browse links with MultiUrl
MultiURL allows you to combine multiple links into one short link that you can quickly and easily share with your friends, colleagues, on your blog or any other website. It makes the process of sharing multiple links at once so much easier, quicker and safer. I found MultiURL a very useful service. Delicious does something […]
- Visualizing Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ
- WordSift: visualize text
WordSift [http://www.wordsift.com/] is a tool that was created primarily for teachers. Mainly, think of it playfully – as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and play with language. This web2 application can be pretty useful… […]
- Bug: OSx 10.5.7 – Macbook sleeps once, freezes second time
Quite a disturbing surprise finding out that your laptop doesn’t work anymore after an OS update. And it makes you think – why the hell haven’t I waited for the rest of the world to test it out first? But the desire to be up-to-date and on top of things is too strong, I suppose. […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
