A few thoughts on the roles of both creativity and literacy in education. In response to a TED Talk by Sir Ken Robinson.
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WordPress and music on android
Posting this via wptogo on my android. The app seems to work pretty well even if typing on a touchscreen does suck a bit. I think I’ve been being overprecise in my typing. I can actually go much faster than I have been. Since I got it, I’ve loved my ipod shuffle for being small, [...]
IBM x346 Power Connector
For the record, IBM P/N: 90P4632 (FRU P/N: 25R5163) is made up of 2 end-to-end molex part number 43025-1800 connectors with female terminals. Molex connector info: http://www.marvin3m.com/connect/
Thoughts on Android, fixing os slowdown
I recently started using an android-powered Google Ion (also known as the HTC Magic or T-Mobile myTouch) courtesy of the Google I/O conference. I really like it, though I do miss the hard keyboard of the G1 I borrowed for several weeks. I feel that the smaller size is a fair trade, since it now [...]
5DmkII video – Playback on PS3, Editing in Premiere
The Canon 5D Mark II shoots beautiful video, but it is unfortunately encapsulated in the .mov container, which the Playstation 3 will not play natively. After much trial and error, I’ve found that H.264 encoded video and Dolby AC3 audio muxed into a .m2ts file works well. If you simply want to watch your unedited [...]
Canon 5D Mark II’s “Auto Lighting Optimizer” example
I captured a pair of images yesterday that demonstrate the Canon 5D Mark II’s “Auto Lighting Optimizer” setting pretty effectively. The setting is supposed to “analyze image brightness and automatically adjust dark areas in images so that they appear brighter.” It seems to work pretty well for some high contrast images. It does improve this [...]
Ubuntu Upgrade, Server Thoughts
I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 9.04 lately, and since I’m using an x61 with the intel graphics card, compiz (and all my associated settings) stopped working. I de-blacklisted the drivers, and everything seems to be working properly. Hopefully I’m not one of the 20-30% of users who see crashes with the drivers… The trick [...]
BSG
Just finished watching the last episode of the last season of Battlestar Galactica. Really fucking good. Really worth watching, the all of it. Damn fine show, damn fine season and show finale.
web.py, Dreamhost, and the django templating framework
Getting web.py working properly on Dreamhost was a real pain, especially since the wiki article on the subject was flat out wrong in several places. I ended up choosing to use fcgi for talking to apache, which is good for performance but not optimal for development work (you sometimes have to kill the process and [...]
Airbears login script
Logging into airbears through the browser each time my laptop connects is a pain. This script made it less painful: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $|++; use File::Basename; use WWW::Mechanize 0.72; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( ); $mech->get( “https://wireless-gw1.berkeley.edu/logon” ); $mech->success() or die “Couldn’t connect to wireless login page”, $mech->response->status_line; # Select the form, fill the fields, [...]