This will be a post of three parts. You should probably go straight to Part Three – as this has the juicy details, and a fairly brilliant song I composed. Part one and two are mostly content-free, self-oriented pieces that are sure to be of interest to few (though, with the high demand for fairly […]
Category Archives: The common man
Wave rooting, Part II: Morning of terror
Monday, November 10, 2008
It seems like less of a good idea now. It’s 8.30am in a tent on a football oval, 6km from Dorkbot Central. I sport a chipper hangover, compounded by a brawny and ominous (though, thankfully fairly rain-free) thunderstorm. Emerging from the tent, I spy my mode-of-transport with a small slice of contempt. I quite like […]
Wave rooting, Part III: WävRüta
Monday, November 10, 2008
After such an epic journey, it was going to have to be a pretty impressive 8bit, lo-fi, noisy, multi-mode digital audio FX unit and signal generator we’d be building. And with such a description, how could it not be? Impressive, that is. It couldn’t not be, that’s the answer to that rhetorical question – and […]
My Life – In Computer Years
Saturday, December 9, 2006
Nothing like a major milestone to throw you into a whirl of nostalgic self-reflection. Today I’m 30. 30 years old. Here is a very nerdy retrospective of the computers that made up my life…
Technical Difficulties and Brain Surgery
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Sorry about the wierdness around here folks… I’ve been away for a spot of brain surgery. The craniotomy so far has not given me any of the special gifts promised by trepanning. I’ll keep a third eye on it though. In other Mr Speaker news, while I was gone my hosting provider (smartyhost) decided to […]
Beer o’clock. Beer o’clock.
Thursday, May 12, 2005
A handy tool for tracking the time ’till that sweet, sweet end-of-week beer: Beer o’clock – the firefox extension
Playing with food
Sunday, December 26, 2004
Nutrigrain E.T, and Statle and Waldorf wasabi-peas. What more could you want for your birthday?
