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02 Jun

Make Controller with Sonar Proximity Detectors and MaxMSP

A quick video explaining a bit about the new project I’m working on.

15 Mar

PhotoSynth of Seogwipo

Here is my first attempt at using PhotoSynth. I went to an overlook point yesterday and took a LOT of pictures with the 80-400mm lens. It was soooo windy and cold! I picked the wrong day to try this. I then just ran a batch process on them to convert to JPG and then uploaded [...]

08 Mar

Photosynth Demo. Amazing

Nancy’s brother Inbo just told me about this video he saw on the TED website. It’s really an amazing technology and demonstrates clearly (to me anyway) the path ahead. I think technology is growing exponentially and there is about to be a rebirth in how all of us see the world and our places in [...]

04 Jan

New Blog Release: WordPress 2.7, Futurosity Aperio, Super Cache

So I finally finished most tweaks to my new blog and decided it was time to release it. I based the new blog look on Futurosity Aperio Prototype WordPress theme. I used most of the design structure but tweaked the overall look and feel to match my site. I had to adjust some of the [...]

31 Oct

Lightbox 2 and problem solutions

I’ve been making some code changes to this site over the past week or so. The main change I’ve made is to the gallery when you click an image to see it larger. I’ve implemented the Lightbox 2 script. It’s really quite a nice script. I did have some issues with the base code and [...]

19 Oct

BumpTop Desktop Environment

I saw this somewhere recently looking for programming API’s. I thought it looked pretty interesting. I wouldn’t be surprised to see interfaces more like this on Apple and Windows operating systems soon. If you want to get more information on this, go here: BumpTop

19 Sep

Hacking Democracy

This documentary exposes the vulnerability of computers – which count approximately 80% of America’s votes in county, state and federal elections – suggesting that if our votes aren’t safe, then our democracy isn’t safe either. I’m a programmer, this is like a “duh!” thing for me. If you are voting please use a paper ballot. [...]

07 Dec

Bull in a China Shop

Hello all. I named this entry “Bull in a China Shop” as an homage to my mom. I used this lovely phrase on Nancy today and I was amused that she had never heard it before. I said something like, “You’re like a damn bull in a china shop!”, which is just about what my [...]

17 Nov

Adobe Flash Player 9 No Sound on Mac OSX

OK, so all of a sudden my Flash player had no sound… Was it the latest Mac software update? The latest Flash player update? My web browser? My computer about to die? I HATE these kind of problems! I did some searching around and found an answer here: The answer This may help you PC [...]

15 Oct

Busy Times

It’s been a long time again since I posted. I’ve been busy with many things. I’ve spent a lot of time now reworking this website. I added too many things to mention. Nancy and I just finished redesigning the entire back-end administration area of the site. It’s so much more functional now! It still has [...]

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