Month: April 2009

  • Comcast, she’s at it again…

    comcast, corporates, drivebydownload, broken, tos, contracts

  • Fun with MIDI, CNC and vector maths (mid2cnc.py)

    More playing: Castlevania end credits Tetris Mario Bros. theme Update: I fixed up the script to pull (usually) proper timing from the MIDI, threw together some minimal documentation and released it to the public (see link below). Downloads mid2cnc.py, sparse documentation and samples Basically, it’s possible to compute a combination of (distance, feedrate) along an…

  • (Also: An experiment…)

    In the last post, I made the unspeakable blargger mistake of linking to an article on a news site, which means in 7 days or so, instead of said article this link will return absolute crap and/or a “Buy membership now!” nag screen. Trying to keep up with such link rot (if anyone bothered) is…

  • Cloud Computing…cirrusly? (same trash, different bag)

    So, apparently I’m not the only one to notice the mid-level marketing types in IT having a big collective nut lately about “Cloud Computing”. This week even the Wall Street Journal ragged about this nonsense on the front page. For those who don’t spend their time around mid-level IT marketing types, cloud computing is… well,…