Some interesting thoughts on the meaning of a PhD from “Nathaniel Worther” the pseudonym of an engineer hunting for a job these days: Chronicle Careers: A Change of Heart
Read more →I have been thinking about buying a new video camera. As I start to get very tired of working with dv-tapes, I was curious to check out some of the new hd cameras. Seems like it is still a bit early, as I guess the market will change next year, although this JVC GZ-MC500 camcorder [...]
Read more →I think Kurt Ralske puts it very well in “The Pianist: A Note on Digital Technique” “For the classical pianist, the tedium of endless hours of practicing scales takes on an aura of nobility; it’s a virtuous, character-building activity. Instead of practicing scales, the digital artist learns software and hardware, learns programming languages, learns the [...]
Read more →The MIT Media Lab: $100 Laptop aims at making an affordable laptop for poor countries: “The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, full-color, full-screen laptop that will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data. This rugged laptop will be WiFi-enabled and have [...]
Read more →I finally got around to download and try ChucK : Concurrent, On-the-fly Audio Programming Language by Ge Wang. Feels a bit strange, but I guess I need to work a little bit more with it. It says something about graphical tools in the readme, and I’m looking forward to that.
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