the reality tunnel

I’ve always wanted to know how to project “stencils” on walls or sidewalks, as a lot of clubs or businesses have started to do.  After a lot of knowledge from the Chicago New Media list, I found out that these projectors are called gobo projectors.  I also found out that IKEA sold an inexpensive version [...]

This is a jQuery bookmarklet to extract an attribution string and link from a Flickr photo page. To use the bookmarklet bookmark this link or drag it to your browser’s bookmarks bar: Flickr Attribution The code is available at github. At the time that I wrote this bookmarklet, I was using the the Monochrome Author [...]

High on my list of neglected tech. projects is the Testament books to prisoners database web application.  This is the database program that projects like the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project use to track packages sent and returned and books requested in the hopes avoiding delays in delivering books to incarcerated people and to provide [...]

Often, I find myself needing to do string mangling in spreadsheets. For instance, in an Excel dump of an MS Access database, the names of institutions were sometimes written as “Foo, University of” or “Foo U”. I wanted these to be formatted as “University of Foo” and “Foo University” respectively. I may be misinformed but [...]

I found out last night that I had forgotten to turn off new blog registration on my WordPress Mu instance and that over 500 spammers had created new blogs on my site.  The admin interface allows you to bulk delete blogs but requires that you check the checkbox next to each blog to select it [...]

I finished wiring up my hacked USB game controller and made an updated version of my HID SooperLooper Controller PureData patch.  It might be a good reference for working with HID and OSC in PureData.

I’m trying to use Drupal’s webform module to make a subscription form to a Mailman mailing list.  Tracking thoughts and problems here. I like webform because it stores form responses which might be useful. Webform also lets you send e-mail on form submission and specify the sender/subject.  I was going to use this to send [...]

My parents and brother use Embarq DSL and they just got a used Wireless router. Like most folks, they either had the DSL set up for them, or did the initial configuration without understanding or remembering what they did, so I’m writing this as a reference for them, for other family tech support people working [...]

Let’s jut say you’re migrating content from a static site to a Drupal-based site.  Let’s say that you don’t want to migrate the content all at once and want to roll out the new Drupal-based site ASAP and migrate content as you’re able to.  One thing that you could do is to make your old [...]

ghing@silvertongue:~/.mozilla/firefox/imtysl65.default/Cache$ ls -lh `find . -size +1M | file -f – | grep Flash | awk -F ‘:’ ‘{ printf “%s “, $1; }’`