Lego Christmas ornaments

haven't done this before,

google turns up quite a few, including commercial sets.

tuxpaint with wiimote

no pictures yet, I need practice:

using the utils and x driver that installed from fedora repo;

using instructions from this ubuntu doc page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CWiiD

wiimote on linux for mythtv

Links:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-wiimote-via-bluetooth/

http://www.benjiegillam.com/mythpywii-installation/

silly with bands of rubber

and some glue

Processing.org

Oh no!
yet another really cool tool that robs me of sleep ...

XOpup 5.1.1

got XOpup-1.0_RC3.tar.gz

running on the old XO 1.0;

works great!

much faster than the recent update to 10.1.2 of the default sugar os

took a few minutes to get the wireless working, but now is running great!

Can watch jumpy youtube videos at 240 resolution out of the box.
Good for lectures, like the TED talks, not so much for things needing smooth animation.

Need to see if I can get the VLC pup installed, then can stream my MythTV...

scribe vs skywriter

google vs mozilla

scribe

vs

bespin/skywriter


code vs search/write?

Flurb

http://www.flurb.net/

Audio books for DSi

http://librivox.org/

via ffmpeg

Locks! Canals!

Just returned from the Rideau Canal, and theTrent-Severn Waterway

on the second, a must see is the Peterborough Lift Lock

Coffee Beaker

actually a french press by bodum:






http://www.bodum.com/int/en-us/shop/detail/10357-16/

Hydro Blackout maps

ok, summer has arrived.
Rolling blackouts may occur:

Toronto map:
http://www.torontohydro.com/sites/electricsystem/PowerOutages/Pages/OutageMap.aspx

Ontario map:
http://www.hydroone.com/stormcenter/

Demand Curve:
http://www.theimo.com/imoweb/siteShared/demand_price.asp?sid=ic

Here Comes Science DVD!

recent gift:

They Might be Giants: Here Comes Science

recommended !


http://www.amazon.ca/Here-Comes-Science-W-Dvd/dp/B002FKZ4UO

Kindle in Canada

experimental web on edge works!

checked gmail from outside the house...

also the free "classics"

so downloaded:
war of the worlds
the time machine
around the world in 80 days

for $0.00

Lego instruction sheet archive!

http://us.service.lego.com/en-US/BuildingInstructions/default.aspx

current link;

Like Tag test

like tag!:

facebook is one of the non google sites I actually do look at ;)

why no "apple knife"?

Slicing some Pairs and Apples...

"This is a paring knife" ...

(Eating fruit for breakfast with my 6 year old, who is taking French at school,
so we often talk about basic things in both English and French.)

DSi for ebooks and comics

dscomics and wattpad work quite well on the DSi

Morning music

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/

Integrated Peripherals

it is bike time of the year;

noticed that now the same manual tire pump I have has been "upgraded" to now include a pressure gauge.

This is very useful, even for the kids' bikes, and even baby carriages;

progress!

Hyperbolic Crocheting

Crocheting and Hyperbolic Geometry

Found this link, and just as my daughter is learning to crochet...

Wii - mail + gmail

the "+" is the key....

FYI:
you can send email from a Wii that is internet enabled.

email looks like: w{16 digits}@wii.com

you have to authorize external email addresses using the interface on the Wii ...

here's the "+"

gMail has the alias feature:

"your.username+any.alias@gmail.com"

so you can "authorize" your single gmail account as multiple addresses on the Wii;

and so will appear as distinct addressbook entries.

I've chosen my.username+wii.name@gmail.com

Why would you want to do this?

the "envelopes" on the Wii have the name of the sender; so a single gmail account (parent) can send emails to specific users (kids).

Panoramas on Linux

Hugin

looks like there is a windows version also;
I'm using the default one from the fedora repos.

Plants vs Zombies on Wine

Plants vs. Zombies works on wine.

Plants vs. Zombies trial

Dinosaur Train on the XO

MythTV -> vlc -> XO - vlc


installed vlc on the XO-1

and now can stream full screen, MythTV recorded programs to the XO-1

Of course the first to try was Dinosaur Train.

need to hack MythWeb so I can start the stream with a click...

MythDora

just came across: http://mythdora.com

so if I blow up my current fedora+mythtv system, I can be back and running REALLY fast ;)

MeeGo ?

MeeGo ?

Too little too late: Intel+Nokia vs. Apple vs Google vs Microsoft, or perhaps better than them all?

Wondering on the Android vs. MeeGo, which one will be more open?

I assume will be a question of investment; All these companies have very deep pockets, so could see some interesting stuff.

Intel could release an interesting compiler tool-chain, and Nokia a telecom stack (chain? what are the proper metaphors here?), if they open up/access their hardware groups...

we do live in interesting times!

Fedora at the office

got to do work with Fedora, in the office!

Fedora 12 has changed how we do installs.

music writing software on linux

looking at Denemo to create pages of music for practice.

had to re-install on Fedora 12

Picasa Linux on Fedora 12

failed to connect to internet to upload

found others with similar problem

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?tid=6eb9c7d06d5aa10c&hl=en

now wondering if I should try picasa 3.6 ?

hmmmm

Fedora 12

seems oddly cleaner; somehow clearer.

did have a couple of issues with mythtv ...

seems the default selinux settings caused mythweb to fail to access the mythtv back end.

Bonus!
the pvr card (reasonably new) just worked! did not have to dig up the cd with the firmware.

XO war driving?

 

this screen is simply the XO sitting on my dresser...

shows how dense our wifi networks are becoming...

google wave seems to be most like facebook... pages?

so far my main use case for google wave, is similar to facebook:

each wave is an individual group newsfeed;
sort of as if I had many facebooks, not just one...

chat with people, arrange lunch, share pics/docs/ideas...


so could facebook create "pages" rather than waves and create a similar structure?

each "page" could be personalized to a specific group of friends/ time period / event / subset of information....