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Craftivism workshop

chris — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:42:02 +0000

As part of the Craftivism project at the Arnolfini, I’m taking part in a workshop with GOTO10 called /mode + v noise. Using Python and Supercollider, we’re gonna be making our own software sound synthesiser and chat bots that will be used to manipulate and turn chat on an IRC channel into a music score.

Random hacks of kindness

chris — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:38:02 +0000

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo put aside their differences to build tools for emergency workers – http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10398073-245.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20. The site for the project is here.

Oh yes!!!!

chris — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:38:59 +0000

Found out today that I passed and am now an MSc. So to celebrate a quick trip to Mr Bun was called for.

International artist

chris — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:11:12 +0000

The International Digital Art Festival is being held at National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria and free:dyne has been included! Full details of the festival can be found here

All finished

chris — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:49:28 +0000

I’ve just submitted my thesis so after 2 years, my masters is all done and dusted.

Thesis: Free Lunch?

Project: free:dyne

Bad sectors

chris — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:28:05 +0000

Bloody brilliant, now I’ve got bad sectors in the middle of ubuntu – why couldn’t it have been XP

lose/lose

chris — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:58:46 +0000

Really cool and scarey game. lose/lose is based on the old school top-down shoot-em up but the aliens in the game are based on a random file on your computer. You kill an alien and the file is deleted but if you’re killed then the game is deleted. Really wanna play it but feeling a bit scared – might have to borrow someone else’s computer

Scarey times

chris — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:35:48 +0000

Had a rough coupla days recently. Grub went bad on me and wouldn’t let me boot into ubuntu or windoze but i’ve managed to eventually sort that out and am now able to make isos again. And then overnight I get an email telling me that my site has been taken offline due to unusual activity. All I did was install Wordpress for the supporting website to the project. Not sure if the unusual activity referred to the Wordpress files or the fact that I was finally installing something new – bit cheeky if the latter! Anyways, got an apology from them and if you can read this then I’m still up and running.

Hmmmm

chris — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:31:29 +0000

Trimming down the base distro is proving to be a bit of a pig coz everytime I remove something I need I have to do the full install. I don’t really want to have to suggest that users have to have a larger usb drive but I might not have much choice as time is running out. AND, despite it supporting wireless, it looks as though the computer needs to be connected up by a wire initially. Still, at least it ain’t raining

Size does matter

chris — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:37:46 +0000

I’ve had some feedback and it’s not good although not completely bad. My distro won’t fit on a 4GB pen drive which is the smallest I was aiming for. Admittedly I haven’t really gone thru all of the base distro’s setup so it was a bit of a rush job. Guess I better get onto that pretty damn sharpish.