Reading

Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling

Reading

Prelude To Dune - House Atreides by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

rapid serial visual presentation

"Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) is a method of displaying information (generally text) using a limited space in which each piece of information is displayed briefly in sequential order."... from wikipedia
Here is a simple rsvp reader written using Processing. Processing neatly hides the syntactic ugliness of Java and provides an event based loop and lots of useful functions for doing stuff. It also provides wrappers around the jar files for linux,mac and windows.

rsvp processing source
rsvp app packages linux , mac (I haven't tested this. My LC575 is not powerful enough for osx :-( ) , windows

Cobolt DP105 spec file for st2205tool

libst2205 and phack allow mini picture frames to be used as displays for lcd4linux, mplayer etc. The Cobolt DP105 mini picture frame I have doesn't seen all that common out in netland but in any case I followed the instructions in the "newhack.txt" and produced this spec file, put it in a directory as instructed and ran "assembleme". The hackfw.sh script then patched the firmware and it worked, yay.


;Spec-file for Cobolt DP105.
;Please keep the way the adresses are entered ($ to indicate a hex number,
;adresses in 4 digits) intact or the hackfw.sh script won't work anymore.
;Adresses here refer to file-adresses; in runtime these are loaded $4000
;bytes higher but that's accounted for in the hack-code itself.

CMP_VAR1=$037A
CMP_VAR2=$037B
PATCH_AT=$2DD7
EMPTY_AT=$39E7
SEND_CSW=$2C9F
LEN0=$36c
LEN1=$36d
LEN2=$36e
LEN3=$36f
CONF_XRES=128
CONF_YRES=128
CONF_BPP=24
CONF_PROTO=0

CTRTYPE=0 ;PCF8833
OFFX=0
OFFY=0

Reading

Lila by Robert M. Pirsig

Reading

The Inheritors by William Golding

Happy Towel Day

Happy Towel Day

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels...

"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; more ... (see also the bbc )