iDallas!What Bill Clinton Wrote vs. What Bill Clinton Said – Politics – The Atlantic Wire.
This is really quite a nice read and gives you a lot of insight into what goes into turning a speech from a written form of communication to something more conversational and relatable.
QuNeo was the first Kickstarter project I ever funded and I just got mine in the mail a couple of weeks ago. Â I’ve only had a few hours to spend with it, but that’s been enough to get a feel for what it’s capable of and what it will do for my setup.
I play live laptop/keyboards/synths/drum machine in a rock-tronic band called Thrillouette in San Francisco. Â The setup is primarily Ableton Live on a laptop with some midi controllers plugged into it for live control. Â The controllers include a Softstep from Keith McMillen, the people who make the QuNeo, as well as an Akai MPD32. Â The QuNeo is expected to replace the MPD32 so I’m going to do a quick comparison of the two.
The Awesome New KORG Not From KORG: Raspberry-Pi Plus MS-20 Controller, Making Dreams Reality.
We recently bought a bunch of Raspberry-Pis as little gifts for our team but I didn’t take one myself… maybe I should re-think that now! Â I have one of the USB controllers being used there.
Hacker steals $250k in Bitcoins from online exchange Bitfloor | Ars Technica.
There’s been a lot of bitcoin thefts lately and while that’s probably pushing many people away from the nascent digital currency, it also shows that it’s impact on the world economy continues to grow and it’s probably here to stay.
There’s something you can learn from everyone when you pay attention. Â Watch not only what someone says, but also how they say it. Â If you disagree with someone’s point of view, there’s even more to learn.
I was in San Diego last week for the Cloudopen conference, running alongside LinuxCon. One of the evening events was at Bali Hai, which offered a great sunset view looking over the water to the city. There’s a dining room upstairs that looks out on the water. Nice spot!
It was a moody foggy morning this morning.
It was a nice morning to hang out in our garden.
When I’m playing with Legos with my son I like to build fun robots. Here’s a couple from today.
