A test from Obsidian
Testing being able to blog directly from Obsidian. s = ‘And testing some coding’ if s == ‘meh’: print("Wot?") else: print("Super reggie")
Logic Midi Routing
Having spent a day of experimentation yesterday with the MIDI Environment in Logic and the Audio/MIDI setup app, I think I can safely say – they are not clear. Yes, that’s the polite way. So my current approach whilst I continue to experiment is http://www.subtlesoft.square7.net/MidiPipe.html – an awesome little app which appears to do everything I need for the moment. Would still like to try and handle this completely within Logic though.
Logic Pro X – Language
I have decided to ditch Ableton after many years and switch to Logic. It’s been a mixture of pleasure and pain and still early days. The MIDI routing, which I rely on extensively, is still a constant mystery. Whilst in another world of pain today I reached for the online help and found it had switched to French. Various Apple documents didn’t help and others I was pointed to didn’t exist. The solution was as…
Site update
I have moved all the sites to new versions of WordPress. Keeping in mind the tiny amounts of blogging I do, this was more of an exercise in learning about the latest developments in WordPress and installing a LAMP server from scratch than anything else. The old site content is still here but is missing the images. There’s a static copy at https://old.zobbo.org enjoy
Buddhism
Travelling to Japan is a long and very tedious journey. I have a habit of packing lots of things in my hand luggage to keep me entertained and then only using one of them. As was the case this time when I spent the entire journey reading on my Kindle “Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment” by Robert Wright. It was a fascinating read and I intend to get…
It’s been a while
Amazing how quickly times goes by. And here I am having returned from Japan yet again and a little more alive than I was maybe. Still trying to break out of ruts. How can we do that?
Emacs Prelude with Cygwin
Some notes on installing Emacs prelude with Cygwin. To quote the prelude website at http://batsov.com/prelude/ “Emacs Prelude has the goal to ease the initial Emacs setup process and to provide you with a much more powerful and productive experience than the one you get out of the box. “ Although I’ve been using Emacs for nearly fourteen years now I decided to ditch the masses of cruft that had built up over the years and launch…
The joy of legacy Zope/ZODB systems
I have a large number of legacy systems that – when all other avenues fail – become my responsibility to sort out. Some of those are very old Zope systems written by others and which never fail to reduce me to tears. This morning I came across some particularly good design decisions which I thought I’d share. Yes, that ‘good’ is sarcasm. First of all let’s remember that Zope, by default, uses the ZODB. In…
Python – comparing floats and decimals
No matter how old I get, I keep being bitten by the joys of having some data as floats and some as decimals. [cc lang=”python”] ipdb> value Decimal(‘1.473’) ipdb> from_value 1.473 ipdb> value < from_value True [/cc] because ... [cc lang="python"] ipdb> from decimal import * ipdb> Decimal(from_value) Decimal(‘1.4730000000000000870414851306122727692127227783203125’) [/cc] So work out what accuracy you need and do something like [cc lang=”python”] from_value = Decimal(from_value).quantize(Decimal(‘0.0001’)) [/cc]
Samsung Galaxy Note – Best phone I have ever owned
[shashin type=”photo” id=”4″ size=”medium” columns=”max” order=”user” position=”left”] Some time ago, a meeting was held in Samsung regarding a new product. The design team already knew what they wanted to do. A phone, similar to their successful Galaxy II S. A big phone sporting a 5.3″ screen. In that meeting (or probably meetings) there was probably a lot of worry. Others had done similar and they had all failed. The Dell Streak didn’t set the world…