Pete Hindle

Happily minding somebody else’s business, I was filling a bug report on Processing when my laptop finally up’d and died. I’ve been expecting it for a while though, but I thought I had a while left yet.
I’d recommend reading the bug report for a clearer picture on what happened.

Note: I wrote this with a giant stinking cold, and I seem to have left it slightly unfinished. For better reviews of Mashed, see the links at the bottom of the post.

As promised, here is my review-cum-grizzle at Mashed08. This is prompted by the excellent Guardian piece here which you should go and read, as [...]

Books

Most of Saturday’s Guardian (Family, Travel, Review, Work sections unread, News, Magazine, Money, Guide sections read)
A-N magazine for April (which I only found out after reading for a bit)
A-N magazine collection ‘Production Lines‘
A copy of “To Kill a Mockingbird”, by Harper Lee
An unread copy of “Why Do Buses Come in Threes?”, by Rob Eastaway and [...]

How annoying woul it b if you ouln’t writ proprly?
Th answr, as I’m fining out, is ‘vry’. For som rason, a row of kys on my laptop has just stopp working. I’v alraly tri to tak it apart an put it bak togthr again, with th hlp of my goo frin Brian ggr, but to [...]

FastSlowReverse
EDIT Seems to be some sort of clash between vimeo.com and the rest of the universe in regards to video hosting. Anyway, go here to see the video in a player (which should be easy to embed but it’s not) and read about why I’ve only made one arts-related video in the past year.

Warning: this is even more boring than my last few posts, and is only for the education of nerd-types
I decided to update my laptop to Leopard, OS X 10.5, as I was coming across more and more software that I wanted to use. In particular, I wanted to start using the versioning system Git, which [...]