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Warning: serious geekery here. I’m posting this for my own future reference.
if you’re behind a firewall but want to use a service from the world wide web…. ssh to the rescue! Or is it ssh is the curse of IS admins? Well it is their own fault for thinking that blocking port X outbound is going to stop me from using service Y on port Z.
SSH TUNNEL
If you can connect to the remote server using SSH, then we can setup
a secure tunnell through SSH for your POP communications. The tunnell connects
a port on your local machine ( say 1234 ) to the POP3 port ( port 110 )
of your remote server.
$ ssh -P -f -L 1234:remoteserver:110 user@remoteserver sleep 25

Turn down the volume on your computer first!
Man, this is really sad. Here is some performance art in response to a letter I recieved from Mrs. Ulziikhutag Janchiv, Mutual Trust. She is in desperate need of someone to share her sum of$27.6Million (twenty-seven million six hundred thousand U.S. Dollars).
Turn down the volume on your computer first!
Please send your emails to her

For some reason I thought that an Apple ][ Emulator written in java would be useful. It turns out, it isn’t really quite so useful. Maybe an Apple ][e emulator would be, but plain old Apple ][ is kind of useless, actually.
But, not wanting my efforts to be for naught though, here is how far I got on this silly quest:

Try this: First hit the reset button. For some reason it doesn’t boot on the first try. It ought to say “Apple ][” and give you a “]” prompt.
Click somewhere inside the black part of the applet. This makes sure your keypresses will be received by the applet.
Then type 10 PRINT "HI" and press enter.
Then type RUN . It should say “HI”. W00T.
This applet was not originally written by me. Applelet comes from here. I just patched it up. It was missing the ROM, the charrom.bin and a boot disk. I dug through other emulators until I found the missing pieces. AppleWin uses a slightly different format for the charrom, so I modified Applelet to use that file (sort of). You can do a diff of the source from my applet (found inside the JAR file) with Hugh’s if you’re curious.
Also, note that we are using Apple’s actual ROM from an Apple 2 computer. This may be a copyright violation, and if Apple takes offense at that I am sincerely sorry. I just thought it was cool.

So we made a train out of gingerbread!
The Ginger Bread Circus Train
The End. By Andy.

Adobe Blogs
Did you know Adobe has blogs? I bet you wonder if I have one.
No.
I don’t think they’re interested in my kind of blogging there. It’s more for marketing folks… or “high level” stuff. Some of it is pretty interesting, for example, one post talks about people who take pictures by throwing their cameras in the air.
Or have you ever heard of a “plenoptic camera”? It is a 4-dimensional camera. Yeah, it allows you to refocus really blurry pictures.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2005/11/plenoptic_cameras.html
No, you can’t afford one.

And we even have high ceilings in our house 🙂

Tonight’s games caught on tape!
Please allow several minutes for the movie to load!

In 2002, Adobe tried to beat Macromedia at its own game when Adobe release LiveMotion. I thought I’d play with LiveMotion 2.0 to see how it compared to Macromedia Flash. I actually like it a lot, because there are some parts of the app that remind me of AfterEffects (besides the intercap in the name).
Anyhow, here is a silly movie I made with some of the old MGROE logos.

In case anyone is wondering how I did it, here is a free Inkle weaving pattern for making a simple lobster.

The threading couldn’t be easier

(H) W G G G G W B B B B B B B B B B W W W W W W W W W W W B B B B B B B B B B W G G G G W
(O)W G G G G W R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R W G G G G W

The orchestra gave a concert a few weeks ago. It was recorded, and I was really pleased, especially with this track from Schindler’s list.