eMagic Unitor8 and Windows XP

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Originally posted over at TEFOSAV

How big a MIDI chain is too big a MIDI chain? If after chaining a set of instruments together you can play a note, go away get a cup of tea, and come back to hear the note being played on the last instrument in the chain it may be a tad long. At this point you probably want to be able to send a signal to all of your instruments in parallel, and this is where the Unitor8 comes in… its an 8in 8out MIDI box which supports SMPTE timecode and connects to a MAC or Windows PC via firewire or USB. The company that made the Unitor8, eMagic was absorbed into Apple and no longer supports the Unitor8 for Windows.

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Ah’m on Bandcamp

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There once was a site called TEFOSAV that my younger self contributed music to in the dark days before making games sucked my time from me. TEFOSAV is in the throes of being resurrected, and as part of the process I’ve put some of my earlier output online to sanity check our publishing process, you can have a listen on Bandcamp and give me some feedback. Have a look here, http://funcrandm.bandcamp.com/.

TaskFactory Update Q1-2012

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Time creeps inexorably onwards, and we as mortals move ever closer to our final entropic end, so like Buckminster Fuller I’m pushing towards enjoying and doing as much in life as my personality and background is capable of… My TaskFactory pattern (I’m a C++ programmer btw) contains a list of items I’d like to finish before the years end and Apophosis hits the planet, or the Sun eats us or George Lucas loses it and kills all the humans after he finally wakes up and realises what the prequels are actually like (“Jar Jar!!! NooooOOOO!!!”) This has been foretold by the Mayans and backed up by teh Internets so it must come to pass. In my case, terminal fecundity may also start to take its toll over the next 10 years, so another thing to add to my list of woe.

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Homeopath sues blogger after Cancer patient dies

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Originally tweeted by Ben Goldacre, a cancer patient that was seeing a homeopath who claimed they would cure them suffered metastasis and a terminal prognosis and posted an open letter online. The homeopath took it quite badly and is attempting to get a blogger that posted about the aftermath to take down any links to the case. The original post by the patient can be found here. Have a read of the case here:

http://www.danbuzzard.net/journal/francine-scrayen-sends-me-a-cease-and-desist.html