20th Century
Happy Birthday, Ruby!
Above photo: My ruby laser with a ‘mirror alignment laser’ just off to the right hand side of the photo. A small amount of smoke in the air makes the alignment laser-beam visible. In the [more…]
Technology
19th Century
Sit Down At Your Computer
QWERTY – Why? Sit down at your computer (or typewriter) and type a few lines. You can work out your speed and efficiency fairly easily – you have a rough knowledge of where the keys [more…]
Arts
In Depth MIDI File Operations in C#
Download source code from GitHub Prologue We all have a lot of time on our hands right now, and some of you cunts need to #learntocode. As such, I’m presenting content like this from time [more…]
Arts
How I built an evil, far-right, nationalist news aggregator
The original idea for therightup.news came from a conversation with a politically left-leaning friend about a year ago. While we’re worlds apart in our politics, we found some common ground in a shared view that [more…]
15th Century
Disintermediation
My first job was as a graduate trainee for a merchant bank in the City in the late 1980s and among the many buzzwords that the Slick Willies of that profession used to bandy about [more…]
21st Century
Pandora’s Bug
How long ago it seems! But it is barely four years since I was a senior researcher at Porton Down, sitting on a shiny chair at a varnished desk and tapping the delicate keyboard of [more…]
Computing
El Cnutador’s Auto Responsive Seeing Eye
Introduction I have always been interested in image processing since my Computer Science and subsequent employment in document management systems. For my final year project, I failed in the ultimate aim simply because back then [more…]
20th Century
Callsign Revlon
On 25th October 1994 29 year old US Navy Lieutenant Kara Hultgreen was killed whilst attempting to land on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Pacific Ocean. The case remains highly controversial to [more…]
Engineering
Making A Ruby Laser – Part Five
Melting a hole through steel: The above image needs a little explanation! The Doc messed up his camera settings and under exposed the image. So I loaded it into Gimp and played with the curves [more…]