News and Notes
AlertSite to PagerDuty
May 28 2012, 4:58PM
From the "had an itch" desk: A simple tool to translate between to APIs. For users of both AlertSite and PagerDuty there's no ideal integration alternative. AlertSite will notify with an HTTP POST, and PagerDuty's API will accept POST data, but the formats are incompatible. This is a ... _ more
Cronline (Cron visualization)
Aug 10 2011, 9:06AM
I recently hacked up a project I'm calling 'Cronline' and I'm hoping to get some feedback on further development. Motivation We run a large number of crontab scripts on different systems, under different user accounts. We see the mail that results from most jobs, and get reports when ... _ more
Test Server Puzzle
Feb 2 2011, 11:14PM
I recently had the opportunity to rebuild our test server system for QA testing at work, and I found a few solutions that I thought worth sharing. The finished system centers around a custom console for reserving test servers, launching repository checkouts and/or database reloads, and viewing a short ... _ more
Virtual State of Jefferson Tech
Apr 20 2010, 10:55PM
My collaboration with Ethan Ham, Virtual State of Jefferson will be going up in Ashland at the Schneider Museum of Art next month. I wanted to describe a little about the tech work involved because I had fun, and it might be useful to others. The piece is a router ... _ more
jQuery Simple Multi-Select
Sep 10 2009, 9:37PM
v 1.1.2 Jun 06 2012 This plugin replaces a standard multi-select with a simplified version that doesn't require ctrl+click to select multiple options. Each click simply toggles the given option on or off. The original multi-select is hidden, and a replacement is built. The original multi-select ... _ more
Appengine and handle_entity
Jun 17 2009, 12:52AM
Just spent a frustrating evening with Google AppEngine - and I want to document the problem I had in case it helps others. I wanted to upload data to AppEngine from a CSV file - however the values in said file needed some adjustments (they don't directly correspond to the fields ... _ more
Ubiquity Click
May 19 2009, 9:01PM
Ubiquity seems like a great project. However, in my case, I've tried it twice and just haven't managed to fold it into my workflow. I'm not entirely sure why that is - but part of it has to do with my aversion to using the mouse more than ... _ more
A Stream or a Reservoir
Mar 6 2009, 1:19PM
Here's a question that keep coming up lately: In the context of data flows, what should I treat like a stream, and what should I treat like a reservoir? To explain what I mean by example: my email inbox is a reservoir. Although data streams in, it's clearly ... _ more
Lost Images Recovered
Feb 25 2009, 2:13PM
This lifehacker post about a DiskDigger reminded me that I wanted to document a recent close call with a bunch of photos we took on vacation. I was running Ubuntu with xfce, and when the SD card on our camera filled up, I wanted to transfer the photos off. Well ... _ more
Tantalum Memorial 1st Prize
Feb 17 2009, 2:32PM
During ZERO1 last summer I (along with several other grad students) collaborated with Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji to create the Superlight version of Tantalum Memorial. I heard a few days ago that Tantalum Memorial won first prize at Transmediale! Links: Transmediale 2009 winners pagewriteup Thomas Asmuth did for ArtShift. writeup by ... _ more
Technology Shapes Space
Jan 14 2009, 12:43PM
We got a Neuros Link last week. It's basically an Ubuntu box with HDMI out and a handy wireless keyboard. I want to say a few things about how it has changed the space in front of the TV, and then I have some comments about the Neuros Link ... _ more
ELO 08: Day 3
Jun 22 2008, 4:26AM
Reading Digital Media Laura Borràs Castanyer and Joan Elies Adell both from Hermeneia discussed how the operation of reading works in the light of new and changing technologies. As in other presentations they brought up the contrast between 'surface' reading, or 'sufing' the text instead of immersion in a text ... _ more
ELO 08: Day 2
Jun 21 2008, 6:14AM
Ok, it's been about 3 weeks since the conference, but I'm just now getting the time to review my notes and post... Transliteracy Sue Thomas started with a discussion on transliteracy. Defined simply as "the ability to read, write, and interact across a range of platforms, tools and ... _ more
Artshift article
Jun 8 2008, 9:20PM
Sally Sumida has written an article on me and my Netbody project, showing at the ICA for a few more days, and Erin Goodwin-Guerrero published it on ARTSHIFT San Jose. My thanks to both of them. _ more
ELO 08: workshops
May 30 2008, 1:43AM
Mark Amerika presented the opening workshop "Remix Writing and Postproduction Art" this morning. He began with this Vito Acconci quote about interdisciplinary practices. Later in the morning this led into an interesting question about using the term 'literature' for practices that are mostly audio/visual. No one seemed inclined to ... _ more
ELO Conference
May 28 2008, 5:10PM
I'm in Vancouver, WA for the Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2008, Narrative Units will be part of the Media Arts Show. In addition, I'll be blogging my notes on the conference sessions I attend, a lot of interesting topics discussed ... To keep up with my notes, watch the ... _ more
Emerging Artist Grant
May 14 2008, 10:20AM
ZERO1 officially announced the Emerging Artist Grant recipients for this year's festival yesterday. Among them are myself, Bruce Gardner, and Sarah Lowe. Bruce and I will be working on the visualization aspect of Urban Observatory in collaboration with Michael Herrman. More details to come... busy month ahead! _ more
Netbody in MFA Show at ICA
May 5 2008, 11:55PM
My MFA thesis project Netbody V2 is finished and on display at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art through June 14th. Please stop by if you get a chance... _ more
Switch v24 Article
Feb 26 2008, 7:34PM
The new version of Switch is up. Switch is the online journal produced by my grad program CADRE. I've written an article called Re-Purpose Broken. _ more
Pyglet + PyCairo 'Hello World'
Feb 22 2008, 4:10PM
I've been excited about using Pyglet for all it's nice timing/windowing/event handling. And then I got excited about the nice graphics programming from PyCairo.I couldn't find any examples of the two combined, so, with the help of this PyGame example I munged the following ... _ more
Old Paintings
Aug 12 2007, 4:53PM
I spent my entire undergrad and several years after that pretty seriously dedicated to canvas painting. There had always been a kind of formalism I was interested in that had to do with systematic arrangements and relationships. In early work this took the form as simplified narrative images with figures ... _ more
Color Space
Aug 12 2007, 3:58PM
I'll be posting older projects here just to get them documented in my new site. This one is from May of 2005: I became interested in exploring the area of augmented reality as well as the transformation of space through color and light. I started with a 3d visualization ... _ more
Starry Starry
Aug 7 2007, 3:41PM
Starry, Starry Night: Art & Astronomy Slumber Party is taking place this Friday night. I helped Thomas and Wayne a (very) little on getting Thomas' proposal figured out. Should be fun - let me know if you're interested in coming out. _ more
My Quickly Robot
Jul 15 2007, 5:06PM
Thomas got us all together to build a quickly robot. I'm pretty happy with mine, at least I didn't solder-destroy anything. It needs some tuning though, but on one side at least it definitely follows light. Thanks to Thomas for organizing and leading us through it... _ more
Surface at MACLA
Jul 5 2007, 7:03PM
The collaborative piece Surface I did with Sheau is still up at MACLA. It comes down July 14th - if you get a chance to stop by, please do. _ more
New Site
Jul 4 2007, 6:06PM
I've reworked my site! The design is only slightly different, but I've added a news section with an RSS feed. I'll be busy debugging and adding older content for a few days. Please let me know if you find anything that's not as it should be... _ more
PHP Quicklink Script
Jan 26 2007, 12:00PM
Ok, so you may know about Firefox quick searches, which is very nice. But keeping them updated on multiple machines, or new machines can be a pain. So, after using quick searches for a while, I switched to yubnub, which does something similar, but it's a social app. With ... _ more
SxSW Visualization
Jun 15 2005, 12:00PM
Java applet here... Each square represents a transcript from the SXSW conference. The brightness of the lines connecting boxes indicates the number of words shared ("noise words" are filtered out). The distance to the center of the visualization indicated the total number of connections the text shares. The closer to ... _ more