Mr. Speaker

Here’s a helpful little mouse-wielding tip for all you Windows users out there (Oops, “mouse” and “Windows” - there goes my geek cred.)… Did you know that you can vertically select text in some programs? Well you can, with the power of ALT + mouse!

Selecting text with a mouse is a very important computer-user skill, that enables you to capture parts of a paragraph or sentence for use in other applications.

But what if, right, you wanted to extract just the messages from the text below, and paste them somewhere else:
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Possession of low-voltage consumer electronics. A love of very noisy things. A do-it-yourself aesthetic - Do you possess these items and/or attributes? Then come join the Circuit Bending hoedown! It’s disturbing and easy! Here’s the how and why (no, actually, the how and what)…

Circuit Bending is the art of messing with the electronics inside of stuff that makes noise, in order to make new and more useful random noise. The goal is to augment gadgets, kids toys, guitar pedals and cheap synths with new knobs, buttons, switches and “body contacts” that boldly go where no manufacturer would ever be bothered going.
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3 years without even a mention of Star Wars on this nerdy blog.

That is pretty impressive.

OOooh, I’m all giddy! Moments ago I discovered today’s release from Google: Google Gears. It’s like they reverse-engineered some advanced cookie technology from a crashed web-based UFO. Or something similar.

I’m typing this post as I explore, so we’ll see how my opinions of it change from now to the end of the post - I predict I’ll be impressed, but a little wary.

Google Gears is a cross-browser extension that integrates all manner of nifty tools to allow web application providers to make their apps work off-line. There are two main aspects to the release: database and local server.
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Bug fixing web services at 8.30am on a Monday morning is not really that much fun. The first 2 coffees haven’t even started kicking in yet. And a crashing IDE doesn’t usually help the situation along either.

Usually doesn’t - but the error message returned to me today has added a slight spring to my (normally lifeless) Monday morning step:

Thank you ReSharper, you’ve given me hope for an enjoyable week ahead…

Tags: crash

Nah, I’ve got nothing.