Sometimes I don’t understand the world. One of the things I couldn’t understand is why it is so difficult to find an online clock that is simple and can be resized. For years I would google “clock” and variations of that, and all I would get back was crappy small digital clocks on pages 80%-full …
Continue reading Test/Exam clockHah! I didn’t even make that one up: Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License. It should have been “whatever” not “what”, which kind of sucks, makes it look like an illiterate 15-year-old american came up with it. I found it because uMap (an awesome piece of software I’m sure I‘ll write about …
Continue reading WTFPLThis sewing machine came with the house I bought, and it came with a manual. But it’s missing the bobbin case. I couldn’t find any information about it, not who made it, not where to get parts, nothing. But I found someone who really wanted the manual, cause they had the machine with no manual. …
Continue reading Beaumark 2300, 3100, and 3300 sewing machine manualI feel like Microsoft hates me. It’s not just that it doesn’t care – it is going out of its way to keep me off its operating system, its ecosystem, everything it owns or controls. A few weeks ago I decided to accept the inevitable and “upgrade” from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I know …
Continue reading You try to give Microsoft a break but no…I don’t think I need add anything to this comedic manual page from my sewing machine: Too bad it doesn’t have an entry for the actual problem – missing bobbin case.. but maybe I can guess.. replace bobbin case? :)
Continue reading Awesome troubleshooting guide from a past ageWhy is it so difficult to find a simple clock that will show the time on the screen? Honestly you would think building one is rocket science, that’s how hard it is to find one online. I can never find one to show on the projector while my students are taking a test or exam, …
Continue reading Exam/test clock and timerI’ve always been interested in hardware but I’ve never learned much about it past simple analogue PCBs I made back in when I was in highschool. I am a software guy though, and specifically an open source software guy. So the name of this paper got my attention: “Towards a Functional Licence for Open Hardware”. …
Continue reading Towards a Functional Licence for Open HardwareAt Seneca we showed that the Creative Commons registry is technically doable and we wrote software to show how. Now the project needs to be taken over by another organization interested in running it. We don’t have the infrastructure at Seneca to host it. I would love to one day see Wikimedia (perhaps via Wikidata) …
Continue reading CC Registry – Next stepsIn this series: CC Registry – What it’s all about CC Registry – Architecture (this post) CC Registry – Next steps I’ll now describe the components making the registry possible. All the source code for this is open source and available from GitHub. Data Source When this goes into production – the images need to …
Continue reading CC Registry – ArchitectureIn this series: CC Registry – What it’s all about (this post) CC Registry – Architecture CC Registry – Next steps Wouldn’t it be nice if one day you could find an image online and know whether you can legally use that image and for what purpose? This is fundamentally what the Creative Commons registry …
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