Sunday, August 9, 2009

wandering in cambridge

as of today i have been in cambridge england for a week. my purpose: assist my aunt in the creation of a double bass. the week dedicated to the workshop is over; now I must find myself some things to do. This should be a relativly easy task, considering how everything around here seems to be in walking distance. I have pictures on the progress of my doublebass on facebook if you are interested at all.

various projects:

I did mention a bit about the ABC notation system and lilypond. Its been working great. I can brnig my alphasmart and my ukulele anywhere and digitize music playing in my head. Im still using vim, and I've made a bit of progress in learning c++. while I was over here, I began dabbling in latex, a typesetting application that is used often amongst the acadamia crowd. it was no huge suprise when I found out that my aunt uses this application often, and offered to show me a thing or two about how it all works. Through trial and error, I found myself quite used to the markup language style.

projects to come:

Recently, I aquired an asus eee model netbook. The thing is absolutly tiny and absolutly perfect. so what do i do? i clear it of its memory and load puppy linux on it. Because the use of the mouse is rather difficult, I have decided to attempt to learn how to use the awesome window manager to minimize mouse usage and to increase work efficiency. Wish me luck!