Spotify native client for Fedora no more – alien to the rescue?
After mistakenly removing the Spotify native client a few days ago, I found myself stumbling through the dark and running into a brick wall – the rpm repo had disappeared! It seems that the guys at Spotify had been working on the Linux client in their spare time and theContinue Reading
Little Green Men
Having just finished the first pass at a single site xml RSS feed reader for Android, I can say that the world of mobile technology is stunningly impressive. To draw a quick comparison, less than a year ago I was using a phone (albeit overpowered for lack of paying forContinue Reading
Using remote servers from KDE with Konqueror
Giving KDE a whirl, one of the first things I found that I miss from gnome is the ability to right click and add a remote server location to the desktop (or wherever you are).
Using Drupal Blog Editor for Android
This is pretty impressive. I might want to check on extending the capabilities, depending on what Blog API can do. The app does allow taxonomy, so I suspect there is a significant amount of extensibility based on cck fields.
Discussion of Allen Barber’s article “The Norman Conquest and the Media”
A tour of the historical literature which shaped the modern English presentation of the Norman Conquest.
The Rhetoric of Despotism by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
Following the expulsion of the last Frankish stronghold at Acre in 1291, Europe considered the Levant and North Africa little more than a highway to the economic prosperity of South Asia epitomized by Bonaparte�s campaign at the conclusion of the eighteenth century. Understanding the European view of the Ottoman stateContinue Reading
Resources from the Thesis
A portion of the works sited from my undergrad thesis Saladin’s Historiographic Supremacy: The Usurpation of Nur ad-Din’s Revolutionary Holy Warfare
On ‘following orders’
The book Ordinary Men is an apt read these days. Reading various posts and articles (from both the objecting citizen and responsible agent) relating to support or abuse of individuals participating in otherwise civil liberty-infringing or otherwise ethically questionable actions, it seems like we’re toying with the gray area inContinue Reading
A Python Morse Code translator
A quick script in case you need to need to ask what God hath wrought. Link to GitHub Project #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #convert a string of input text to morse code import serial #morse code array morseDict = { ‘a’:’13’, ‘b’:’3111′, ‘c’:’3131′, ‘d’:’311′, ‘e’:’1′, ‘f’:’1131′, ‘g’:’331′, ‘h’:’1111′,Continue Reading