20110420 Fixing Be There DSL issues… with a little bit of scripting

When we moved to our current DSL provider (Be There) we didn’t want to go through the pains of using the horrid provided modem, the BeBox. So we got a Netgear which has been working phenomenally well… until recently.

20110408 Unsolicited letters in the 1800s

A playful exercise containing a series of real 21st century spam e-mails received by the author and literally transcribed into paper while maintaining the ‘spam look’ aesthetics and, at the same time, embracing the ‘analog glitches’ such as ink stains or smearing that are the unavoidable consequence of using traditional media. So what’s that, you’ll [...]

20101212 Instantanea

Instantanea is my latest invention. A simple camera application for Android devices, with an emphasis on speed and ease of use. I usually go around with a pocket camera in my bag, but since I got the Nexus One I’m tending to leave the camera home and simply use the phone to take pictures. But [...]

20101126 Programmatically building drawables

There’s something that really bothers me and it’s doing things that a computer should do. One of these is saving different versions of drawables, in low, medium and high resolutions, for the drawables-ldpi, drawables-mdpi and drawables-hdpi folders respectively. Coincidentally, I found a couple of weeks ago that the wonderful Inkscape accepts command line parameters and [...]

20101103 Capturing and replaying a GPS track

The capturer My Tracks was OK-ish to start with, but I wanted something which recorded all events–My Tracks only records a segmented, simplified approximation, which is useless for replicating/simulating real tracks at home with the emulator. So I wrote a simple Android application that dumps all captured GPS events into an XML file in the [...]