Designed by Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu, I love the sounds that this sculpture makes. It reminds me of the first Alien movie or 2001 a Space Odyssey. This is one of four sculptures commissioned in East Lancashire, England; this one near Burnley.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Welcome to Free Geek
This is a great non-profit in Portland Oregon. I am volunteering there in a couple of weekends. Watch the video to know the details. The basic idea is; take in used computers and recycle or re-purpose them. Re-purposing them means that members of the community that don't have a computer, can volunteer some time and earn a machine, as well as, be taught how to use it.
They also share in the open-source philosophy so all of the machines are loaded with Ubuntu.
See their site at www.freegeek.org and if you are in Portland go check out the Thrift store or volunteer.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Head First
As you may have noticed the posts have been few the last week. I recently purchased a book called Head First HTML With CSS & XHTML and have thrown myself into it during my spare time.
The Head First series from O'Reilly is fantastic. The guide is easy to use and chock full of great exercises. There are also resources online to download.
If you are new to HTML I would suggest this book and (if you're on a MAC)TextWrangler is a great text editor. It colors your code automatically so it is easier to see what you are doing and if you made a mistake.
I am going to continue working with this book for the next month or so, but I will try to maintain as many posts here as I can. Who knows, maybe I'll even tweak the code on my Blog.
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