Joe's Blog

There are a number of ways one can acquire bees.

A couple of boxes arrived for me at work.

When I visited my parents at Christmas I re-discovered a book.

I bank with the Co-Operative bank.

Snow today.

I am overwhelmed by all this.

People do boat-build blogs.

New year reflection led me to the conclusion that perhaps having email, twitter, facebook and the Internet at large following me round in my pocket all the time wasn’t a great idea, so I thought I’d get a phone that wasn’t afraid to revisit issues of self…

In an attempt to quickly find almost exact melodic duplicates (give or take a note or two) in the folktunefinder.com algorithm I tried comparing the Euclidean distance between their interval histograms.

Flood water waist deep.

Here are the slides from my talk last night.

There’s something very odd going on with the comments on the Oxford Mail site.

O Toaster!

A fascinating bug in Adobe Photoshop.

I have recently been on the job hunt (and come out of it with a new job, thanks for asking).

Last night I dealt with the heat the only way I know how.

A quick talk, the same content as given at Oxford Geek Nights in November 2012.

With the help of @domeheid and @gasmanic.

An event to celebrate the second International Bagpipe Day!

I was scratching my head for a bit over this one.

OxLork, a band of musicians in possession of computers (and, I hope, an increasing knowledge of how to make new things with them) had a gig at the Ashmolean Museum on Friday.

Traditional tunes have a particular shape to them.

I am hosting all of the OxLork ChucK lecture code samples here: https://github.com/afandian/oxlork-lecture-code

It seems like everyone’s got their own idea about how to implement a fairly standard commonplace widget.

(punchline: give up it won’t work but it’s an interesting story)

Abingdon road still under a bit of water, but it’s now receding.

Today, Tuesday.

A short lunchtime stroll on Monday after a weekend of flooding.

Give me a cup of tea and a dressing gown and I’m made.

I came home last night and was just about able to make it in wellington boots on tip-toe.

Download the slides for the ‘Unit Testing in Go’, a microslot (exactly 5 minutes!)

This is number 4 in my series of lectures in music technology and ChucK to the Oxford Laptop Orchestra.

This is number 3 in my series of lectures in music technology and ChucK to the Oxford Laptop Orchestra.

This is number 2 in my series of lectures in music technology and ChucK to the Oxford Laptop Orchestra.

According to Ian Betteridge, ‘Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no’ But is this long-standing principle of journalism now dead?

I’m very excited to be involved with the nascent Oxford Laptop Orchestra.

I posted some pictures about the removal of the old engine but never got round to its replacement.

A few shaky photos from a magnificent 18 hour birthday stint.

I used to make music on computers when I was a teenager.

Have you just got an exception from Django saying: IndexError at /admin/mything/ list index out of range

After Dawn’s slipping out, she was power-washed and given a new coat of bitumen.

Last night I got a call out of the blue from Jon Ody asking if I wanted my boat Dawn’s hull blacking.

I picked up an outside light, the kind that you plug in and stick in your lawn, going cheap at B&Q.

It’s no secret that golang is my new favourite language.

I had a mysterious error in a project in Go: myproject/types.go:89: fmt.Println not used If you declare a variable or import a package in Go, that’s a compiler error.

I love going out on my boat and I do it as often as I possibly can.

I have been a devoted fan of Jaga Jazzist, a Norwegian group (they pretty much defy description) since around 2003, when I heard one of their tracks on a sampler CD issued by the Norwegian Embassy in London.

One of the great things about my workplace is that we have unlimited peacocks at our disposal a number of my colleagues are qualified peacock-ologists Here’s a short video of just one of the peacocks, along with some commentary about their feeding habits…

I live not far from the spot where Hussein Mohammed jumped in the Thames and drowned.

Respect the aeropress.