Andy Chase

Get Lamp looks like it should be an interesting film.

Interactive fiction continues to fascinate me, although I really haven't played much over the past year or so. What few Inform chops I developed during last year's Hours of Inform minicomp have atrophied, and I still haven't fixed my first humble effort's significant bug.

::sigh.::

It occurred to me today to write some Java classes to represent western musical scales; starting with the 12 tone system and then providing methods to build scales in a given major or minor key, (and eventually different modes,) and build chords.

Classes like this could also become the basis of any number of other utilities or applications; chord chart generators, midi generators et cetera.

Plus it would be good reinforcement for a person (such as myself) teaching themselves the fundamentals of music theory.

Ed Dumbill, on behalf of the "Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group", writes:

"HTML isn't a very good language for making Web pages."

That's the dumbest thing I've read in a long time.

I just re-read Wil Wheaton's The Trade for the first time since he posted it, and it still takes me right back to my own ill-advised Star Wars toy trade.

It was nothing on the par of giving up a Death Star for a Land Speeder, but I always did miss the figure that I lost in the bargain: A Snow Trooper. What did I get in exchange? A measly little Jawa.