http://www.maestrosync.com This is the personal website of Dashiell Dunn, a South Australian student with an interest in technology, design, words, sound, and serial commas. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since I've just restarted Authority development after six months I thought I ought to quicken the pace of updates on the blog, so here we go. After some teething problems (i.e. every page taking five seconds to load because I was making over 1000 database queries a hit) the new ... http://www.maestrosync.com/archives/2008/07/24/are-you-authorised/ What am I talking about, you ask? The terrorist attack infobox on Wikipedia has a field for listing the "attack type"—aircraft attack, car bombing, that kind of thing; or, in the case of the Wall Street bombing, horse-drawn wagon bombing. http://www.maestrosync.com/archives/2008/07/22/the-best-attack-type-on-wikipedia/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusually-shaped_vegetable http://www.maestrosync.com/archives/2008/07/22/the-best-article-on-wikipedia-ever/ "Despite the presence of these counsellors, Babar's rule seems to be totally independent of any elected body, and completely autocratic." Goddamn fascist elephant. http://www.maestrosync.com/archives/2008/07/19/the-best-serious-description-of-an-imperialist-french-elephant-on-wikipedia/ Remixing (i.e. changing the text on) vintage World War II propaganda posters is just something I do. This time, they've got nothing to do with the 2007 federal election. And, as special bonus for anyone who has never had someone look at them weird after seeing their desktop wallpaper, I present ... http://www.maestrosync.com/archives/2008/07/14/return-of-the-remixes-posters/ I've been looking at videos of plasma speakers and musical tesla coils on YouTube, and I now have two questions: Why haven't I heard about them before? Why don't I have one? Also on YouTube: Steve Ballmer advertising Windows 2.0. I love the way he thinks he's got charisma. http://www.maestrosync.com/archives/2008/07/09/high-voltage/ The project has been on hiatus for about six months because past design and programming decisions had forced me into a corner when it came to the final portion of the game. This was a corner forcing the coding to be untidy and complicated. So! I'm overhauling a lot of ... http://www.maestrosync.com/archives/2008/07/08/authority-hasnt-been-forgotten/ Today I have launched the latest version of www.maestrosync.com, which I have given the rather uninspired title of Novus. Fundamentally, it's based on the latest versions of WordPress and K2. There was then much designing and coding (HTML, CSS, and proper PHP) and the site was born. Some brief notes: I ... http://www.maestrosync.com/archives/2008/07/07/redesign-novus/ "Calendars have long been held as suspect in Lynchburg, Tennessee, just like suffrage for women and negroes." http://www.maestrosync.com/archives/2008/07/05/im-being-biased-against-biased-southerners-so-it-cancels-out/ For historical purposes I present this archive of some musical things I made before I had much interesting in writing proper songs or learning musical theory. I wouldn't recommend listening to them, but here they are nevertheless, plus some brief comments: Actéon Sounds somewhat cool, but that's really just because of ... http://www.maestrosync.com/archives/2008/07/01/old-music/