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Back to techie madness

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I can't attend Northern Voice this weekend, but that doesn't mean I can't contribute to the Northern Voice online community from my post-surgical bed. Here, for instance:

That's a set of photos I took today of a Flickr slideshow of interesting photos of this year's NV conference—being shown on our downstairs TV using the Nintendo Wii web browser. And I posted them while I was listening to the NV podcast episodes already posted today. (John Bollwitt is also posting some good text summaries of the sessions.) Pretty geektastic, eh?

I also discovered that the Wii's sensor bar, which you stick on top of your TV to help the Wiimote controller figure out how you're moving about, has ten infrared diodes that, while invisible to the human eye, can be seen by digital cameras—something I wrote about in another context last year:

Finally, if you enjoyed my latest instrument tune, called "Fakeout," over at Inside Home Recording I've posted about how I made the guitar tones in it without using a single real amplifier.

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