1. Yeah. It's a little like that.

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   • venn diagrams

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2. nia_eeg_chart.py - Convert data captured from the NIA into an EEG chart.

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   • eeg
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   • ocz nia
   • programming
   • pygtk
   • python
   • sample data

   Well, I finally got it working. After a lot of trial and error I was able to figure out how to set up a panel of six strip charts, one per channel of electrical activity in the brain that the OCZ NIA picks up. The application I wrote takes output captured from nia_number_dumper.py and displays it as one would expect an EEG to look. Python is required to run this software.

   Next up: turning it into a realtime display from the NIA.

   Here's a screenshot

   of the app in action.

   Download nia_eeg_chart.zip here

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3. The nice thing about metrics is that there are so many to choose from.

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   One of the many buzzwords that you hear in the discipline of software engineering is metrics. They're supposed to be a measure of how effectively your coders are functioning based upon how many lines of code they write a day, how many bugs they make (for some value of 'bug'), how reusable their code is, how much money per line of code your project is burning through, or some other arcane measurement. The numbers are generated through techniques that appear to have more in common with gematria than with engineering and make managers salivate with glee (or rabies). The theory …

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4. How about some surreality to cap off a wonderfully weird night?

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   • guitar hero
   • guitars
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   • laptops
   • lcd panels
   • programming
   • retrocomputing
   • visualization
   • weird

   In the words of my namesake, I'll explain later.
   
   First up, one of my fellow retrocomputing afficionados named Toni Westbrook has undertaken an amazing project: Shredz64. Chances are, you've heard of the game Guitar Hero, in which you use a controller shaped very much like an electric guitar to 'play' rock music as a character in a video game. I've never played it, but it looks like it might be neat. Anyway, Westbrook is designing an interface for the Commodore-64 called the PSX64 that will let you hook a Guitar Hero controller up. He's also developing a game that works …

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5. Belated LayerOne entry number two.

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   • burlesque
   • business cards
   • communion wafers
   • convention
   • exploits
   • firmware
   • food
   • fuzzing
   • genetic algorithms
   • hijinks
   • layerone
   • man in the middle
   • payloads
   • pci rootkits
   • physical access control
   • programming
   • proximity cards
   • px

   1048 PST8PDT - Burbank Airport.
   
   What a dump. I finally got to see more of it because I'll be stuck here for a few hours. When I originally arrived we were ushered out of the terminal to the curbside baggage pickup without ceremony, only security guards, so I wasn't able to take the fifty cent tour of the terminal.
   
   It's small. There's noplace to eat, save for a really, really crappy cafe' that serves hideously bad wraps and lousy smoothies. By 'noplace' I mean just that - there are no other places to go in terminal B for food unless you want …

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