My ChucK

Look at what I've discovered by accident. And its perfect for me too. Now I will be able to fuse both my love for programming/computers with my love for music. Its a new concept if you will. A new programming language called ChucK. Made by this guy called Ge Wang who, like me, was also fascinated and passionate about both Computer Science and Music.

According to the website at chuck.cs.princeton.edu, ChucK is a strongly-typed, strongly-timed, concurrent audio and multimedia programming language. It is compiled into virtual instructions, which is immediately run in the ChucK Virtual Machine.

It also features on-the-fly programming which means you can manipulate code and see the effects immediately without shutting down or restarting or recompiling. Very nice concept.

Here's a video demo of what might be. Its still under active development and many of the tools are in alpha or pre-alpha phase (Read: Not ready for human consumption... Yet...)

My [Ye Olde Ads] Post

This is just so wrong at so many different levels but it just proves how much Microsoft tried to sell Windows in their early days. Steve Ballmer, still hate him.

My Christmas

Somehow this year, I have no Christmas spirit. No holiday cheer nothing. Maybe its because I know that in a short time I will be leaving all that I know and love and moving to "seek my fortune" as my dad puts it, in "greener pastures". Yes I am somehow melancholic and have a feeling that whatever I do now won't mean a thing since I will be gone anyway, but somehow I still try. I've been dreaming a lot lately which is something I rarely do (or at least I don't usually remember my dreams) which is, to me at least, indicative of stress. I guess when its all said and done time will tell.

On a side note, here's an interesting twist to the Mac vs. PC argument. What if they were transformers hell bent on smashing each other up. LOL.

That said however, I do wish you all a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year from the bottom of my heart :D

My Treachery

Ok now this may sound amazing and so stupid that its beyond comprehension but I kind of miss having to baby-sit a windows machine. Being a Mac user these 2 years has really been smooth. So smooth that I hardly ever have problems with my computer. It is, in fact. Boring. Yeah sure having windows run inside a virtual machine can sometimes perk me up, but where's the fun in that? Where's the excitement? The risk of totally bricking your machine, the danger of losing *ALL* your precious work/movies/music/photos/etc? None, gone, zip, nada! Sigh... Anyone want to buy me one of those small netbooks for Christmas? :P

My Geeky-ness

This cracked me up. Its a real geek post so "normal people" if you're bored, I understand :)

My Updates

Ok I know this blog has been left to languish. And whatever small readership I had has probably already petered away but meh. I am soldering on! Here's what happened recently on a trip to Malacca. (Ps: The management is not responsible for involuntary laughter and/or spewing of fluids from ones mouth.)

Leslie in "The Chicken King"

Ah Beng Moments - Counting

Ah Beng Moments - Goggle