Goal Mapping Alpha

It’s finally ready! As promised, the alpha version of my Goal Mapping software is ready. For those of you who aren’t down with geek lingo, an “alpha version” is a complete piece of software, but it has only been tested by the developer (me), so it has loads of bugs, it’s...

Linux Account Backup

If you’re on a linux host, you might find this useful. It will backup all the websites for a given user on the host into an archive folder that you can download regularly. This script runs weekly on my host, and backs up my dozen or so sites and databases. You’ll need a shell user probably, and...

Roomba

Spiraltastic photograph by brothergrimm@Flickr I had a conversation about a Roomba once with someone who believed that it used the golden spiral to trace its path from the center of a room. To prove that it used a Sin function with a continuously increasing amplitude, I wrote this demonstration. The real...

Kaleidoscope

The Kaleidoscope snowflake is a Javascript toy. Click the link below to reflect. To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can...

Hypercube

Hypercube is a JavaScript toy that’s sort of pretty, and kind of fun. Follow the instructions carefully. There is beauty in the mundane for those with a joyful heart...

Conway’s Game of Life

Conway’s Game of Life is a cellular automaton. That means that there is an area in which “cells” live, and each step the simulation takes, the cells change state based on rules. In the game of life, cells can either be alive or dead, and they follow 4 simple rules: Any live cell with fewer...