This one surprised me. I had not seen the “invisible green dot” and the “disappearing pink dots” demonstration before. If you don’t know what I mean, it has been posted over on Flikr ! (Don’t forget to read the description under the image.)
My favorite illusion is an audio sequence called Deutsch’s Scale Illusion. (I can’t [...]

Now that is a mouth full !
The more I learn about tower clocks, the more I think they make up longs winded mixed-language labels just to mess with people and make them feel dumb. The whole thing is a mish-mash of colonial English, French, and German. I haven’t found any Italian parts yet but [...]

All non-geeks, ignore this post
If you are still reading, you are either truly bored, a geek, or much too curious. In any of these cases, I will tell you what you get when you …
… combine an old microphone, digital oscilloscope, band-pass filter, signal trigger, and signal capture …

I used Visual Analyzer and [...]

I missed the “CSS Naked Day” on April 5th. The idea got me thinking - “what would theSalmonFarm.org blog look like without its CSS ?” Here is the before and after …

I’m glad to see the overall usability of this blog is not lost without the stylesheet. The only unexpected part of the layout [...]

Ed Brill posted the new splash screen for Lotus Notes 8 over on his Flickr page. I like it but it doesn’t fit my “black background” requirement for my laptop. For grins and giggles, I did a little photo finishing …

Of course, you could easily have just the Lotus logo, the IBM logo, [...]

I had my house on the market for about 75 days. The realtor I had just was not working out so when our agreement expired I let the house come off the market for a short while.
I signed on with another Realtor - one who is well known in my neighborhood and has a [...]

The purpose of this post is to try out the latest beta of Microsoft’s “Windows Live Writer”. I’ve been very happy blogging with beta1 of WLW. At the same time, I will admit to a couple small annoyances and one big one

I asked an old friend for some helpful ideas on a logo for this site. The logo that has been up for most of the past 10 months was a mashup of some text and clip-art from Microsoft Office so I felt it needed to change. Also, I wanted something simple so it would [...]

I was surprised when I could not find a good blogging client for Ubuntu. I was even more surprised that more than a few others had the same dilemma. And I was really surprised that others had the same solution - using Windows Live Writer. (Note to self - get a message to Simon Scullion [...]

ffmpeg is a very useful command line tool for converting lots of different audio and video formats. It sits quietly hidden under a number of popular video conversion software targeted at the iPod consumers.
This post is targeted for a very specific audience - Linux users who want a non-neutered ffmpeg for audio and [...]

I was recently reminded that I should have a “more professional” photograph for work. For those who don’t know, my employer requests that all employee upload a “head shot” to the corporate directory. This photo appears not only in the corporate internet directory but also on in thee “electronic” business card and is often [...]

If you are a Microsoft Windows user and need a “relatively” simple solution for screen capture and editing - say, for uploading to YouTube - then you might find the combination of Microsoft’s Windows Media Encoder and Microsoft Movie Maker a good place to start. There is a tutorial on how to use the [...]