Sat, 06 Feb 2010

MRI update

I was meaning to put up this picture as soon as I got it. I didn't do it because I wasn't sure about how to do it. I want to host it myself but all of the self-hosting solutions left me feeling meh.

In particular the blosxom plugins failed to blend in nicely with the blog's very textual look. But as always -- keep it simple. HTML's <img> and CSS's max-width saves the day.

So without futher ado -- my brain.

Fri, 13 Nov 2009

MRI

I had my brain scanned recently. Apparently my sense of humour isn't due any brain damage. Yeah, I'm getting a second opinion.

I was a test subject in a study on body ownership. I was strapped in a MRI scanner for 90 minutes. It was awesome.

I got to look at videos of a plastic body and a wooden board being gently poked. While I watched they poked my stomach either in or off sync with the movie.

They wanted to see how the brain process and identify what's your body and what's not. You can read more about their research at their website.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009

emacs-usemeta

I'm having fun with OpenBSD again, specifically 4.6, and it's awesome. Except one thing; terrible support for utf-8. In fact locales in general isn't well supported. Only locale supported is the C locale which is demanded by POSIX.

I thought that was the problem when I encounter this potential show-stopper. I couldn't input åäö into uxterm(1). Firefox and other gtk apps accepted åäö gladly and uxterm would even display them perfectly.

Then I noticed that vi(1) running in a uxterm accepted åäö and so would Plan 9:s shell rc(1). So the error was probably with the default ksh(1). ksh:s manpage delivered this tidbit

emacs-usemeta In emacs command-line editing, use the 8th bit as meta (^[) prefix. This is the default.

A quite bizarre default setting but a quick 'set +o emacs-usemeta' solved the problem.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009

On blogging

Tradition postulate that the first blog post should be an apology from the writer for starting yet another blog.

I apologize.

I will probably break all the rules when it comes to blogging. I won't update this blog with any regularity. I will post only when I have something to say, which isn't that often.

You're suppose to have a focus when blogging. I don't have one. I might do some categorization such as personal, where posts might be in Swedish, and technical. My blog software, bloxsom, is good enough to provide rss for ad-hoc categories.

I dislike blog comments. Blogs is an aweful place for discussions. But that might change. I'm not sure about trackbacks.