Ever go to a party / meeting / social event and have a stranger walk up to you and say “Are you related to ? My last name is fairly common, those Scotsmen / Normans etc. being prolific like rabbits, so I hear this on a regular basis. Now, if you know me IRL you…
Books Life
K444 Is Done!
The goal was never to be famous, heck who ever heard of a rich poet? I have always loved writing, just letting the often weird thoughts in my head flow out onto the paper, or now my keyboard. But I did have a goal when I started to build WordsWorth – to finally put down…
Books Poetry
An Ocean of Silence
Remember I was battle-testing Wordsworth? Well… it handled the almost 200 poems I have written over the years, the export to epub was seamless, I added a cover image and one at the end of myself and Frieda. Too easy. Badda bing badda boom… An Ocean of Silence is done! Now should I publish this…
Geekstuff
PyRadio Goes On The Road
My wife happened to see PyRadio on my desktop and thought it might be something my son might enjoy. Hmm… he has a chromebook but no PC or laptop. But he has a phone… *BLING* Now how hard is it to convert Python to Kotlin I wondered. An hour on Google and hey this is…
Geekstuff
PYsano Final – This is It
Ok, colour coding is there, just needed to add on the light / dark mode toggle and it was done… Right?… Nope, got looking at it and figured it should have line numbers if it was an IDE of sorts. So back we went to the drawing board. While there I realized I was squinting…
Geekstuff
sPYing On Your Apps
Sure. why not? I have a whole laundry list of things that bug me about some of the apps I have built in the last little while. Soo working my way down the list the next up is sPYglass. If you remember sPYglass is a wee app you drop into a folder of exes (usually…
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Pysano Gets Colourful
Ok so I know that Pysano is supposed to be a plain-jane, no frills code editor but I found it a bit difficult when debugging a large script soo… have to fix that! Pysano2, not the redheaded child of Pysano, incorporates syntax highlighting for python scripts and is still plain for text files. Too easy.…
Multimedia Poetry
We Are Eagles
Taste the wind, cast over landscapestorn and scored by the talonsof a vulturerending granite into dustwhile silent screams in jagged shardsflow through the bleakness in your mind. [Chorus]We are eagles soaring skywardthrough the clouds we see below,We are eagles soaring skywardSpread your wings, it’s time to go. Spread your arms, fingers stretchedand cry shrill, like…