Archive for February, 2009

Gmail really down? Twitter can tell

At Sogyo the internet connection is really bad and often it just doesn’t work. Today Gmail didn’t work so I naturally assumed it was the Sogyo network again. But, after a while it turned out that the problem was really Gmail. I found a site that seems to check if a site is still working or not: downforeveryoneorjustme.com, but according to that site gmail was still up. I got kinda frustrated and started to doubt the Sogyo network again, but then I found a post of somebody who explained the power of Twitter. Just search for gmail down and you instantly know that you’re not the only one with the problem. Finally something useful that you can do with Twitter :P

Midi color selector

Last night I had an urge to play with my Midi keyboard and since I’m better at coding than making actual music I decided to see if I could code something for my keyboard. The result was a color selector that you can control using the turnybuttonthingies (aka knobs) on my keyboard. It’s totally useless but cool that I actually know now how to read input from a midi port. I am already thinking if I can use my keyboard to make some kind of multiplayer game that you can play with 8 people at once on one keyboard. I have something in mind, but now that I know how to make it I’m not sure if I can put myself to actually implementing the whole thing :P So much to code, so little time.