Well, OF COURSE playing poker isn't gambling. This is ridiculous.

Double Tenth Day

Chinese communities around the world are celebrating Double Tenth day today, which (for those interested in a bit of Chinese history) marks the start of the Wuchang Uprising of October 10, 1911, that led to the collapse of the Qing dynasty.

Related: Double Tenth Day, Taiwan

Word Wreck Tangle

This is the latest Wei Hwa puzzle that can be seen on google personalised homepages.

word wreck tangle Drag the letters into the rectangle so that words read both across and down. Purple letters only move up-and-down, while green letters only move left and right. Click and drag a colored letter to move it. You win if four five-letter English words read left-to-right along the rows and five four-letter words read down along the columns.
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See also: Wei-Hwa, Word Wreck Tangle, Google

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Walking on water in London

I think I'd probably fall in if I tried this.

Tags: London

Wiki Pics

Wikipedia has a section of features pictures. Some are really very good!

World Records

I met someone over the weekend who was in the guiness book of world records (something to do with rabbits jumping fences... how bizarre!). Anyway, I thought it was pretty cool to have that on your cv. I mean, there seems to be an inifinite number of ways to get in but I just couldn't think of anything good to try myself on the spot. Wish I'd thought of this.

Van Persie goal

This was from the weekend game against Charlton. Has goal of the season been decided already?

Tags: Van Persie, video, Arsenal, goal

Learn the piano hack

Now I don't really read music, but I do enjoy being able to reel off a thing or two on the piano, sort of Bill-Murray-in-Groundhog-Day style (if you know what I mean). It's hard work... at least for me. So for a while now I've been thinking of adding to my list of homebrew projects a piece of software that could take midi files of piano pieces and highlight the piano keys being played on a keyboard during playback. It would be a kind of cheat for learning the piano.

Thankfully there's no need! I found this great little application that does the job handsomely. It's called MidiPiano and it's free. In fact the source code is available for those who want to tweak it.
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Related: piano, software, hack, midi

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