Electric guitar pinched harmonics and slow volume swell shimmer

This is me showing how to make your guitar sound like ethereal angels

First Wedding Anniversary

It is our first wedding anniversary this weekend. I made this for my wife, as paper is traditional. She seemed to like it. Thanks to jonkashima on YouTube

Raoul Moat Police Response - Was this really necessary?

This is a photograph which was on the front of the bbc news website on Tue 6 July.

I am aware that Moat is still at large, and shot a police officer (as well as two others, one fatal), but what sort of country do we want to live in?

Enjoying Countryside Walking

One of the things I enjoy most about the UK is the freedom to walk in the fabulous countryside with legally defined, mapped, maintained and signed public footpaths.

The image on the left is not Photoshopped - I took this picture on a walk near Bibury.

Being Irish, this type of walking, disgracefully, is something I cannot enjoy in my own country (and the countryside is just as good there)

http://www.keepirelandopen.org/aims.htm

However, I've never been one for orienteering, and I suspect that the fear of getting lost or trespassing might be putting off a significant number of people from this healthy pastime in the UK.

Technology has provided solutions which are easy enough for even someone as directionless as me to use, but they are not cheap (for example, see Memory Maps OS Edition, which will run on a Windows Mobile phone if it has inbuilt GPS. You can't get lost if you have this).

While I think the UK is fortunate not to have the attitude of Ireland to rights of way, things would be even better if maps of Ordnance Survey quality were freely available, at least digitally. Is this a pipedream? It's your countryside...

Bubble Breaker Solver

Hi, for my first post I thought I would talk about a project that's been keeping me amused for a while.

I got addicted to the Windows Mobile game Bubble Breaker a while back, and thought that one way to exorcise this addiction might be to write a Java program capable of solving the puzzle.

So, here it is;

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bubblesolver/

You don't need to be a computer programmer to run it, just download the main file and look in the dist folder. Double click on the jar file, or use the command line java -jar [Path to Jar file]

I'd be interested in hearing what you think.