Rubik magic!

I'm useless at Rubik's Cube... so therefore, this is impressive -
http://interestingengineering.com/video/is-this-robot-the-worlds-fastest-rubiks-cube-solver/

For two reasons:
1. There is no point to this.
2. They did it anyway, and want to explain to us how it works.

OK, maybe a third reason:
3. They used Linux.

Safari crash - workaround

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35420573

Looks like many, if not all, iOS users are seeing a browser crash when typing in the search bar.

I found that I could stop this by disabling (in Settings/Safari) "Safari Suggestions". My current guess is that this is a server side bug, with code clashing with third party search engine suggestions.  

Meta!

Engadget: 'Minecraft' fan finds a way to program BASIC code in-game. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw8q_ypik

I'll start off this blog with a different kind of Digital Transformation. In my spare time, I play guitar, dobro and harmonica in a duo called The Distillaires. We mostly cover songs from the 1920s to the 1950s, from all kinds of backgrounds - blues, jazz, country, standards, folk - and give them a unified feel (hence the name - we distil and transform our influences). Many of these songs originated as scratchy 78s. The miracle of modern technology enabled us to record these using some very affordable equipment:

MacBook Pro
Focusrite Scarlet 18i8 Firewire Audio
Logic X
+ some decent microphones

We haven't even made a CD. It's gone straight to Soundcloud. It's here: