Following through on a New Year’s resolution/threat, I’ve spent the last month scouring the house, attic, basement, nearby cairns, and local graveyards looking for my set of bagpipes.

Let me back up a bit.

Long ago, when Hobbits lived in holes in the ground with round doors, I took a few bagpipe …

For those who might want to record audio over two channels, such as one track containing audio from your mic and one track containing audio from a Skype call, as when conducting an interview, here is one way to do this inexpensively. There are apps and hardware devices you can buy, but I wanted to …

This is an action-packed set of links to start off your weekend, what with knife throwing, a Sherlock Holmes 2 movie trailer, an exciting Chess Boxing Championship, and a Led Zepplin song done as only Michael Winslow can do it. And, if in all this excitement you lose your ereader, I’ve also …