The Inclusive Improv team might be getting some new members and a 2012 spring season.

An album I have been working on is getting mastered for release.

The Audio Podcast is almost a year old.

I start teaching at a new university on Friday an incredible blessing.

Also I bought another computer but I am going to podcast about it.

And I am spending even more time in emacs and org-mode.

So that is what I have been doing these past few weeks.

You can hear the show online here.

I had a great time at the convention, made some new friends, enjoyed some good patching and playing Max Articulate.

Particularly enjoyed, Bret Battey Compressed Feedback Synthesis, Jeremy Bernstein How I learned to stop worrying and love JavaScript and Luke Woodbury Max and special needs.

On the Tuesday 24th January 2012, the US Senate will vote on the internet censorship bill.

Whilst it is an American law, it has far reaching repurcusions for the web as a whole.

There are many companies against SOPA, such as Google, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and today I am lending my weight to the argument by taking my site down for the day.

If you think SOPA doesn’t affect you, please think again. Watch the video below, or use the form below to force politicians to take notice.

You can download my save game here.

I feel I should warn you that it is very addictive especially trying to build a rail network that can support lots of trains, something I have not yet succeeded in doing.

However I am going to stop playing now.

ssh -ND 9999 user@host

Doing this offers you a socks proxy at the local port 9999 down the default ssh port.

If you are behind a firewall which blocks ssh a good option is to use port 443 just like https

ssh -ND 9999 user@host -p 443

If you do this though you will need to either get  your server firewall to reroute the packets to the correct port or else bind your ssh server directly to port 443.

And why do this?

Well if you are on an open wifi connection then this allows you to browse the internet privately without having to worry about people capturing your data. In fact doing this means you do not have to trust the wifi provider in anyway, as all of your communications that you choose to route through the tunnel are encrypted.

I feel this post should lead onto a post about keys rather than passwords or how to change the default ssh ports so it might.

Firstly used unrevoked to root the HTC Desire.

While this got me root it left me with a locked boot loader. (S-ON repport by the bootloader.)

Then used revolutionary to get the boot loader unlocked.

Then installed SuperUser from the App Store to manage root use by other apps and then installed ROM Manger.

Finally used ROM Manager to install cyanogenmod.

After successfully booting into cyanogenmod the Android market was broken giving error message,

Error downloading “[App Name]“. There is insufficient space on the device.

Tried clearing all caches, and eventually found that reformatting the SD card and then running MarketFix sorted the problem.

Would like to acknowledge the assistance offer by Cyanogenmod wiki.

Have been enjoy this years Huddersfield Festival of Light though due to the heavy rain, rather than last years snow I left my camera at home. Once again a definite highlight was enjoying a warm local cider though it was also good to see Extra Curricular even though it was wet and cold.

So back soon…..

Though to be clear my intention is to do a show a week, though it wont be weekly.

You can listen to or download the show online at podcast.scotthewitt.co.uk.

Excuse for this absence are, a return to teaching at Huddersfield University, a draft deadline for my PhD (December), my podcast and all the other podcasts, oh and the fact I am getting ready to move house.

So all quite exciting…

In exchange for your on going patience I will point you to this incredible song, David Rovics – Behind the Barricades.

Normal service will resume soon.