All my crypto apps, with the exception of those meant to be performed also by hand, have been upgraded to include the powerful DOM Purify filter, which removes malicious content from web pages. This is in case you get an encrypted message with a malicious payload, which might execute and do something nasty as soon as you decrypt it. Apps involved: PassLok, PassLok for Email, SeeOnce, URSA.
Month: February 2018
Convert a ukulele to play in G
One year after I started learning the ukulele, I have learned to accompany many songs by strumming. But I still divide them into “easy” (key of C), and “all others” (any other key). This is because the basic chords involved in a song written in the key of C (C, F, G7, Am, Dm) are especially easy on the standard-tuned (gCEA) ukulele. But it turns out that the “easy” songs are only about half the songs in most books. One solution is to use a capo, but then the sound goes from tinny to tinnier, especially if the difference is large (say, a song in the key of G, which would mean a capo on the 7th fret; try that on a soprano!).
But I’ve found a better solution, and this is to get a second uke and turn it into a “cuatrolele” by simply swapping the order of the strings. As a demo, I have sound samples for a soprano uke originally tuned in C6 (gCEA), which has become a G6 (DGBe) g-ukulele, or “gukulele” for short. Read More