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Sunday 11 May 2008

Satisfying, sunny Sunday

Photosuploaded into Flickr for our morning in Thimphu Stroll through the backstreets to Columbia Road Flower Market, returning with four varieties of tomato plant: Shirley, Moneymaker, Yellow and Sun Baby Quick catch up with Jo, Barney, Rosa and... Sparkly Trainers

Dreamcoaster Event

The Save Dreamland Campaign have announced details of an [...] Margate Architecture

Or alternatively, don’t use Windows

Microsoft to limit the capabilities of cheap laptops: “Microsoft is launching a program to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs, one effect of which will be to limit the hardware capabilities of this type of device, IDG [...] Technovia

Saturday 10 May 2008

10.6

Onequestion I get asked a lot, by people who know me, is, “just how many tshirts do you have?”. I’ve never known the answer, until today, when I did a bit of a reorganisation of my wardrobes. I’d assumed the answer was [...] Anti-Mega

Interoperability and Demesnes

There are two main kinds of standards involved in interoperability between computers: formats and protocols. Formats range from "file formats" such as JPEG and PNG for images, HTML and CSS for web pages, PDFs, Word documents, and so on, through to [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric

Friday 9 May 2008

Current Cost Charting fun

Nick has already written a nice introduction to using the Google Chart API for drawing charts of household power consumption over time. I’ve been playing with some other parts of the API as part of setting up a web-based dashboard so Rachel [...] Roo Reynolds

More folding proteins.. but this time a game too

Folding@home runs on idle time, as I understand it, as does rosetta@home. I haven't got a PS3 yet which runs the former - waiting for LittleBigPlanet before I splurge (and have to remove the gamecube to make room). But this,... Wonderland

NES coffee table

Oh this really is awesome, from the aptly named Ultra Awesome blog: Also, it works!: Brilliant. There's even a how-to if you fancy making your own... (Thanks to Brian for this one) Wonderland

words : Opinions are the mind's way of making dung,

they are what is left after we have stopped thinking. Something said elsewhere reminded me of this postcard my mum sent me in 1997. I've had it by my desk ever since, and is an adage I remind myself of often, one of my tenets in life. It [...] Dorian Moore

John Gruber is wrong: for some customers, email is more important than the web

John Gruber has posted a really interesting and insightful piece on BlackBerry vs. iPhone, and why he thinks that RIM is, fundamentally, in a very very bad place indeed. However, there’s one point that I have to disagree with John on: “ [...] Technovia

Social Networking

Although I'm not a big fan of Facebook, I occasionally feel an urge to update my real social network: my FOAF profile at http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric-foaf.rdf. I've not made that link clickable, to save people the horror of having their [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric

Mike Arrington has some really ugly fans

Betsy Schiffman at Wired writes a story about Mike Arrington’s deal with the Washington Post, and mentions that ” it seems crazy-crazy to us that the Washington Post, a paper known for the sort of reporting that can take down U.S. [...] Technovia

Mike Arrington has some really ugly fans

Betsy Schiffman at Wired writes a story about Mike Arrington’s deal with the Washington Post, and mentions that ” it seems crazy-crazy to us that the Washington Post, a paper known for the sort of reporting that can take down U.S. [...] Technovia

Thursday 8 May 2008

Royal Television Society - ‘Going Round In Circles’

Rough transcript of the RTS event ‘Going Round In Circles’ Royal Television Society - Early Evening Events 8 May 2008: ‘Going Round In Circles’ Why Is 360 Commissioning The Future of Television? Sponsored by DLA Piper [...] Extenuating Circumstances

KCC to sue Turner 1 architects

Heads up from Ramsgate's finest that KCC is to take legal action over original Turner Contemporary scheme.It seems KCC is hell bent on regaining some of the £6m it spent on the ill fated scheme from the architects. I wonder what chance they have? Margate Architecture

Making Marbles

Reminiscing about childhood games last night, my friend Arthur wondered out loud how marbles are made. Nick and I googleraced to find the answer, and (unsurprisingly) both ended up finding the same bit of video. ‘How It’s Made&# [...] Roo Reynolds

The Brightkite iPhone Version is Out! at Brightkite Blog

I’m really enjoying using Brightkite at the moment (I’m ianbetteridge if you want to friend me), and I’m pleased to see that the iPhone web application has now been released in alpha form. But I was even more pleased to see this [...] Technovia

Type systems

There are a number of type systems out there in different programming languages. In fact, there's zillions, but they boil down to a few basic approaches. One of the biggest splits is between statically decidable type systems and more dynamic [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric

St NoFi: The new St Pancreas   is a thing of glass and steel...

St NoFi: The new St Pancreas   is a thing of glass and steel wonder, but erm, someone forgot the WiFi.  Mostly This

UniCool: UniQlo are really stepping it up a gear this last few...

UniCool: UniQlo are really stepping it up a gear this last few months.  Using their japanese roots can only be a good thing. Mostly This

Mr CrackBerryHead: aimlessly greeting people with a cheery...

Mr CrackBerryHead: aimlessly greeting people with a cheery smile, one email and they’ll be in my grasp. Be afraid kids. Aparently, the accompaning leafleat tells me, you can use your blackberry to update your myspace page. DOWN WIT DA KIDS. Mostly This

My First Conference

Open Tech 2008 - 5th July in London.I'm giving a talk at this year's OpenTech 2008, on July 5th, in London's sunny London. It's the first time I've ever stuck my head over the parapet of the conference circuit, and I'm both excited and utterly [...] Mildly Diverting

Wednesday 7 May 2008

#235: Have a painful ear infection

I have friends who positively enjoy codeine. I meanwhile, do not. It makes me feel blurry, forgetful and gives me a half hearted attempt at the horrible Tramadol 'heroine' like effect of having had warm cement poured on to you,... Moolies

Things I might write about at some point, but not now

Being a list of things which I’ve been meaning to write about here or elsewhere, but haven’t had a moment. New forms of storytelling The rise of the renaissance journalist Hotel life Why I don’t write much about work here Flickr [...] Meish

BBC NEWS | Europe | Berlusconi announces new cabinet

BBC NEWS | Europe | Berlusconi announces new cabinet: Umberto Bossi is Minister for Federalist Reform again? After last time? Dangerous Precedent

Instant HD failure

.. my vaio has suffered. It is dead as a dodo. I've lost perhaps 5 days worth of bits n' pieces, although most mail is online, etc, but my carefully kept-as-unread emails that I'd been saving up to reply to,... Wonderland

Giant horse proposed for Ebbsfleet

Some lighter news: Giant horse proposed for [...] Margate Architecture

Another listed building in Margate goes up in flames

Grade II listed 49-50 Hawley Square went up [...] Margate Architecture

Ode to My Socks, Pablo Neruda

Ode to My Socks, Pablo Neruda: Via the afore-mentioned Russell Davies Dangerous Precedent

I used to do this, in a very British kind of way, but the...

I used to do this, in a very British kind of way, but the American state of the art is frankly awesome. Dangerous Precedent

russell davies: pre-experience design

russell davies: pre-experience design Dangerous Precedent

OpenOffice 3.0 beta emerges, with Mac Aqua support

marketing: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Features: “With Version 3.0, OpenOffice.org is now able to run on Mac OS X without the need for X11. Thus, OpenOffice.org behaves like any other Aqua application. The cool thing is, while the market leading [...] Technovia

Chris Heathcote's abstract pointillist powerpoint toolkit.

Chris Heathcote's abstract pointillist powerpoint toolkit. Dangerous Precedent

Tuesday 6 May 2008

Unsettlers of Catan

^ Photo: The Aeros Aeroscraft ML866 Concept Imagine my surprise reading today’s Grauniad finding George Monbiot coming out as a fan of airships, and more broadly – of advanced technological solutions (“like most [...] Blackbeltjones/Work

n2n

n2n looks like a lovely piece of technology. It's basically a VPN system, but quite different from existing VPN technologies. Existing VPNs work by creating a point-to-point link between two systems, usually a personal computer on an untrusted, [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric

Shopping, a christening and a tutu

....otherwise known as, "How I spent the bank holiday weekend". Saturday featured a leisurely sending spree along the Kings Road, with co-shopper Hazel. A successful outing, in the shape of new clothes for work for us both. Sunday... Sparkly Trainers

Things not to do #234: damage your coccyx

I have damaged my coccyx. We visited Céret on market day, of course, during the recent France visit. Céret is a mountain town (well - foothills), with charming open gullies running through the town taking mountain water safely through. Sometimes... Moolies

A bloody good question

Nora, on Sunday: You are a Mummy, and you had a Mummy. When was the first one? How did that happen? ...at which point one's head explodes in panic and amazement. Er.... right, how can I focus Evolution in about... Moolies

The Camping Holiday Of Despair

The plan was simple: borrow Sarah's parent's campervan, drive down on Friday evening to the village where our friends were being married the next day, sleep over, get up in the morning, have a nice breakfast, explore the area a bit, do the wedding [...] Snell-Pym/Alaric

Here’s what I want to do with Google Reader

So now that Google Reader has the notes feature, allowing me to make little comments on everything I share, and the ability to share anything I browse to, I want to be able to use it to replace del.icio.us in my blog workflow. At the moment, I use [...] Technovia