01.31.07

Green party thinks Vista is shit

Posted in interweb, technology at 5:33 pm by coldclimate

Yes - a major political party (ish) has even got behind the fcat that the new DRM mechnism in Vista is a big hairy piles of man ball bags.  The Green Party has declared “Future archaeologists will be able to identify a ‘Vista Upgrade Layer’ when they go through our landfill sites.

01.28.07

Lifehacker

Posted in interweb at 12:12 am by coldclimate

I love lifehacker, especially the weekly tips.

01.27.07

Lego

Posted in interweb at 11:59 pm by coldclimate

I love these two groups of Lego portraits, the first seems to be in Spanish, the other is on Flickr.

Monopoly Board Google Map

Posted in interweb at 10:26 pm by coldclimate

Yes ladies and gentlemen, it is finished.  It’s not brilliantly accurate, and I’ll add more detail for each of the pubs (yes - this is a pub crawl) later this week.  However, until then, behold the majesty of The Monopoly Board Bar Crawl Google Map.  Oh yes.

Just walk?

Posted in interweb at 12:50 pm by coldclimate

For those who shune the tube (and after fridays nights adventure because KingsX was(and actually wasn’t) on fire) aparently http://www.walkit.com/ is meant to be very good.

01.26.07

Top secret new plan.

Posted in ideas, interweb, technology at 12:02 am by coldclimate

To write a googlemaps api plugin thats an overlay map for the route of monopoly bar crawl.  It’s nearly done.  Will launch after the weekend if all goes to plan.

01.24.07

Graf hero models

Posted in interweb at 10:30 pm by coldclimate

Does somebody want to buy me Seen and Banksy for my birthday?  I love the Army of Art figures

Custom wordpress importer from Blogger

Posted in blog at 4:49 pm by coldclimate

I’ve spent most of the day coding a custom importer from blogger to Wordpress. I’ve ended up hacking it together by

  • exporting blogger with an easily parsable structure - no comments, +++’s at the start of each artice and |||’s between items.  Monthly archiving set on, and a full republish.
  • custom php script to read each xml archive, create a date stamp from the file name, pulling all the content, and squirting it into the db again.
  • redoing it many many times.

Satisfying way to spend a day where I was feeling fucking terrible.

01.20.07

Ah ha!

Posted in Imported at 9:46 am by coldclimate

My email just got read out on BBC Radio 4s Saturday Live (which I quietly like). Prince Micheal didn’t answer my question about coming to stay!

Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world

Posted in Imported at 1:11 am by coldclimate

Just back from seeing the amazing Joanna Newsom at the Barbican. I has so much to say but the 50 minutes train journey from hell has stopped me thinking. Was good. Didn’t need the orchestra. encource of milk eyed mender could have made me cry.

01.19.07

PLAY-DOH aftershave?

Posted in Imported at 1:28 pm by coldclimate

I like the smell of Play-doh, but I really really wouldn’t buy it as an aftershave. However, for those of you who would….PLAY-DOH COLOGNE SPRAY.

01.18.07

Pimp my browser

Posted in Imported at 7:59 pm by coldclimate

Got firefox (of course) then why not install PimpZilla, the theme with bling and get a leopard skin, gold and diamond themed browser.

01.17.07

Security gone made

Posted in Imported at 11:18 pm by coldclimate

putative.com: FedEx refuses shipment of made-up stuff, empty cans. Read it and weep. Actually weep. This is nuts.

01.16.07

Technology changes afoot?

Posted in Imported at 9:51 pm by coldclimate

Hmm, I’m wondering about posting the whole blog (including live journal) across to wordpress. I’v installed it (dead easy), and it seems easy to make pretty, and it can import rss (so in theory I don’t have to come up with a funky cross-poster), but I do like the privacy of locked posts in livejournal, and whilst I could still do that on wordpress, people would have to join up at my site, and I’d have no way to monitor it.

So what should I do? Maybe I should make the main site wordpress and keep livejournal for the personal bits? randomcat.co.uk does that, but I like the current setup because I have a copy of everything on my disk.

Oh the choices.

01.13.07

Wake up world

Posted in Imported at 9:39 am by coldclimate

Yes it would appear that the knuckle draggers are at it again. I can’t decide which is my favorite quote…”Condoms don’t belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He’s not a schoolteacher,” or the truely wonderful “The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn’t in the DVD”

Thats before we get round to the fact that this man’s name is…Frosty Hardison. Yes, Frosty. As in snowman. Normally I wouldn’t stoop to making fun of peoples names (well, I would but anyway), but when willpeople realise that just because they don’t like what they are hearing, doesn’y mean it’s not possibly true. Thats why the film is called “An Inconvenient Truth.”

01.12.07

When Dilbert is right, the world is wrong.

Posted in Imported at 5:50 pm by coldclimate

Yep. Did it again. Said it all in the subject line again. DWhen Dilbert is right, the world is wrong.

Wifi Camera

Posted in Imported at 1:42 pm by coldclimate

Not one that post by wifi, but that translates signal strengths to visual pictures. Yes it’s the Wifi camerageek

Dave Gorman - funny, clever and talented

Posted in Imported at 10:06 am by coldclimate

Whilst looking for Papa Christmas, who I saw at Bookclub I ran across photos by Diamond Geyser, who coincidentally seems to have the same online monicer as diamond geezer who has my firend catbo as a reference, but also has Dave Gorman who turns out not only to be very funny, and very clever (he spotted the monster word on the giant boggle on stage at Bookclub) but is also an amazing photographer. I love the “cities by night” photos.

01.10.07

Family tattooing

Posted in Imported at 11:30 pm by coldclimate

There’s something very sweet about the story of ModBlog - Three matching hearts.

Juicy goodness

Posted in Imported at 10:51 pm by coldclimate

Tonights blender experiment - cucumber, pear and lime smoothy. Yes - just wedge a whole cucumber and a whole pear into the blend, with a splash of liquid to get it started (I used apple juice), blen until smooth, pass through a sive, add a squeeze of lime juice, and the job is.. well. actually veryu good!

Smells of lime and cucumber, tastes of pear and herbelness, can’t be anything but healthy.

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