OK – today is official our last day in NYC, and for the last 5 days it has been hot. Very hot. Super dngously hot. I’ve even got a tan. Shame about the total lack of internet whilst we were here, otherwise I ouwld have been blogging and flickring and trustedplaces’ing as we went, however, [...]
Yesteay was a really great day. We booked onto a food tour round Greenwich village, which is, should I evebe given the chance where I would live in New York. Crazy three and a half hours, with a rambling gentlemen who know somebody on every round. So much more to tell, so little internet to [...]
Would you Adam it – The apartment hasn’t got internet access! Still, we got here ok, made it into town, the apartment rocks (photos to come, it’s stunning), went out to dinner (Pucunnis – teeny tiny place with no booze license so you bring your own – great food), and crashed. Sunday we thundered all [...]
the song is rubbish, but I love… * Tube mice * cornish pasties * burnt lasagne * ginger * cold beds * tonic water * bugger 5 of my list are food Possibly Related Posts: Hot and sour manly popcorn 10 minutes of INC causes revelation Insomnia + UNIX tools = txtr? Announcing the world [...]
OK, tomorrow, the big trip is all kicking off on Saturday. The girl is on her way down tomorrow, I shall have finished my course, and after a good nights sleep, we’re off to the airport. The amazing news is that there are 48 places in NYC reviewed on trustedplaces.com as of this evening! Thats [...]
What more could you need than a Cillit Bang! Hardcore Remix? Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and deployment Open source monitoring tools Make your RSS feeds trackable
My old flatmate has just pointed out that if they ever made a Starwars Wii game, give lightsabre duals, it would be… AMAZING! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things
I love the name, and also the weekly cocktails, how have I only just discovered /food.com. Maybe it is the /. effect, maybe I should actually write it slashfood instead? Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 [...]
This is just incredible. At the moment fabrication machines (aka. 3d printers) cost the Earth (and an arm, and a leg), but evilmadscientistLabs have homebrewed one that runs on…sugar! Caramelising it into 3d models! Amazing! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling [...]
This is just incredible. At the moment fabrication machines (aka. 3d printers) cost the Earth (and an arm, and a leg), but evilmadscientistLabs have homebrewed one that runs on…sugar! Caramelising it into 3d models! Amazing! Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi [...]
after discussing how evil large companies are (or can be) over beers last night wth a friend who ditched PWC to become a doctor, I was shocked and appauled at the following article about selling practices at Best Buy in the US. The actions described are purely criminal. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing [...]
Joel on software has a brilliant article about how you pay people affects how they work and how they are motivated. Brilliant stuff, well worth reading. You have to get over the hump of “if I pay you for something that will make you do it better”, but once you do, its an excellent primer [...]
After being amazed at Gilbert and George’s amazinf photoshop/illustrator skills the other night, I have resolved… a)A tablet is needed. b)lots of tutorials need to be read and played with. Step right up Smashing Magazine’s Photoshop Tutorial Archive! Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! [...]
OK, so tonight was the first of my exotic meats from osgrow. I had two (little) kangaroo steaks, cooked quickly in a hot frying pan. The larger one I split in half so all three pieces were the same thickness. It cooked quickly, going from a dark meat to a dark brown in 3 or [...]
I lvoe the last.fm service, even if I did just have to reset my user because it was full of chode, but it’s visualisions of data are poor. This page about visulising last.fm data is super cool however. I love the interactive graphs! Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter [...]
I do like gmail, but it takes a bit of getting used to. It would be really handy to be able to order the inbox by the user who emailed you, but the best thing I’ve found at the moment is to put “is:unread” in the search box and low and behold, only unread emails [...]
I’m not a huge HP LOvecraft fan (in fact I’m pretty sure I’ve not read anything y him infact), however – you can’t help adorring My Little Cthulhu. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Forget the deli, find a German Making your wireless router from [...]
You have to love Mae West, not only for being a complete sex bomb, but also for some fabulous quotes. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things
This is a pure stroke of genius – by using Photoshops “match colour” service, and picking an appropriate classical painting, you can adjust the colourings of your photos to make them more impressive! Lateral thinking in action. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter [...]
Right – now at the end of this month I and theGirl will be heading to New York for nearly two weeks. I’m hoping to make use of my new found interweb project TrustedPlaces (have I told you to go join, review and enjoy? No? Then go! Now! Review! Enjoy! More!). The plan is that [...]
Yes – you read it here first (well, second if you’re a modBlog reader) – 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 has been tattoo’d on! (Note to the sensative – modBlog features some pretty heavy stuff – this is clean, but much is not safe for werk, childrens eyes, or your grandmother) Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : [...]
I have a stack load of mp3s. About 60Gb worth, with all the nasties you expect – repeats, missing metadata, etc,etc. I’m slowing battering them into shape, but I have resorted to using iTunes. Damn it. However, smart playlists are genius! If you don’t beleive me, just have a browse over this article about creating [...]
There are certain books, who’s titles you just couldn’t make up. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things
This is a little odd. I can understand the need to stem the flow of information, but … “The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer”. Scary. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making [...]
It’s a sad ans shameful affair when an MP lies in the House of Commons, and it going to be stood up by the datestamps on a blog. You silly lady – blaming the person who told you about a chronically stupid security hole (and we’re not all blameles – I made exactly the same [...]
A handy little resource osalt.com, lists open source alternatives in common areas of functionality. Its just reinformed me to get xming -rather than rebooting into Linux to get an Xwindows session on my ‘doze box. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi [...]