Looking though the logs for this place tonight I noticed how many people are going to old URLs which haven’t been active for months, years in some cases. 500 people a month were accessing www.coldclimate.co.uk/blog, which I retired about a year ago. Another 500 people were munching down on 2 of my homebrewed feeds www.coldclimate.co.uk/1.xml [...]
Here’s one of those crazy facts, which makes perfect sense to ecomonist, and mystifies the rest of us. EMI pays £25m a year to scrap unsold CDs, yes £25 million. They pay to make them, and then they pay to scrap them. If ever there was a motivator to move to a digital distrobution method, [...]
**technically** now the second page, but all the same – ONE OF MY PHOTOS MADE THE FRONT PAGE OF MAKE!! This is the best thing to happen all day! 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 [...]
After a minor rant about the genius of Seth Godin, and how cynical mass markettign will never make effective use of toold such as Digg and Delicious if they do silly things such as pay idiotic companies to blog, Digg and submit to Furl every bloody article they write online, I lost control and splashed [...]
otherwise I’ll never make a great geek? 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
Aparently you should do the following… Eat breakfast like a king (one assumes this it talking of fresh fruit, yoghurt and such like), lunch like a prince (a salomon sandwich), and dinner like a pauper (rice and veg). However, working away from home is more conductive to the following: Eat breakfast like an artic explorer [...]
Nothing beats sitting in a huge open plan office, looking at a bunch of cival servats, with Pendulum’s Slam thumping into you ears on the headphones, content nobody else can hear it. The juxtaposition is brilliant. Possibly Related Posts: Sex and the music Simple way to share iTunes over the Internet Scrapping CDs, because if [...]
My laptop took longer to boot than it took me to eat a mixed tandoori grill, naan and riatta. Might be time for a reinstall when when system initalisation takes longer quality indian food. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The [...]
The Borne Ultumatum, starts with a dose rendition of UK citzens (kidnap – lets not mince words here, it’s kidnap), water boarding (partial drowning torture to extract information, lets not mince words again) and the CIA shitting on our doorstep. Considering it’s a US film it must be touching a raw nerve with a few [...]
I’ve been meaning to go an read and understand dynamic range and various other bits of audio science surrounding music, but I’ve just not got round to it. Whilst I had music on random this afternoon however, it picked the album “Music For A Strip Tease Party” by “Bald” Bill Hagan And His Troc. I [...]
54 books in total it would appear. The usual mix of business texts, fantasy fiction, graphic novels and pulp fiction. Life Support Gerritsen, Tess Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers Spolsky, Joel Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and [...]
MostlyI play whole albums. I rarely can keep playlists up to date. Very rarely do I have my music on random because it’s just too mixed to not sound terrible. At the moment im using the seach function of Windows Media Player to find tracks. All todays music has “dog” in it somewhere. Dogmonaunt 2000. [...]
I keep seeing adverts which are making great offers, mobile phone deals better than mine, bank accounts with higher interest rates, even home insurence which whoops mine. Home insurence is the most boring thing in the world, its so boring it makes watching Jeeves polish the gravel outside, so anything that gets me excited about [...]
Of late I’ve reached near nuclear levels of frustration dealing with people on the phone. This is nothing new, if you’re one of the call centre workers who’s rung me to try and sell me a new mobile phone contract and I’ve either used the airhorn on you or put you on hold by leaving [...]
I spent ages (nearly two years) researching boids, flocking and autonomous character programming, but I still find articles such as this one about giving each member of a digital crowd its own personality could make animated mob scenes more realistic facinating. I’m sur e the name Demetri Terzopoulos is familiar too. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed [...]
The other day I had a brainwave. Pickled onions are great. Cheese is great. Pickled onions and cheese together are really great, but is it possible to pickle cheese? I’ve never heard of it, but much like smoking, I think it’s a process that can be applied to many things. Everybody has heard of smoked [...]
In the last week I’ve come across some brilliant tools to make my digital life easier, so I throught I’d better share. The Refresh Newcastle group put me onto some, and Google did the rest as and when I found I needed something. MAMP I do most of my development work on a php/mySQL stack, [...]
On my Windows boxes I install PDFCreator, which is generally very good. Tonight I went looking for an equivalent for Macs and luckily ran across a screen grab showing that… it does it natively! In any program which can print (and I only need to make flat PDFs, nothing exciting like links or embedded programming), [...]
I love these posters for 80/90 hip hop gigs and roller discos. Especially those that for gigs at highshools! 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 bashing Windows, but having nearly finished reading Joel’s books, he makes some excellent points about Windows and the rigiour of the Microsoft testing process (I’m taking it with a pinch of salt, but I’m willing to believe it, especially the amazing story about Simcity and Windows 95), so I might slow down a [...]
At the weekend I met a lady who had… a)Seen The Fall live b)Met John Peel c)Snogged Mark E.Smith Well, two out of three isn’t a bad score on the JealousOmiter. I imagine snogging Mark E Smith to be something like, actually I haven’t the words. There must be a lot of siliva and buck [...]