Warning: you are entering a post written on an early morning train, after too many coffees, not enough sleep, and very very little thought. Your milage may vary, your home is probably not at risk however. Having spent the last week in the company of many fine geeks (Thinking Digital followed by BarCampNE), I suddently [...]
Heard from Tara Hunt, thought I thing she was quoting somebody else. “You make money because of the things you do, not from them” Possibly Related Posts: Haunted by the ghosts of bosses past The state of your knowledge So long, farewell and goodnight Some brilliant advice 10 minutes of INC causes revelation
I got a piece of spam today – addressed to me, and asking for my bank details and my phone number, asking if I wanted to become a mystery shopper. Its either a scam, or totally untargetted spam, but luckily he included his phone number! Adam Jones of Secret Shopper @ google mail . com [...]
As I walked back from day one of Think Digital (more on this later – possibly after the full three days), I noticed lots of really good stuff in skips. It must be the time of year, but I passed about ten or twenty in a half hour walk, and in them were so many [...]
My god, I love love love Char Siu Baau. They’re light fluffy white dough balls, a little bit like the inside of a doughnut, but filled with barbiqued pork. Sweet and sticky inside, fluffy and tacky on the outside, you buy them and steam them at home. They were brilliant. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured [...]
I love my Synology cube, it serves up music and file goodness to all the flat, but I have a problem. I like to mount the various shares as different users, for example I like my /music share to be read only (so iTunes or Windows Media Player don’t get excited and retag/re-shuffle/remove anything), but [...]
I don’t often post code (in fact, this might be the first time) but using a bit of google foo, a bit of bodging, heres a motion detector in Processing.org (my language of choice at the moment). So here’s the file for you…movin and here’s a picture of it in action Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed [...]
There’s lots of buzz about cloud computing, virtualisation, and elastic scalability at the moment, with some of the really big players throwing money, time and people at it. When you first start to thing about it, virtualisation makes a huge amount of sense. The ability to have new instances, virtually instantly, from snapshot (and thus [...]
watching sopranos, no time to write, or read, so dumping links. Wuffle – the thing that drives companies with mojo Four words that drive Web2.0 companies (and I would argue, every great company) Four more words that drive great companies 7 keys to graphic design on the cheap, because if you’ve getting started, you shouldn’t [...]
…by stopping thing annoy you. Learn to drink your coffee and black or white and cold or hot, and life gets a little bit less irritating. Learning to drink your beer warm and flat is a step too far however. Possibly Related Posts: Radio silence A twitter inspired wedding cake A year in books A [...]