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The letter is said Aitch

June 30th 2008

a,b,c,d,e,f,g, AITCH, i,j,k,l,m,n… Ladies and gentlemen, of the class of 1955 onwards.  I may not be able to spell, my grammer is dreadful, my punctuation almost non-existant, but I am finally loosing the plot when people see incapable of saying the letter H correctly. As I sit on the train, the half-wit who is speaking [...]

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Revenge of the nerds? Maybe…

June 30th 2008

Image via Wikipedia So, having left my analytical left brain job (or rather I will on Friday) to go and work in a more creative field, I was greatly heartened to read We’re not sporty, but when it comes to spelling we Indians are the bee’s knees, explaining why India (and China I suspect) are [...]

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Wii LightSabre!

June 25th 2008

Finally somebody has made something which I rambled on about ages ago (and I imagine a load of other people did as well) and created …. A light Sabre fight game controlled by wiiMote! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The [...]

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Do the important, not the urgent

June 24th 2008

I see lots of blog posting about developing web-apps and online stuff using agile-dynamic-insert-your-favorite-buzzword-methodology-here, but lots and lots of software is not developed in this way, and sometimes I think some of the lessons learnt developing monolithic and sprawling software can be useful to everybody, you AJAX powered-django hacking,python boys included. A few years ago [...]

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The days the world changed…

June 20th 2008

OK, so maybe thats over egging it a bit, but gone are the days where the statement that NASA have found ice on Mars looked like this, because the Mars Rover twitter feed has this on it this morning: “Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on [...]

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The KKK took my baby away?

June 18th 2008

It would appear the fat white right wing racists are getting a bit scared by the prospect of a black president and are having to play on peoples fears with piss poor jokes.  You know the end is near when you have to fall back on campaigns such as “If Obama is president… can we [...]

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Early morning link-o-rama

June 13th 2008

Got up and packed this morning (long train later tonight) and got to work early, so plenty of time to go through my Google Reader feeds.  Much tasty goodness in there too. I love the idea of 7 in 7, 7 creative projects, one every day.  Sort of artistic, sort of techie, all good clean [...]

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You are not “big players”, you are fish in a stream

June 12th 2008

Image via Wikipedia London is such a funny place sometimes.  I love visiting here, but have absolutely no intentions of living here again ever.  Walking into work this morning past Bank station was like being Neo in the first Matrix film, in the scene on the busy street, where he eventually is distracted by the [...]

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A processing bug?

June 8th 2008

So, whilst re-writing my my motion detector (which didn’t work in my previous post by the way – it only dected things which were black), I came across an odd bug in processing.org If you have two objects (one is my camera, the other is an image takes from the last frame), you cannot assign [...]

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My sun jar…

June 6th 2008

…is considerable more Web 2.0 than yours (yurk yurk yurk) than your sun jar. Created from an existing solar light, a left over blue led from my table kit, and inspired by Makezine’s sun jar article. Possibly Related Posts: Hot and sour manly popcorn 10 minutes of INC causes revelation Insomnia + UNIX tools = [...]

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Train torture

June 5th 2008

Image via Wikipedia Good lord this train is hot, and smelly, and …empy. Well, take your wins where you can find them. The airconditioning is broken, so it’s basically as 180mph greenhouse. It’s so hot my eyeballs have dried out and I think the edges of my laptop are starting to sag a little. Certainly [...]

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Amazing how a good graphic illustrates a point

June 5th 2008

Normally people add in pictures and graphcs as an afterthrought, or at least that’s certainly how it feels.  The NYTimes seems to be one of ther few papers who are really seem to be embrassing using graphics on their website, and they take it one step further by allowing animation to show far more information [...]

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