June 2010
2 posts
WatchSweet. Light patterns make awesome ambient sound…
Sound Camera: NYC Night Drive (by Eric Archer)
WatchLoving this, although I’d like to read some details - how the decks were linked, and what decks were used.
It’s when you see something like this you remember the horrors of analogue videotape. Crazy rainbow stripes and things. Bleh!
Found on the Makezine blog…
May 2010
2 posts
“vlc mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/bbc_ami/6music/6music_bb_live_eq1_sl0...”
– How to use VLC to rebroadcast the BBC 6Music WMA stream as a mono MP3 stream over HTTP. What I’m using to get it on my Chumby.
WatchIceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 (by Sean Stiegemeier)
Pretty amazing. Worth watching in fullscreen HD over at Vimeo.
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
7 posts
First post from my new phone
So… I’ve got a new phone. An HTC Desire. It’s probably the fanciest gadget I’ve ever owned! Literally fresh off the ship, stopping by the T-Mobile warehouse overnight, and into my mits.
What can I tell you about it? It’s essentially the same phone as the Google Nexus One. A tweak here and there but there’s virtually no difference to report. Same version of...
WatchExcellent documentary on pirate radio - via Boing Boing
The Most Badass Alphabet Ever →
We loved ‘N’
“X-MS-Disclaimer: This code and data form part of the BBC iPlayer content...”
– BBC iPlayer response headers
February 2010
4 posts
1 tag
The Steorn Orbo motor replication by JL Naudin →
Once you get over the design of the site - one big page with more Comic Sans than has been legal for 12 years in the EU - this is fascinating and puzzling. Jean-Louis Naudin has been examining all the tech data put out by perpetual motion dreamers Steorn have released and built his own Steorn Orbo motor, and - puzzlingly - seems to have favourable results for them.
Obviously the laws of...
WatchI actually have a couple of big gauges like the ones you can see here. I shun the idea of Steampunk; I prefer Dieselpunk myself. Anything that looks like lab equipment from the 60s is full of win for me.
Hydroelectric Power Plant, Mirejovice - Control Room Gigapixel in Czech Republic
WatchImpossibly impressive short film styled entirely with various company/entity logos. Somewhat sweary in places
Logorama on Vimeo (via @bobbyllew)
2 tags
January 2010
4 posts
4 tags
Javascript Brilliance
Two things involving Javascript that I didn’t know about this time last week:
Node
Node is a standalone Javascript engine for running on servers. Lets you deal with things on a socket level, interact with the file system and so on. This means you can write all your code for both a client and a server in the same language; something you can do with haXe as well, but without the compiling...
WatchI love me a bit of chilled out noise, and this video is full of the most wonderfully bizarre sources for such things. Found on the Make blog a while ago, and finally experienced properly today…
November 2009
10 posts
3 tags
What did you do with your lunchtime today? I made...
Continuing the de-uglification
Titles in Gill Sans? Yes, we’ve got them now, thanks to the utterly awesome typeface.js
In other news, Ruth Jones out of that Gavin and Stacey programme is recording her Christmas special for BBC Wales in the studio here. Michael Ball in da house, Max Boyce in da house, etc. How very festive.
De-uglification sequence initiated
The use of a scan of flock wallpaper and big thick black lines was too much. I decided to use my standard background (used pretty much everywhere - generated within Aviary.com’s Peacock), a white background for the main bit and some tinkering with the CSS in features that I’ve not used yet.
Still got my Sinclair-inspired logo though =)
Seriously, if you’re on Tumblr and want to...
Ugly
I’ve successfully mangled some CSS to make this blog:
unique
as ugly as hell
Yay me!
Fun with APIs
Part of the reason I’ve chosen Tumblr as the platform for my blog empire is because it’s achingly customisable. And - hurrah! - it has a good, well documented API for techie tinkerers. Having had a good look through it I’ve realised I can replicate the bits of Storytlr that I’m really going to miss with some not-so-hard scripts. The only fly in the ointment is that...
VKendology: boozes plus bad maths
Preamble du jour
Anybody who knows me even the tiniest fraction knows I like maths and physics. I make no attempt to hide it (and why would I?); I’m very much an ‘out’ geek. This is the t-shirt I wore today. And anybody who has dipped into my posts online over the past, ooh, nearly five years knows how much I hate it when maths is used badly in PR campaigns disguised as...
Change of theme
After realising how clean and customisable the Field Notes theme is on Tumblr, I’ve switched to that and started tinkering with it (increasing the content width, logo at the top, Disqus comments so far; background design to follow).
Fascinating? Not really. Just want to post something. I’ve got a bigger super-post to finish off, but want instant gratification…
October 2009
3 posts
It's typical isn't it?
The theme that I found on Tumblr and decided to build my own theme off is a complete mess of poorly chosen and/or default id and class names and a spaghetti-like bundle of CSS. It’s going to take a while… at least I’ve got comments working though.
Here we go again
I found myself being a digital nomad once again. After Swurl shut down in the early part of 2009 I found a great replacement in the form of Storytlr. Things seemed to be good - nice European guys, invited over to the Google I/O conference in June where cool new features on the way - and then a bombshell was dropped in October.
Storytlr will be gone by the end of the year. Time to find yet another...
This will be what ends up being my blog
It’ll take a while, but my blog will end up being here - on Tumblr. I’m knitting Yahoo! Pipes to assemble something close to what I had (and am losing) with Storytlr.