Creativity, curiosity, and code
I’m on my own this weekend as Sally’s off on a working holiday. So I’m doing some catching up and messing around. Here’s a little video I like. It’s a time-lapse of people looking at the “Shibboleth” exhibit at the Tate Modern, in December 2007. I’m usually more interested with people’s reactions to the Turbine […]
Who knows when and by whom this is being read, but as I write there is a new little box in the top-right-hand corner of my blog showing something called “Twitter” updates. This is a little something I’ve been playing with and I want to explain why. A Brief History of Social Networking in the […]
We’ve been toying with the idea of digital radio for a while. We listen to the radio quite a lot and it’s been annoying us that we get bad reception in the new house. But DAB radio’s are expensive and we’ve questioned the value. Several of our friends have them though – a surprising number […]
During our trip to the Lakes last year, to climb Helvellyn via Striding Edge with my sister and her man (oddly, I didn’t write anything about this, but we did!), we managed to drown both our digital camera and a mobile phone. They were wrapped up safely in rucksacks but it was so wet that […]
Facebook’s import of my Blog into its “Notes” section has been on the blink for a few weeks and today finally gave up on me – so I’ve reconfigured the feed and re-synchronised everything, so hopefully it will stay up to date now. Apologies for any confusion.
As a bit of a techie I like my gadgets. I’m not over the top in this respect, but I like it when technology can improve my life or do something useful. So when I buy new “toys”, I’ve generally thought quite hard about it. I really don’t intend to start making this a “Gadget […]
So here it is. I’m a geek! There, it’s out, you can all start jeering me and calling me a spod and asking where my sandals are, or, at the very least, call me up asking why your screen has turned a nice shade of purple. This therefore might not make complete sense to all […]
There are many better ways to plan a route than Google maps, especially for a cyclist. But I love it because it’s so FAST and so EASY to use. However, I found a few new things today that make it better for route planning. It now has an “Avoid Highways” option, for those of you […]
Techie note really. I’ve had a couple of video editing projects on hold, waiting for a tool that will convert the 3gp files I get from my mobile phone into a format that I can edit. I don’t want to have to pay anything to do this, so the projects have been set aside waiting […]
A neat little discovery today…meebo. A VERY simple web-based, multi-protocol chat client. What does that mean? Well, that you can use MSN, Yahoo Chat and Google Chat all from a single web page without even downloading anything! Probably only really useful from workplaces or if you’re in an internet cafe.