22nd of October, 2008

TVT from the BCC

TVT from the BCC

21st of October, 2008

Twenty minutes out of Manchester (on my way to Web 2.0 Europe). Testing my purchase of Tumblrette from the App Store.

Twenty minutes out of Manchester (on my way to Web 2.0 Europe).

Testing my purchase of Tumblrette from the App Store.

20th of October, 2008

Today is going to be a bit stressful, so this is what I’ll be listening to.

...and we're back

Sort of.

More to follow.

Probably.

Look.

You know me, you know we’re about to do the sad sorry dance again, where I update for a few days and then get bored… or are we?


Yes.

Yes we are.

11th of July, 2008

while waiting for your iPhone 3G to activate, hit the emergency slide and play some DTMF choons...

Minus Four equals Fail.

2nd of July, 2008

Briefly, then...

….a quick rambling post on software that goes like this:

Liking Things more than OmniFocus, it just feels right.

Using it every day, makes a real difference, will pony up the cash when 1.0 comes out — it should play nice with the iPhone 3G too…

Yes I have my PAC code and 159 notes ready for the 11th.

Desktopple is a productivity booster, will probably buy when the trial runs out — more on this when I have time (nothing new if you read 43 folders).

Numbers is a shockingly bad piece of software… Apple really messed up here.

Loving JQuery, TextMate and OmniGraffle Pro; a highly effective trio for prototyping out my ideas.

Bemused by the “anything goes” ICANN decision on top level domains, at the very least it’s going to make form validation even more of a pain in the ass - all those “cut and paste this regex” scripts out there are going to fall over when alice@mail.google and bob@dev.ibm enter their details.

9th of June, 2008

It’s all greek to me.

It’s all greek to me.

Ordnance Survey OpenSpace

Probably late to the party on this, but the new web service from OS is rather comedic; take a look at the FAQ for some mild chuckles:

Not only do they expect you to give them your data (1.4), they won’t let you put any ads on any part of your site if you use them (6.3), oh and forget about building that cool social networking app (6.4).

So, come on kids, build a innovative new web app using the best mapping data in the world, only you can’t cover your bandwidth costs while you get popular, we own any data you create and you can’t hook your app into anything interesting.

Woo.

All that, though, is fair enough, the T&Cs are highly unattractive but having worked in public service in the UK, I can imagine the fun they had with the lawyers — and for some people, schools mostly, it may be worth playing with.

But… check the API examples, none of them include the actual maps the examples are meant to implement, just static images of them.

That’s special.

22nd of May, 2008

Today I… played with TapeDeck, started a custom stencil in OmniGraffle for some gridding , thought long and hard about where to do segmentation in emails, broke CUPS, fixed it, discovered my command of octals has waned considerably, found an awesome tree bookcase, which I suspect costs a few grand but perhaps I could MacGyver something up in MDF, but I would throw money down for a Penguin Donkey, one to add to the near-future-fortune list, want want want the Chronotebook, anyone seen em in Muji yet? and to end… Nihlogic’s JavaScript Super Mario Kart is very cool.

21st of May, 2008

Today I… remembered about Soviet ekranoplans like the Caspian Sea Monster, after blackbeltjones del.icio.us’d a link to the largest military hovercraft, found plans for an RC version of it, know a modest body of water close to the office that it’d be great on, found an alternate universe where Virgin operates A-90 Orlyonok’s (scroll to the bottom) which would be awesome frankly, noted that Jack Thompson’s career is hopefully over, discovered the Eee 901, which might be a better buy than the HP, played the (old) Lucky Star “trailer” to the team, still think it would make a great film, haven’t ever been offered a $1000 to quit, but wouldn’t anyway, despite the harrowing trials of the tea run, was disappointed the DP1 has bad shutter lag and muttered a “yeah, right, uh-huh” at the Killzone 2 release date slip.