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I'm a bit of a linguistic conservative – my objection to neologisms like "squee" and "woot" is well-documented. But I'm also in firm agreement with Mr Fry here, even if my method of expressing it would be 180 degrees from his own. But then, that's why he's a national treasure and I'm not.
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I know fuck all about engineering, electronics, or most of the tools this might be useful for. And yet still, I want one.
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Some staggeringly beautiful shots of my hometown. There is a small, mean part of me whispering that anyone who was half competant with the right kit and a helicopter could produce these. This is untrue, because he has (I assume) put time, effort and work into getting to a point in his career where it is economically viable for him to do so.
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More shots by the same photographer. And I know that small mean part of me is dead fucking wrong. These are superbly composed, beautifully shot exposures that evoke feeling and mood, that betray a really bloody good eye. Even were I up there with the right kit, I'm sure I'd miss most of the more interesting shots here.
Category: Digitalia
Cocoa: First Impressions
Sod me, this is a bit easy. Which is not to appear smug, or anything, but I’ve just knocked a really basic web browser together in about ten minutes. OK, that’s not much more than the OS X equivalent version of your usual “Hello World” beastie, but on the other hand, I’ve never build a “Hello World” app I could post to my blog from before.
Right, back to work. Now for the tricky stuff.
Links For Wednesday 28th January 2009
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"Stars nearly aligned" says Professor Angell. On the other hand, maybe this will finally give us a leg up all becoming young and thin and energetic again. Or turn us into a race of degenerate fish-men, I guess. Either's good by me. Ia! Etc…
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Ding! Correct! This, right here, is why I have never played an ARG. And why I would love to get paid to write one.
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Former colleague's JS graph library. Looks handy.
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About to start an Objective C/Cocoa spare time project. Don't know if I'll need any of these tools, but it can't hurt to have a reference to find them.
Links For Tuesday 27th January 2009
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90% of my job is like this. The *other* 90% is making the black triangle look like something pretty.
Links For Friday 23rd January 2009
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I shall pick this thing apart at some point over the weekend, see if there's anything I can splice into/shortcut as part of my own efforts.
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Yes, I know everyone and their badger has been linking to this. Tough. These are just superb. I think #44, the picture of all the cellphones and cameras is particular telling.
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This will be incomprehensible to non developers in the audience, but oh god, this is so painfully, painfully true.
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This idea set off fireworks in my head, and I think I've got a spare-time tech project for the foreseeable (I got a proof of concept lashed together in about an hour, but it needs a *lot* more work before it's useable.) I love the idea of being able to get up in the morning and have the overnight reading ready for me to hop on the bus with. Hell, even if I don't ever make the mailbox public, all I have to do is lash it to some RSS-to-email functionality, and presto – a custom POD newspaper every morning.
Links For Friday 16th January 2009
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Also known as the Stoke Newington Eight. Middle-class anarchist terrorists on the early 70s, who are (reportedly) now a bit embarrassed by the whole thing. Making a note of it, because it's a superb name, and I want to remember they existed, because it's bound to be useful one day.
Links For Thursday 15th January 2009
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Linking to this rather than the portrait, because I'm nerdy enough to be amused/interested in the EXIF data that tells us about the tools and settings used to take the photo.
Links For Wednesday 14th January 2009
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Me personally, I don't really like most kittens, and a lot of the cooking here is beyond my capabilities. But I can cheerfully fillet and skin kittens for other people, thanks to my old part-time job.
Links For Friday 9th January 2009
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A fucking huge, and fucking lovely, photo of well, exactly what it says. No particular reason to link to it, it's just pretty, that's all.
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My friend Stu is a bit handy with words, and a lot more aware of the word around him than I am, and he occasionally writes up the interesting people he encounters as he commutes or otherwise goes about his business in London. These are a beautifully rendered, and very real, slice of what life is like in the greatest city on earth. Go and read them.
Links For Thursday 8th January 2009
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I am so tempted to skip out on family Christmas next year, and produce a set something like this. OK, there's not a chance I would, but still, the set pretty damn impressive anyway.
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Like everyone else, I'd never heard of these before. And like all right-thinking people, I do think the entire notion is fascinating. Mouldering hulks of poisonous stone that no longer light up the night. Perfect fodder for a maritime ghost story.
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Good round up of various cleaning options to remove sensor dust. My old D70s body is a martyr to it, and the D80 is bound to pick up some at some point.
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Some interesting old terms in here I hadn;'t run across before that might be useful in the future.