• Camerabag
  I've been wondering if/when anyone would get around to this – some basic in-camera fitlers that I can apply to photos on the iphone to replicate the effect of various old-style cameras. Well, yes, someone has come with an app to do it, and it does it bloody well. This is going to make my phhone cam much more useful.
  (tags: iphone photography software)

• Amazon.co.uk: Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture by Raven Digitalis
  Seriously, look at this rubbish. And what kind of a name is "Raven Digitalis"? I bet that's not the fucking name on her birth certificate. I'm all for letting people reinvent themselves, and an individuals right to self expressing, and to be called what they want, but there's people who spoil it for the rest of us, you know?

  (And yet, there is a small, horrible part of me that want to read this book.)

  (tags: just_bloody_stupid)
• The Lesser Key of Solomon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Yes. Today is esoteric claptrap day. Which reminds me, I saw a completely horrifying book at the weekend, that I nearly bought for its sheer awfulness.
  (tags: reference occult)

Not that most of you are going to care terribly much, but the project that has been eating my life for the last few months went live today, in a more-or-less pain free manner. There’s been a few minor tweaks, but nothing has fallen over, nothing has broken, and no-one is running around like a headless chicken.

The new Slug and Lettuce pub chain website is now live. And while it looks quite simple, it has a completely state of the art on-line booking system (and it is my business to know what state of the art in this field is – it really is better than anyone else’s, I promise you). I could bore you all rigid with waffle about the clever features, the ultra sexy (and user-friendly) admin system, and so on and forth, but the acid test is simpler than that: since going live a couple of hours ago, they have already had a reasonable number of enquiries via this system. Client confidentially prevents me from giving away precise numbers, but we appear to be on course to put through as many hundred covers in two days as their old system did in a month. And that’s on launch day. Things will only improve over the next year or so.

So, yeah. That’s done. Next!

• WordPress Developer’s Toolbox | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
  I spend a fair amount of time hacking about with WordPress in my spare time. This'll come in handy.
  (tags: wordpress tools)

• WordPress Developer’s Toolbox | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
  I spend a fair amount of time hacking about with WordPress in my spare time. This'll come in handy.
  (Tags: wordpress tools )

• Silverback — guerrilla usability testing
  Doing proper usability testing suddenly got much, much more affordable. The price of a cheap Mac, plus 25 quid, and some freebies ot give awya to anyone that will come in sit down with your app/website for 20 minutes.
  (Tags: usability tools design )

• al3x.net: al3x's Rules for Computing Happiness
  Absolutely superb list. If any part of your computing life is making you unhappy, refer to this list, because I bet it'll tell you what you're doing wrong.
  (tags: technology simplicity)

• al3x.net: al3x’s Rules for Computing Happiness
  Absolutely superb list. If any part of your computing life is making you unhappy, refer to this list, because I bet it'll tell you what you're doing wrong.
  (Tags: technology simplicity )

• Welcome to The Shady Old Lady's Guide to London
  Ugly as fuck, but this might be a useful site for reference/pocking around odd bits of Londonalia.
  (tags: london reference)
• MultiTouch – Modular MultiTouch LCD
  Why yes, I do want this quite badly. Even just to use as a monitor/interface – I've gotten so used to slinging windows between virtual desktops that I would absolutely love to be able to do it by hand.
  (tags: future interface ui touchscreen)
• Pulse Laser: OFF=ON, or, Whatever happened to Availabot?
  This is one of those products that I simultaneously thing is quite a cool little representative thing, a genuinely nice idea in human computer interaction, and yet, I cannot see a practical use for. I either have multiple chat windows open, or I'm not using IM. And I just don't see how it'd work for multiple chat windows…
  (tags: interaction gadgets toys schulzeandwebb)
• List of London Gang names
  OK, just two links on the subject, then.
  (tags: london research crime)
• Category:Gangs in London – Wikipedia
  Probably a few of these today
  (tags: london crime research)

• Welcome to The Shady Old Lady’s Guide to London
  Ugly as fuck, but this might be a useful site for reference/pocking around odd bits of Londonalia.
  (Tags: london reference )