LazyWebSpammers
Nov 10, 2008 | Technology
A while ago, I remember getting a vague sense of misplaced pride when my popular but largely uninteresting website LazyWebTools was blocked by WebSense in work. It felt like it had arrived, been recognised by the world.But now some bandits are trying to grab traffic...
The ‘Web Ripple’
Nov 8, 2008 | Technology
I've spent some idle time recently tinkering with various Web 2.0 sites like Facebook, Twitter etc. As my reader may have noticed, my Facebook status is now driven from Twitter and it all ends up here on this blog.In addion, if I make a prediction on HubDub, it...
So, let’s have a button that does that…
Nov 7, 2008 | Technology
As my reader will be aware, whether at home or on the move, I almost always listen to music using random/shuffle mode. I have oft to referred to this herein as the 'randomiser'. It's just a natural extension of the mix-tape : that changes each time you put it on. But...
A Word from our Sponsor
Nov 4, 2008 | Writing
I would like to take a few moments to suggest you check out the most excellent NewsBiscuit book, Isle of Wight To Get Ceefax. If you're not familiar with NewsBiscuit it is a UK focused satirical website (much in the style The Onion). This book contains the best from...
It’s Not Easy Being Green
Nov 3, 2008 | Writing
Two steps forward, three steps back. I'd made some progress on TerraExitus. Not much, but enough to give me a feel for where I was going. And there's the problem. I passed a few chunks by Stuart and we both arrived at a pretty similar conclusion. It was a bit too hard...
The Invisibles
Nov 2, 2008 | Photography
Cracking day at Edinburgh Zoo, almost too much light, lovely day. And, amazingly, many of the animals we hardly ever see made an appearance.Pallas CatGiant AnteaterManed WolfAnd some of the more usually visible animals were looking fine too:I'll link these up to...
1001 Reasons to Be Depressed
Nov 1, 2008 | zeitgeist
I was in the bookshop* yesterday and saw a book called something like "1001 Places to See Before You Die". A very nice picture book, full of interesting locations. There are many of it's type.It struck me that, if you're not careful, it could be quite a depressing...
Oooh Stretchy!
Oct 14, 2008 | Technology
Doesn't look that much different but the blog templates they are a changing. This is the first incarnation of a new blog template now with a stretchy 3-column liquid layout and integrated Twitter-y stuff. (Thanks to Martin Taylor).Ultimately, I plan to move this to...
Wordle
Oct 1, 2008 | Technology
Just had a quick play with Wordle. It is strangely soothing. The Wordle for this blog is below, click on it to see it bigger...
define:irony
Sep 25, 2008 | Photography
You could argue that I should have categorised this under Writing. Either way, it is very amusing and so wonderfully, accidentally apropos!Many thanks to the people at 101 Reasons To Stop Writing for using my image (and for making Stuart's day). For the record, I...
250K
Aug 31, 2008 | Photography
On 30th June 2005 I uploaded my first photos to morguefile.com. They were fairly uninteresting shots taken with my old point-and-shoot Sony. In September 2007, I started uploading a few shots to sxc.hu.Across these two sites, I have now had over 250,000 hi-res...
The (not so) Silent Blogger
Aug 30, 2008 | zeitgeist
You may have noticed a large gap in this blog. Have I been remiss in my blogging? Nay not so. I've been off through Europe on the Sucata Run and was blogging furiously on the team blog.First time I've tried any real-time blogging like that and it was a lot of fun,...
Introducing… The GMail Ad Game
Aug 2, 2008 | zeitgeist
One of the many great things about GMail is the single advert you get at the top of your inbox. As with everything Google-esque, it is context-sensitive to what is going on the page and, particular to GMail, in the email on the page.So, here is the, I admit entirely...
Kings of the Hill
Jul 27, 2008 | zeitgeist
It would be remiss of me not to also post this here (it is already on the General Ignorance Blog). We spent today in the blazing sun starting the paint job on our car, The General, for the Sucata Run. I thought I'd try a little time lapse video. It worked pretty well,...
Meanwhile, somewhere in the East…
Jul 21, 2008 | Photography
Had a play with TinEye today. It was really quite nice. Given that I have so many pictures littered over the internet, could be a very useful tool for finding out what people are using them for (aside from the kind souls that tell me).I think the range of searching is...
The Time Is Now…
Jul 4, 2008 | showcase
Well, 7 hours from now. At 9pm tonight, Season 2 of Bimbogami will go live. I think it could be a fun night/weekend. We have seen all the puzzlers gathering on the site since we announced the date/time and it looks like they might all jump on tonight to see who can...
Half Year Review
Jun 30, 2008 | zeitgeist
At the end of last year I wrote a list herein of things I'd like to accomplish this year. As we are now half way through, thought it time to have an interim review. 1 Great Photograph Well, still waiting for this one. Taken a few decent ones but even the arrival of...
Lethal Mizzle
Jun 29, 2008 | zeitgeist
Friday night, wrote Mr Kipling, I stood in a field in the rain watching small figures the size of Hornby railway figures play some loud music I had heard before.It would be very easy, at this point, to descend into a straight-forward review of Radiohead on Glasgow...
The Amazon Desert Island Challenge
Jun 23, 2008 | meme, zeitgeist
I was wandering the aisles of a record store on Saturday looking at how cheap all the great albums I already own are. It occurred to me that you could get pretty much everything you really needed by way of entertainment for not very much these days. So, I dreamt up...
Independence Day
Jun 20, 2008 | showcase
After many months of cogitation and musing, the launch date and time for the next incarnation of the online puzzle quest Bimbogami has been announced. Bimbogami Season 2 is almost upon us. So, get your puzzling head ready for Friday 4th July 2008 at 9:00pm BST and...