TFL mashing up

Check out TFL's own little mashup, google maps and traffic cameras as live travel news. Nice work. Now, can we tear off the camera bubbles and make a dashboard of live feeds?

Curious

So who reads this blog I wonder? Go ahead, drop a comment, and what you read it for.

Or I'll um.... post bad YouTube videos... Bwahaha!



Update: Apparently hardly anyone. So I resort to good YouTube videos first.

Reading problem...

A story about a Methane sniffing Mars Plane on Engadget... which I initially read as saying ...

then be able to detect methane at levels as low as a few farts per billion,

But, hey, that's kinda right isn't it?

You've used the font....

You've used the font...

Now see the movie

(Actually, it sounds quite interesting...)

(Via Helvetica (kottke.org).)

AjaxTerm - Thats quite neat...

AjaxTerm is a rather impressive bit of work. It's a python script you run which lets you point your browser at a port on that machine and get an Ajaxy terminal session which you can login in with.

Continuations for Curmudgeons

After the last LRUG meeting there was much discussion of continuations, and following up from that Ross pointed the LRUG irc channel at Sam Ruby: Continuations for Curmudgeons which explains continuations pretty damn well.

Acts_As_Ferret - Full text searching

This tutorial, Rails Envy: Acts_As_Ferret Tutorial strikes me as jolly interesting, and alleviates my fear that it would feed my models sugar candy till they go hyperactive like Kiki.

Did I mention I've been Railing?

Yes, I've been getting into Ruby on Rails and it is quite a pleasant place to work. I came to it with a purpose, to understand it's mojo so one can compare with the various Railsy frameworks popping up for Java, but it is tempting me to settle in and work a lot more with it. The current challenge, Converence; the prototype works, now to make it all shiny and slick. Oh and scalable. Ish.

Trying Marsedit....

As there's no widget at the moment, I thought I'd check out Marsedit.

Apparently it plays nice with New Blogger.

Update: Well, it does play well so far. This might be a goer.

Well.... The prototype worked.....

My little project "Rix" which was meant to be just an experiment with Ruby on Rails. Well, the experiment went pretty well; for the first time, I felt confident enough to try it out on a couple of folks and it seems to work. So, I'm killing "Rix", or more coopting it as the basis for Converence. What's Converence? It's my long running attempt to glue the threaded message style of conferencing with the immediacy of IRC and IM. I'm well impressed with Ruby On Rails, it's let me get something that works together far quicker than in the past. Now, the real test is how it'll all work out as I push the design forward and make the UI as natural and slick as possible.

I'll need something to think about over the next few months to stop me worrying about getting an ingrown toenail removed (and though that isn't that much of a deal, it is for me for when I was young, the same operation went bad and it has stuck with me since)... So I'll be getting plenty of screen time.

I do wish Blogger would sort out a MacOSX widget for the current Blogger; blogging is lacking it's immediacy.

8 bit joy....

I just found 8 Bit Operators. Kraftwerk as played on 8 bit game consoles.

8-Bit Operators |
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Astralwerks Records |
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Public Service Announcement

Why I say no to ID cards....

Because the government just can't help hiding the truth and lying about facts. Trust em with my dabs? Not a chance... It's not just the fishing expedition, it's the "Well there's quite a high step to get onto the trawler to go fishing, so we'll call that a restriction... and don't mention how big a trawl we can do when we're out there". The clock starts now for Mr Plod to arrest someone on the strength of a match.

"Neighbours" to change palette...

Australia to be lit in crappy faintly orangey light.... horrible bloody things them CFLs are.

via SBisson who thinks it's a good thing.

Macrovisionless.....

So the CEO of Macrovision has responded to Steve Jobs Thoughts on Music.

Next week, Vlad the impaler on why todays young people need more, not less impaling.

Bah Blogger

I like Blogger, but, does anyone find it hilariously bad that they don't have a working Dashboard Widget for the "New" Blogger? You'd have thought "Hey, lets make sure our few tools we distribute actually work with New Blogger before we take it out of beta" would have been... on the to-do list?

The real Wow...

Steve makes me go Wow!

Now maybe the record labels would like to step up to the challenge.

Windows Se7en....

So apparently "Vienna", Microsoft's code name for the version of Windows in which the things Vista didn't deliver will have (honest, no word of a lie) is now called Windows 7. Or is that Windows Se7en where Microsoft implement all the seven deadly sins. Obviously, Sloth and Greed are already a well established foundation technology for Microsoft. And Bill Gates has been hands on working on Wrath, Envy and Pride in interviews. Gluttony will be implemented by the acquisitions department, leaving only Lust for the developers to work on. Ah... Redmond, I think we have a problem...

Working on a phone

Well, the Nokia E70 amazes me again. I'm using it's browser to post this!

Saturday Morning Bible Quiz....

I blame Pharyngula....

You know the Bible 87%!

 

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

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And it's still a load of mystical mythic cobblers.