January 2009
gave Lucy her flamethrower for weeds, have been excitedly rehearsing lines from Alien all week =)
cake and cava and sunshine on my desk = yay
since installing clicktoflash memory and cpu usage are down dramatically. Also have decided that sifr is just plain wrong.
BBC NEWS | Health | Are worms vital to human... →
the dirt is good for you idea revisited, the worms in the dirt are the vital ingredient. We no longer have worms in our body (in g8 countries) so we a are missing something we’ve evolved alongside
RT @grace_baynes Climate change, Univ of Exeter is serious! 13 senior academic vacancies on Naturejobs http://tinyurl.com/bt7u9e
BBC to put every publicly owned oil painting... →
All publicly owned art to go online, 100 part radio4 programme, new arts focus from the BBC, all good stuff
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Law in Action | A world... →
commoditisation of the legal profession likely
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - Errol Morris Blog -... →
amazing series of photographs of George Bush with commentry from the photographers
https://twitter.com/AlistairDarling is great writing
would moving UK MOT to 4 years increase car ownership duration and leasing term length? Cars are reliable now.
commoditisation of the legal profession http://tinyurl.com/clbqxu via @timohannay [@swardley]
have a letter from my MP at home, wondering if it is Heathrow or MPexpenses related
hmm, starting to find lots of music is not yet on Spotify, but is on iTunes already
wow drifting off, must focus on finishing chapter
duration of private car ownership is increasing, how to increase it from 4.5 to 6 years? Will not help car companies, will reduce CO2 impact
interesting facts on http://bit.ly/CarOwnership2008uk from RAC, pre-crunch. 9 years is when scrapping starts, 14 is 50% point.
rentzsch's clicktoflash at master - GitHub →
a simple plugin for Safari which stops flash elements autoloading. It has dropped CPU usage in Safari dramatically for me
odd the extremely useful clicktoflash has disappeared from http://code.google.com/p/clicktoflash/ after being linked to from all over
still pleased with Spotify, great for exploring music. Hope business model works, I’ll probably pay, it is ~ an album a month, have invites
my second born has discovered a promising future career, voice actor as a Nazgûl
Little Boots Meddle →
320k MP3 of the Little Boots track Meddle, enjoying this shamelessly. Currently free.
a video camera is the one thing I miss from my N95, now I have an iPhone 3G
http://tinyurl.com/c6fpux is twitter.com statuses user_timeline USERNAME.xml?count=10000 how to backup twitter
discovering that http://tinyurl.com/c6fpux works, but more than that fails, load based culling?
re-reading Steven Pemberton http://tinyurl.com/bv7rzq as good and thought provoking, as I remember it
Realizing it has been a long time since I regularly had dice in my bag and thinking that is a bit poor
off to see some rothko
RT @agentgav are we, collectively, reaching our “Oppenheimer moment” - an epiphany that we are Bhagavad Gita’s “destroyer of worlds”?
Isolator →
Fades out everything but the topmost appication much like Backdrop used to do via waferbaby and al3x
trying to bring activity theory, data modelling and agile development practice into a coherent whole, getting there I hope
back to the book, I’ll be glad when it is done
From Heath Row To Heathrow...Mapped - Londonist:... →
Great map from the Londonist resident geographer Matt, showing the 1805 map of a small village Heath Row.
productive day, openid gives you a lot, but identity management is still a hard and domain specific problem
played drop7 without reading rules, decided aim was to make tile runs adding up to 7, did surprisingly well, fun better played correctly
ShipAIS- Watching the boats go by. →
Clever map based visualisation of ship movements around the UK
Live Ships Map - AIS - Vessel Traffic and... →
and ship movements worldwide
http://www.shipais.com/ watch UK ship movements via @moleitau lovely and very detailed
http://bit.ly/warmingAntarctica whole Antarctic continent warming at 0.1°C per decade since 1957, not just peninsula
The γ1 Modular Miniature DAC →
hoping at some point to have the soldering skills to make this portable DAC
President Obama 'has four years to save Earth' |... →
lets hope he gets on with it
A specialist OpenID service to provide unique... →
Great conversation about the problems of scientific identity management and the potential role for OpenID
Cameron: we will build £1bn 'smart grid' to green... →
RT @spinuzzi Theories as operating systems: Activity theory = UNIX, actor-network theory = BeOS [I discuss AT vs UCD in my book]
learning a lot about messaging patterns, gaining a new language to describe integration & how to loosely join http://www.eaipatterns.com/
Happier at Blair winning or Obama as President? Obama has greater scope for worldwide change. 11 years feels a long time to look back
tomtaylor.co.uk : projects : microprinter →
Delightful printer for personal news for the day, reminds me of personal news project from the media lab in the 80, must have a go at one of these.
back in work, reading about messaging patterns to connect things and thinking about federation