June 2010
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Web Search Graffiti
The new Ceramics Study Galleries opened to the public at the Victoria and Albert Museum today and I went to have a scout around. They are packed floor-to-ceiling with the V&A’s massive collection, acting like a “live storage” system.
Here’s an artist’s impression because my phone ran out of battery:
V&A Ceramics Study Galleries.
Because the objects are...
April 2010
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How open is your mobile phone?
I am a freedom-hating iPhone owner. This means I tolerate DRM-encumbered films from the iTunes Store. I also enjoy Audible audiobooks, which I can only play back on a maximum of 5 computers. The development of the iPhone operating system is a closely-guarded secret which is then protected by litigation after release. I don’t like these things much at all. Yet, I am better rewarded than my...
March 2010
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Bernard Bresslaw, at home and at work
I love it when collections of web data make the unlikely connections.
My colleague and I were delighted to see the Harry Hammond photography collection fully digitised on the V&A Search the Collections database a couple of months back. This is a collection worth exploring…
There are some extraordinary photographs from the fifties and sixties here. Update: I just realised I should link to...
I’ve written a proper blog post about being a n00b to RPG games and gaming. What do you think? http://bit.ly/dAuBev
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In Praise of RPGs
The experiences of a mostly casual gamer, tackling the RPG genre. A kind of newbie introduction.
Background
Looking back on games that have consumed me over the years, I notice many of them have elements of role-playing. I think of Championship Manager 93-94, Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Outcast (a much overlooked gem).
Exploring RPG Options for the uninitiated
I approached the RPG genre...
Mrs. Blackbird gathering nesting material.
I seem to have written some Javascript that inadvertently tries to print the page.
Great achievement here RT @portableant http://www.finds.org.uk has gone live in full β
This is a really lovely 1000 year old sword pommel http://bit.ly/bOqFfU which I can enjoy because of @portableant’s graft!
Went for a routine blood test in Tottenham. Grab a numbered ticket and wait your turn. Bit like a trip to the deli. Civilised.
And this is what #teaearlgreyhot looks like, if @maxrushden was wondering: http://flic.kr/p/7N2C1z
Brothers and Sisters… You know what time it is. #teaearlgreyhot
One for @miaridge - as if she needs more work to do! http://adactio.com/journal/1651/
Enjoying Wonders of the Solar System but in this and other recent BBC docs the music is too high in the mix and intrusive.
I like the cheek of this… ♺ @martingoode: My Opera - Opera Mini Countup http://is.gd/aU8g6
Any game, streamed to your computer, graphic processing done server-side. US only but could be huge http://www.onlive.com/
This is HUGE. Finally, DNS is set up to point at http://vam.ac.uk/ without the www! Phew.
Right, museum night-owls, to bed with you! Am looking at you @portableant and @jottevanger. @lucyinglis stop leading @pekingspring astray.
Another boring Foursquare tweet (@ The Angelic) http://4sq.com/6tiHo9
Just at the end of London Film Day at Wood Green. Note to self: kids LOVE stickers. I mean jumping up and down with excitment.
Hearing sounds of the Finsbury Park Kurdish Newroz celebrations on a warm afternoon.
I’m at Caffe Latino (86-148 High Rd, Wood Green). http://4sq.com/9xoGBR
Presumably it’s an old joke in rugger circles that the 6 Nations logo looks like an anatomical diagram of a testis.
Downloading Ubuntu Lucid Beta and revving up a VM.
Huzzah! RT @jhbiddle http://www.heresjonny.com/ completely re-tooled and online.
Prince then Kate Bush? Someone as old and decrepit as me is at the jukebox.
Lager time at the Fullback (@ The Faltering Fullback) http://4sq.com/4JuedB
Listening to the 1953 Massey Hall concert, this one has the Charles Mingus bass overdub and it’s great. I <3 Charlie Mingus.
Firefox Live HTTP Headers FTW
LOL. Sarah Brown and Kirstie Allsop (off the telly) tweeting about Quilts private view… Marketing. Target Demographic. Nailed.
Happily CSSing… top right bottom left… #teaearlgreyhot
My coffee tastes like the fine coffee you get with a German hotel breakfast before hitting the streets for some sightseeing.
Proper tea is NOT theft.
Heard a male Tawny owl early this morning. Or I may have dreamed it.
Come on Opera! Even Internet Explorer 6 can gr0k this…
Sailing by FTW
sudo kill -9 sandwich
Well, that’s MySource Matrix retrieving related articles from our content API using metadata. Nice!
Nice day, good jog and lovely flock of Redwings in the park. Glad my guests rose before I’d eaten a whole cholla bread.
Quote of the day: @waarg “Do you think R2-D2 got an IP address from the Death Star’s DHCP server?”
canhazbeer
Contemplating Digital Asset Management vs. Digital Liability Management. Thinking I do a lot of DLM. :-)
Permission Denied
$ sudo canhazbeer ~/
No end of fun in the V&A Web Team Gigaplex. Now five (count ‘em) geeks working to redevelop, well, everything.
Gates of Paradise: w00t the Italian Cast Courts are open @V_and_A: http://flic.kr/p/7KdmgU
Wow. John
Adams’ City Noir was a cinematic experience. Evocative and witty ending with @londonsymphony in a MASSIVE groove.