January 2009
99 posts
Strange - my iPod just went into recovery mode and iTunes asked me if I wanted to restore factory settings. Err, no. Manual restart = Fine.
Walked from Little Venice to Portobello Road. Now Frost/Nixon at the Electric. Leather seats and a bottle of wine!
Walked from Little Venice to Portobello Road. Now Frost/Nixon at the Electric. Leather seats and a bottle of wine?
Watched this great French film http://bit.ly/4N4R which featured amazing slow-mo footage of pianist Vladimir Horowitz http://bit.ly/h783
Bagels, bagels, bagels, bagels…
Home now - 12 hours since leaving for work. Been a challenging week but I think the web is marginally better now than at the start.
A List Apart: Articles: Flash Satay: Embedding... →
Cool! A ticket I raised for the Symfony framework has been addressed and fixed using my workaround! http://tinyurl.com/cstnlj
Why are people still giving me HTML with embed tags in for Flash? Embed is non-standard and was only implemented by Netscape. C’mon people!
Great podcast of a show last year from ABC Radio National’s awesome Science Show: One Laptop Per Child http://bit.ly/Bu3f
You know you’re over 30 when you get halfway through an obscure western and realise you’ve seen it before.
Sheesh, opening Firefox really puts the pressure on my other processes. On a Mac Pro!
Django caching? Daddy’s bought me a @djangopony
Why haven’t I tried Django caching up until now? <div> level caching is easier than falling off a log.D
Back in the DSLR game with cash money http://www.flickr.com/photos/richbs/3229674814/
Picked up my replacement Canon EOS 1000D today! It seems to be pleased to see me, especially with my new 300mm lens on.
Feet not touching ground so far today. Phew.
Great to hear the Song Thrush this morning.
I’m so full of haggis. Trying to break it up with malt. Today, we read To a Mouse and To a Louse. Thanks Rabbie Burruns.
This is fun: 8pm GMT @twhisky will be doing a tasting event http://dubberandclutch.com/?p=323
Straw poll: neeps and tatties? Separate or mashed together? I’m thinking separate.
Got me neeps, got me tatties. Vegetarian Haggis is on his way. Glenfiddich will be the dram. Now for some chores…
OK guys - let’s talk SLR camera bags. I’m looking at a Crumpler Muffin Top 3000 - any other suggestions - sub-£50? Cheers!
Huzzah! John Lewis have the EOS 1000D in stock again - ordered online and can pick up tomorrow! Finally get to try my 300mm Sigma lens!
Somebody please take the Wasabi Peas off me. I’m going to eat them all and have a very runny nose.
So the first weekly presidential address is an embedded YouTube video on the WhiteHouse blog in which he launches a site http://recovery.gov
Watching @barackobama and his first weekly address http://tinyurl.com/clu8sl
Went to see Annie Leibovitz at National Portrait Gallery. Massive portrait of GW Bush’s cabinet circa 2001, Rumsfeld et al. Poignant.
Strange, my wireless software is not enabled but I’m still on t’internet.
Girlfriend has video chatted with friends in Boston and Melbourn in the past 2 weeks. Skype and Google Chat. MacBook makes it so easy.
GBP sad. I think we need an oil magnate to buy the UK and transfer in some talent. Let’s sign the Pope, Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama and Obama.
Wow, even Micro$oft are laying off thousands.
Just investigating strange layout issues on an HTML page. It seems whitespace between certain <div>s was causing it. Odd.
BBC - Radio Labs - Removing Microformats from... →
I’ve implemented microformats on http://viewfilm.net/ but this is a compelling argument against doing so.
http://twitpic.com/ is basically a phishing exploit. I think I’ll set up a light blue page to harvest everyone’s logins too. Be cautious.
Well, this is where I was when @BarackObama was sworn in. http://bit.ly/DKEs
Duchy Originals Oaten Biscuits: luxury food, not over-packaged. Yummy. Cool jQuery too http://duchyoriginals.com/ Nice one, Your Highness.
Implementing an OAuth API Server looks like a sure-fire way of keeping bandwidth costs down :-). Feels robust though!
The signature bit of OAuth is mindbending to me. Am I being a bit slow, does anyone have any pithy mnemonics for ‘getting it’?
urllib2 - The Missing Manual →
Great examples and building blocks for RESTful API consumption!
I’ve got the key, I’ve got the secret. @richbs signs up to YAAPI - yet another API. I’ve got the key to another way.
webservices.xml.com: Second Generation Web... →
This looks like an interesting read, espescially considering the current trend for RESTful services.
I usually find myself swinging between Opera and Safari for my default browser. Safari edging it ATM, slightly slicker and more usable.
To clean your Apple Mighty Mouse ball, you must grasp it with true mettle and rub the hell out of it on some paper. Add water if necessary.
Off to Sadler’s Wells.
A good evening- girlfriend making marmalade, port and stilton for dinner. Can one contract gout in one sitting?
The promised squall commences here in London N4. Windows rattle and spatter with rain. The kind of weather that makes you enjoy being inside
Just picked up my 300mm Sigma lens. Wish I had camera to put it on. Still. top front of the number 19 bus FTW!