November 2009
104 posts
Looking forward to the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries preview tonight!
RT @codepo8 Awesome, I did not know that Finnair has a Moomin branded aircraft: http://bit.ly/5xM0pU
Hmm. There appears to be a 3G connection in my office. This is a miracle.
A morning of setting out stalls as well as releasing new data/images to http://collections.vam.ac.uk/ and http://www.vam.ac.uk/api
super afternoon at @tillyvanilly’s place. Couldn’t stay till White Album but Beatles day was a winner! Hope they enjoyed Yorks. Curd Tart.
UFO help needed: two firey lights passing slowly and silently overhead in East Anglian night sky. Quite low. Hot air balloons? Pls RT.
Empire Strikes Back on TV. Stop-motion At-Ats still beat CGI baddies any day.
Time, then, for a jog.
Good, good. V&A site publish worked overnight thus no remedial work needed to prevent weekend-long embarassment. #win
Put an end to that wasp’s hibernation plans.
Back from some demon cocktails at Milk and Honey. Cracking way to end the working week.
Seriously - my new Sennheiser CX300-ii headphones rival my old Shures - at a quarter of the price.
Just had a staff preview of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries. V. excited indeed. Opens to public Dec 2 - free! http://bit.ly/5ar98r
Lovely people keep asking me what I want for Christmas. Any suggestions?
Been to confs where this NEARLY happened RT @mia_out: Thoughtful piece… When Social Technologies Become AntiSocial http://bit.ly/73LN6O
Excellent. My understanding of SQL is so far in agreement with MS SQL Server. So far. #sql #mssql
Oh yes - Happy Thanksgiving, US Friends! RT @vicchi So remind me … is there some kind of public holiday going on in the US today?
Oh @EmmaJaneR, have you had your hair done?
Last night’s Moon - Lighter Exposure: http://flic.kr/p/7ijmkZ
Moon - Darker Exposure: http://flic.kr/p/7iofEA
Clear night so am taking pictures of the moon.
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.
It’s thrilling that we can deliver video of this quality over the internet. http://www.vimeo.com/7792286 The detail!
Clear morning, thankfully. Now the steel frame of a new tower in the City of London is visible from Finsbury Park.
Great day of developing mobile with #fluid infusion and connecting to SQL Server with pymssql and freetds from Mac. Win!
Prototyping some mobile views using #fluid infusion iPhone theme. Really enjoyable.
Get the gems Bentley Bear! http://www.atari.com/arcade/crystal_castles (thanks @codepo8)
Enjoying the music photography of @paulbridgewater http://www.londonmusicphotographer.com/ <— How good is he?
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.
RT @pekingspring: RT @coscultcom: YQL for our Cosmic Collections API now hosted on our site http://is.gd/51ZXH « Sample queries a …
Beautiful visualisation of V&A Collections from The Times on Saturday http://bit.ly/8FIRy3
I LOVE FFMPEG. It gr0ks even the shonkiest proprietary Apple codecs and turns them into sensible formats.
Thanks to @FuriousPurpose for my #kidrobot sticker. Which laptop should I stick it on?….
A little bit of delving into the bibliography section of our museum collections - a lot of potential here but it’s a can of worms!
What about a furtive cat to start the week? http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O86116/soft-toy-cat/
That is some filthy rain.
Bus adverts for Christmas Carol movie: why is Jim Carrey humping a chess pawn?
Buses. Always mocking me.
The man is a machine: RT @5easypieces Oh, man. Don just worked the Library of Congress API into our internal documentation system.
We have completed the ring! (via @CERN)
Time for a wander around the V&A Maharaja exhibition, I feel.
RT @programmableweb “Science Museum Opens API and Challenges Developers to Mashup the Cosmos” http://bit.ly/1MVtcW #coscultcom <-hawtness
Hoping my coffee order from @hasbean isn’t going slow down the recovery of his gammy foot.
Looking forward to periodic updates from #fullfrontalconf courtesy of @waarg
RT @5easypieces I don’t usually do this, but a nice xmas present for me would be if you would download my record: http://bit.ly/1EAosO.
Yes! A Nintendo Game Boy in the V&A / Museum of Childhood http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O36886 I honed my geek on this.
Just read the first two pages of Sarah Palin’s Autobiog http://bit.ly/4wYJIC A chilling reminder of what could have been.
Red uplighters in the V&A sculpture galleries: http://flic.kr/p/7gUiwq
Flickr’s interestingness algorithm is b0rked. Ropey HDR, sunsets and ultra-wide angles are NOT interesting.
Rhythmyx users! You have my sympathy! Adding link to list page: 3 community changes, 20 clicks later; a little piece of me dies.