November 2007
126 posts
Spoof London Underground Announcements →
“Youâve got the microphone. Itâs a Monday morning. There are hundreds of bored commuters listening. The temptation is simply too much⦔
Travails of a Queen →
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Widescreen) This was really powerful and awed me tremendously, in much the same vein as Joan of Arc, but without the unfortunate demise and quite so much war-mongering. Indeed this instalment of Elizabeth’s march is full of wonderful moments of introspection and heavenly light, reminding me somewhat of The Fountain, yet with infinitely more foundation. Blanchett...
Consumed "Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Widescreen)" →
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Widescreen)
WORTH IT!
Tagged: beautiful, drama, england, historical, religion, spain
The Big Brother State →
“We believe, that people willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.”
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos
Added By: Jacob J Tags: freedom, democracy, politics
SMTP servers are way too chatty: helo wibble ¬ 250 Postini says hello back ¬ quit ¬ 221 Catch you later
Datejs →
“an open-source JavaScript Date Library. Comprehensive, yet simple, stealthy and fast. Datejs has passed all trials and is ready to strike. Datejs doesnât just parse strings, it slices them cleanly in two.”
I am furiously voting down funwall, likeness, movie quiz, etc. news items on Facebook. At the very least it feels good to see them grey out.
“Firm ‘recalls’ 575 knee implants; regrettably quite a few have...”
– The Register
Resolution trace: Bangalore (us) > (me) > Redmond (them) > x2 > Bangalore (them) > (me) > Bangalore (them) > Bangal …
DataPortability.org →
“Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors.”
Sheryl Crow - Shine Over Babylon →
Lovely use of newsprint and halftone graphics.
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos
Added By: Jacob J Tags: design, music
Nov 28, 2007: The Age of Enchantment at Dulwich... →
I’m at north dulwich station, 20m to next train. It’s deathly quiet. No ticking, the clock is digital.
Much PictureSync feedback over the past month unfortunately vanished into Gmail’s spam, I’ve retrieved it and will start working through it!
What pheasants may lack in intelligence, they make up for in taste.
[http://subsume.info] Just rolled a minor update for Leopard compatibility and to rectify “is is” with Facebook. PictureSync update soon.
Bah, I seem to have failed to notice BarCampLondon3 too. Oh well, comparing apple varieties, and a leg of roast lamb is not be passed upon.
“Your family tree on Geni is growing! You now have 113 relatives in your family tree.” Eeep. There’s more than a few branches to go…
Its the Integration, Stupid →
“All of this integration allows me to leverage all of the other tools that I already use. [â¦] This is something to pay very close attention to, and to understand how it follows a well-established pattern in technology.”
Wow, the price of pine cones has really gone up. Piddly little ones for £1. We used to sell ginormous ones for that.
“[…] people tend to interpret emails more negatively than other forms of...”
– New Scientist Technology Blog: Don’t flame me, bro’
Ooh, the local cell tower out here in the country now has EDGE. Putting on an extra jumper and thick socks—no heat island effect here.
You'll Rebel to Anything →
A fan video by John Schlemmer.
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos
Added By: Jacob J Tags: animation
Holiday Survival Kit →
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos
Added By: Jacob J Tags: family, humour
Golly, Flickr’s new XULrunner based desktop uploader is 50MB on the Mac. Clunky. Reads IPTC (but not Unicode). Can do simultaneous batches…
Output This! →
“A part of the Structured Blogging initiative, providing routing services for posts intended to be published in more than one weblog.” Has a basic XML-RPC API, only MetaWeblog and Blogger supported. Affiliated with BBM?
Tree Climbing Goats →
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos
Added By: Jacob J Tags: nature, food
Apart from being a great pairing, it’s a sign o’ the times too—the founder of http://musicmobs.com/ is closing it and joining http://last.fm
Actually I flunked BarCamp Bangalore. BTW—know someone who groks http://lua.org or will learn it, and wants a job in Delhi? Ping me!
Gagh, BarCampDelhi3 is 8th December. I’ll be in SF. I have yet to overlap with a BarCamp anywhere. http://barcamp.org/BarCampDelhi3
Term sheet: 2 pages. Draft agreement after it’s gone through the legal dept (and 1 month later): 12 pages. Heh. I’ll read it tomorrow.
Ah, because they’re called Charts not Graphs. Duh. Selective blindness works its magic.
Pft. I’ve forgotten how to insert graphs in Excel. All those years tidying up presentations and tenders. Wasted. Maybe I should use Numbers.
Grrr, my prior landlord is dragging his feet returning my deposit; wouldn’t surprise me if rumours that folks are withholding rent are true.
Instructions from mother (by text): “dont have girls ! all boys please .” [sic] Seems to be narked off by the daughter units. Women.
Eye-Fi has quite a line up of supported services. Seems photos are pushed out through a centralised server, developed by a Siberian outfit.
Flickr is redirecting http://flickr.com/verseguru (replace with your username) to the proper URL for those too lazy to type the /photos bit.
Warmshowers →
Couchsurfing for cyclists. “A list of Internet cyclists who have offered their hospitality towards touring cyclists. The extent of the hospitality depends on the host and may range from simply a spot to pitch a tent to meals, a warm (hot!) shower, and a b
Lunch: toasted sourdough rye sandwiches with Cashel Blue (OMG!), alfalfa and radish sprouts, and hummous.
“Hello. My name is Natalia.” Since when did Russian Bride spam start including photos?! “because the Internet here is very bad”
Web 2.0, a little bit better than web 1.0 →
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos
Added By: Jacob J Tags: humour, advert, web
Consumed "The Deep End" →
The Deep End
by David Siegel (III)
Tagged: blackmail, family, lgbt, murder, thriller