December 2007
89 posts
Ack! I got Virgin’s stingy luggage allowance wrong and have had to leave a case behind. Anyway, I’m waiting to board now. Happy New Year!
Dec 31st
I’m debating whether or not I should take a coat of somesort to Delhi. I have two hours to decide before heading off…
Dec 31st
There’s a screen and what must be like 20 cameras covering every angle on this bus. Makes staring at your fellow passengers so much easier.
Dec 31st
Felix Schwarz: On Picture Arena →
“Due to the lack of demand for Picture Arena and a much different market situation for photo management solutions […] I’ve decided to abandon all plans to develop new versions of Picture Arena for the time being.”
Dec 30th
Bendito Machine 2 →
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: animation
Dec 29th
Bendito Machine 1 →
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: illustration, animation
Dec 29th
Consumed "Ratatouille" →
Ratatouille WORTH IT! Tagged: animation, paris, romance, slapstick
Dec 29th
Consumed "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" →
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers by Stanley Donen Tagged: musical
Dec 29th
Euronews - No Comment: Pakistan →
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: society
Dec 29th
Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (2007) →
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: society, music
Dec 29th
Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler →
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: music
Dec 29th
American Greetings now not only owns Webshots, but has also acquired PhotoWorks.
Dec 29th
Dec 29th
Phew, managed to get a queue ticket at the High Commission of India even though I was 45mins late.
Dec 28th
Plus je t'embrasse →
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: music, france
Dec 27th
Sylvie Vartan - La Plus Belle Pour Aller Danser →
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: music, france
Dec 27th
I just want to say that dried figs and Pringles, should not be served together. My mistake.
Dec 27th
The train is leaving Oxford 10 minutes early, is that even possible?
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
TrafficMap →
Highways Agency traffic information updated in real-time, replete with little speedometers. Crappy maps and UI though.
Dec 24th
Browsing Indian websites makes me want to hide in a dark corner. They’re all built with Front Page 98 or something. They look like spam.
Dec 24th
As I’m going to attend Mobile Monday Delhi (5th) I’m ordering myself a Nokia N82 (from Hong Kong). Happy Christmas to me!
Dec 24th
BarCampDelhi4 →
Sometime in April…
Dec 24th
A MySQL Storage Engine for AWS S3 →
Dec 24th
Jan 5, 2008: Mobile Monday Delhi 5 (MomoDelhi) at... →
Dec 24th
Apr 16, 2008: BarCampDelhi4 at To Be Decided →
Dec 24th
Dec 24th
Dec 24th
Mozilla Labs » Introducing Weave →
Interesting. They’ll provide ‘settings’ hosting for every mozilla user. It’ll put them in a strong position to interconnect [some] services. For 0.2 they’ll be building out a service-provider API.
Dec 23rd
Ciclovía - Bogotá →
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: planning, urban, society, transport
Dec 22nd
I just answered dad’s phone to find it was Catherine downstairs, saying she’d put the kettle on. I relayed this to dad down the hall.
Dec 22nd
I’m a cheapskate—I’m booking my flight to Delhi for the night of the 31st. I’ll be celebrating New Year’s in the air over Germany.
Dec 22nd
Catherine has extended her wildlife control measures from tasty pheasants and rabbits in the country, to trapping squirrels in the city.
Dec 22nd
I just cleaned some annoying stickers off my passport with lighter fluid. It could smell rather suspicious at the security checks.
Dec 22nd
photology →
“photology helps you navigate the flood of digital photos on your computer by finding photos using simple and intuitive filters like faces, sky, color, location, and time of day.” the web demo is a little basic, and looking for things like sunsets and pla
Dec 22nd
“The British Fashion Council is also seeking to limit digitally enhanced graphics...”
– Fashionista
Dec 22nd
Dec 21st
The GraphSync Project →
” Your challenge, should you choose to accept it… 1. Pick a proprietary silo of user’s personal social data 2. Write some open source code to extract their data”
Dec 20th
ziptie ring →
Dec 20th
“Easy Care is a revolutionary breed of sheep which requires minimal shepherding...”
– Easy Care Sheep Society
Dec 20th
“Messages sent into space directed at extraterrestrials may have been too boring...”
– New Scientist Space
Dec 20th
I’m back from my two weeks in SF working [on the stealth project], and have looads to do, but right now, a hot bath and bed (it’s past ten).
Dec 18th
Open Media Web →
“Exploring the possibilities and opportunities of the Open Media Web and developing the methods, formats and protocols to make it possible.”
Dec 18th
Giro Imposible →
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: humour
Dec 17th
Dig Java / C++ / Web Services? Work in Delhi? http://moshmix.com/jobs/
Dec 17th
“It’s shitty in so many ways it’s hard to keep track. They are treating invites...”
– Seesmic Review | 1938 Media (I don’t think it’s so bad—but awesome review!)
Dec 16th
Wooo, turning on ClearType, setting the font to Lucida Sans, and making the toolbar vertical means I can actually use Visual Studio now.
Dec 16th
Dec 16th
“Problem solved with Photosync [sic]. I downloaded it and it works great!!! My...”
– Apple - Support - Discussions - Shutterfly export errors? …
Dec 16th