August 2007
68 posts
chrisroos: Filing months worth of receipts/paperwork. Joy. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Starring role in Venice for bunch of amateurs -... →
Times article about Exodus, which was filmed just round the corner in Margate.
chrisroos: Just had two of my home-grown carrots with dinner. I’d forgotten how much better home-grown veg is. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Story Cards generated from reevoo.com feedback
chrisjroos posted a photo:
I finally got round to converting the suggestions left in the reevoo.com feedback[1] into story cards ready to be prioritised.
If anyone else has feedback about reevoo.com, feel free to join the google group[2].
[1] blog.seagul.co.uk/articles/2007/08/23/responses-to-reevoo…
[2] groups.google.com/group/reevoo-website (via Photos from chrisjroos, tagged blog)
YouTube - Snow Kayaking →
Brilliant. Nothing more to say.
chrisroos: Happy that I just discovered the shortcut key-combo to send emails from Thunderbird - cmd+return. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Just spoke to the council. Apparently most places have stopped accepting plastic recycling as there was too much of it. Hmm. That’s bad. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Trying to find somewhere to recycle my three sacks of plastic now that the council have removed the facility from the local tip… (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Reevoo launches reviews website | IT Information... →
Incredibly brief summary of the new reevoo.com re-launch.
chrisroos: Wondering why jasmine tea gives me a headache. Guessing I should stick with coffee. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Just finished reading “surely you’re joking mr feynman”. A fantastic book that everyone should read. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Excellent message to analytics group - “I would like to add an SEO to my blog—where do I find one I can
download for free?” (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Spirit Airlines CEO Says “Let Them Tell The World... →
Arrogant CEO of Spirit Airlines finding out that business just ain’t the same as it used to be… You’ve gotta start looking after your customers rather than just pretending to look after them.
chrisroos: Noticing that skype seems to be playing up again - wonder what they’ll blame it on this time? (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Sloppy - the slow proxy for dial-up modem speed... →
A java proxy that allows you to browse the web at a slower connection speed. Useful for testing site performance. reevoo.com looks good OK at 56K which is good.
chrisroos: Just received a bounce back from my invite request. Apparently they’ve neglected to add their invite address to their mail system. Uh oh. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Openly (i.e. as a reevoo dev) emailed crowdstorm asking to participate in their beta - http://tinyurl.com/2hjyon (via Twitter / chrisroos)
CrowdStorm Revamps, Seeks Wisdom Of Your Crowd →
Techcrunch coverage of the new crowdstorm site. Sounds interesting and also like there’s overlap with what we’ve been discussing at reevoo. Waiting to see if I’ll be invited into their beta.
Dive Into Accessibility →
Some tips from Mark Pilgrim about web accessibility. Based on the copyright (2002), I wonder if the advice may be a little outdated?
Introduction to Statistical Thought →
A free stats book that uses R throughout. It’s the sort of thing I want to get the time to look at but probably never will… Oh well.
YouTube - Skimboard!!! →
An amazing skimboarding video on youtube. I have some way to go yet it seems…
chrisroos: just finished the blog post - http://tinyurl.com/yqzttf - a mere 9 hours after starting it! (via Twitter / chrisroos)
keyboard-ctrl-alt-del.jpg (JPEG Image, 433x267... →
Just came across this picture when searching for a reference to the alt attribute of image tags in html. It made me chuckle.
chrisroos: Writing a blog post about the reevoo.com feedback we’ve received. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: reevoo.com developers are dropping like flies. Three sick in two days. I’m starting to feel left out. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos’s Music Profile – Users at Last.fm →
My last.fm profile.
chrisroos: DRM free Newton is all mine. Muhahaha. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Yay. QTFairUse6 still works with newly purchased (i)toons. Now I’m free to download the Newton Faulkner album. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Scientists ask: Where have all the dolphins gone? →
Hang on. Didn’t this happen just before the earth was destroyed in the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. Uh oh…
chrisroos: Just realised that mahalo.com SERPs are just human edited versions of ask.com SERPs (in style, not necessarily content). I prefer ask.com. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Microsummary Buddy :: Firefox Add-ons →
A firefox extension that displays a little blue icon in the location bar if the site advertises a microsummary.
chrisroos: A two hour journey home as someone apparently fell onto the track at Clapham Junction. Excellent. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: @floehopper you’ll be fine - it’s beautiful sunshine down here. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Hmm. Picking bits of said platter out of my feet… (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Hard disk platters are more brittle than I expected… (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Just filled up with petrol. They offered two types of unleaded but only advertised the price of one. Surely they can’t do that? (via Twitter / chrisroos)
recycle-more - recycle-more offers advice for... →
Includes a recycling bank locator - a google map of your nearest recycling points and what they accept. Unfortunately, none of the banks accept plastic, presumably because it’s too expensive - http://tinyurl.com/2coz2s
chrisroos: It feels a bit spammy when you are followed on twitter by someone promoting their software - looking at you pwytter (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Watching a program about the ancient astronauts. And these people are allowed to vote… (via Twitter / chrisroos)
rustykat.com →
Developers of the very cheap, and seemingly reliable, guitar tuning software that I use on my Mac.
DNS Stuff: DNS tools, DNS hosting tests, WHOIS,... →
Contains a useful tool to test DNS entries. The question now is where are my CNAME entries hiding. Come out, come out, wherever you are…
chrisroos: Wondering if proxy server + amazon s3 = very cheap static file hosting for a given domain. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer(S3Fox) :: Firefox... →
A nice little firefox (well, xul, I guess) app for managing your S3 account.
chrisroos: Bored with long (for me) hair so chopped it all off. Now my head’s cold. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: @bensales. It’s certainly ‘good enough’ at the moment. We can both type in one window and talk at the same time. Better than I expected. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Remote pairing with James using VNC and AIM voice chat. Cool. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Thunderbird is correctly identifying junk mail after 24 hours training. Mail.app is still failing after about two years… (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Problems with Skype login - Heartbeat →
So this is why we can’t communicate over Skype. Naughty skype.
chrisroos: Ooh, what are “Micro summaries” in the del.icio.us firefox extension? (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Becoming addicted to the seven day weekend book. (via Twitter / chrisroos)