February 2008
41 posts
YouTube - The Ting Tings - Great DJ →
I keep hearing this on the radio - they remind me alot of Matt and Kim.
Just received an email from atoc asking me to turn off my national rail/twitter service :-(
Social Innovation Camp » Barcode wikipedia →
“Allow people to make informed choices about what they are buying, allow the pooling of product related info.”
Pioneer TVs bag consumer award | Absolute Gadget →
Rehash of the reevoo press release.
webitpr | Pioneer Beat Panasonic and Sony To Be... →
Latest press release.
Reevoo says users like Pioneer TVs | Games &... →
Latest reevoo press release.
Distribution of lines of code over time in the... →
I use svn blame to find the revision that each line of code in the project (excluding the vendor directory) was changed, lookup the corresponding datetime and plot that on a pretty, pretty graph.
Google Custom Search - Chris Roos →
A custom search engine that supposedly searches my websites. It only appears to be searching my blog at the moment though…
Wondering why my mobile phone company don’t allow me to collect my SMS messages using HTTP.
TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Google’s brand... →
“As if Google spends a cent on marketing. Perhaps if British businesses spent more on their intrinsic offering than marketing they might be perceived better, and lauded online. Ever think about that?”
YouTube - Danish Wind turbine Accident →
“Marketing is a Tax You Pay for Being Unremarkable” - http://tinyurl.com/2lglt2
Companies that bulk buy domain names for resale are scum. Particularly you sedo. Scum.
Visualizing Software Changes →
How to travel London to Dublin by train+ferry |... →
Lots of information about the rail/sail deals to Ireland.
Moosic finally purchased from iTunes. Now to strip the DRM with Parallels, WinXP and QTFairUse.
Hmmm, iTunes isn’t letting me buy any music.
Removing rockbox from my ipod.
Need to investigate further but it looks like it might be cheaper to buy a Ramsgate-Dublin (via London) ticket than a Ramsgate-London ticket
Trying to install ruby 1.8.6 on freebsd 4.11 with packages from freebsd 5-stable - I feel this may end in tears.
Sorting through/throwing out old diaries.
Google detecting EANs →
chrisjroos posted a photo:
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch
Gadds' Beer Shop: Tasting Tomorrow →
This is cool - our local microbrewery is offering a taster session tomorrow lunchtime.
Google appears to be detecting EANs - http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjroos/2266617393/
Excellent: Supergrass - Alright followed by Shirehorses - Feel Like Shite on my iTunes Party shuffle playlist.
ATOM feed of thisiskent.co.uk Thanet news is live - http://tinyurl.com/32ae8m
Pastie - ruby - require_from_here →
This might be useful for non-rails (i.e. non auto-magical loading) projects
hmmm. missed the last train. haven’t done that in a while…
Just got in having spent £26.10 on tube, train and cab home. Happy happy joy joy.
Just realised that I’m using about 700MB bandwidth a day by leaving the Internet Radio on. Hmm. My Internet package only includes 12GB.
power’s off. ooh, i wonder if terrorists are to blame. terrorists or immigrants, it’s got to be one of the two.
Trying to produce an rss feed of the news on the thisiskent.co.uk website.
Just experienced some confusion on a phone call as the other chap was saying ‘Web Services’ but meant SOAP. Web Services != SOAP.
In cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream -... →
Some commentary on the results of our YouGov survey.
Just noticed that http://the-local-paper.co.uk is starting to attract natural search traffic. That’s incentive to push on with the project.
#6999 ([PATCH] MySQL drops options during... →
I just got bitten by this bug. ActiveRecord doesn’t preserve default values (and more, I believe) when renaming columns.
Being woken up by the guard/station staff. That’s a good thing, right…?
Hey - google code is now more ‘trac-like’ - it displays a list of changesets (where’s the rss/atom?) and has a project browser.
Trying to catch up on the pile of papers that I want to get into the-local-paper.co.uk
A tip: don’t try to unicycle when drunk. On, what I assume to be, an unrelated note, my back really hurts.
Appreciating the retro ‘under construction’ animated gifs on the flickr stats page.