September 2009
61 posts
The Ship Inn in Lymington - Home & About Us →
If I ever own a pub I want it to be decorated like this. The food was good too.
Forest Holidays: Hollands Wood Caravan Park and... →
I can highly recommend this campsite about 10 minutes walk from Brockenhurst, in the New Forest. Loads of room, wild beasties and excellent facilities.
Twitter / Ana Roji: oh, so excited with this n ... →
Ana (that I work with at Headshift) appears to like theauters James.
Five Ridiculously Awesome Cucumber (and Webrat)... →
“Then show me the page” - this doesn’t exist in the webrat_steps that come with the version of cucumber we’re using but it’s so obvious that we should’ve added it (I always tend to add…
Slowcoast →
I saw this chap speak at Interesting 2009. He’s cycling around the UK. That’s cool.
Listen to Google Voice Messages in Gmail →
I want Google Voice.
The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation... →
“Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google’s products. Our team’s goal is to make it easier for them to move data in and out.” - This is great. A Google team are pushing to…
Camping in the new forest
Going to the casino with @smallcheese. I’ve got a system. It’s going to be like taking candy from a baby.
Upgrading to spotify premium so that I can listen to Newton Faulkner’s new album.
pwdhashandroid - Project Hosting on Google Code →
Pwdhash client for android. It doesn’t appear in the market and I don’t see any downloads here. Maybe it’s been abandoned.
PwdHash Sharp in Launchpad →
The inspiration for the pwdhash android client. Pwdhash implemented in c#.
findr - flickr pages from static photo urls →
This is quite neat - given a url of a photo hosted on flickr it’ll find you the actual flickr photo page.
This is insanely awesome - http://bit.ly/Boxid
Enjoying Gordon Brown’s TED talk. I’m quite surprised.
Christopher, timothy, ed and now billy are trying to make me go to canada.
Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole | Video on TED.com →
He annoyed me a little bit at the beginning of his talk (no specific reason, I don’t think) but soon won me round. This is absolutely amazing stuff.
Heading home after going to the talkies and pub with @hlame and @lazyatom
Jump to the Relevant Section of a Google Search... →
I just noticed this happening on a result that linked to the apache docs.
Wondering whether tomtom’s (organic) top spot for the term gps was gained using entirely white hat means…
Does something like this (http://chrisroos.co.uk/r/226) exist and if not does anyone want to help me build it?
Obama's cue cards →
This really made me laugh.
Google - Internet Stats →
“This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and…
Sitting on the train to london and the interesting conference.
scraplab — iPhone apps I use & love →
Maybe Tom could’ve used installd, James?
The Birmingham City Council Website Is Great But →
At least that didn’t pay £2.8m for it. Oh wait. That’s exactly what they paid. Good work.
noticings →
Oh yeah. I’m in the game.
Watched grizzly man on dvd on train home and now it’s on the telebox. Wonders will literally never cease.
Heading to lrug
Team chris made the last train home. And the crowd goes wild.
Team chris is tired and waiting for a delayed train to the pool. The crowd are indifferent.
Accessible UK Train Timetables →
“It appears that National Rail have blocked the IP address of the server on which traintimes.org.uk is hosted. After giving me permission to keep my site in both 2001 and 2004, ATOC (who run National…
Looks like ATOC are up to their usual tricks - http://dracos.co.uk/emergency-train/?#latestnews - bless their old school little socks.
Pair Programming Bot →
The pair programming bot - useful for when you don’t have an actual person to pair with. It made me smile but I can actually see it being useful.
ramsgate, thanet, margate →
Thanet South MP Steve Ladyman, who was up early to welcome the new train for the first time, said: âI think this new train is going to be fabulous new for Thanet and it will open up a new route…
iTunes Alarm →
I’ve just tried this. It certainly fires up iTunes at a given time but refused to wake my computer from sleep. I also don’t like the fact that I had to enter an admin username/password into a custom…
Testing failure - thoughtbot →
“We use Joe Ferrisâ branch of Mocha for its test spies. We hope this Mocha mailing list thread will lead to merging the branch into Mocha.” I’m guessing you’ll pick this up James, but thought I’d…
metaquark » Aurora 4 →
This alarm clock does wake my computer from sleep but only if I allow it to disable my password while it’s running. Unfortunately, I can’t now find an easy way to stop it running (Quit certainly…
Trying to turn my macbook into an alarm clock having just woken up to find my phone battery dead.
Sitting on the maiden voyage of the fast train from ramsgate to st pancras.
Using Google Spreadsheets as a database (no, it... →
A nice introduction to using the google visualisation api to query data stored in public google spreadsheets (such as the mp expenses).
London Bridge To Ramsgate - Google Maps →
The 18:34 from London Bridge to Ramsgate recorded with My Tracks on my Android G1.
QR-Code Generator →
I generated a QR Code containing a link to my blog and scanned it with the Barcode Scanner software on my G1. This is pretty cool.
Swimming log - Distance per month →
Example of using Google Visualizations to calculate the distance I’ve swum per month (based on the raw data here -…
Continuous Integration Testing for Ruby on Rails... →
“SetEnv PATH /opt/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin” - This is what I had to set in the passenger virtual host in order for integrity to be able to git clone my project. There wasn’t any output…
Mobipocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
The .mobi format that the pragmatic programmer magazines come in. I’m after an android app to read these mags on the move.
EPUB - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
The .epub format that the pragmatic programmer magazines come in. I’m after an android app to read these mags on the move.
FBReader: FBReader for Google Android →
This free ebook reader appears to display the pragpub magazines well enough. It renders both the .epub and the .mobi but the .epub definitely appear to be better supported: you get the cover image…
Twitter API Wiki / Things Every Developer Should... →
“Clients may request up to 3,200 statuses via the page and count parameters for timeline REST API methods.” I heard about this on This week in Google and wondered whether it was a crappy API only…
Google Listen - Android podcatcher →
Podcatching software for the Android Operating System. I’ve only recently switched from my ipod to my G1 for podcast listening but this might allow me to make the switch permanently, and reduce my…