LittleBigPlanet continues to be a source of wonderment for me. Today I did a search for “calculator” to find the apparently famous LittleBigCalculator only to find there were many implementations. The calculator is fairly simple in that it can only add and subtract numbers between 0 and 99 but it is a lovely example of [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2009
Slumdog Hat Maker
We joined my parents for a credit crunch influenced film and food last night. Apart from the normal Orange Wednesday film deal they are now also offering 2 for 1 on a starter and main at Pizza Express. I suspect we made up for it with the wine though. We went to see the multi [...]
Interview Contemplation
I had my first interview of the current job hunting period yesterday. Although the end result was the company in question didn’t want to go forward with the process I thought it might be do some introspection and contemplation as to why. The job would have involved joining a small local team as part of [...]
The perils of the bleeding edge
After my fun playing with the 3D desktop bling on my Netbook I finally took the plunge on my main desktop machine. This was after all the reason I had specced it with hardware capable of doing 3D with open drivers. In the beginning it worked well enough but it had a small fly in [...]
Apropos my last post
The future is here. While I have reservations about wide scale surveillance and recording every e-mail I send it seems very sensible to equip the Persons in Blue with personal video recorders. Especially if it reduces the amount of paperwork the Police have to fill in when the could be out on the streets.
Halting State
I’ve just finished reading Halting State by Charles Stross. It’s an enjoyable SciFi whodunit mystery set in the near future involving a robbery in a MMORPG. The book is presented in the second person narrative which is unusual but helps give a sense of the setting. It’s set in a recently independent Scotland where technology [...]
Wikipedia Tools
I’ve long held that Wikipedia provides a “good enough” source of facts for a lot of information. Sure I wouldn’t base my moon landing equations on equations copied from Wikipedia’s page on celestial navigation. Not at least until I’d verified the cited facts with “reputable” sites. The trouble with checking other links is it’s hard [...]
Some thoughts on that compiz bling
I spent some time pimping my Samsung NC-10 netbook over the weekend. I had been having problems with Firefox slowing down and becoming sluggish and unresponsive. A little digging around later and I unearthed the culprit as being the closed source Flash plugin. Although well behaved Flash applications like the YouTube and iPlayer viewers don’t [...]
Open Street Map
I have the usefulness of Open Street Map before. Go and have a look at their coverage of your area compared to Google maps. If you think it was worth donating to Wikimedia’s recent £6 million fund drive then space a thought for the hardware needed for Open Street Map. They have nearly hit their [...]
Bunker mentality
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