Bunker mentality

Posted on Fri 06 February 2009 in geek • Tagged with emacs, windows, work

True to Hofstader's law it took a few extra days to finish of my (unpaid) work at Essex University. You can see the final results here. It was essentially tweaking a psychology experiment to work in a different colour space and with some funky high dynamic colour range hardware. After …


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Struggling to understand microblogging

Posted on Fri 30 January 2009 in geek

Fliss has been playing with the king of the micro-blogging platforms Twitter. It something that has been making the news on a regular basis as more celebrities have accounts and more news stories break on it. I'm still not sure where it fits in in the social media pantheon. I …


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Useful Tools

Posted on Wed 28 January 2009 in geek

The exceptionally useful traintimes.org.uk has a lovely mobile site with simple bookmarkable URLS, for example http://m.traintimes.org.uk/london/waterbeach. Very useful to keep links on your mobile browser :-)


Rockbox (But not really)

Posted on Mon 19 January 2009 in geek

I finally got my git-svn cleanup patch accepted into the code base. It's a trivial fix but makes my life easier. I also think my playlist tweak is finally clean enough to go in.

That's not the real reason for this post though. Frank (the LJ Bot) has just told …


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Call of Duty: World at War

Posted on Tue 13 January 2009 in geek

I am a bit of a FPS fan. Although I'm almost universally outclassed in online play by twitchy trigger fingered teenagers I do enjoy the solo story missions. As games have advanced over the years and become more cinematic I'm beginning to think the war film genre's days are numbered …


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