February 2010
127 posts
RT @make: RT @CollinMel Almost forgot - Today is Electronics Awareness Day! RT @Notrox: http://twitpic.com/10ph8m - Never Forget 01-31-07
http://twitpic.com/10s8ub - Can’t sleep - fiddled with the #dev8d handshake receipts instead. Custom logo and text formatting goodness.
RT @oomlout: A lovely offer from @solarbotics (One of our ARDX Kit’s as well as their tiny Arduino clone) http://bit.ly/a4CjLb (also a l …
January 2010
254 posts
First rendition of the receipts for the handshake machine at #dev8d :) http://twitpic.com/10qnce
With the ability to print anything to a receipt printer, I’m now really questioning the authenticity of ‘receipts’. They’re too easy to fake
CBM1000 bitmap printing modes - top is the low res mode and bottom is the higher res mode http://flic.kr/p/7zBJ1X
Switching to TalkTalk as I’ve hit my download cap AGAIN - roll on the point where ISPs expect you to get all your TV+music online.
Would like to pipe the output from a DIY infrared heart monitor http://bit.ly/7iwNsE to the microprinter. #homehospital
.@jpilbeam look at this :) (20th Jan) Youtube launches HTML5 version of its site, dropping Flash! http://bit.ly/8UVSiE
Opposite of unbiased news (re: #ten23 ‘overdose’) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8489019.stm BBC ask people other than homeopaths next time.
Wooo! got my CBM 1000 printing! Finally! (the secret was to ignore the datasheet and just listen to wikipedia) @rooreynolds top sketch btw!
Would Like To Buy a #crunchpad plzkthx http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/crunchpad-end/ #alternateuniverse
RT @mike_grant_: @bobbyllew prime example of flash dying. Youtube, phasing out flash in support of html5
About to have a 2nd pass at wiring up the microprinter - got an urge to connect it up to the ascii output option of mplayer ;) flickerbook!
My honest wish for 2010 - Youtube, vimeo playback is replaced by an open format embedded via an HTML5 tag (and implemented in IE, FF, etc)
Dear lazyweb, can anyone think of a good business (ie profitable) reason for video hosting sites to drop flash for open plugins?
Yeah, I couldn’t resist - my David Cameron poster http://bit.ly/cS88vb #reallyreallylatetotthememe
RT @hellocatfood http://twitpic.com/10ih8u - Finally managed to databend webcam streams. You know what’s next… - nice :)
RT @miaridge: It’s true, god hates flags. RT @codepo8: San Francisco’s answer to Westboro baptist church http://is.gd/7jO2P Dadaism ftw!
RT @tinker_it: RT @mellis: Just uploaded Arduino 0018: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
Best inline codecomment I’ve seen was “/* This array isn’t full of random numbers. Seriously, don’t f*ck with it. */”
RT @Glinner: *We* opposed the war. *We* marched in our millions against it. On 7/7, *we* suffered for *your* decision. #Chilcot
RT @daveowhite: RT @iantruelove: ‘It’s like herding cats’, the insinuation being that the cats are in the wrong. Surely a cat shepherd …
(via wikip) Mateas, Michael; Nick Montfort. “A Box, Darkly: Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code Aesthetics” http://bit.ly/30wUtC
RT @krishgm: TB says avoided humanitarian disaster - by which he must mean chaos straight after invasion rather than the 100,000+ dead p …
Gotta love the fact that LOLCODE is Turing complete: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE HAI CAN HAS STDIO? VISIBLE “HAI WORLD!” KTHXBYE
RT @scottbw: @andypowe11 oh dear #FAIL <snide> of course, if you just sort out your URLs, you can’t get any funding to build more …
RT @moustaki: Come on Be, do something about it: http://torrentfreak.com/neutralize-uk-file-sharing-legal-threats-join-talktalk-100129
RT @AlisonW: . @LPetersson The concept of selecting a parliament by lottery - much as we do for juries in courts - has often appealed to me.
RT @wendyg “[.] thoughts about meeting on why games aren’t taken seriously. http://bit.ly/bkABGQ” - a stimulating article full of good links
Thinking about what unscrupulous people might do to protect their fake medicines for #ten23 - you guys are taking samples?
RT @Suw: “new #cwse blog post: are you T-shaped? http://bit.ly/cXRsCU” @dfflanders, you’ll enjoy this interesting post :)
#dearwolframalpha Are you alive? No. (at least not in the biological sense) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Are+you+alive%3F
Overwhelmed with nostalgia due to @shiftrunstop linking to a BBC ‘emulator’ http://bit.ly/dCAkAa Ah, those were the days :) #20GOTO10
RT @chriskeene “@juliancheal http://www.andybarefoot.com/politics/cameron.php?poster=165836” - Inspired :)
I don’t think I could watch the #iraqinquiry #blair stream - trying to keep my blood pressure down at safe levels for the day.
RT @Phocion: Dear WolframAlpha, are you Skynet? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Are+you+Skynet
RT @danja “must look out for Mars tonight http://bit.ly/9wfl8X” - Nice, I hadn’t spotted this event :)
RT @epredator: Gov lied. Got found out. Got away with it. People died. Arms companies made cash. Sad #bbcqt
Just watched “let the right one in” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/ really a sweet film, certainly unique with er… lots of blood…
RT @antirez: Just committed the first full implementation of the Redis Virtual Memory: http://bit.ly/cCYJlz now it’s just a matter of te …
RT @datastore: Obama’s state of the union speech: how did the words he used compare to other presidents? As wordles http://bit.ly/ahSXeM …
RT @Suw “the iPad - a social computer? http://bit.ly/bg3txP a few thoughts off the top of my head. #cwse” a good argument for why it’ll sell
RT @ekcragg: We are up to 60 participants of Oxford’s 23 Things programme. Can we get to 100 by the end of the week? #ox23 #libday4
I guess people with an apostrophe in their name aren’t welcome here? My name is not allowed, apparently https://id.bbc.co.uk/users/register
RT @hatmandu “Ooh, 200-year-old cipher cracked: http://qurl.com/pbq6m” - Excellent :) [DOI to paywalled solution -> http://bit.ly/cFQ3Kf]
(From memory) Obama “If Iran ignores its responsibilities, … [it] will face consequences” #sotu
IMO Highlights #sotu: Economy was fubar’d before BO ‘walked in the door’, the Supreme Court smackdown and that partisan politics must die.
RT @courtneyesmith: I have a new favorite moment every few minutes, but talking smack on the Supreme Court when they’re sitting front ro …
Can anyone spot Obama’s blackberry in his hand? He seems to be tweeting simultaneously under @BarackObama, impressive! ;)