June 2009
55 posts
when did netbooks get good again? Would actually consider buying this: http://bit.ly/o4vkW
flickr geolocated photo app for iphone http://bit.ly/17TF07
RT @rdmpage: A must-read of the day: http://tinyurl.com/lqbg75 Why print (including science print journals) will HAVE to die.
Just chatted with a Cambridge maths poastgrad on way back to london. My chat was totally outclassed…
thunderbugs out in force in Cambridge. If you draw a circle round them in Biro, they are trapped! We made a maze…
need more Apparat on Spotify #spotify
strangely excited about getting a feel for the ESRI community at the ESRI User Conference. #esriuc
are we reduced to hope when finding solutions to climate change?!?! http://www.hopenhagen.org/
gawd, NASA are running their aster dataset site on top of MS Access. http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/
nice to see ASTER getting recognition from the beeb: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8126197.stm
cool to see our recycled/biodegradable packaging making its mark on the internet: http://bit.ly/Tw7FD
Creating relational DB’s schema’s is getting really boring. Must investigate other options. #tokumine_notes
ルービよりパイソンのシンタクスは古くせえ。。
noooo - more blur! #glastonbury
thinking of changing my electricity to: http://www.goodenergy.co.uk/
Excellent presentation on the reality of Science: http://bit.ly/N2z2F
BBC’s online weather forcast visualisation is utter crap. Temperature maps with no scale suck! http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/ #bbc #fail
paypal sandbox accounts not verified. Extremely buggy - developers beware. #paypal #fail
want to hurt the paypal sandbox developers.
filling out the paypal website payments pro form…
There are loads of IronPython and talks at #europython - even using ESRI ArcObjects from Python: http://www.europython.eu/talks/timetable/
all booked in for #europython conf in exotic, er, Birmingham.
for perspective, see: http://bit.ly/zeC9Z
http://twitpic.com/8euk8 the best wedding present, a trilobite!
Mamma mia
Looking at my new trilobite’s compound eye under microscope. Compound eye! Awesome I tell ya. Tks ppk @zsl.
ahh…. even though it’s gonna rain cats and dogs, I wish I was headed to Glasto… #glastonbury
Spain - knockout! ooof. #confederationscup
word rendering engine in Outlook 2010, are you crazy MS? fixoutlook.org
Tweets from QSB!
Just wrote off my car in a head on with a deer on road to Woodstock. Deer is back in village being made into food…
Peggle is like pachinko for the west
http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map good use of colored map tiles in a useful app @saleiva
Google Gears, Apps & Safari 4 completely kicks ass. Why do larger companies still use Exchange?
Spotify + BTOpenzone is NOT production ready at a wedding… P2P/ports Problem?
The 3.0 copypaste is a thing of beauty. Don’t know why there are so many haters
finally 3.0
RT @gruber:The boy has now seen Han shoot first. My job as a father is now complete.
JActionScripters →
Cool aggregation of Japanese Actionscripters
office at 7:30 tomorrow, which means arriving in camb at 7, Getting 6:15 train. Leaving house at 5:45, waking up at 5. Oh shit, it’s 1am.
I am completely in love with the new Google Street View. It’s all about the UX.
wondering how much GIS dev could be done with a JRuby install…
Great use of Google Maps Flex API: http://bit.ly/14IHFq. If it can be used this awesomely to sell t-shirts…
for all the javascript naysayers - fluid dynamics in your browser: http://nerget.com/fluidSim/
EC2 outage due to lightning storm: http://bit.ly/seJTp @jatorre
http://bit.ly/8Xw5l. Global energy statistics. Wish the viz was before the blurb - that’s the point right? @datastore
The bnp would not have got the seats if the UK had online voting. We bank online, it’s an obstacle to democracy *not* to have online voting.
Python’s strength isn’t the syntax, it’s in the huge variety of libraries. If it’s map related, and online, it’s hard to avoid it.
8:15pm crunch time o’clock with current project. Does it always have to be this way?
Trousers. http://twitpic.com/6jmrc