October 2011
10 posts
Google Forms is awesome. That is all.
I’m really not partisan, but inspired by Siri I’ve been playing around with voice search on Android - didn’t realise how good it’s got
People of Brighton, is it the Lanes or the Laines? Or both?
Good to see @Brettski over the last couple of days. Lots caught up on and plans ahead.
The comments thread on that DPReview article is hilarious btw.
RT @brianftang: A reminder! My play “Looking After the Pooters” - is on at the Maltings Arts Theatre St Albans 28/29 Oct. Details here: …
making projects commercial can help make them sustainable - too many new actors in ICT4D with ideas that require ongoing funding #unctad
Object is development and self interest
http://t.co/EEsgVyid Paying for parking at #worthingzombie. After watching Dawn of the Dead in a shopping mall. Yes
Internet speed is crawling in the office. It’s telling me I should leave early to enjoy the evening sun, yes?
RE: the last tweet, if anyone knows someone who owns one of the fishing boats on the East side of Worthing, please get in touch.
September 2011
17 posts
There’s a busker playing Creep on a ukelele on Argyll St. Sounds awesome
Am I the only person who feels let down by the Kindle Fire announcement?
I think I’m going start catching a train every day. I get so much more work done than in the office
RT @guardiantech: Toddler book apps reviewed – by a toddler http://t.co/1bJ48wqq
http://t.co/jPIrMqfT This doesn’t help
At Macclesfield’s Treacle Market. Amazingly busy - really nice atmosphere
Finally a 3D presentation I might watch. NVIDIA involved too by the looks of it http://t.co/8Cmcusjf
I have a VAT number. How depressingly adult.
RT @engadget: Amazon lets you check out Kindle books from library websites, asks you to shush yourself at home http://t.co/KXUxJx7B
Metro journalists can’t tell research from garbage →
Also can’t tell: arse from elbows, news from garbage and – funnily enough – real world from fantasy.
I suspect – given that the sample size quoted is a Douglas Adams-ey 42 people – that the…
Apparently there are no renewable generators in all of Sussex yet - odd, but strangely believable
Not that Dr Who’s plot devices are repetitive, but the 5 year did ask ‘why do they keep leaving Amy behind?’
How all days should be →
You file copy on time, get through some features that were surprisingly troublesome, a phone call from an old friend overseas, pictures featured on The Guardian, and get t0 meet the…
Tomorrow I plan to test out KDE and Gnome 3/Unity more than I’ve had chance to do so far. Hoping the latter play well with AWN
Don’t often randomly recommend places, but @hoptoyshop is everything online shopping should be.
Pasop! Vir die prawns and all that. Awesome customised Nerf gun http://t.co/TuCyXl6 via @technabob
August 2011
18 posts
Well, that was an interesting online presentation about AR. Right up until the server decided time was up - before the speaker had finished.
Yes, that’s clearly how it was →
Except for the lightsabres, maybe.
Really wanted to go to the NUJ summer party in Brighton tonight… sadly circumstances don’t allow.
Now that would be worth picked up a remaindered TouchPad for: Bye webOS, hellooo Android! http://t.co/4KItxYu
Although to be fair, the conclusion is pretty smart
Just spotted this has gone live - my first proper feature for Green Futures: http://j.mp/ptOI0k
Daily Mail rips off my wife’s photo after asking permission and being turned down – Boing Boing http://t.co/T1jsf7F
Any Jo’burg friends snowed in there? http://t.co/RipPm0C via @TimesLIVE
A new way to see London →
The things you see when you take a different mode of transport…
Just a short post to thank everyone who sponsored me to take part in the LearnAsOne Founder’s Challenge yesterday,…
Finished - finally. Was not expecting it to be this hard http://t.co/GadrOMw
Right, getting ready for this…. http://t.co/GadrOMw. Really hoping not to have to carry a coat with me.
You madam, are the new voice of reason. #bbcqt
DARPA’s new plane girdles Earth in just over forty minutes (give or take) http://t.co/JyDbjuR via @guardian
RT @sophieraworth: Among those in court today after riots a graphic designer, college students, a university graduate and a man signed u …
RT @artistsmakers: Empty Shops Network Facebook group; can we mobilise volunteers to help small business tomorrow? http://tinyurl.com/dm54dc
Watching film students work at =workshop1a. Really creative, make me feel very old though
BBC News - Internet Explorer story was bogus http://t.co/K2ygbr6
Refocussable plenoptic pictures. Amazing: http://j.mp/n6gCn5
July 2011
23 posts
Why is @bbcr4today so keen to try and pin children’s learning problems on computers & TV?
Bringing together two headlines from the last week: Gates Foundation funds toilet that turns waste into electricity: http://j.mp/poYpEZ
That explains the patent fury: Samsung outselling Apple smartphones? http://j.mp/n4fB60 (via @inq)
RT @avinunu: How a clueless “terrorism expert” set media suspicion on Muslims after #Oslo horror http://t.co/FuF2xAH via @intifada
RT @JosephStash: To get you up to speed, I’m tweeting a translation of what the Norwegian PM is currently saying. #oslo