A picture taken each day when growing my Mo for Movember in 2009 to raise awareness of Prostate Cancer. A very worthwhile cause and I highly recommend growing a “Mo” 🙂
N.B. This is a backdated post as I take some of the things I have been doing elsewhere on the interwebs and add them to this site 🙂
A video I shot of the hundreds of skaters that took to the streets this year dressed as Santa for the yearly SantaSkate.
The Camberley Skaters are always getting strange requests and back in March 2009 we had a request for us to go on the (popular) TV show How Clean Is Your House. They originally wanted us to come along with some smelly skates but after much back and forth it was changed to a helmet with stickers on.
It was good of them to use us in the opening scene. You can see that I ignored all hypothermia to show off the cskate T-shirt at all opportunities and Kingol managed to stick a cskate sticker on his helmet a exactly the right place to be seen on camera 😛
N.B. This is a backdated post as I take some of the things I have been doing elsewhere on the interwebs and add them to this site 🙂
Each year the LFNS does a special Sunday Stroll for Easter named the Bunny Stroll. Here is a video I took of this year’s event…
People donated money to do whatever they liked to my head. All money was donated to Children In Need and I think I got off quite lightly!
N.B. This is a backdated post as I take some of the things I have been doing elsewhere on the interwebs and add them to this site 🙂
I had an old pair of skates and some rockets that launch themselves to 1000 feet. It was only logical to put the two together and see what happened…
N.B. This is a backdated post as I take some of the things I have been doing elsewhere on the interwebs and add them to this site 🙂
I just wanted to warn people that if you got any vouchers for Christmas to be very careful about checking the date when they expire. I was shocked to find that vouchers I was given for my birthday expired less than four months later with no chance of a refund. Lost money and not just lost but they have the money for providing nothing!
Perhaps it is my fault for not reading the small print. I don’t get narked by many things but this has really gotten to me and the service was appalling. So much so that I have set a website to try and warn others (and make me feel a bit better). You never know, it may do something!
I have no problem with vouchers expiring, companies have to do this, prices of the experiences they sell will go up etc. however having a voucher that expired in less than four months with no other option is ludicrous in my opinion!
Update: The website worked! A very irate company got in touch and offered me a refund! I have now removed the link to the site that was in this post.
Some things stay with you forever and I would like to think that the following little poem helped shape me. You see, the first computer I ever played with was the family Archimedes 310 and way before I had ever even heard the term “hacking” I was poking around in some of the library files trying to see how things worked. One of the first library files I looked at contained the following poem stuck in the middle of the code! I still don’t know who wrote it so I’m going to credit the author of the library. Surprisingly I can’t find this poem anywhere on the internet!
Silicon valleys,
Germanium hills,
Digital journeys,
And virtual thrills.Greetings, O hacker,
Feeling unwell?
Microchip tracker,
Welcome to hell.Jon Ribbens – DoggySoft
Did you know that buy default majordomo will give a list of all the addresses on your mailing list to anyone?
I have written a script that will tidy up majordomo config files as follows…
This can either be run once or added to /etc/cron.daily so that any new lists created are forced to the correct settings.
Simply download the file, change the directory path at the top of the file if required and execute. Download Here.
I may not be a Microsoft fan however I do realise that they (or their money) can go into producing something that is truly new and unique. Search for Notre Dame on Flickr and you will find thousands (190 thousand in fact) of pictures of the cathedral. Photosynth has really taken that to the next level and allowed a true 3D map to be built from these 2D pictures.
For me, this is straight out of Star Trek. Saying that, Ironically this is almost impossible without the sort of basic tagging that is only now starting to be done with photos. I am looking forward to seeing where this technology takes us.
See the TED Talks video on Photosynth for a much better example and demo.