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Probably art + code in the loosest sense of those words.

» Mudhoney UK Tour

Wow. I didn’t even realise they were still going. Brings back memories - not that I’ve seen them; never did get to see them live when I was really into them (school years), but I associate them with good times. Plus Pokin’ Around is on my (now defunct) Muxtape (basically my all time favourites mixtape).

Unfortunately I think my gig days are over, which is a shame as this is actually in reach.

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Rex the Dog - Synthpop set recorded live at Musicalia May 2010.

This is ace. Ghostbusters and Kids in America. Genius.

(Not a video, by the way)

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Shoefiti I sat on this for awhile because I was hoping to make it better before I ‘released’ it, but I’ve come across two major roadblocks: 1) I’m not very good 2) I don’t have a lot of time. So I decided I might as well just make it public now. It’s a simple Shoes browser for Librelist. When I started it, it was quite a clever idea as the Librelist Archive Browser was just a list of lists and a calendar. You had to select the list and then guess which days had messages by clicking on the calendar. I modelled this app on that interface, but with the benefit that the calendar indicated which days had messages. Of course, since then, the Librelist browser has improved greatly (although there is a significant delay/bug in recent messages not appearing) by implementing a threaded style view of archives. Should I ever a) get clever and/or b) get lots of time, I’d still like to improve this, just for me.

Shoefiti

I sat on this for awhile because I was hoping to make it better before I ‘released’ it, but I’ve come across two major roadblocks: 1) I’m not very good 2) I don’t have a lot of time. So I decided I might as well just make it public now.

It’s a simple Shoes browser for Librelist. When I started it, it was quite a clever idea as the Librelist Archive Browser was just a list of lists and a calendar. You had to select the list and then guess which days had messages by clicking on the calendar. I modelled this app on that interface, but with the benefit that the calendar indicated which days had messages.

Of course, since then, the Librelist browser has improved greatly (although there is a significant delay/bug in recent messages not appearing) by implementing a threaded style view of archives.

Should I ever a) get clever and/or b) get lots of time, I’d still like to improve this, just for me.

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» HacketyHack is a Ruby Summer of Code Project

Shoes is the “soul” of HacketyHack. This is fantastic news.

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My Flickr all time search stats, since late 2007, click on the image to get more info. Awhile ago Flickr changed from providing all-time stats to a rolling 28 days. They then made available for download, for a limited time, the historical all-time data. This ‘limited time’ comes to the an end at 01-Jun-2010, and to be honest I wasn’t going to bother downloading almost sixty Excel/CSV files dating back to 2007, because the likelihood was I’d never do anything with them. But then I heard about flickrstats by visp, simply authenticate the app and it gets you files for you, analyses them, and presents them in a lovely graph. Visp has also put together a demo video of it in action. So if you are a Flickr Pro member, it’s well worth using this app before the 01-Jun.

My Flickr all time search stats, since late 2007, click on the image to get more info.

Awhile ago Flickr changed from providing all-time stats to a rolling 28 days. They then made available for download, for a limited time, the historical all-time data. This ‘limited time’ comes to the an end at 01-Jun-2010, and to be honest I wasn’t going to bother downloading almost sixty Excel/CSV files dating back to 2007, because the likelihood was I’d never do anything with them. But then I heard about flickrstats by visp, simply authenticate the app and it gets you files for you, analyses them, and presents them in a lovely graph. Visp has also put together a demo video of it in action.

So if you are a Flickr Pro member, it’s well worth using this app before the 01-Jun.

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Vim Colour Schemes

Owing to having to set-up Vim again on my work machine, I decided to have a look around to see if I could find a better colour scheme than pyte, which I’ve been using for awhile.

It seems there are a few good dark background ones (I didn’t find any other light background ones):

Of those I like IR_Black best, but I think I’ll likely toogle between pyte and IR_Black as overall I’m definitely more of a light background guy and don’t really get the whole “view on black” obsession.

I also went looking to see if the toolbar icons could be improved, because they are pretty terrible on Windows and was surprised to find someone had tackled this already, but I’ve decided to hide the toolbar as I don’t really ever use it. So that solves that problem.

And note to self:

set guioptions-=T  "remove toolbar
colorscheme ir_black "set default colour scheme
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» Shoes policeman builds for Linux

ashbb is now knocking out recent Shoes builds for Linux as well as Windows. That just leaves us with OSX Snow Leopard to go…

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» Firefox 4: the HTML5 parser – inline SVG and MathML

It’s good to see Gecko pulling some punches at Webkit (I love Webkit, but I don’t want it to become the only rendering engine. Webkit, at least Chrome developer build, doesn’t render the MathML properly from the inline MathML and SVG example, and the SVG not at all).

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Some Ubuntu 10.04 Notes…

…due to my unexpected Ubuntu trial at work.

  • It’s bloody good. Looks lovely. I’d quite happily use this full time if I had that choice/option (not like there’s any competition with XP, but I mean I’d also switch from OSX for this; Was never a fan of the brown theme, preferring Mint, but I prefer this new theme to Mint).
  • Does multiple monitor support pretty much no problem. (The first time I set them up, laptop (1440x900) and monitor (1280x1024), I had a few glitches getting the settings to work: I had to apply the settings a few times and toggle between settings, etc until it worked ok. But subsequent times it worked first go. Bizarre.)
  • You can move the menus bars to the ‘main’ monitor.
  • To get Lastpass working, had to launch from terminal and be sure to export HTTPS_PROXY before hand
  • Non-persistant LiveUSBs aren’t that bad afterall: I used to use Slax a fair bit, because it’s small, looks good and I could have a persistant install on a 1GB usb stick (I don’t have the min 2gb for a persitant Ubuntu install :-( ). But then I twigged, there’s not that much downside to a LiveUSB install in cloud-computing land: I’ve just moved my Firefox profile onto another USB stick and I can reconnect to that each time I used the LiveUSB; tweaking other settings each time isn’t so bad.
  • Be VERY careful when installing to an external USB drive from the LiveUSB. The default settings will happily trounce the MBR of the internal drive. And although in theory this is fixable, in mine it wasn’t. Whole laptop had to be re-imaged. Ooops.
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There ends another Roidweek. It’s been fun, as ever - that’s my third one now. I got four (maybe five) shots I’m really happy with. Which isn’t too great considering there’s only ten in a pack, but I wanted to be a bit braver with the camera and try things like multiple exposures, wide angle lens (plus tape to hold it on) and manually exposing using the f/58 aperture - none of those attempts came out great, but it was still fun trying.

There ends another Roidweek. It’s been fun, as ever - that’s my third one now. I got four (maybe five) shots I’m really happy with. Which isn’t too great considering there’s only ten in a pack, but I wanted to be a bit braver with the camera and try things like multiple exposures, wide angle lens (plus tape to hold it on) and manually exposing using the f/58 aperture - none of those attempts came out great, but it was still fun trying.

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