A couple of techie questions….does anyone know BREW? Or know someone who knows BREW?
Secondly, is anyone aware of an RSS aggregated stream? Something like the Sixapart stream but which is the output from a crawler which cycles through many RSS feeds from all over the net. Does Technorati do something like that? …I couldn’t find it in their developer section.
Hmmm, i wonder what that burning smell is? There’s an electrician outside trying to undo the melting in our supply box, we’re all siting in the dark waiting for him to finish.
Someone has just offered a box of alabaster elephants on the local freecycle list. For some reason this both amuses and pleases me – not that I need elephants, boxed or otherwise, in my life right now, so I’ll let them go to a more appreciative home.
Perfect competition[0] is almost the kind of game I was thinking about – but I’m looking more at something focused on the move from employee to financial independence, rather than the running of businesses themselves.
(Incidentally, if anyone would like to join me in economy 2 I’ve made a tin can factory and don’t have any customers….so I’m going to run out of money in around seven hours time unless I can figure out a useful plan)
[0] Inselkampf for business people, slightly horrible signup process involving running a .net application
Masonry and satanism (more here)
Mathematics Education in Fiber Arts
Chevy Cavalier that has had its seats and controls elevated to a position over the front bumper
“Eye of Sauron” Rotating long breakout point
Chocolate covered beetle (car)
No, really, this is a final test, I’m sure….
Searching for geotagged on livejournal.com yields around 8 entries. Seems like it isn’t quite the great new trend I thought it was. This is good and bad, it means that I’m not very far behind the curve but also means that theres quite limited test data available for my LJ & Multimap mashup (work in progress).
A final geotagging test…for the moment at least
Maybe 400 horses is a little much for me, but I’m still looking for something a bit more interesting than my current Laguna. Its been a great car and has lasted way longer than I had expected when I bought it but its now getting to the point where its more crazy than anything else. But….
…I need some ideas of what to look for in another car. I keep looking around and can’t find anything exciting enough to make it worth buying. My budget isn’t extensive, 4k max at the moment (which will involve a bit of borrowing, so I’d prefer to keep it below that if I sensibly can). Theres plenty of choice in that price range if you’re for a family car or a sensible little runabout. I’m not.
So, give me some ideas.
Quite a freeform weekend this week, it started nicely with an unexpected gig – Red Light Company playing at Proud Gallery in Camden Stables Market. They are quite jangly indie with a nice wall of noise guitar thing going on behind the jangle, the myspace songs are fairly representative of their general style. Sadly the mix was doing some really poor things to the vocals but apart from that it was a top gig. The venue is a little odd, being what appears to be a photo or art gallery at the top of one of the buildings in the market, so the stage was relegated to a corner while the main bar and seating area didn’t afford any kind of view of the bands. I saw only one of the other bands before heading off, they seemed to be wanting to be the Jam and a really beautiful guitar sound without any inspiration to go with it. Disposable in a live setting, probably fantastic when recorded and properly produced. If there was ever a band that needed to take more drugs it was these guys – and I’m not generally a supporter of such things.
Then friday I had a day off to get on the case with sorting my accounts out. I decided that if I didn’t physically take the papers to Cambridge myself it was never going to happen so I headed north, leaving it a bit late because I wanted to finish unblocking my sink first, straight into traffic on the M25.
Into town and the coffee shop in Borders is full so I head down to Carringtons over the way, which is remarkably empty considering the busyness of the street above, to plan the rest of my weekend and try to figure out which car to buy next (more in a later post).
It seems that my vague plan of heading to Norwich is falling apart because nobody else is going….so I head up to Kings Lynn instead, where I end up (trying to avoid) playing a FPS (sadly god mode deactivated). (I feel a bit bad about this because poor Matt has put some effort into setting up the game arena – but I’m not very good with the first person shooter format, it makes me a bit travel sick because of the lag, ref the ginger incident last year, which was, I think, actually caused by playing GTA)
Hunstanton for a breezy walk by the sea on Saturday, with donuts and tack shops and a nearly closed funfair. Then south to toadshamens party where there were a number of people reliving earlier days and falling over rather more than expected. Ho hum, I kept a cautious distance.
Then today, driving south back to home there was something of a temperature gradient from 12C in Huntingdon to 2C twenty miles later, and the hail was settling (and unsettling at the same time). Thankfully there was a similar gradient the other way and the sun was back soon.