“Groovy Mother…” :: Entries for week beginning November 4, 2007

Entries for week beginning November 4, 2007

➠ November 10, 2007

“Blog” bookmarks

From my Firefox bookmarks: The folder containing all the blogs I followed regularly by hand, in the days before I discovered RSS.

Of the lists, blogdex, daypop, Haddock, Aaron Swartz's "Google Weblog" and Sassypants are the ones which have completely died, and of the rest, bloggerheads and "Nifty News, Decent Deals" are the ones I don't still subscribe to in Google Reader.

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Our house, a summary: Can find *two* electric drills with battery-packs and chargers. Location of drill bits? Haven’t got a scooby.

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Posted to Twitter at 2:18 p.m.

Listening to “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, it occurs to me that life *really* needs a “The Best Air Drums In The World Ever” compilation CD.

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Posted to Twitter at 10:40 a.m.

First thing I love about my Chumby: Watching its route from China to me. Currently between Alaska and Kentucky! http://urltea.com/223e

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Posted to Twitter at 10:22 a.m.

Not sensible, but, oh, the joy of it! | Technology | The Guardian

Stephen Fry reviews the iPhone for The Grauniad. “In the end the iPhone is like some glorious early-60s sports car. Not as practical, reliable, economical, sensible or roomy as a family saloon but oh, the joy. The jouissance as Roland Barthes liked to say.”

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Filed under : geekery : grauniad : iphone : stephen fry

➠ November 9, 2007

After spinning my wheels investigating dead-ends at the start of the week, am being MASSIVELY productive today. Feels *SO* good.

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Posted to Twitter at 2:05 p.m.

OAuth Test Server

Simple test OAuth server which has a predefined list of keys and tokens, so you can test your client implementations against it. Handy.

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Filed under : oauth

Finally getting my car back. Hooray!

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Posted to Twitter at 10:01 a.m.

➠ November 8, 2007

Foamee

Lovely beer-sharing via Twitter. The coasters for sale in the store are plenty special too.

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Filed under : beer : foamee : simplebits : twitter

Really craving a cheese and Branston pickle sandwich. DAMN YOU YOZ!

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Posted to Twitter at 6:12 p.m.

Finally at my desk, after a day of meetings. Weighing up starting coding versus just going home and hoping I get in the zone early tomorrow

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Posted to Twitter at 5:08 p.m.

➠ November 7, 2007

Currently overly-celebrating getting the words “HELLO WORLD” to appear in HyperTerminal. Don’t ask.

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Posted to Twitter at 4:45 p.m.

➠ November 6, 2007

If anyone is interested in buying a Drobo (http://www.drobo.com/), let me know — I’ve got a $200-off coupon code for one.

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Posted to Twitter at 11:51 p.m.

GmailGreasemonkey10API - gmail-greasemonkey - Google Code

GMail’s new interface exposes an object with the specific intent of making it easier to write less-fragile GreaseMonkey scripts which interact with the application. Nice idea.

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Filed under : gmail : google : greasemonkey : javascript

Synthesia, Piano for Everyone

The project formerly known as “Piano Hero”.

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Filed under : download : free : game : open source : os x : piano : windows

Facebook News Network - CollegeHumor video

“All the News Feed that’s fit to print.’ (And features my chum Jill Bernard’s status in the crawl — clearly I’m a friend-in-law to the video’s makers.)

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Filed under : facebook : funny : video

Awoke from “nap”. Guess I’m not making it to WebInno!

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Posted to Twitter at 10:20 p.m.

Heading out of work early. Going home via CVS for some new cold remedies. Will hopefully get home, quickly nap, then make it to WebInno.

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Posted to Twitter at 4:31 p.m.

More great Sox news: Youk’s been awarded a well-deserved Golden Glove: http://urltea.com/20ih

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Posted to Twitter at 4:24 p.m.

Happy that we’ve got Curt for another year. http://38pitches.com/2007/11/06/done/ Can’t wait ‘til next October!

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Posted to Twitter at 2:17 p.m.

HEMA - online winkelen

Completely lovely animation on a Dutch e-commerce site.

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Filed under : ecommerce : flash

'Cool Cash' card confusion - Manchester Evening News

Apparently, the consumers of lottery scratch cards in the UK aren’t particularly good at maths. Whodvethunkit? “I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I’m not having it.”

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Filed under : duh! : lottery : maths : uk