The south east of the UK is covered in snow and has almost completely ground to a complete halt. At home we have about 6 inches of snow and the road is unusable.
Let’s see what comes tomorrow. I think at least I should take some nice pictures.
Month: November 2010
Excellent blog
From the maker of that Processing plug in I mentioned earlier. Really worth a look if you’re into processing or pure data. The blog is here.
Processing Embed Plugin
Excellent news. Now there’s a wordpress plug in you can use to embed your processing sketches. I’ll be giving that a go over the next few days. Well, that’s the plan anyway.
This is a train
I’m quite pleased with this picture. The LED display on the train had failed in a really interesting way, so I took a picture of it.
Nice Pint!
Was out earlier this evening with friends and got to sample this most lovely ale. I’ve tried Tangefoot before but never even heard of picked partridge. It was a lovely pint and very welcome on a cold London night.
Looking forward
4 weeks to Christmas. That’s all, and after that, new year and then 2011. Where has this year gone?
People start asking you ‘Are you ready for Christmas?’ around now (and before), like it is some kind of thing you have to brace yourself against. Some kind of attack that’s on the way.
In some ways I can understand that kind of thinking. I already feel under pressure from constant Christmas advertising. I wish there was a little more joy in Christmas. A little more peace on earth and good will to all men.
The next 4 weeks will be busy no doubt, but I’m hoping to keep the ‘peace on earth, goodwill to all men’ in mind as far as I can.
Stalin Ate My Homework
My latest audiobook listen is Alexei Sayle’s “Stalin Ate My Homework
When I bought it I didn’t know what to expect except that I’ve always enjoyed his sense of humour. So far it is a great listen. He’s reading it himself and as it is about his life it is full of feeling. It is funny and sad and very unusual. I’m only about 3 hours into it and it is 8 hours long, but I’m enjoying every minute of it,
100 Years
If my Grandfather were alive today he would be 100 years old today. I miss him. He was an amazing man. A tinkerer and maker. A wizard with electronics and always creating amazing little gadgets.
When I was little he made me a toy police car made out of old tin cans and bits of tape machines. It was amazing and I played with it for years.
So today I remember my wonderful Grandpa and think of all the good time we had together. Oh, and you might wonder what the picture is? Well, it was his pencil tin, where he kept technical drawing pencils and a set of compasses and the like. It reminds me of him.
Nomadic
Moving around and not moving around.
Annoyed by iWeb
When Apple recently updated their iLife software suite they decided not to update iWeb. I was really annoyed about that. What a huge missed opportunity in my opinion.
Here’s what I think they should’ve done with it:
- Create a free iPhone app that allows you to update iWeb blogs.
- Make iWeb sites mobile friendly so that they play nicely with mobile safari and other mobile browsers.
- Update the software so you can do more straightforward things like add little forums and stuff to your iWeb sites.
- General updates etc
My guess is that Apple will eventually get rid of iWeb, which is a big mistake in my view. I hope I’m wrong.
So I’m on the look out for another iWeb type bit of software. Any thoughts?
I am Ashley Elsdon 