8" Star Trek Plate Wesley Crusher
Come on, admit it: you’d love to find a commemorative plate of yourself on eBay, bid on it and win.
Come on, admit it: you’d love to find a commemorative plate of yourself on eBay, bid on it and win.
Here is an excellent article by Christopher Hitchens about "The dismay of an honorable man of the left".
Here’s something interesting I stumbled upon while browsing through a bunch of "home movies" that people have posted up at apple.com.
My brother in law, Jeb, left for Colorado yesterday. We drove up to Tucson and dropped him off at the airport.
I’ve been having a great time here in Arizona, relaxing and enjoying myself.
A very happy Christmas, one and all.
One of the best things about Sierra Vista, Arizona is its mexican restaurant, La Casita.
This is going to be a very quick entry… I have to rush off in a few moments to the Retired Officer’s Club (should be fun).
I’m taking leave of Brighton for a few weeks.
This is a really clever piece of freeware.
Here’s a LEGO version of the Camelot song from Monty Python And The Holy Grail (from the people who brought you the one minute long version of 2001:A Space Odyssey in LEGO).
You have to be a real geek to enjoy this kind of thing. Needless to say, I love it.
The WaSP is bowing out.
There’s a website where you can type in a URL and see the "pornolized" version of any site.
Apparently, I’m Francisco Scaramanga.
Monday was Karin’s birthday. We all went out to a nice Thai restaurant.
Happy Chanukah.
If, like me, you are subscribed to the {fray} mailing list, you’ll have received an email today pointing to a re-run of an old seasonal story - the tree:
Lance Arthur has his virtual Christmas card up already.
The rumour mill is churning.
I’ve just come back from an interesting evening in The Sanctuary which is a cosy little cafe not 30 seconds from where I live.
I thought I was being a smartypants by posting the Perl source code for decrypting DVDs but this is really clever:
I’m linking to kpmg.com because I can.
Here’s a fairly neutral report on a new worm that’s doing some damage.
I was just over at the BBC website reading this article about Joshua Davis and his inclusion in the current exhibition at the Design Museum.
Andrew Sullivan has seen the light and I’m not talking about politics.
Here’s what all that fuss was about. "It" has been revealed. "It" is a scooter.
I just found out recently (thanks to Prentiss Riddle) that Moby keeps an online journal.
As of today, there is no admission price for the Science Museum or the Natural History Museum.
I heard the news today, oh boy.
Talk about intrusive advertising. I don’t understand how the guy managed to put up with having his view blocked by a billboard for over a year. Can anyone blame him for taking a saw to it?
Here’s some more fun from the Modern Humorist: "If poets wrote poems whose titles were anagrams of their names".
Following up on an earlier post, a court has now ruled that it is illegal for me to write this here:
I think I’m going to be sick.
If playwrights wrote plays whose titles were anagrams of their names…
This is one amazing piece of Flash. I’m starting to realise just how much can be accomplished with ActionScript.
Every Sunday, I send out an email newsletter for The Session to all the folks who have subscribed to receive it.
This is my first "remote" posting.
This is great.
Time for a little book review. I’ve just finished reading "Galileo’s Daughter" by Dava Sobel.
I smold, you smold, we all smold for ice mold.
I went out last night to see a band called The Czars. Actually, I saw two fifths of the band: the singer and guitarist are doing a little mini-tour ‘round England.
Here’s a tale of the blind leading the blind.
This article at Wired is all about Photoshop. Specifically, it’s all about the popularity of "Photoshopping" images for fun, satire or spite.
Time for some more geek talk. I’ve been spending the day playing with RSS feeds on my little portal (again). I was spurred on by an encouraging email I got from Prentiss Riddle, who keeps a great weblog.
Jessica and I got plenty of exercise today. We walked to the far end of town to look at the wares at PCworld.
Wesley Crusher was a character in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The character is generally regarded as being the most annoying, obnoxious member of the Enterprise crew.
Peter Buck has been known to behave a bit oddly in the past (he spent most of 1995 getting drunk in his dressing gown). Still, I always thought he was something of a gentle giant at heart.
I spent most of today making tweaks and changes to my little portal.
Some more geeky stuff:
This is really only of interest to the geeky amongst you. I’ve been messing around with my custom made blogging application.
Catherine, our drummer, is coming over tomorrow night. Chris and Karin are going to cook up some kaese spaetzle.
Nasa could learn a thing or two from the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association. One month after the clever folks in Maryland launched a satellite built for just $50,000 (instead of the originally anticipated $1,000,000), the satellite shows no sign of deg
This is fun: a page of speculative designs for future Macs.
Last night was bonfire night. In England, November 5th is celebrated in rhyme:
Despite the warmest October since records began, I’m not going to let the nice weather fool me.
It’s another lovely day in Brighton.
This is the kind of site where I can literally spend hours: Levitated Daily Source.
The debate surrounding corporal punishment has flared up again here in England.
Now, this is what the Internet was made for: Bible stories in Lego form.
This is good news. The infamous DeCSS code is protected under free speech.
The Giant Sand concert was lots of fun.
It’s the first of November and I’ve been writing my thoughts in this journal for exactly one month now.
A quick update to my previous entry: I found a recipe for that cake.
Happy Halloween.
There’s nothing quite like getting a new and better musical instrument (except maybe getting a new and better computer).
Jessica and I went to Ireland earlier this year. We spent most of the time in my hometown of Cobh.
Chris (my upstairs neighbour and bandmate) had an interesting encounter this morning.
Hmm… apparently I’m "Number 5, Goofy robot with life from Short Circuit".
Today was a good mail day.
Wednesday is band practice day. It went well today although it was a little short - two hours instead of the usual three.
About a week ago, Apple started circulating the news that they were about to release a groundbreaking new product (and it wouldn’t be a Mac).
Jessica and I had dinner with Chris and Karin upstairs last night. Jessica cooked up some nice roast vegetables to go with the delicious kaese spaetzle that Karin made.
Here’s some eyecandy for you: Aurora Borealis on the nights of October 11th and 12th.
The situation in Afghanistan has highlighted something of a dilemma for the liberal left - a group I would usually consider myself a part of.
This is going from the ridiculous to the sublime.
I was in the post office a few days ago to get a stamp. I needed to send a card to the States which costs 65p.
Heather Champ and Aaron Straup Cope rule!
This is the latest in a long line of ridiculously ludicrous software patents.
If you’re a regular visitor here, then you’ll probably have noticed something new on the journal page - a random picture from The Mirror Project.
For your viewing pleasure: a gallery of photos from Maryland.
There has been a discussion lately on the Webdesign-L mailing list about the sorry state of customer support these days.
This is a difficult time for Muslims. How do you seperate your religion from the acts committed in its name?
Here’s some more grist for the fundamentalist mill.
This is too perfect.
The principles of free (usually democratic) societies are *inclusive* in nature: different faiths, different lifestyles, different value systems coexisting in relative peace. There is generally a seperation of Church and State, as well as freedom of speec
This is very good news indeed.
There have been a lot of eyewitness accounts of the events of September 11th posted on the web but this has to be the most unusual:
All that talk of Baltimore has prompted me to do something I’ve meaning to do for a while. I want to direct your attention to the website of my best buddy in Baltimore, Daniel Brown.
A bouzouki playing researcher (the best kind) is investigating the phenomenon of "cognitive itch". You know: when a song gets completely stuck in your head.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a brand new skin to wrap around the Adactio website. I give you:
Apple have posted up an article about a fellow named Christof Koch.
Two days ago we had very, very windy weather here in Brighton. It whipped the sea up into an impressive cauldron of loud, crashing waves.
You know those posters of Osama Bin Laden that protesters in Bangladesh are waving? Well, the collage of pictures of Bin Laden are culled from many sources including the internet.
I remember reading through the Encycolepdia Brittanica as a kid in Ireland and reading that the world’s biggest aquarium was in Baltimore.
First Monday have posted an article about how Google responded to the September 11th attacks.
This is just about the cutest story I’ve come across in quite a while. Apparently, the way to a woman’s heart is through Perl.
The envelope please…
It’s Saturday. That means it’s Guardian reading day.
Here’s an interesting little piece that could put one of those cartoon lightbulbs above Steve Jobs’ head.
Talking about The Blind Watchmaker reminded me of one of the things that’s so fascinating in the book.
Good news for Noam Chomsky. Scientists in England claim to have isolated a gene directly related to language.
Today is National Poetry Day in Britain.
Prompted by an article written by Derek Powazek at Design For Community, I wrote the following email to Yahoo!’s customer care department:
Since September 11th, I have been voraciously reading news sites, personal weblogs and any other kind of commentary I can find on the web.
Here’s the email I wrote to the W3C about the proposed change in licencing practices.
For anyone who’s confused about the proposed changes at the W3C (and let’s face, the W3C isn’t known for its snappy writing), here’s a handy little article that sums up the issues.
More news on yesterday’s post about the W3C and patents.
Tony Blair was in Brighton today for the Labour party conference. Here’s the full text of his speech. It’s pretty stirring stuff although mentioning Europe right now smacks a little of opportunism. Overall, a good speech from a great speaker.
The World Wide Web Consortium has come under a lot of fire recently for burying a proposal that would allow its recommendations to be released under a fee-paying licence.
Nature magazine has an an article about entangling matter on a subatomic scale. Scientists in Denmark have made a breakthrough in the scale of the entanglements.
So, here’s the newly relaunched Adactio site. I hope you like it.
This is my first entry in my first online journal.