April 2010
5 posts
The HourGlass Social Club →
A collection of wholly immersive dress-up parties, set in London’s finest Historical locations, woven together by a rich tapestry of historical fact and magical fantasy.
June 2009
1 post
Using fake time travel →
So, you’re in love with one of your friends, but she has a boyfriend and probably wouldn’t have sex with you anyway.
May 2009
6 posts
Software Problems with a Breath Alcohol Detector →
April 2009
3 posts
13 things that do not make sense →
2001: Meet Dave (via Vimeo)
March 2009
9 posts
Introducing Alkaline →
Alkaline is a desktop application that lets you run Windows browser tests on your Mac, using Litmus.
Translate text inline with the 'Sunday Morning'... →
Using this bookmarklet you can easily translate paragraphs of text on any site, inline with a shift + double click (useful for understanding your more exotic friends on Facebook)
Flickr Developer Blog ยป Building Fast Client-side... →
Chrome Experiments →
My head just exploded: Introducing Atlas
Each fisherman was assigned a quota, based roughly on his historical catches. If...
– A superb article on how Iceland’s banking failure came about: Wall Street on the Tundra
February 2009
2 posts
September 2008
3 posts
Expensure - hared expense management (IOU) →
Panda - Open source video platform →
Panda is our open source video platform which runs entirely on Amazon EC2, S3 and SimpleDB.
Bad ISPs - AzureusWiki →
August 2008
18 posts
Foxes sounds like Crystal Castles & MGMT prizefighting over a bucket of LEGO...
– Ohh! Crapp…: Cats Roar In Paris!
London Underground Tube Diary →
Obsessive blogs rock!
Beeth: Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are already taken.
honx: well, you can stil get one from a strange country :-P
bullshit:
Hitler Twitters.
D: Is this Battlestar Galatica?
J: Not *all* Irish folk music is BSG
J: (looks at Last.fm playing) Oh...
You Could Be On Mad Men →
bullshit:
The person who submits the best one-minute or less video audition will win a trip to L.A. and a walk-on role in a future Mad Men episode.
Martin Margiela Is a Fashion Man's Dream →
Certainly sums up my thoughts on Margiela.
Create public AMI for EC2
Not sure why this was so hard to find in the docs, but if you’ve created and then used ec2-register to register a your own AMI, you can then make it bootable by anyone like so:
ec2-modify-image-attribute ami-XXXXXXX --launch-permission -a all
See Sharing AMIs for more details.
Watching Hulu in the UK
It took a good 4 hours to find some simple instructions on setting up a VPN on EC2. Once I found them it only took 30 min to actually setup. Who would have thought the best howto would be in a printed book (albeit available online!). Now I’ve got OpenVPN setup on an EC2 instance and Tunnelblick as the client on OS X - Here we come Arrested Devlopement!
I’ve made some rough and ready...
July 2008
6 posts
Amazon SimpleDB now supports the sorting of query... →
Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known →
Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known