...since I wrote a blog using a Nokia. Probably the early 2000s on a communicator 9210. I remember being amazed that a could blog, from a field. Over the last few years, my field blogging solution has been provided by…
Technology
A lab, a workbench and look-out post. A documentation of Matt’s observational and experimental forays into the avoidance of doing himself any lasting damage with technology.
235 posts
- It's been a while
- Mixed Musical Arts
A venue who's day job is a cage MMA fighting arena was taken over by Nokia UK and La Blogothèque last night to host "Lumia Live". The second leg of a tour which marries interesting music with utterly original venues.…
- Experimental blog using speech only
Attempting to write a blog by talking into hey dictate machine that should convert speech to text political spectrum are just talking normal speed probably a few words that goes awry an acceptable and he had a broken…
- "highly commend" Leeds University
Forgive my proud dad head for a moment - but for a respected university to publicly say that the efforts of your 14 year old son is "highly commendable" is kind of a big deal. Felix's team earned this praise by coming…
Brain trainingI remember my wife's late Aunt Beryl saying that her secret was doing the Australian Times Crossword everyday to keep her brain in shape. Her mind was as sharp as a razor until well into her 80s. Most people seem to…
- Audioblogging
listen to ‘Family Tea Time’ on Audioboo. Today for my blog of the day, I thought I'd try out something a bit different - an audio blog. I've just found that audioboo (the site I've used to serve the audio) clips…
- Felix built our new computer
Finally we got round to retiring the creaking old beast that served the family admirably, for around the last 10 years. Felix had the desire to build a computer himself and he'd saved a fair chunk of the money towards…
My eldest, my youngestLunchtime, first day back at work after a long stretch of time off the grid. In summary, it's been a morning of work email reading. It took us ages to get home yesterday - we dawdled quite a lot on the way home from…
Standing on the shoulders of giantsI've cited a fella called Lomokev a couple of times recently and how I like his work. I asked myself what I liked about his work, and came up with some stuff that can't be replicated or emulated - like his natural gift,…
Giz a go on your bike?I had one of those conversations earlier that triggered a warm glow of nostalgia. You know the feeling. The feeling you get when you and a bunch of approximate peers reminisce about stuff from when you were kids.…
- Follow, like and reblog features on a wordpress self hosted site
There are two flavors of the Wordpress Content Management System. There's the wordpress.org self hosted solution - as used for this very blog, and there's the wordpress.com hosted solution. I'm normally a glass half…
reCAPTCHAreCAPTCHA prompts - don't ya just love em? The internet is an immense collection of data. It's getting closer, day by day, to containing the entire sum of everything that is written. ' Everything' is available online in…
StrobographicA couple of week or so ago, a friend said on Facebook "Just found a strobe light, anyone want it?". I did, I got it. Thanks Mr Pilchards. I'd discovered the joys of strobography beforehand. Over the course of several…
Further experiments in LomographyUnexpectedly, I got two disks in the post this morning. A couple of weeks ago I'd posted a couple of film off to be processed - one of which, I'd forgotten about for years. The nerdy short-hand of what's going on here:…
- Chrome OS install - aborted
I've been trying to get a version of Google's operating system : Chrome OS working. Failed. Google themselves only support it when it's on either a chromebook or a chromebox - specially built Windows rival computers now…