Archives for May, 2004
bristol gets the daily mail
Monday, May 31st, 2004
Bristolian’s will now be able to get their fix of Daily Mail spun articles as Metro newspaper comes to the West.
Apparently buses have holders for them to be distributed. I imagine a happy partnership between the Daily Mail and First Group.
train tickets for sale
Monday, May 31st, 2004
TRAIN TICKET - Bristol to London
phone spam
Sunday, May 30th, 2004
i just got unsuccessful phone spam on my landline.
i answered the phone.
‘we have an important message for you, please wait 2 seconds’.
i waited.
nothing happened.
the call was disconnected.
drunk on the job
Friday, May 28th, 2004
today i saw a contractor (i presume some sort of builder) adding to his lunchtime coffee from a miniature baileys.
outrageous.
plot the gnu
Wednesday, May 26th, 2004
gnuplot is my favourite thing of the day, the speed with which you can plot charts with 200000 data points is amazing, and they look hot.
thanks to edward for introducing me to it .
prawnys
Wednesday, May 26th, 2004
i had to go to somerfield to buy some torture tea because the shop which sells equal exchange tea had sold out.
while in somerfield, i came across possibly the most disturbing food ever:
so what’s so crazy about prawnys? they look like prawns, well vaguely. ‘prawn flavour snacks formed from white fish’, and coloured […]
i could be a yak
Tuesday, May 25th, 2004
today the register told me about yak farmers in nepal with wifi.
i find this particularly exciting, not just from a geek perspective (ie rigging hardcore wifi in the middle of the himalayas), but also from a social development perspective. such minimal physical infrastructure could potentially bring so much communication.
they might not have telephones, […]
fast cat dreams
Sunday, May 23rd, 2004
i woke this morning at 5.30am after an excerpt from a dream that a small kitten was purring very near my face and it took me ages to get back to sleep as my heart seemed to be beating about 3000 bpm. fear the cat.
wordpress 1.2
Saturday, May 22nd, 2004
wordpress just went 1.2 so i thought i’d upgrade.
a few things broke but it seems ok now. exciting!
robosapien
Friday, May 21st, 2004
today I learnt about Mark Tilden’s RoboSapien (and saw one in the flesh).
quite an impressive machine, especially for £80 (you can buy it from the gadgetshop if you’re willing to go near the shop). ok, so it’s not exactly the most intelligent of the bunch, but it’s responses are very human like, and Tilden’s […]