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Call-center integration
Very impressed with Tomy UK (the people who make those funny radio powered baby monitor things). I thought mine was broken as its flashing light morse code alarm was doing what I thought was the wrong thing. I che...
Ghost NASCAR driver
I remember preparing for Halloween when I was in 3rd grade at the American school in Milan. One of the kids had a real Bell helmet and a driving suit painted black with a white skeleton all over it. I couldn’t bel...
Shrines
Nicki and I were on holiday in the land of Ben and Laura last year, when we stopped for lunch in West Virginia. Food was fantastic basic southern stuff, served with those large brown plastic glasses full of home-...
more on plagiarism
Hi dug, Here is the site favoured by academics who are involved in the fight against plagiarism. Its quite a big project about electronic detection, and does mention plagiarism.org
A potent cocktail of music and linguistics
playful, retro, unpredictable, jazzy (occasionally, and not in a good sense, I’m afraid). But definite potential overall.
More designs are getting copied
apparently, and these people want to help students avoid it. You’d think that a site called Plagiarism.org might try and make a more unique logo. I mean it’s a logo with a swoosh(!):
More than a misunderstanding
More strange and wonderful stuff from Cal. Check out this icq conversation
The Joy of Sex
Funny article in the Guardian this morning. Barbara Ellen remembers the hairy hippies of “The Joy of Sex”. She laments the passing of said hippies as the new edition has replaced the daft drawings with (no doubt v...
Things you didn’t know about Google
Gosh, you learn something new everyday on the web. The following from a Stanford U paper
Week ending 4 July [media]
Darn, it’s been a whole week - getting sloppy. Piece in the Guardian today theorising about what will happen when punters become able to apply professional-grade special effects to video. The suggestion is that vi...
Forgotten manga
This cracks me up and this makes me want to shoot myself. Fantastic stuff from Patrick Farley at e-sheep comix and while I’m browsing memory lane, remember air guitar? this was the same year that motion-control te...
Bite-sized
great gig, if bite-sized (here’s a few seconds of “Babies” grabbed with the cannon ixus). Perhaps more small-but-perfectly-formed. Billy and I hooked up with Ian, the painter who is doing Andrew’s house. This is a...
Thanks Jed
CU-1 is three weeks old today and my Dad sent me a father’s day card (no, I didn’t send him one…) which is a really nice lino cut based on a photograph taken a couple of weeks ago.
Family post
Mom, Dad and other family folk, there’s a great shot of CU-1 having a bath over in the scrapbook :-)
Raettig vs Jobs
Never have I met anyone more capable of taking a piece of gorgeous, ground-breaking industrial design and turning it to useless rubble in seconds…
What do they fear?
What is it with everyone these days, first KPMG hassles Chris for linking to them and now NPR (no, that’s the NRA - the NPR is the well-meaning public braodcasting lot) are demanding that people complete a form to...
This week
Well, it’s Friday, and Nick and CU-1 have gone off to visit young Gulia, one of the nct babies. It’s been quite a week, Nick’s parents came down to stay with us, CU-1 discovered the fun of staying up all night and...
Browsers are getting interesting again
I’ve just downloaded the new version of netscape — it has all the down-to-basics functionality of Communicator, but with the added extra of a (largely) standards-compliant rendering engine. Also, my parents should...
More nonsense
I’ve modified the generator script so that the selection of links (over there on the right) automatically extracts my bookmark file and chops out links using a seeded number. This happens every sixty minutes. “Coo...
Mr Raettig’s mum
Just a quick grin of thanks to Mr Raettig. His cutdown version of OpenBSD has been powering mum, the pumpernickle intranet box for the last 16 months and his configuration has proved remarkably robust.
Grin
…Eager not only to point out rotundity, He does math too, and shows, with air of profundity, How much more destructive are sweet, fatty snacks Than militant Islamic terror attacks…
CU-1
has been in the house for a week now. She now sleeps in her carry-cot during the day and in bed with Nick and I at night. In between, she is learning to poo and fart at the same time while having her nappy changed...
Cal Henderson
Been visiting the iamcal network a lot ever since Billy decided to download Cal’s metalinker script. Sites like these cheer me up big time.
My first digital camera, the Canon Digital Ixus. (17-1)
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In early pictures with the Ixus,
My first digital camera, the Canon Digital Ixus. (41-18)
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In early pictures with the Ixus,
My first digital camera, the Canon Digital Ixus. (65-42)
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In early pictures with the Ixus,
My first digital camera, the Canon Digital Ixus. (89-66)
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In early pictures with the Ixus,
My first digital camera, the Canon Digital Ixus. (113-90)
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In early pictures with the Ixus,
My first digital camera, the Canon Digital Ixus. (137-114)
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In early pictures with the Ixus,
Thank you
Also, I just wanted to say “thank you” to all those who emailed congratulations and have not heard back from me individually - please forgive me but it has been a bit of a crazy time
pronunciation query (from billy)
The final word in response to Billy’s query — native english speakers address mademoiselle as
My first digital camera, the Canon Digital Ixus. (161-138)
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In early pictures with the Ixus,
CU-1 has arrived at a strange time
In the history of our little planet. There appears to be an increasing lack of clemency.
