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Radiohead remix by James Houston
June 24, 2008 – 9:08 pm
I saw James present this remix of Radiohead song Nude at Interesting08 over the weekend. He’d just finished university where it was his final year project. It’s seriously impressive (stick with it, it’s worth it)
Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
DIY 3D wizardry with the wii
June 5, 2008 – 12:59 pm
Thanks to Ollie for sharing this video made by one of his friends. Levels of geekiness we can only dream of at White October…
Taleb : applied to web development
June 2, 2008 – 1:03 pm
I know nothing more about Nassim Nicholas Taleb than what I read in the Sunday Times magazine this weekend : that is he’s trader, turned philosopher who makes bleak predictions on the global economy and the over efficient world we now live in.
Taleb has has a theory about Black Swans in life : things we [...]
A website redesign gone wrong… and then put right
May 7, 2008 – 8:20 pm
… in my opinion. Postcode Anywhere have been one of my favourite companies for a while now. They provide a great range of affordable web services for doing things like postal address searches and finding the latitude and longitude of a postcode. The services are good, the reliability is good, the [...]
Public spirit and BAD bus drivers
April 29, 2008 – 1:37 pm
While waiting in a queue for the drivers to change over on my number 211 bus this morning at Waterloo, I witnessed both the ugly side, and a really good side of Londoners. The disembarking driver from the early morning shift tore a strip of paper from the ticket machine, screwed it up and threw [...]
wii love the iplayer
April 15, 2008 – 10:56 pm
The BBC have got their iplayer working on the wii. Or at least have started shouting about it.
This is great news if, like me, you’re a bit fed up of watching again on a tiny laptop screen. Once you’ve downloaded the Internet channel (opera browser) for £3.50 and figured out that you can zoom [...]
Green Energy UK response
March 21, 2008 – 3:36 pm
A few weeks ago I wrote an article giving my reasons for moving our electricity supplier from Green Energy UK to Good Energy. Green Energy UK coincidentally got in touch with me the next day to ask if I would like to use them in our new office. I declined, pointing them in the [...]