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The last tiny problem I had with Blue Peter Totaliser as a child

Posted in general on 12 February, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

[an earlier incarnation of the totaliser from 1972 - © BBC] For those that don’t know, Blue Peter was a children’s TV program on the BBC that started back in 1958 and is still going strong today. A ‘magazine’ format show with features, news reports, Roy Castle, elephants, making things out of cardboard tubes and [...]

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2012 – A Year in Review

Posted in general, offtopic on 25 January, 2012 | 1 Comment »

I missed the tradition end of year round-up for 2011 so I thought I’d get in quickly for 2012. Also this post is going to be self indulgent and rambling much like all my other ones, it also isn’t really about anything. Once more I’m battling with writing, in that I want to write but [...]

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Last Friday, in photos

Posted in general, instagram on 20 January, 2012 | Comments Off

A week! I admit it’s been kind of a crazy week, even more so than usual, which is why I haven’t gotten round to recording (lightly) last Friday. And really there’s not much to do other than drop a whole bunch of photos in one after the other. Anyway, I’m now heading down to London [...]

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Coding and Hosting in the Cloud, Cloud9IDE + Github hosted pages.

Posted in general, guardian, hack on 23 November, 2011 | Comments Off

I’ve been playing with GitHub Hosted Pages, by porting whatisthelatestguardianheadline.com over to pure JavaScript and setting it up to run on GitHub. You can see the end result (maybe, I’ve only tested it on Chrome) over here… http://revdancatt.github.com/whatisthelatestguardianheadline/ …and the GitHub page for it is here… https://github.com/revdancatt/whatisthelatestguardianheadline …should you want to pick apart my code, [...]

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Ornametrics, FRSTEE the Twitter Snowman

Posted in general, tagged on 22 November, 2011 | Comments Off

I was going to attempt to construct a blog post about the shear cleverness of the little fellow pictured above, FRSTEE the Twitter Snowman. But it turns out Bobbie has already done a pretty good job of that over at Giga Om: Meet Frstee, the snowman built from Twitter. The very short version is that the Really [...]

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Just discovered Playlistify for converting my last.fm loved tracks to Spotify

Posted in general, hack, music on 11 November, 2011 | Comments Off

[Filed under too long for a quick tweet, unless that tweet was Playlistify is awesome] So a while ago last.fm removed the ability to play just your loved tracks. This made me sad because I rather liked listening to my loved tracks, what with loving them and all. They’re over here… http://www.last.fm/user/RevDanCatt/library/loved …all 430 of [...]

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DayNotes – Mon 12th Sept, 2011

Posted in general on 12 September, 2011 | 1 Comment »

*DayNotes, otherwise known as a ‘blogpost’ I believe. So today has been mainly organising Google AppEngine Applications. As anyone who’s dealing with AppEngine is aware the billing method is changing… and slightly radically at that. Before the change we were getting charged for CPU usage per hour, incoming and outgoing bandwidth, storage and so on. [...]

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The Curious Case of Istyosty – When is a Proxy not a Proxy, General Legality and the Moral Highground

Posted in general on 17 August, 2011 | 6 Comments »

A couple of places have reported the downing of Istyosty.com, see http://paidcontent.org/article/419-daily-mail-proxy-site-istyosty-goes-down-after-cease-and-desist-order/ for more details. Istyosty was a site that acted as a “proxy” for the Daily Mail (Mail Online). The general idea behind it was to allow people to link to a Mail Online story (via Istyosty) from twitter or a blog post to [...]

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The most important page on Flickr

Posted in flickr, general on 3 June, 2011 | 4 Comments »

http://kottke.org/11/05/the-most-important-page-on-flickr: The recent uploads by your contacts is the most important page on Flickr and it’s broken. Timoni West is a designer at Flickr and she wrote a brief post on that page’s problems. The page fails on a fundamental level — it’s supposed to be where you find out what’s happened on Flickr while [...]

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Of Data Scientists, Big Data, the City and Dancers

Posted in api, general, guardian, hack, tools on 2 June, 2011 | 5 Comments »

A short while ago alongside Meg Pickard I spoke at FutureEverything, we wanted to talk about the rolls of Editors, Robots, Strangers & Friends in the act of curation and overall online experience. However more about that some other time because I want to work through a small section of that talk, a bit I [...]

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