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Our friend Kirstin's review of Twilight, verbatim

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:12:04 -0700

"Jesus. How can you have a film that long and there be no narrative for the first two thirds. I don't mean just a lack of action, a story needs some kind of forward motion. But this?"

Copied from her text message. She sells it well.

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I have a BlackBerry [Flickr]

Irregular Shed — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:02:58 PDT

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I have a BlackBerry

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:02:43 -0700

... and it's linked to the BlackBerry server at work. How butt-clenchingly corporate.

In comparison to my HTC Desire it's awful, but part of me likes having it with the job.

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Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Molecular Voices " Build a WebApp, everyone's doing it!
Handy article, via @pip

Series 1 Complete [Flickr]

Irregular Shed — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:45:17 PDT

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It's a lot easier to complete the collection once you know the second barcode on each pack is a reference number for the minifig inside, that other people have catalogued those barcode numbers and put them online, and that many phones can read those barcodes. Mine included. =)

Strange photography [Flickr]

Irregular Shed — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:08:56 PDT

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Strange photography

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:08:46 -0700

I've lived in Pontypridd for eight years, following two years in the nineties. How is it I've only just noticed the name on this shop?

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Fireman Jack [Flickr]

Irregular Shed — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:03:41 PDT

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At the Teddy Bears' Picnic in Ponty Park today, having a go in a fire engine (or appliance as they seem to call them these days).

The many faces of Pontypridd [Flickr]

Irregular Shed — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:43:22 PDT

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The many faces of Pontypridd

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:43:08 -0700

Walked past this a few times without paying any attention to the fact that _every face is the same_...

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A Dalek, some Cybermen, the Tardis and us!

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:38:44 -0700

BBC Wales were launching the latest instalment of the Doctor Who adventure game in the centre of Cardiff today, as well as marking the end of this current series (which has been excellent, it has to be said).

On hand, besides the ever lovely Jason Mohammed (he was at our Doctors Surgery when Jack was getting his MMR. Jack isn't autistic because there's no link between MMR and autism, no matter what renowned scientist Jim Carrey makes out) was a Tardis, a Dalek and a pair of Cybermen.

I captured the whole thing (14 mind-melting minutes, fact fans) on my phone which, not being an iPhone 4 isn't the greatest quality, but my phone still works as a phone when I hold it in my left hand =)

Yay for that! I feel so sorry for the guys in the Cyber suits, they must've been baking...

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Beardyman gets best BBC caption ever.

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:08:42 -0700

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Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Introducing my new office
Well, here we are. Where I shall be hiding away to work on my CV, portfolio, website and applications. The computer is an ex laptop (at present) hooked up to my four year old TFT. There's barely ...

Introducing my new office

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:14:01 -0700

Well, here we are. Where I shall be hiding away to work on my CV, portfolio, website and applications. The computer is an ex laptop (at present) hooked up to my four year old TFT. There's barely any network signal up here but I think part of that is from me accidentally cutting through the antenna when I stripped it down - time to get a dongle and USB hub out of my "bits" drawer to try...

The printer is an ancient Epson that has cheap ink and still works. Awful for photos, but that's not the point now!

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Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Time to try on interview clothes
Thanks to the collapse of Barcud Derwen I'm having to try on clothes suitable for interviews. All fit fine. The hair's going to get lopped this week. As someone who detests ties, I quite like ...

Time to try on interview clothes

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:47:19 -0700

Thanks to the collapse of Barcud Derwen I'm having to try on clothes suitable for interviews. All fit fine. The hair's going to get lopped this week. As someone who detests ties, I quite like this one.

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Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 PDT

A very fine video recorder
The company is in limbo. We're assured things will be okay but we've lost several members of staff, morale is sinking and operating capital isn't appearing. Here's a photo of an old v ...
Awesome Lego-based short film
With thanks to my brother for pointing it out to me. ...

Awesome Lego-based short film

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:03:45 -0700

With thanks to my brother for pointing it out to me.

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A very fine video recorder

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:23:58 -0700

The company is in limbo. We're assured things will be okay but we've lost several members of staff, morale is sinking and operating capital isn't appearing.

Here's a photo of an old video recorder in the meantime.

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Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Trying out Posterous again
I'm lazy. I don't want to have to maintain a bunch of stuff to keep a web presence. That's why I gave up on a Drupal-hosted blog, and have shuffled around from place to place ever since, looking for a ...

Trying out Posterous again

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:41:00 -0700

I'm lazy. I don't want to have to maintain a bunch of stuff to keep a web presence. That's why I gave up on a Drupal-hosted blog, and have shuffled around from place to place ever since, looking for a tip-top place to call home.

Right now, my home is powered by Tumblr, but I'm wondering about using Posterous instead. There's acres of reasons, but there are two main attractions to Posterous:

It's crazy simple to use
It's crazy simple to theme

The usage couldn't be any easier. Email stuff to post@posterous.com and let it transform whatever you send to something sensible. Attachments will be turned into assets of one kind or another. Links to Flickr and YouTube videos are turned into embedded media. Send a bunch of photos and it will make a nice slideshow - and upload to Flickr at the same time. This is brilliant stuff.

The theming is similar to Tumblr's but with one huge advantage - there's only one sort of post to theme. No need to worry about how a picture, a link, a quote, a video and so on (and so on) look, or the code to fancy them up - just let Posterous do the heavy lifting, and fanny about with the CSS instead.

So... I'll see how this works out.

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Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 PDT

GTmetrix | Website Speed and Performance Optimization
Very impressive website for testing how tuned up your (or any other) website is, and providing advice on how to improve it.

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Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 PDT

If you code HTML, Zen Coding will change your life
Seriously nifty - expand CSS-like selectors into HTML, dead quick like =)