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Sidebar Helper for CakePHP

ebo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:23:01 +0000

Note: This article has been submitted to the Bakery, but it’s been pending approval for a couple of weeks now and I got bored of waiting, so I’m just posting it here. I will update with the Bakery link if/when it goes live! Despite having written several bits of potentially re-usable code for my Cake apps [...]

Flickr archive link for Last.FM events (Greasemonkey)

ebo — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:52:36 +0000

A quick script I just put together for Last.FM event pages. In the photos section, under the machine tag instructions, this script will add a link to go straight to your Flickr archive for the day of the event. The link URL contains ‘me’ instead of your Flickr username, but Flickr will automatically redirect you if [...]

1000 songs

ebo — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:05:56 +0000

The Guardian newspaper recently published a list of ‘1000 songs everyone must hear’. Imagine my delight when I discovered that they’d also published the raw data as part of their new Data Store service. Naturally my first thought was some kind of Last.FM mashup. I thought it would be great if you could match up the [...]

Film Noir et Blanc

ebo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:10:58 +0000

I loaded up the Fisheye today with some Black & White film. I’m interested to see the results because a lot of what I like about the Fisheye is the vivid colours you get from the film. On that note I still have SEVEN rolls of Fisheye from the Oz tour to get developed. It’s tempting [...]

Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul

ebo — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:26:36 +0000

The phrase “return to form” is one I’ve always felt to be a little over-used, and I’d imagine it’s had it’s fair share of column inches in relation to Dig Out Your Soul. In this case I’d say it’s not only a lazy observation, but an inaccurate one, what with the previous two Oasis albums [...]

Franz Ferdinand, Palace Theatre, Melbourne

ebo — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:28:51 +0000

Traveling all the way to the other side of the world only to end up going to see a band from your hometown, may seem a bit mental to some. But when it’s a band as joyous to watch as Franz Ferdinand, you can’t argue. Not to mention the tickets coming all the way from [...]

Remember Remember the Twelfth of November

ebo — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:41:27 +0000

Only a week late, but we have managed to catch some fireworks. We’re back in Phnom Penh after a brief trip down to the South Coast. This week is the water festival, as well as being Independence Day, and a Full Moon. So it’s all happening in Phnom Penh. The Bon Om Thook water festival celebrates [...]

SkyTrain

ebo — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:19:59 +0000

“Right so what should we do about the public transport, the Subway just isn’t cuttin it.” “Yeah maybe an overland train through the city?” “Hmm not really enough room, too many buildings and stuff.” “What if it just followed the main road that’s already there and we built the train directly up above it?” “Haha, yeah good one…. Hmm [...]

Time

ebo — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:30:20 +0000

As we passed the halfway point on the ”Small Tour” of Angkor Wat, I asked our Tuk-Tuk driver what time it was. He looked at his watch, spent a few seconds translating into English, and informed me it was 12:40. For a moment I was relieved he could speak English, otherwise we wouldn’t have had [...]

Markets

ebo — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:00:49 +0000

“No, I don’t want a Tuk-Tuk, or a taxi, or a guided tour, or some lovely gems. And tell your mates in Hong Kong I don’t want a suit, or shirts, or a watch”. OK, so I haven’t actually said that to any of them, I’ve been amazingly patient, and smiley. It’s all about the [...]

Travellin Tunes

ebo — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:01:33 +0000

After all the effort of carefully selecting music for my iPod before I left, I’ve hardly even listened to it so far. On the first flight from London to Tokyo I was kept entertained by the films and muic they had on the wee screen at my seat. They had the new Raconteurs album (Consolers [...]

AnPanMan

ebo — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:28:53 +0000

My favourite slice of Japanese culture so far has to be AnPanMan, who I learned about at the Manga museum in Kyoto. AnPanMan is a cartoon character aimed at young children. His head is made of bean-curd bread, and he flies around helping the poor and hungry. When he rescues someone he flies with them [...]

Kawaguchiko

ebo — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:14:17 +0000

Luggage arrived just as we were checking out of the Khao-san guest house to head for the train. Shit they’re heavy. What did we need all this stuff for anyway? We’ve actually been managing just fine for the past four days. First thing to do was to validate the Japan Rail passes, then we could hop [...]

Tokyo Tower

ebo — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:17:10 +0000

We didn’t really have a plan for Saturday night. We got home from exploring Asakusa in the afternoon and were still in Wednesday’s clothes. Luckily there was a note on the room door telling us that BA had called and would be delivering our bags in the morning. Result! Well more of a consolation result, [...]

Konichiwa!

ebo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:19:46 +0000

OK, I promise that’s the last post title to use parrot phrases of the local language, but it’s late and I’m tired and not feeling very imaginative. Fiona has already stolen all the good chat from today so this will either be brief or repetitive. Tokyo is cool! We are staying in the Asakusa district, which [...]

First flight: GLA-LHR

ebo — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:30:23 +0000

4am, finished packing and fannying about on the computer. Got some sleep. Up at stupid oclock. Fiona woke up at 6, she was too excited. Mum ran us to the airport. Did self-service checkin, I tried to sneakily switch me and Fionas seats so I got the window but the computer crashed or something. She [...]

Metallica shorts, Celtic top, Passport. Sayonara!

ebo — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:43:38 +0000

First stop Tokyo! Well, first stop Heathrow so it’s a bit of a false start. But then it’s eleven and a half hours non-stop to the land of the Rising Sun. Am I prepared? Who knows. Probably not. But hey it’s the first time I’ve done anything like this so how prepared can you really [...]

Flickr Map Monkey (updated)

ebo — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:26:03 +0000

A quick post to say that the FlickrMapMonkey script (yes that’s what it’s called now) has been updated. Version 0.3 is now available over on the UserScripts page. According to the stats there it’s now been installed 310 times, which is pretty cool. Of course there’s no guarantee that all those people are still using [...]

Resurrecting TubeMappr

ebo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:49:14 +0000

After the success of getting Gig Taggr up and running, I thought I’d dust off another little tool I worked on ages ago. Tube Mappr was a very basic experiment for me to explore the Flickr and Google Maps APIs. It’s not ‘useful’ in the way that Gig Taggr is, nor is it anywhere near [...]

Introducing Gig Taggr

ebo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:00:28 +0000

This is an app i’ve been wanting to build for a while now, but was held back for a couple of reasons. The usual lack of time, but also some shortcomings in the Last.FM API The main purpose off the application is to allow people who use Last.FM and Flickr to easily tag their photos with [...]