WordPress have announced version 2.1. It sounds like there are some interesting new features to try here, such as spellchecking, autosaving and more AJAX-based features. So I will have to try it out soon, probably on another blog first as a test.
Category: diary
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Not smoked since last night
Haven’t killed anyone yet either.
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Bit of a catch up
Well it has been a while since I’ve written about myself, what with being away in London learning Java for a week, and posting lots of news stories instead. I’m about caught up now, so I hopefully will try and settle into a pattern with a little more balance. BTW, be aware that the comments on the news stories for the moment link to the actual story, rather than to my comments section. Should hopefully get chance to fix that soon.
I’m a bit full tonight, having cooked Nigel Slater’s perfect coq au vin. It is a great recipe, and with a few shortcuts I made it relatively quickly. I also cooked the full version (justabout) over New Year, and it is marvellous.
Being the New Year now, I have to put some of my resolutions into action. So this weekend I’m giving up smoking, and I’m also going to try and watch my weight a bit, so that it doesn’t add any more, particularly as I’d like to lose a little too. So I may make mention of what (if any) I lose. I am going to keep track of it, so I get an idea of what I’m doing that is right or wrong.
We’ve also decided on our holiday for this year, we’re off to New York in October hopefully! I’m bricking it about the flight, but seeing as I managed a couple of hours each way to France last year, I think I can about cope with it as long as I keep me head stuck in a book all the way. Will be well worth it once we get there though, can’t wait.
This has also partly been the motivation to get a new camera, a proper digital SLR. I’m hoping to buy it in the next month, and start taking some high-quality pics to put on flickr and for my own general amusement. And to occupy me whilst I am giving up smoking. Hope I can pull that off.
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Cap’n Crunch – The Twilight Years
This is a great new story about Cap’n Crunch, one of the original hackers in a way, as he was into phone phreaking in the 1970s. His friends and him created many of the methodologies of hacking as it is still practised today, and it is fascinating to see what has become of him since, as I’d only ever read about the actual phone exploits he had done.
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Refinery29 Shops – Cool Hunting
Refinery 29 started out as a guide to the coolest and greatest in New York shopping. Now they have an online shop bringing together the best items from the best shops. Well worth a look, read more on the cool hunting site that links to it.
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Upload and convert videos to any format with Hey!Watch
May be worth a go, an online app that converts youtube videos and the like to any format you like. You can only do 10 a month before you have to subscribe, but for the odd must have video it could be worth it.
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The Pirate Bay Hopes to Buy its Own Country: Sealand
One of the most successful of Bittorrent sites has it’s eyes on owning a country now, the offshore platform known as Sealand. They’ve underbid by many millions of pounds thus far from the looks of it, but good luck to them.
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Public can purchase $100 laptop – Neowin.net
The backers of the One Laptop Per Child project plan to release the machine on general sale next year.
This is great news, the idea was to create a laptop that could be given en masse to children in developing countries to help them with their education. The idea now is that the public at large will be able to purchase them, but only if they buy 2, one of which goes to the charity arm for a child. Everyone wins, $200 is a crazy price for a laptop, and these have been beautifully designed. I could potentially myself see them becoming iconic pieces of equipment. I certainly hope so. -
Words matter, but the message is King – Presentation Zen
Presentation Zen is a great little site discussing, well, presentations. They had a good article a few days back comparing the recent speeches by Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, praising in particular Jobs’ ability to express complicated concepts simply. In the above article, they point to a fantastic example of where more complex language can still communicate complex issues in a straightforwards manner, Martin Luther King’s I have a Dream speech. Follow the link for more and also a link to a youtube video of King’s speech.
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Police Trails in Oxford – Flickr
Alex Hay posted a photo:
This light trail was taken in oxford as a police car drove past.
Great picture of Oxford here 🙂