Thursday, July 27, 2006
The Next Time You're On North Tce
Walk up to the building depicted below, to the right of David Jones. Stand beneath the large bronze leaf, and look very closely at the stem.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Licence Plate Tracking
Wired has an article about tracking licence plates - personally, I like the idea. I cycle to and from work all too often, and about 1 in 20 drivers are just plain reckless.
Imagine what could be done with a standardised geo-semantic-web, and a strong identifier like a number plate!
Imagine what could be done with a standardised geo-semantic-web, and a strong identifier like a number plate!
Monday, July 24, 2006
Subversion for Conversation
Jo Walsh talks about conversation.
I think there's a thread of something there; damned if I know what it is. I kind of picture something like our trac + subversion setup.
You have a conversation with whomever, and you just use a WikiWord to tag it. Software behind the scenes automagically traces the when, who, and what: it shouldn't be hard to write plugins / specific filters to pore over log files / etc.
It also just so happens I got back to playing with cocomment.com - it's ALMOST a solution for Jo's blogging conversations.
I think there's a thread of something there; damned if I know what it is. I kind of picture something like our trac + subversion setup.
You have a conversation with whomever, and you just use a WikiWord to tag it. Software behind the scenes automagically traces the when, who, and what: it shouldn't be hard to write plugins / specific filters to pore over log files / etc.
It also just so happens I got back to playing with cocomment.com - it's ALMOST a solution for Jo's blogging conversations.
Wanted Mashup: Google SOAP api, Accessible search, and RDFa/GRDDL
RDFa and GRDDL are two emerging proprosals to make the whole metadata-in-xhtml thing meaningful. I'd love to be able to explore the emerging GRDDL/RDFa web by using the Google SOAP API to access results ranked more highly by the Accessible scutter.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Wanted Songbird Extensions
Songbird is releasing nightlies... sort of. I would give anything to have two extensions in particular:
Update More on extensions...
- MusicBrainz tagging built right into the bird.
- Last.fm / audioscrobbler plugin to record my listening habits.
Update More on extensions...
Harvest & SuprGlu
There's a little application I really don't use that much, SuprGlu. It's an aggregator for all of my online life, and its kind of a blog/flickr/last.fm mashup. I love it, but I neglect it.
I've done the exact same thing with my blog in sticking oodles of tat onto it, SuprGlu should be exactly my kind of thing. For some reason I can't explain, it's not - perhaps because I already have a blog with oodles of tat all over it.
I'm not blogging about SuprGlu.
I'm blogging about another application from the people who made SuprGlu. Harvest looks great, from the very first page on in.
I didn't look much past the first page however.
The reason is because I'm familiar with basecamp; and in my mind I have in broad strokes lumped basecamp and Harvest together - no doubt under the surface they are as different as cats and dogs, but they look the same. I have no easy way to tell what makes Harvest different (though, of course, after the first few pages I begin to get the idea that it is a wildly different beast).
As a developer, rather than any other kind of project worker, I have abandoned tools like basecamp in favour of trac - because it offers such tight integration with source code control, issue tracking, and a wiki. I'm a very hard user to convince that Harvest is infact useful. Much of my project management is done adhoc - I abhor timesheets. Our work accounting department tried to make us do it with dead trees, and it just didn't work. I get shudders when our IT manager speaks of man-hours (they don't exist!) with that look in his eyes. If I was so busy I needed to divide my time between 6 clients and 27 projects, I'm not really sure I would have the time to micromanage and track my time.
Infact, I'd really prefer it if my email client could help manage this workload. Or my calendaring application. Anything that just half does the recording of important times and whatnot all by itself.
I got as far as starting a new project. I put in the name. There's a physical address - oops, I've been editing a client's details. I go to edit the internal project - I find I want to be able to associate URLs with it. Life would be great to be able to simply invite a new contractor to work with me and have them able to get going with trac, svn, our live servers, our production servers, etc - all of these available in link form.
There's no real facility for it.
Bugger.
That's the dealbreaker for me - this doesn't actually help me get things done :(
On the plus side, setup was flawless for this application - if you ever want an example of how to install an applicaton, this is how it should be done.
It's a wonderful piece of software, but it's utterly useless for me. Give it a crack and let me know if it's more useful for you...
I've done the exact same thing with my blog in sticking oodles of tat onto it, SuprGlu should be exactly my kind of thing. For some reason I can't explain, it's not - perhaps because I already have a blog with oodles of tat all over it.
I'm not blogging about SuprGlu.
I'm blogging about another application from the people who made SuprGlu. Harvest looks great, from the very first page on in.
I didn't look much past the first page however.
The reason is because I'm familiar with basecamp; and in my mind I have in broad strokes lumped basecamp and Harvest together - no doubt under the surface they are as different as cats and dogs, but they look the same. I have no easy way to tell what makes Harvest different (though, of course, after the first few pages I begin to get the idea that it is a wildly different beast).
As a developer, rather than any other kind of project worker, I have abandoned tools like basecamp in favour of trac - because it offers such tight integration with source code control, issue tracking, and a wiki. I'm a very hard user to convince that Harvest is infact useful. Much of my project management is done adhoc - I abhor timesheets. Our work accounting department tried to make us do it with dead trees, and it just didn't work. I get shudders when our IT manager speaks of man-hours (they don't exist!) with that look in his eyes. If I was so busy I needed to divide my time between 6 clients and 27 projects, I'm not really sure I would have the time to micromanage and track my time.
Infact, I'd really prefer it if my email client could help manage this workload. Or my calendaring application. Anything that just half does the recording of important times and whatnot all by itself.
I got as far as starting a new project. I put in the name. There's a physical address - oops, I've been editing a client's details. I go to edit the internal project - I find I want to be able to associate URLs with it. Life would be great to be able to simply invite a new contractor to work with me and have them able to get going with trac, svn, our live servers, our production servers, etc - all of these available in link form.
There's no real facility for it.
Bugger.
That's the dealbreaker for me - this doesn't actually help me get things done :(
On the plus side, setup was flawless for this application - if you ever want an example of how to install an applicaton, this is how it should be done.
It's a wonderful piece of software, but it's utterly useless for me. Give it a crack and let me know if it's more useful for you...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
The Nod
Though I didn't realise it, I just had a conversation about creating passionate users with my girlfriend, all last night.
In short; a lot of it seemed alien to her; which was astonishing to me. Had she never gotten The Nod before? That nods that affirms you aren't stupid, from a random strange, confirming that you are infact a wonderful and unique snowflake?
My new resolve for the week is to find for her something she can give and get The Nod over.
I only wish that our work application got me The Nod!
In short; a lot of it seemed alien to her; which was astonishing to me. Had she never gotten The Nod before? That nods that affirms you aren't stupid, from a random strange, confirming that you are infact a wonderful and unique snowflake?
My new resolve for the week is to find for her something she can give and get The Nod over.
I only wish that our work application got me The Nod!
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
HP smackdown, take two.
Alright, HP 1315 All-in-one, it's on again.
48mb and 15 minutes of labor to get to the file.
16 minutes of downloading. 56 minutes, two failed download attempts.
Untold hours of frustration.
48mb and 15 minutes of labor to get to the file.
Untold hours of frustration.
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