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  • Beardyman

    I recently rediscovered Beardyman. He’s a very talented beatbox champion, with a comedic twist that makes him a great performer. Be sure to check out his stand-up bit that starts around 12:20 in the following vid, made me crack up…

    Jul 8th, 2010 | Filed under Cool, Funny
  • TweetMeme Live Test Video from April 2009

    The other day I was continuing my long-term quest to sort through all the flotsam and jetsam of accumulated crap on my hard drive when I came across the following video (click through if you don’t see the video below). Recorded in April 2009, it shows the first version of the TweetMeme Live functionality without [...]

    Feb 19th, 2010 | Filed under Cool, Projects, Technology
  • Spam poetry

    I’ll take the position assume the missionary part you work by committee you had me pegged from the start. I’ll be pounce pony phony maroney pony before the cart. I’ll be pounce pony. this ceremony only fills my heart. who cast the final stone? who threw the crushing blow? someone has to take the fall [...]

    Apr 29th, 2009 | Filed under Cool, Grr
  • Twitorfit

    My latest project went live on Monday this week. It’s another Twitter-based toy along the same lines as hotornot but it uses your Twitter account and profile picture. Since launch it’s proved very successful and has spread quickly due to its viral nature. The site is called Twitorfit and was the brainchild of a Twitter-based [...]

    Dec 17th, 2008 | Filed under Cool, Projects
  • Beginner’s guide to HDR photography

    My mate Jared has posted a most excellent tutorial on High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography. I haven’t tried this yet but I definitely will the next time I’m out with my camera – nice work Jared! HDR example by Jared Earle, used with permission

    Jun 17th, 2008 | Filed under Cool, Photography
  • Recent ads from Freeads Classifieds on Twitter

    Over the weekend I wrote a script to post new ads from Freeads Classifieds on Twitter. For me this was primarily a technology experiment but it may prove useful to someone so I thought I’d let everyone know about it. Follow @ukfreeads to get the ads in your timeline. You can also see the 100 [...]

    Apr 28th, 2008 | Filed under Cool, Technology
  • Twitter public timeline

    Last night I finally got access to the full public feed from Twitter. I’ve written a daemon in C to push all tweets received into a DB and knocked up a little toy to test that it’s working. Random Tweet Doesn’t do much, just displays a random tweet from the past hour. Probably not useful [...]

    Apr 4th, 2008 | Filed under Cool
  • BigDog … WOW!

    This thing is freaking amazing. Some serious maths going on in there!

    Mar 28th, 2008 | Filed under Cool, Technology
  • Tweetmeme Launch

    For the past couple of weeks I’ve been involved in developing a new site called Tweetmeme and it launches today. You can read all about it on the Tweetmeme blog, but in short it watches activity on Twitter and keeps track of popular URLs. There is a river of URLs, RSS feeds and it also [...]

    Jan 28th, 2008 | Filed under Cool
  • MacHeist – Less than 3 days left to get your bargain bundle

    When I first came across the MacHeist Bundle offer I though it was too good to be true. The fact is that it’s a fantastic bargain. For the grand total of $49 you get 14 software packages that would normally cost just short of a whopping $500. If you’re only after two or three of [...]

    Jan 21st, 2008 | Filed under Cool, Technology
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