Category: Web

Embedded Video

July 13, 2007 - Lodge , Web - by admin - No Comments

Having just ditched WPVideo in favour of CoolPlayer, I can finally embed Ogg Theora files into my blog entries! So here’s a short list of updates… RoombaCam AJAX Talk Climbing Cats Can’t watch Ogg Theora files on Windows? Try downloading and installing this codec installer from Illiminable

Freeloaders

July 11, 2007 - Computers , Web - by admin - No Comments

This evening, I have been mostly playing with Upside Down Ternet. Having the transparent proxy preconfigured makes it a lot easier too… Well, not all of this evening. Watched Supersize Me with Ellen earlier. Scary film, and I’m about to go out and put the new chain onto my bike […]

Belle de Jour

June 21, 2007 - Books , Web - by admin - 1 Comment

Many many years ago, I used to read Belle de Jour on an almost daily basis. Wonderful writing style, an insight into a world we never see, and a good deal of mystery behind it too – it wasn’t something you come across every day. The blog went on to […]

Visions

May 15, 2007 - Cool things , Internet , Web - by admin - No Comments

In my daily trawl of the Internet, I discovered Twittervision and Flickrvision. Both present a map of the world, take a live geo-enabled feed of data from Twitter and Flickr and overlay it onto the map. Scrolling smoothly where necessary. It’s very hypnotic, and a lovely demo of the integration […]

The Best and Worst of 1994 and Predictions for ’95

March 9, 2007 - Internet , Technology , Web - by admin - No Comments

Worst: There’s not much that’s bad on the Net, but because cyberspace does imitate life, we shouldn’t be surprised that in 1994 some less-than-desirable material showed its insolent face. Pick any tragic event and you can probably recall seeing a newsgroup that taunted its seriousness. There was alt.tonya-harding. whack.whack.whack. Then […]