Developer, learner of things, functional programming enthusiast, hacker, and all round inquisitor.
I woke up this morning and wanted to play with the HTML5 audio API and experiment with how data from it could be visualised. So I set to work and within a couple of hours had set up a very rudimentary graphic equaliser kinda-thingy. You’ll need Firefox 4 beta to see it, but if you […]
I have found a brilliant new group on Flickr called MinorUrbanDisasters which documents things in the street which are not quite right. This can be anything from a broken traffic cone to a fence which has been crashed into or even a manhole cover which has been put on the wrong way around. I’ve decided […]
Science Oxford Live put on Oxford’s first PechaKucha night last night. The basic idea is that you have 20 slides, each displayed for 20 seconds, and do a quick-fire presentation. I was lucky enough to be one of the presenters last night, but had very limited time to prepare, so naturally talked about the one […]
I’ve received four emails from Arthur Simmons this week about a domain name, clintonmontague.com, which is about to expire. He has noticed that I own clintonmontague.co.uk and so assumes that I will also want to buy his domain as well. His email Following up about the domain clintonmontague.com: I am going to list clintonmontague.com for […]
Subject: Ocean Spray, Tea, Gloves and the Arctic. Re: The TV advertising campaign
Nerds can simply never have enough websites. I am, it seems one of those nerds. My new website will contain short code and programming philosophy snippets.
There is a big campaign to get Rage Against The Machine to be the top of the charts for Christmas. It’s just not right. I
It’s a simple and brilliant concept. Get people to install a plugin on internet explorer, add a meta tag to your source code, then Google Chrome Frame will render the page using Webkit and its Javascript engine instead. It sounds like it could save the internet. But will it work?
I’ll just tell you – you probably already know anyway. I’m a lazy blogger. I don’t seem to have time to write as many articles as I’d like for slightlymore. I know what the problem is – I don’t write enough because I have this strange inability to put small or waffley articles on it – I’d rather that it stayed as a blog devoted to development and internet related things. My new site diaryofthings.com will give me an outlet for mindless wifflings, allowing me to write more relevant content for slightlymore.
It was around 9 or 10 in the evening in the Jam Factory. After a very successful Ox Tuttle, Ben Walker (@ihatemornings), Colin Mercer (@colinmercer) and myself came up with one of those genius drunken ideas. oxfordbloggers.com is it.