Archive for May, 2004

ubergeekinesss

Sunday, May 30th, 2004

well this is possibly the height of nerdiness. I am writing this via SSH from my Psion Revo. The data crosses from me on my bed to the infrared of the Psion to the infrared of the nokia 6510 then via my free minutes on ‘o’ 2 continuing to strathclydes ssh server into my shell […]

Scottish Chess Championships 2004

Tuesday, May 25th, 2004

Probably going to play in the Hamilton tournament’s weekend congress. Not sure what level though… Have to avoid any games with my supervisor who is also playing (I couldn’t bear the daily jokes about having a poor reply to d4, it’s bad enough with the weekly ones from Blair).
Heh. Must read up on the en […]

Cool crowd

Tuesday, May 25th, 2004

Hey, I have the same kind of laptop that the scourge of the 90s British art world had…
Also on an auction trawl front, I have been really digging the RSS feeds generated by a free service. Putting category of records #306 is great for finding old post-disco junk classix. (works best for things that […]

PHP weblogging

Friday, May 21st, 2004

On another website of mine in development, I have been documenting progress with a PHP blog tool called Serendipity. Serendipity is relatively recent, and last week went to version 0.6. But 0.7 is just around the corner and key features are getting added.
The mailing list has been a buzz for the last few weeks […]

RIP Elvin Jones

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004

Elvin Jones died today. He was one of the most important drummers of the 1950s and 60s, and is best known for his key role in the music and development of the John Coltrane Quartet.
Article.

The first days of Cannes

Monday, May 17th, 2004

Interesting to see a small weblogesque post from Whit Stillman to the New York Post, about Cannes. Not heard any more recently about his Jane Austen adaptation - hopefully the fact he is at Cannes means he’s flogging the pic too.
(note: this is the first post from user LB - not the erstwhile Ubi […]

Long haul

Wednesday, May 12th, 2004

Well, since I am somewhat skint, and it’s months to my birthday or Chrimbo, I have added a link to my wishlist at Amazon. It’s an embarrassing punt to get free supplies of Linux and Disco Soul books right now.

Using MobileMT

Tuesday, May 11th, 2004

» remote entry created using mobileMT.
I have just installed an extension for Firefox called WMLBrowser, which allows me to write this WML entry on a standard Web browser. But ‘how?’ I hear you cry, do I send entries to MT via WML (WAP)?? Well, that’s using MobileMT. It’s great, as it is the full interface […]

Floy Joy

Monday, May 10th, 2004

Perusing the bargain bins on a Sunday, out of the bright late-afternoon sunshine, I spotted the debut LP by Floy Joy. Despite the usual bombardment of the Lost in Music blues, I was cheerily happy to read that Carroll Thompson had a large part in the production of the album, as well as Don […]