Archive for the 'patter' Category

Nokia Tablet amazing liquid UI project

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Interesting news today that I read on Slashdot: a Nokia Maemo (e.g. nokia 770 / 800 / 810 series ) project called Liqbase (liqbase.net) has been accepted as a Google summer of code entrant.
this is great news as it seems a wonderful, fun project, and creatively simple in its idea of converting the tablet into […]

Puppy Linux

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

this seems like a great Linux distro - small to download, even as a live CD, can install to SDHC for eee-pc use and so on. Also comes with GParted, so should be able to re-format our ext3 disk:
guide to puppy linux - http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6171315.html

ext3 on Os X

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

there is a way to mount ext3 OS X (Leopard only? ) http://fuz2y.com/?p=1 according to that post. We have a USB drive we use to backup our work server.
We have a NAS at work - it failed to format the attached USB drive as FAT so we did it as ext3, then thought we could […]

love this

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

a short poem by some poster on Digg
My intentions are good, but the execution is poor. As I lie on the ceiling and stare at the floor

amazing site for punsters / oulipians / crosswordists

Friday, February 6th, 2009

http://wordnavigator.com/ends-with-by-length/ork/
amazing little website for wordsmiths. One fo the weekend. Good times. (I can hear the sirens coming)

Smiths past

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Lying in bed, warmed by an oil heater and an hour of smiths singles. Sound sooooo good on my mega hifi setup; remastered;repackaged;remembered!

custom search for non-profit sites?

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Just thought I’d post what I found out about coming up with a solution for a non-profit organisation for a custom site search engine. For example if you want users to obtain an accurate set of results of pages from your site.
the Google service provided for this is pretty good, and would seem to work […]

Artist Run spaces and galleries - interesting study (Although from 1990s)

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

A long article on Artist run galleries.
http://www.shiftyparadigms.org/artist_run.htm
mentions Transmission Gallery quite often as a case in point.

eeePC running os X using the original discs of Leopard!

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

amazing little guide: http://eeemac.blogspot.com/
nice blog too on all things mac and eee PC

couple of Glasgow poetry events this month

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

RON BUTLIN Thursday 27th November, 7.30pm, Sloan’s
Edinburgh based Poet - hosted by Vital synz. ( website ) Tickets available on the night Thursday 27th November, 7.30pm, Sloan’s 108 Argyle St, Glasgow G2 8BG
And the following night