The title says it all… well, no, it doesn’t really, does it? The ultra303 is an impressive mod for the Bass Line that not only completely replaces the CPU with a new one to add totally new features, but also has a very cool LCD display which looks at once out of place and comfortable on [...]
As a huge sigh of relief escapes most web front end developers around the world following Microsoft’s news of their dropping of IE for Mac, I’m quite looking forward to the fact that we’ll be able to test XHTML/CSS on Mac browsers that are more or less sane. It’s fairly amusing seeing MS recommend Safari [...]
I have to say, as a long-time non-fan of Javascript, the idea of depending on it to make things nicer didn’t really appeal. I think my subconcious was successfully preventing me from following those tempting links on Webreference, Sitepoint and of course Adaptive Path, promising me the ability to take my web apps to the [...]
Ah, how I love the rumour always associated with possible new Canon cameras (especially DSLRs)… This time it’s the turn of the 5D and it certainly looks like, if true, it’ll be an interesting addition to their DSLR line-up. The usual “It’s real!”, “No, it’s fake!” is going on, but I’m hoping for true. One [...]
Wow! We just got back from a tricky problem with the server… Gentoo (of which I’m still somewhat of a fan) decided to do some, er, interesting changes to config in the last emerge. Thanks to Pete at Bytemark for some great help to get back online.
The BBC have released some info on their website usage stats on the 7th of July at the time of the terrorist bomb attacks in London. It makes some interesting reading, too! “At peak times during the day there were 40,000 page requests per second from News; Total maximum bandwidth from bbc.co.uk reached: 11.1Gb/s”. That’s [...]
Here’s an interesting site, in which you shouldn’t click (and they almost laugh at you if you do!)
If you ask me, cats are scary enough, but the robot variety freaks me out. The movie for Nocoro’s felines should give you an idea what I mean ;)
While snooping that slightly mad Phobile Handset over at Firebox the other day, I noticed their VoIP Cyberphone, which seems to answer my previous question on what’s out there in the Skype phone world. Anybody tried this out?
Pocket Lint has a review of the quite cool (IMHO) Phobile Handset from Firebox. I have to say I don’t think it’s as ironic and throw-away as both the review and Firebox themselves say. Like most people I know I never use a landline, so at home it’d be pretty useful to have a “large-format” [...]
pasta and vinegar reports (via RIM – Ami Ben-Bassat’s Blog) how Dr. Yossi Vardi, with Ami Ben-Bassat, a science writer, and Guy Vardi, “the CPO (chief pigeon/technical officer)” ran a test of Pigeon-Empowered Wireless Internet to “try and improve Wi-Fly – pigeon-empowered wireless internet and to confront this technology against ADSL”. Looks like it worked. Nice [...]
“Oh dear.” That’s how the BBC News website put it, when trying to be polite about Madrid’s Olympic website. I feel kind of bad for them, even though I’ve not exactly been forgiving myself, when commenting on the state of Web Española. Unfortunately, there’s no arguing with the BBC’s point of view (”Right from the start, the [...]
Just a few days ago, I moved over to using Subversion for version control instead of good ‘ol CVS. Although it’s basically CVS evolved, it somehow feels different. Anyway, so far so good. I’ll report back here if there’s anything interesting to report.
The Death of Dynamic Range is an interesting piece about how dynamic range has been progressively more and more mashed in modern music production in the recent years. While this in itself isn’t exactly news, it’s interesting to see the examples and discussion. It’s also interesting to see how the same sound gets maximised quite [...]
The complete lack of design on this site is growing on me. Maybe I’ll just leave it like this…