Archive for the 'tech' Category

Skype phones

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

Now that Skype let you buy credit for SkypeOut in Spain with Paypal, rather than being stuck with Moneybookers (nothing wrong with it, per se, but hassle to add credit last time I checked), I’m looking out for cool VOIP phone sets. Maybe a headset would be simplest, but I’d like to check out the [...]

Wordpress 1.5

Friday, February 18th, 2005

I’ve updated www.domipix.com to Wordpress 1.5 and so far, so good. Nice piece of work. (www.domipix.com is very new and still developing, so no dissin’…) [Update: blog.domipix.com has now moved to www.domipix.com.]

Knobs ‘n’ stuff

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

I’m looking around for music control surfaces, leaning towards Behringer’s B-Controls, especially the flying-faders-equipped BCF2000. But I have to wonder: are they going to come out with a daddy unit for this series? Like a box that contains the faders version and the rotary one? Or 2 of each? And if not, why not? In [...]

Refactoring, unit testing, all that…

Thursday, December 9th, 2004

I’ve always been more of a procedural kind of a programmer. After Spectrum BASIC and the inevitable QBASIC, it was on to C. This was all hobby and/or academic stuff. Professionally I used Perl far more than anything else, and always in an “if it works, f**k it!” type of methodology (thanks, Mr Hume, for [...]

The End of Email

Monday, November 29th, 2004

New Forms of Online Communication Spell End of Email Era in Korea, according to The Chosun Ilbo. “I use email when I send messages to elders”.

And the award for most frustrating web build goes to…

Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

Mark Maher American Polaroids. Jesus Christ! What a mess! Just show me the freakin’ photos, for F’s sake!

Rollei Prego

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

Is it just me, or is “Prego” an odd choice of name for a super-slim camera?

More Apple bashing

Thursday, November 4th, 2004

Honestly! I don’t go looking for this stuff! I don’t need to - it’s like shooting fish, but more satisfying. Apple Rating: WTF is This?

Audio shaker

Monday, November 1st, 2004

Put some sounds in, shake and presto!

And it doesn’t even *sound* good!

Monday, November 1st, 2004

Not that I’m setting out to deliberately bash the iPod Photo, but… it buzzes.