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3BT – snow day, elastic, killing is fun, same soup
1. Even without my glasses or raising my head from the pillows, I can tell the world’s gone white again. Our plans are abandoned and we give ourselves a snow day of relaxation. 2. The cheese stretches between my teeth and the toasted bread shell. 3. I rarely play PvP battlegrounds and forgot how much [...]
Ukepedia – our fun! new! project
Back in August, I had earache. Otitis Media to be specific. After I got back from having it checked out by my doctor, I wrote a Twitter about it. John was playing on his ukelele and looking over my shoulder at the time so sang the Twitter as I wrote it. Then I went over [...]
Navigating the fictional but real world
In Liverpool in 1998, I bought a book from a publisher clearance style bookshop called ‘The Breeders Box‘. It’s set, primarily, in New York, around Greenwich Village – where I have never been – and for the first four, five times I read it, I had to imagine what the area looked like, how the [...]
Open Street Map: micro-mapping party
We held our first WYLUG(ish) Open Street Map micro-mapping event on Sunday and it went well. Six of us – me, John, Paul, Tim, Simon and Rob – went out mapping and then we went back to Dave’s afterwards to start turning the traces into maps. It was the first OSM event I’ve organised but [...]
Open Street Mapping
After an inspiring WYLUG talk about OpenStreetMap last Monday, John and I have decided to start mapping. John hacked our TomTom so it draws traces of our routes and we took a first test drive with it last night. We drove around some of Armley’s main roads – most of it was already covered on [...]
New WYLUG group on Flickr
Went to WYLUG tonight and since everyone was fiddling with EeePCs (or however it’s capped), I thought I’d grab some photos of the group at play. There were five of the machines in total flying around so I labelled it an EeeeeeeeeeeeeeePC session. If I wasn’t already looking at paying out for a new laptop [...]