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from my journal from 03.04.09:
I'm leaving for the Island after work today. Thumbing a ride to the ferries with Lung, to be snagged by Esme on the other side, I'm delivering one of these to one of these and don't expect to be back until Monday morning, when apparently I'm being put on a sea-place back. (Because life sometimes is just like that.)
In other news of the faintly ridiculous, Dragos is holding my bikini hostage, on the terms that I only get it back if I accept a year of cell-phone for my birthday, something we've been arguing about for almost a year. As soon as I began my usual protesting, however, he waved a gleeful finger in my face and said, "Ah-ha! This time you cannot possibly refuse. I know which one I'm going to give you. This isn't just any phone. It's got a story." and proceeded to play to my greatest weakness, that of narrative. The one he's picked out, it has history. Not only history, but hilarious history - a fascinating little back-story involving an Argentina black market, expensive consumer electronics that fell off the back of a truck, untraceable drug dealer SIM cards, and what happened next, when a British friend flashed around just one too many fresh hundred dollar bills - and, as usual, he was right. I can't say no. How could I? How could anyone?
Also, though only tangentially related, there was a story about basement scam strippers, but that was someone else.
70 Chevelle. This one's not for sale, but you can pick up a smaller version of this muscle car at Northern Tool.
Write-up: rewiredstate.org/projects/notw
Demo: dharmafly.com/hpwebos-hackday/demo/ (Warning: utterly non-optimised at the moment)
Winner of the HP webOS developer event at The Guardian.
This prototype is an experimental approach for exploring content (e.g. news, reviews and photos) about any place on earth.
Starting at the reader's current location, a magazine-style page of content is pulled in for that place (e.g. a one mile square centred on Kings Cross, London). The reader can then slide the page in any of eight compass directions (north, east, south, west, nw, ne, sw, se), to re-centre the magazine at that new location (e.g. a one mile square centred on Hillingdon).
We've divided the world into a grid of cells, and the user can slide between any of the cells to view the content that it contains. Articles of content are linked through to their original source: e.g. a travel article from The Guardian, or a note on the history of a place from Wikipedia.
We built a native app for the HP TouchPad tablet. Happily, because this uses standard web technologies (HTML, JavaScript and CSS), it also works in a simple web browser.
The format is ideally suited to a tablet like the TouchPad: location-aware, tactile navigation, content for reading and exploring while on the move. The magazine might be used to explore content around a particular part of the world, or to follow the user on a journey.
Working in the same, familiar way as the "slippy map" of Google Maps, we provide an intuitive mechanism for browsing, though one that we have never seen in this form before.
The content could be taken from any data source that contains geo information. In our prototype, we use the Guardian Open Platform's travel pages and the Geonames Wikipedia web service.
We would like to explore user-curated content types, zooming in and out to widen or narrow a search, adding an actual geographical map as an accompanying layer, and a number of innovations on the user interface.
[On the day that the News of the World closed down]
I'm in a new place where I can't put Icons on the walls. Our family - like most religious Greeks- traditionally has an 'iconostasis' or icon stand in the corner. Ikea came in handy here with a corner cabinet! It wasn't cheap but having an icon corner is important.
www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?cat...
We finally got around to assembling one of the a/v shelf units that I ordered from The Library Store. While I'm happy with it as far as ease of assembly, and the finished product, I felt shafted when we opened the box and discovered that every single piece of it is MDF board with a thin veneer of wood on the surfaces that show. The ad did not mention MDF, only the different types of wood. I would not have paid what I did if I'd known that we were getting MDF.
thelibrarystore.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisp...