- Travel Card Wallet – How To – Cut Out + Keep
- CrashPlan – FREE automatic, secure backup for your life.
- KeePassX
- Tags free opensource security tools privacy
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
Twhirly, too early, whatever...
I woke before five, thought I'd get into some interesting coding before heading into the office.
Achievements so far, updated Carbide.c++, fiddled around in the emulator, charged two phones and my netbook, and caught up with dive into Mark. Code written, 0 lines.
But, I've blogged for the first time in ages, that counts, doesn't it? Does it?
- Home – Corporate Records
- Spotify Is Broken: The Lie Of ‘Feels Like Free’ – Steve Lawson: Bass 2.0()
- “Duncan Blasts “Useless Air Marshal Service | Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr.: Serving Tennessee’s 2nd District
- Digital Liberty Missing From UK Election – Wild Webmink()
- Tags politics uk freespeech
- Geeks Vote Too – Use The Logo! – Wild Webmink()
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
Long time, and little blogging...
So, as my first post for five or so months, there's a bit of stiction to resolve. As for me, I'm well (but busy), just too busy with the day job, the kids and other activities to post anything of consequence here for the time being. However, expect a little more action here in the next few weeks as there's a few posts I've been mulling over that I can't express coherantly in the truncated medium of microblogging.
Talking of microblogging, you can still find me on Twitter and Identi.ca, if you feel the need to check my pulse.
- VIDEO: First F1 onboard laps of Yas Marina circuit, Abu Dhabi – James Allen on F1
- Tags motorsport Fun-1
- The League of Moveable Type
- Tags fonts opensource free
- Amendment 138 ? Terence Eden’s Blog(EU (and European public) getting short-changed by their own negotiators)
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
- Dive Into HTML 5
- PassMark DiskCheckup – SMART hard drive monitoring utility
- Typedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
Where next for Grand Prix - GP2.0
So the FOTA teams have finally given up with Max Mosely's inept, meddling, petty dictatorship and decided to run a rival 2010 championship. This will relegate the FIA's "Formula One" to an also-ran or feeder status.
But perhaps the real question is, which circuits will the FOTA teams use? I'd like to start the ball rolling with Le Mans, the obvious choice is the Bugatti circuit, but an F1 car on the Mulsanne straight is quite a thought!
Suggest a circuit on Twitter or Identi.ca with the #GP2.0 tag and see whether we can influence Ferrari et al. If you're stuck for ideas, Wikipedia has a list of circuits which have hosted a FIA World Championship race from 1950 to 2008.
- SCIENCE SCOUTS
- Timeline Index – People, Periods, Places, Events…
- OpenGeoData – Augmenting photos – with OSM!
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
- How we should keep an eye on the powers that are watching us – Nigel Shadbolt – Times Online()
- Smartphone king Symbian ready to strike back – CNET News()
- Bring on them pings! – Sindice Blog()
- What Does The iPhone 3G S Mean For Symbian? – Symbian-Guru.com
- Whitstable Races
- Tags Whitstable sport kent events
- PhoneGap – Cross platform mobile framework
- Tags mobile dev web javascript tools
- Mobile data consumption – Symbian Blog(Lies, damned lies and AdMob stats :-))
- Tags symbian ads statistics
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
- Improvements to the DOAP schema(updates to the useful Description of a Project (DOAP) vocab)
- MPs could face income tax bills over expenses – Telegraph
- Tags uk politics corruption
- Here’s a broom, Mr Speaker – Mark Thomas – guardian.co.uk
- Tags uk politics corruption
- Someone’s making a new Linux handset – PhoneDog.com
- Getting started with RDFa: Creating a basic FOAF profile
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
- Mobile Opportunity: A quick history of software platforms: How we got here, and where we’re going()
- Microblog.org – IdentiSpy
- tweetCC – Publish & license tweets with Creative Commons
- Lewis Hamilton in Le Mans
- Tags motorsport ads Fun-1 mclaren
- The Really Mobile Project – Calling 0800 numbers for free from mobiles()
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
The above is from the Ergast API Gallery. In their words: "The Ergast Developer API is an experimental web service which provides a historical record of motor racing data for non-commercial purposes. Currently the API provides data for the Formula 1 series, from the 1990 season onwards."
It's an absolute goldmine of Formula One stats, and trivially easy to use, the API Documentation gives you a taster. The api is RESTful and has great urls for every request and json or xml results. If you're just into mere tinkering most web browsers will present the xml in a very usable form. I've used the core data for the Wiki's Grand Prix 2009 page, I now need to write a script to auto-populate my wiki page with the latest results after each round.
Fifteen years, wow. Five years since I wrote about Imola 1994 on the now defunct Fun-1 blog where Ewan and I used to scribble things that amused us about motorsport. A lot of things have changed in Formula 1 in the decade and a half since Ayrton and Roland paid the ultimate price for the sport they loved. High cockpit sides, HANS, smaller long-life engines, moveable front wings, KERS, night races, old tracks losing races (Imola, Indy and Montreal amongst them), new (but ultimately boring) circuits in new countries, ITV winning (and eventually handing back to the BBC) UK TV coverage; Frank, Flav (Swiss Tony), Bernie and Max somehow staying in charge, Ronzo putting on his slippers, Michael winning many titles (and at least one without cheating). Far too many things to fit into one sentance.
One could speculate about what Ayrton would have done if he had survived; World Championships at Williams (instead of Hill and Villeneuve), running a team (like Emerson), ice racing (like Prost!?), Indy 500 (like Andretti, Mansell, Hill, Montoya), or even politics (like Reutemann)? At the end of the day though those are just wild guesses, or possibly hopes. My thoughts about Ayrton have changed too, 15 years back I did not like him, 5 years back I was still rather harsh on him, but I'm much more mellow these days; he was a sportsman driven to win by any means he could, without that drive he would not have got where he did, and we would not have had the opportunity to witness his great skills.
Am I going to spend the day with a black armband? No, I will be celebrating their lives and that of the human spirit. Take Ayrton and Roland's example, do a good job of what you do and enjoy life to the full.
- Private Beta-Test of Gravity – a native Twitter client for S60 (v3/v5)
- uktrains / Twitter Customer Services
- 80 excellent useful AJAX solutions
- Tags web javascript ajax web2.0 tools
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
What do you do when all your data is in "the cloud", and the cloud "bursts"?
That is the question being asked by users of social bookmarking site ma.gnolia.com this morning. Ma.gnolia are just the latest in a long line of services that have disappeared or lost user data. In this case getting the data back appears to be reasonably straightforward (use the rss Luke!), a bigger question will be how to use this data.
I have a few rules of thumb on what I look for in a service, but first, and most important, do I place any value on this data? Do I care if it vanishes overnight? If not then I ignore most of the following.
- How do I get my data out of the service? Useful for backup and migration purposes
- If I can get the data out, what about meta-data like state, i.e. details of unread/kept messages in services like Bloglines or Google Reader, a roster from an IM service, message states and address books from webmail.
- Can I easily put data (and state) in a standard format back into this service?
- Can I run this service or similar with minimal hassle on a box at home? I could be mad, but I'm not overly keen on giving up control or my data to others.
What's the big winner? Open standards, imagine that Gmail ceased to be available as a free service, you could use imap or pop3 and take your email elsewhere, similarly opml for an aggregator. Sure these examples don't include meta-data, but you've covered the basics.
When you hand your data to a silo, can you get it back in a usable form?
Update: Kevin Smith from the Psi Jabber/XMPP Client project has written a useful tool to migrate your data between xmpp servers, try doing that between MSN and AIM...
- C++0x – Wikipedia
- Nokia Friend View – rukapedia
- Tags nokia geolocation im
- Nokia Chat + Robot + Plazes
- Tags mobile nokia geolocation Jabber
- Inside Nokia Chat’s XMPP
- Tags nokia geolocation Jabber im
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
You probably already know that the daily buzz is one of my favourite vlogs. However the bad news is that the global financial downturn seems to have caught the Mobuzz folks in a cashflow crisis.
To the best of my knowledge Mobuzz are the only major European video blogging organisation producing shows in more than one language. I follow the English show and a couple of the Spanish shows, but not the French one which is a little strange because my French is far better than my Spanish, and Osiris is a babe.
But I digress, Mobuzz's content is far more pertinent to us Europeans than similar shows from the US, and they really are worth saving as a business. Details of how to do so can be found here, the easiest route being to go to paypal.com and send some funds to paypal@mobuzz.com I'm sure they wouldn't mind receiving envelopes stuffed full of used tenners either though...
Lets hope that thermometer gets hot quickly!
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
- SciGuy: Ike, sure to be a deadly storm, nears Texas
- Joho the Blog – What?s worse than lying to smear an opponent?
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- F1 News – McLaren reacts to penalty
- Dailymotion – www.FormulaMag.com – Hamilton-Kimi, F1, Belgium, 2008
- London Stock Exchange Summary
- Google restores Chrome’s shine – The Register
- Belgium Grand Prix – Lewis Hamilton was unfairly stripped of his win – Petition
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