Last year I sprang a breadmaker from the loft of a friend.  I also let a neighbour have an old computer desk that I’d condemned to bulk refuse collection.  This all happened spontaneously without the aid of technology or even any organisation which suggests there’s clearly a lot of thi...

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[Part of an ongoing series.] I had lunch with my father the other day, and I explained this series as well as I could to someone who didn’t start programming when he was 11. His immediate reaction was, “Why are there so many different formats? Why can’t everybody just agree on a si...

Having broadband restored (as of yesterday) I’ve no excuse for ongoing online neglect.  If the word ’roundup’ is a turn-off for you then click away now. Projects Having done the courses, read the books I decided to take the time to see what I could make out of the original Bodtrac...

[Part of an ongoing series.] The first thing you need to know about captions and subtitles is that captions and subtitles are different. The second thing you need to know about captions and subtitles is that you can safely ignore the differences unless you’re creating your own from scratch. I&...

[These notes will eventually become part of a tech talk on video encoding. List of all articles in this series.] Unless you’re going to stick to films made before 1927 or so, you’re going to want an audio track. A future article will talk about how to pick the audio codec that’s ri...

Obama: The College Years - Photo Essays - TIME....

This is distressing in so many ways, George is amazing and this is mind boggling. Sent a quick, unsatisfying goodbye to the team. I watched as my access to various parts of the guts of Flickr fell away. I noticed how naturally I searched for any and all bits I could think of, just in the hope that i...

Totally crude. I’m sorry, but it’s just too funny not to share. via YouTube - Jizz In My Pants....

Life is fragile and the recession doesn’t help. But, when working for a millionaire you generally view your job as safe (smart boss, smart decisions). But Denton appears to be throwing the good hard workers out left and right. It’s a firesale at Gawker, anyone want in? Oh, and by the way...