A Hair Cut Is A Hair Enhanced

When I was growing up, I would get my hair cut at Tony’s Italian Barber in Bedford. There was a big Italian community in the town, due to the brickworks I think. Tony the owner would snip away, while his friends would sit around playing with strange cards. While waiting I would take the opportunity… Continue reading A Hair Cut Is A Hair Enhanced

The Social Network Soundtrack

One of the best things about the movie The Social Network was the soundtrack by Atticus Ross and Trent “NIN” Reznor. It’s available here for only $5, and there’s a free five-track sampler available at the same link if you provide your email address. I’m downloading it now. What I heard on this site sounded… Continue reading The Social Network Soundtrack

Ubuntu Desktop Choices

I updated my little Dell 10v to Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meercat”, and so far all seems well. Because I upgraded rather than reinstalled, everything pretty much looked the same. I was curious  to see what the Unity desktop looked like, especially with the Mac-style global menu. Funnily enough, I had to deliberately install it separately… Continue reading Ubuntu Desktop Choices

My Own Research

I watched some of Bill Maher’s show on TV recently, in between sitting on the balcony hoping for a breeze and catching the odd stray alate that had flown in the open kitchen door. I don’t normally watch it because he annoys me, but one of his guests was Andrew Breitbart, a right-wing pundit. He… Continue reading My Own Research

Geocities Torrent

This is nice. A while back, Yahoo pulled the plug on Geocities, the old web host famous for resembling a post-apocalyptic Levittown, with nicely categorized avenues and cul-de-sacs populated by mutated nasties like animated GIFs, scrolling marquees and centered, flashing text. We can scoff now. People tried to rescue stuff before the switch was thrown.… Continue reading Geocities Torrent

QR Code Frolics

http://laughingsquid.com/arrrgmented-reality/ This is a cool tshirt from Threadless. But it doesn’t work as a QR code – I just tested it as with my phone. This is a shame. I’ve been wondering if there was a way to generate a QR Code where you fixed a few pixels to create an image, then let the… Continue reading QR Code Frolics