Mobile web browsers have come a long way since we first introduced an XHTML version of Reader back in 2006. For example, iPhone and iPod Touch owners know how powerful having a full-featured browser is. We on the Reader team are heavy mobile Safari users. Sometimes we use it to kill time, other times for answering important questions that come up during brunch: What is Tyrol's first name? How is maple butter made? How do you sweeten rhubarb for sangria? What is John Gruber saying now? For questions like the last one, we of course use Reader to keep up with our subscriptions. #
I can confirm that the new iPhone Google reader interface is indeed rather awesome.
Formula 1 will finally get a new video game title in 2009, three years since the last official F1 game made by Sony. Formula One Management were reported to be demanding up to $200m for the rights.
First, the good news: the game won’t be exclusive to a single machine, and is expected to be available for ‘major home consoles’ (presumably PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii), PC and other formats. This is very important and I’m sure Codemasters’ expertise in producing cross-format titles helped them win the contract over the likes of Sony. #
I wasn't overly impress with the last revision of Colin McRae's DIRT (some annoyingly over-excited yank commentating 'dood!') and the demo of Race Driver GRID, whilst admittedly only available yesterday, has a shockingly wooly, inaccurate and easy driving engine (compared to Forza 2 anyway) - though the commentator is less excitable, so I'm hoping the F1 game will improve upon this.
WordPress 2.5.1 is out.
Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.
...and it's still just as much of a pig as it ever was to upgrade yet we still get the upgrade now alerts and security hassles. The only 2 plugins I can find to hand, the creatively named "Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin" and "Instant Upgrade plugin for WordPress": The first refuses to reactivate my plugins meaning I have to print-to-preview the plugins screen then go through reactivating them (please let me just disable the pointless plugin deactivation); and the second refuses to recognise my ftp set as being valid but is at best vague about what might be wrong (although the other plugin seemed happy).
So why the fuck isn't there a built in WP upgrade system? The plugin upgrader is getting there (why it goes to a new window and doesn't use AJAXy goodness I dont understand) so bits are in place there somewhere.
You can download the torrent here for Bubble Dubble and Delphic Oracle from 30-3-8. Thanks to Rob Dreamworker for splitting these and making them available on The Pirate Bay - keep them seeded.
The Castlefields Festival coming this Saturday at err, Castlefields. Southsea and featuring some of our very own bands as played at the Fawcett Inn - Delphic Oracle and Spiral Architects.
Let your friends know about ExpanDrive by becoming a fan on Facebook. We’d love some help getting the word out about ExpanDrive, so we’re offering up a $20-off coupon [making ExpanDrive only $9!] to all fans once when the page hits 100 users.Sounds like a great deal to me. ExpanDrive FaceBook Fan page
I’ve said it before — one of my favorite things about the iPhone is no Flash. I will now add and no SilverlightPlugin.Right on! inessential.com | DF
One such copy seems indicative of the whole Vista experience. On boot up, instead of seeing potentially confusing system messages, you now see a progress bar and the word Microsoft. This is a lot like the boot up screen with a Mac. Except, the word Microsoft is blurry. I know, who cares? But it is a great metaphor for the Vista experience. Decent (stolen) ideas, bad and lazy implementation.The money shot in this article, "Lessons I've Learned" - No.4, is not entirely surprising: Hasta La Vista, Vista.
Scientists Want Your MacBook for Earthquake DetectionAs it turns out, one field that already makes extensive use of accelerometers is seismology. Usually these sensors are buried underground, generating much of the data seismologists use to model earthquakes. So in 2006 when Cochran saw a program called SeisMac, a light went on. SeisMac uses the accelerometers in Mac computers to let people shake their computers and watch the motion translated on screen into a graph. Cochran wondered if the same technology could be used in earthquake sensing, and suggested the idea to colleagues at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, where she was working at the time.
"I sort of said, 'Hey, what do guys think if we take this accelerometer and make a seismic network out of it?' And of course Jesse was like, 'That's the coolest idea I have ever heard.'"
Thus was born Quake Catcher Network. The two scientists -- joined by Carl Christensen, a programmer with experience in distributed computing -- started in September 2007.
At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote: Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl's cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice!Posts from the International Association of Time Travelers forum. At... (kottke.org) Link »
At 14:57:44, SilverFox316 wrote: Back from 1936 Berlin; incapacitated FreedomFighter69 before he could pull his little stunt. Freedomfighter69, as you are a new member, please read IATT Bulletin 1147 regarding the killing of Hitler before your next excursion. Failure to do so may result in your expulsion per Bylaw 223.
At 18:06:59, BigChill wrote: Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?
You can now find us at Fawcettmade.com. Must mean it's time to make a site of it's own. Ahh, time.
Flickr
So, I made these fonts years ago, literally years ago in some early form of Fontographer, I forget which but it may even have been a beta version.
I wanted a grungey Courier/American Typewriter font but unfortunately such things weren't as common then as they are now so I DIYed it by printing out one of those quite large and photocopying and screwing up the paper to hell, scanned it in, autotraced in Freehand I think and dropped it into Fontographer.
Next came the sans-serif version, same deal different font (maybe Helvetica, maybe Helvetica Neue, maybe Swiss, I forget).
I have a few other fonts which I'm reluctant to make available as they aren't really fonts 'I designed', they are; Exotica which is two fonts, some flourishy font for caps and maybe Garamond for lowercase but the kicker is that the lowercase vowels are raise with a line under; and WipeOut which is err the font (kind of as I couldn't see all the characters) from the Sony PS1 game WipeOut.
You can download Mass Exodus here, PS fonts for Mac.
Just a quick reminder of the RSS feeds available to you at this site so you can get the latest posts delivered to you as they are posted in the reader of your choosing.
- These are the feeds available at somefoolwitha.com.
- The main feed of all posts, full text.
- The comments feed.
- Combining my site, Tumblr, Flickr, Google Shared Items and Twitter - full fat feed.
- Combining my site, Tumblr, Flickr, Google Shared Items but no Twitter - a semi-skimmed feed.
- All The Fawcett Inn posts - nothing else, just the music. Note that due to the way podcast feeds work you will only see the first MP3 of any post so don't forget to click through to the post to hear the rest.
Also a quick remember that you can subscribe by email for the Fawcett Feed here and now my whole blog's feed here.
Well sort of anyway, I sent a few Twitter's and photos to Flickr it just seems liveblogging is the popular thing to do. From the first recording of L through The Small Mercies, Chillaton and You Me And The Atom Bomb in fact the whole list.
I should really take some pics on Open Mic Nights and send them to Flickr. So, keep an eye out.
After the last few days wobbliness this site should be hopefully working as normal now. The reason for the weirdness was that I was trying to get Habari running and my host did some tweakage to the server which unfortunately my admittedly increasingly Heath-Robinson like WordPress install took a slight dive for the worse at having the shock of PHP5 thrust upon it.
I think was also having some comment problems previously to that (or at least some friends reported their inability to comment) so please try leaving a comment and if you have any problems dont forget to email me with the error or even a screen grab.
BTW, I think we have some great Fawcett Inn recordings coming up so please, spread the word and get friends and family listening to this live music recorded by me and Jon (we also set up all the cables/mics etc) for free at our favourite local pub.
The latest Bungie.net Podcast has some interesting details about the early days of Halo and Microsoft's taking over of Bungie then Bungie's recent split form Microsoft.
He's done it, he shows how it can be used within a site's structure, he found a good size was 158px x 158px and he's done it.
A custom webclip for the iPod Touch & iPhone of course, it's all the rage.
This new frowney face is taken from my Halo 3 profile.
The wonderfully great BritishMac is back with a new podcast! I strongly urge you to subscribe, download and listen! BritishMac has been away for a few months as Will has an NDA from Apple (Ooo, I wonder what he's working on with Apple). BTW Will, if you do get the hex password for the WEP wifi don't forget to precede it with a dollar ($) symbol.
It's been a while since I regularly used and indeed paid for NetNewsWire, I have since tried various online feed readers, toyed with the pay-for (and I think now deceased) FeedLounge then finally started using GReader and to the best of my knowledge NetNewsWire doesn't sync with GReader. None-the-less it is good to hear that NetNewsWire 3.1 is free. Yay!
There is a back log of Fawcett recordings. Don't worry, they're on their way.