Fawcett Made

Hopefully some of you will be pleased to hear that as of from the next music post FawcettMade is to go live as it’s own succinct site thereby allowing this, my own personal blog the become just that once again.

I never imagined when posted my first open mic night recording, nearly a year ago, which was literally just a try-it-and-see thing how much it would invade and take over the blog - leaving little time and space for my usual (lets face it fairly points, though it IS a blog) Apple-fanboy posts and reposts. Most of these though have happily found a home on my Tumblog. Nearly a year on and it’s time to give the music its own home. There is to date a total of .. err well, many many hours of recordings. I can’t say for sure how many, but I can say over 66,000 downloads or plays.

We (That is to say Jon and I, Jon is the other soundman and he does all the mixing) are to take this opportunity to try and rationalise some of this recording in the hope of making it all better quality.

Firstly we are doing less open mics; The first and third Wednesday of the month, also only the second open mic of the month will be recorded and only new sets will go on the site. If you are part of a band and want a night at The Fawcett Inn then open mic is the perfect opportunity to let us hear you but please leave contact us by leaving a comment below or via Myspace or Facebook, addresses for which can be found on my Fawcett page. All other Wednesdays of the month will be open DJ night, another great chance to us your stuff and have a potential night DJing at The Fawcett Inn. Some of these nights may be broadcast live at the usual Ustream page.

You can keep up to date with all this on the calendar which can also can be found on my Fawcett page.

I won’t be removing any old recordings .. yet anyway, if space or bandwidth becomes an issue then it may become necessary. You’ll be able to find all the old stuff ever on my Fawcett page.

I’ll be twittering some pictures to my TwitPic account and of course just generally twittering too. Join the live chat on Vee8.


 Genius.

Because Duncan was awesome enough to provide a REST API for the Xbox 360, I was able to create some pipes for converting that information to an RSS feed. You can use it with lifestreaming apps like Friend Feed until they get access to the developer program and are able to officially support the Xbox 360. #

Yahoo pipes FTW! My Xbox Live status is also now on my lifestream page and I have updated my Full Fat Feed and Semi-Skimmed Feed in accordance which both reside on Yahoo Pipes.

Very much the same functionality as my lifestream page, I’m giving the web service lifestream.fm a try.

For the first time ever Open Mic Night at the Fawcett Inn should be live via ustream tonight from about 8. See you there.
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Just a quick note to say that from July Open Mic Night will go fortnightly - on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month. We’ll also be recording/mixing/uploading less Open Mic Nights and older recordings will be taken down to allow space for new recordings.


I’ve tweaked my tumblog’s design slightly - with heavy use of pngs and a flock style wallpaper I found somewhere - it’s based off one of the built in designs.

greaderiphonenewMobile 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.

CastlefieldsThe 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!
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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.

As 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.

Scientists Want Your MacBook for Earthquake Detection

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!

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?

Posts from the International Association of Time Travelers forum. At… (kottke.org)

Link »

strawpoll

This time its some kind of Twitter site called StrawpollnowFlickr.

You can now find us at Fawcettmade.com. Must mean it’s time to make a site of it’s own. Ahh, time.

Silverback app

“For web designers” - intriguing. And nice ape. | ##

MassExodus
 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.

Yes, keep away Microsoft! #
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