I wrote an itsy-bitsy plugin this afternoon to add oEmbed support for Cloudup, a fabulous service I use on a daily basis which was recently acquired by Automattic. This was a fun exercise for me, inspired not only by my switch from CloudApp, but also this trac ticket, and a desire to develop my understanding …
Which Siobhan is it anyway? – Siobhan McKeown
I stand by use of the word crass to describe a more than unfortunate exchange in #wordpress earlier this week. Siobhan has written an exceedingly eloquent explanation of the flaws in the way in which women involved in technology are often viewed or evaluated. If you’re involved in any community, take a look. Which Siobhan …
“When we have déjà vu, we don’t act on it,” Moulin says. “But these people refused to watch television, they stopped reading the newspaper.” The patients were what cognitive scientists call “anosagnosic” — unaware of their condition. They also found situations to be more than just familiar; they believed that they were really recalling them, …
A moment of unabashed Boris-fuelled pride, patriotism, and typically British hope.
A truly maginficent Boris masterpiece, encapsulating everything that makes Boris, well.. Boris. Blunt, hilarious, often painful, yet written in such a way as to demonstrate à la fois his unrivalled mastery of the English language, and something of the cultivated carefree “throw everything P.C out the window with gay abandon” attitude he has used to … Continue reading "A moment of unabashed Boris-fuelled pride, patriotism, and typically British hope.
…The real problem is that so many people have thought the internet would be an unalloyed good; in part that’s because it has had plenty of cheerleaders, especially companies that stand to benefit from it – especially companies that stand to benefit from its growth. And nobody likes to be the one saying “hold on” …
The Ethical Mirage: A Temporal Explanation as to Why We Aren’t as Ethical as We Think We Are, an HBS working paper [PDF].
A tale of three iPhone 4s, two untimely ends, and differing box sizes across the world
Whilst tidying came across the boxes for my three iPhone 4s (yes, three, only one of which is still alive today, I am suitably mortified ((I hasten to add that I’ve owned each generation of iPhone, and only one of each until the iPhone 4. I’m not sure whether this says something about the solidity …
Life Lessons
3 things I learned while my plane crashed: Ric Elias on TED.com. Just watched this. Puts many life change I’m pondering right now into perspective. Hum. He learned: To no-longer postpone anything To eliminate negative energy: no-longer try to be right, but try to be happy That the most important thing for him was to …
AppleTV, HandBrake, and MetaX
This Christmas I spent some time ripping part of my DVD collection for consumption via the Apple TV ((Whilst I was initially sceptical about the second-generation AppleTV and its lack of onboard storage, this simple little box has turned out to be quite the media nirvāna)). To do this I used the excellent HandBrake, followed …
Encrypted, Rotating Time Machine Backups on Snow Leopard
Encrypted, Rotating Time Machine Backups on Snow Leopard. Having recently had my previous Time Machine backup disk stolen, I’ve just set up the new disk with added encryption. Worth doing I think.