Author Archives: Ian

How not to: Do A Hack Day

It’s been well over a month since I attended science hack day and I’d thought I’d put out some notes on my time there. Rather than do a run down of the event, for which I’m sure there’s far more … Continue reading

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Installing MPlayer on Snow Leopard

Here’s a heads up for anyone installing MPlayer on Snow Leopard. I’ve been playing a fair amount with tools recently and inevitably ending up running round in circles in installing, compiling, setting flags etc. Here’s a quick one liner param … Continue reading

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Lovefilm Filmstream Plugin for WordPress

Something I’ve thought I’d like to have on my site for a while is a list of movies that I’ve recently seen and some brief opinions on them. I’m not entirely sure how I would go about this for films … Continue reading

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Mixbooth

Mixbooth is a dj mix hosting service I created several years ago. At the time there wasn’t a lot around in terms of options for allowing anyone to share them. You either had to exchange it upon a site filled … Continue reading

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Fair & Bare – January £10 Sale!

Fair & Bare – The little shop I run (with a little help from my wife) is having a January Sale right now in celebration of entering the year 2010. Every shirt we’ve made to date is just 10 squid! … Continue reading

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Amazon Associates WordPress Plugin v0.2

I’ve just updated my amazon associates plugin to take into account the recent signiture changes which amazon have introduced for their webservices api. This now also means you’ll have to enter your amazon secret access key in the plugin configuration … Continue reading

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Discovering Google

I’ve recently read a post over on the guardians technology site which gave a whistle-stop history of the internet as it turns 40. I thought I’d share here my own experiences of growing up alongside the web, more for my … Continue reading

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Aardman

In order for me to generate this post I’ve created something quite novel on my blog – a new category which I’ve not had a great deal of experience in previously, “work”. For the last couple of months I’ve been … Continue reading

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Create Your Own TinyURL Service for WordPress

I don’t particularly like using URL shortening services. I think I first noticed them getting used rather prolificly in the Guardians technology section to include lots of random links to bizarre web content. TinyURL’s own web site wouldn’t particularly inspire … Continue reading

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My Vicious Circle of Posting Quality Content

I’ve been looking back at the posts on this site and the commitment that I supposedly made (internally) a couple of months ago about posting regular, interesting content. But it seemed to die a death very promptly. I think that … Continue reading

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