Sometimes the mouse leads you on a strange journey.
Justine Henin -> Serena Williams -> Yetunde Price -> Crips -> Stanley Williams -> Arnold Schwarzenegger -> Conan the Barbarian -> Conan the Destroyer -> Grace Jones -> Massive Attack.
From the category archives:
General
Created in January 2004, Cinema Redux explores the idea of distilling a whole film down to one single image. Using eight of my favourite films from eight of my most admired directors including Sidney Lumet, Francis Ford Coppola and John Boorman, each film is processed through a Java program written with the processing environment.
This small piece of software samples a movie every second and generates an 8 x 6 pixel image of the frame at that moment in time. It does this for the entire film, with each row representing one minute of film time. – Brendan Dawes
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
Thank the heavens, this retweet thing was driving me insane!
I never understood why people re-tweeted posts or tweets from popular accounts. Take this for an example, I follow Mashable and so do 1.4 million other people.
If you follow me, and I follow you, and we don’t know each other, chances are we both share a common interest. Lets say that common interest is Technology or Social Media (hate that word).
Because I follow people who share the same interests as me, chances are your going to retweet something a hundred people have already re-tweeted, affectively spamming my twitter stream to shit.
Here’s Twitter’s official explanation of the new feature:
One of the main confusions and criticisms about the retweet API was around what happens when a given tweet is retweeted multiple times. The explanation was that developers need to do their own retweet collapsing. If N people retweet a given tweet, you’d get N instances of that same tweet in the appropriate retweet timeline and the home timeline. You would then have to do your own internal book keeping about whether that tweet had already come in. If it hadn’t you’d display it for the first time. If it had you’d update the already displayed tweet.
Asking developers to collapse retweets in timelines is onerous, complicated and confusing. We’re not going to do it that way. We are going to add a resource that gives you all retweets for a given tweet. In timelines you will get only the first retweet. You can then request all retweets for that tweet at any time to get up to 100 retweets that have been created for it.
Looks pretty cool from the screenshot, hopefully they’ll get this going pretty sharpish.
After a well deserved break I’m back to the daily grind. After some thought, a staggering 5 minutes! I decided to shift the focus of this blog a little and change the name – more on that later.
Is Twitter worth 5 to 10 billion dollars? Not in a million years but some beg to differ. While on holiday it was a really useful tool though, and provided many a joke. I just wished more of my friends used it but unfortunately they’re all heavily entrenched in FB.
In other news, England are through to the FIFA World Cup Finals after thrashing Croatia 5-1. Should we Brits brace ourselves for more heartbreak come next summer? Who knows – But I remain optimistic.
And moving WordPress to another domain is not as difficult as you may think. Here are some useful tools and links that I recommend.
If anyone knows me well, they’d know I love my newspapers. Come lunchtime I’d head over to the local Cafe for my traditional English breakfast, which consists of beans, toast, bacon eggs and tea.
Before chowin’ down though, I’d exit the Cafe and walk through the doors of my local newsagent. Knowing my food was waiting I kept the chit-chat to a bear minimum, quickly picking up a copy of my favourite newspaper and placing a twenty pence piece onto the counter as I left.
“I was always very polite.”
Heading back into the Cafe where my food was waiting. The waitress would deliver my tea just how I liked it – strong no sugar – now I could begin to have my lunch, I was ready.
Then that all changed, I moved offices. Now out in the middle of nowhere, no newsagent in sight – gone was my afternoon ritual of 10 years.
Now I’m resigned to reading the news on my Nokia N96 while I eat my lunch in the corporate cafeteria. Its not the same, especially when I drop some beans – my Nokia doesn’t like beans.
Sad but true the newspaper industry is fighting for its very survival. And one day there will be no newspapers, no smiling newsagents, no lots of things.
Be careful what you wish for, (06:20) gets me everytime.
