January 2008
77 posts
New 'e-lounges' at Bath →
From The University of Bath’s internal news:
Work has also been undertaken in 4East and 5West to modernise and update the former refectories to provide social space with IT connectivity. These ‘e-lounges’ have, in total, seating for 113 people, 39 fully networked computer terminals and 9 connection ports for laptops, and wifi connectivity.
An open letter to Bath University...
“First ponder, then dare.”
– Helmut Von Moltke — via swissmiss
A new theme
Hopefully you’ve noticed the new theme. This is very much still an alpha version so apologies if it breaks for you. Look out for more changes to come… as soon as I have my CSS up to speed. Coming from almost nothing it’s been a steep learning curve!
iPhonesque Theme for Growl →
gruber:
Nice-looking Growl theme by Matthew Robertson, based on the look of Mobile OS X’s alert dialogs.
Adam : Catching up on Waking the Dead with BBC... →
Neil Gaiman - How To Talk To Girls At Parties →
gondaba:
Descriptive short story with a twist. I’m still not sure what the twist means. Human?
Reelect Clay Davis
merlin:
Here’s mine. The Flickr tag’s haven’t caught up with this yet. Probably too busy with ‘Elect Clay’ fever…
“He has not yet received his bonus for 2007, but I don’t think he will...”
– SocGen chief Daniel Bouton on the rogue trader Jerome Kerviel.
Typographic Contrast and Flow →
Web Designer Wall runs down a few typographic tricks you can use to add contrast and flow to your website. Nothing earth-shattering here, just good, simple advice. — cubicle17
A lovely simple summary of the basics of web typography. Reccomended for all your non-typophile friends.
Adam : Returne'd from London wanderings laden with... →
The Programmes Ontology →
— via megpickard
“Starting a blog solely to make money is like learning ventriloquism to meet...”
– Twitter / Merlin Mann
“For H is a spirit and therefore he is God.
For K is a king and therefore he is...”
– From the festival cantata Rejoice in the Lamb by Benjamin Britten. The words are from Jubilate Agno by the English poet, and religious manic, Christopher Smart.
Boss: What's your password? I want to sign in and test the new system we set up.
Office gal: 'Detonate.'
Boss: [Silence.]
Office gal: What? I like typing 'Detonate' and hitting 'Enter'! It's extremely satisfying!
I've always wanted, but never had the courage to have, in the same vein, 'Global Thermonuclear War' as a password or username a la [Wargames](http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames) (1982)
“I cleaned out my RSS feeds. I cleaned out my twitter. I cleaned out my blog. I...”
– Michael Mistretta (thanks, Shawn) — via marco
I wish that I had the courage to do this. There are many times when I refresh NetNewsWire to download a veritable barn-full of news/blogs that I then struggle to read. Why?
Have you ever tried to find Chuck Norris?
Well, if you’re looking for him on Google, type in “find Chuck Norris” and hit “I’m Feeling Lucky.” This is what you’ll get as a result for that search. — vasta
Whoa! →
Watch this for a few seconds, so cool! — via goldshan & webmarc
French Trader was forced to work 30 hours a week →
The Daily Mash reports:
FRIENDS of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel last night blamed his $7 billion losses on unbearable levels of stress brought on by a punishing 30 hour week.
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Kerviel was known to start work as early as nine in the morning and still be at his desk at five or even five-thirty, often with just an hour and a half for lunch.
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As the losses mounted, Kerviel...
Adam says: Listening to The News Quiz podcast:... →
La Esencia de Klimt
SOURCE: La Esencia de Klimt on the Behance Network
Photographer- Moises Gonz — via vvuemme
2 tags
e.the.re.al /ɪˈθɪəriəl/ →
Adjective. Also -ial, ath-.
[from Latin aethereus, -ius from Greek aitherios, from aither]
Of or pertaining to the region above the clouds; (chiefly poet.) heavenly, celestial.
Of the nature of or resembling the ether; light, airy, attenuated; pertaining to or involving the ether.
Resembling spirit, impalpable, of unearthly delicacy and refinement.
gtmcknight: teasing 6yos = teasing teasing 18yos = flirting teasing 60yos = mean
— via david
Moving house
You may have notices that I’m now tumblogging from http://adamjtaylor.tumblr.com as opposed, old, http://ajt23.tumblr.com.
This is all part of a slow effort to move away from my old ajt23 moniker based upon my university username. Being on placement this year and with only one year left at Bath when I return it seems sensible to move to something slightly more obvious when it comes to...
Two German generals
Ludendorff: The English soldiers fight like lions.
Hoffmann: True. But don't we know that they are lions led by donkeys.
“Good design is unobtrusive.”
– Dieter Rams via swissmiss
“Deep in their souls, all scientists are poets.”
– Belinda Luscombe writing in Time Magazine.
Adam is wishing he went to bed earlier. →
“Ledger’s dead, Putin just fired missiles into the Atlantic, and stocks are...”
– Twitter / Nick Douglas
“Make yourself at home Office: Come on in. Put your feet on the couch. French...”
– Merlin Mann on Macbreak Weekly Ep. 74
Inside Time Machine →
This insightful and detailed essay from AppleInsider delves into the inner workings of Mac OS X Leopard’s backup facility.
The concept of multiple hard links, whilst initially confusing (think of parallel universes on your drive), provides an ingenious way to give the appearance of a full backup whilst only requiring the transfer of new files. It’s a elegant system although I’m...
Adam is doing BIG chemistry today on the pilot... →
Back to the future
Time Machine has just set off on its first backup run. 62.83Gb to a freshly made 200Gb (ish) partition on my external hard drive. I’ve heard on the grapevine that you want a time machine drive capacity of 2-3 times that of the source. With a measly 80Gb inside my MacBook that gives me a 2.5x ratio slap bang in the middle of the recommended zone. There’s a story in the reason for the...
Adam is enjoying a bottle of wine in his... →
The Boringest Video Game of All Time? →
“In the event of an unexpected drop in poll numbers, this plane will be diverted...”
– Flight attendant Hillary Clinton (via BBC NEWS)
Light years at light speed
This evening I finally installed Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on my MacBook. In the ten or fifteen minutes I’ve had to play so far I’m struck, more than anything, by the lightening speed of the thing. My humble 2Ghz Core 2 Duo with 1Gb RAM simply flies! On top of this, Quick Look, Cover Flow in the finder, along with all the Core Animation goodness make 10.5 a quantum leap from 10.4.
Adam will scream like a toddler if he has to do... →
