Quakr is a project to build a 3-dimensional world from user contributed photos, a.k.a. some friends having fun with geek hacking. I see they submitted an abstract to XTech too. The blog links to some interesting experiments mashing up Google Maps with a Flash and VRML viewer. The Quakr 7D Tiltometer is worth viewing too … Continue reading Quakr →

A scan of the promotional flier for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum that I carried round for months prior to my parents buying me a 48K Spectrum for Christmas. Click through to the larger image to read the marketing text. Here's some extracts: "Professional power -- personal computer price!" "Your ZX Spectrum comes with a mains … Continue reading My First Computer →

A view of my del.icio.us bookmarks: extisp.icio.us - ldodds Pretty accurate with respect to my interests these days. The Java/Speech tag is overblown though just because I've not marked other Java related pages. It's just a damn shame I can't make it to FOAFCamp or the FOAF Workshop. Family holidays and work deadlines have crowded … Continue reading Yep That’s Me →

Comments are now disabled on this blog (by the brute force method of moving the CGI script) until I decide on a better way to handle comment spam. It's getting to be a real pain in the arse.

I was taken to task by my mother over Xmas. She'd been browsing my website during her lunch hour and had neglected to find any new photos, and precious few of her latest grandchild. After setting aside thoughts that I'd slipped into an issue of The Onion I realised she was right, and that those … Continue reading Lazy Photo Annotation →

Every year come October I get this overwhelming urge to go back into education again. I loved being at university as both an undergraduate studying Biology and as a postgraduate studying Computing, and freely admit to pining for the mental stimulation that full-time education brings. And yes, the lazy mornings and impromptu mid-week drinking sessions, … Continue reading Pining For University →

For my sins I've been writing a bit of PL/SQL recently. It's been nearly 4 years since I had to do that in anger and predictably I've forgotten way more than I remember. At the time I was responsible for redesigning the database for a Laboratory Information Management System used by researchers at Pfizer looking … Continue reading Unit Testing PL/SQL →

Just noticed that the papers from the Hypertext '03 conference are online. Some interesting stuff to dig into there. Hypertext'03 Conference: Complete List of Papers You can also download PDFs of the poster presentations and demos.

Been rather busy over the past few weeks one way or another. I took some holiday after the Big Chill (which was excellent, btw -- The Cinematic Orchestra were my muscial highlight of the weekend, other other was bumping into a friend I've not seen for about 9 years) but came back to all sorts … Continue reading …And…Relax… →

In Goodness gracious, great circles, Edd writes up the results of more cool Dashboard related hacking. So now you have another good reason for adding GeoURL tags to your 'blog. Edd is also looking for more geographic related services and data sets. I came across one a while back whilst doing some related research (enriching … Continue reading Geo Services, Dashboard and Gazetteers →