Collage of the album you can find in my iTunes Library. I made this with the help of a few programs and scripts. First off, getting the album art out of iTunes I used a script from Doug (for mac only I guess). I then pumped it into a nice use once chuck away app, Shape Collage. Upload to flickr, and rinse and repeat.
BTW with the help of zzap I bought flickr pro. Mainly because I’m using flickr for all my blog posts.
I just saw a really cool feature of facebook that I never knew existed. Phonebook, it creates a dynamic phonebook of numbers for all your friends on facebook. I can nearly see this taking off, but I think it needs a few revisions.
First off I think it needs to be able to sync to devices, and other services and secondly, you should be able to add notes and more information to people.
It’d also like it to only have certain people and it’d be nice if it displayed more than just numbers. I’m coming from the point of Address Book.app that I keep every single little bit of information about a person in, which syncs to my iPod (and hopefully soon, an iPhone).
I can also sync this with Google and other services which is always nice. I’d like to see this take off, as it means your friends and family always have an updated phone number for you.
I’m gonna try and keep this short and snappy. The guy is legally a free man. What he done was wrong but he done his time, and he’s allowed to do what he pleases I wouldn’t mind him living next door to me, because he’s gone through the process
He has to live somewhere and as long as he doesn’t re offend it’s fine. Unless you want to charge him with another crime, leave the man alone.
I don’t condone his behaivor, but if your bitching, why don’t you change the prision time for these cases, rather than annoy him.
I’ve seen TrialPay pop up on a few apps I’ve been playing with and I thought I’d put the service for a test. I’m always a bit cautious when things are free, so I usually don’t do this.
Basically with TrialPay, you can get software for free, if you sign up and complete some offers. Now they say you can get the software for free, really this is false advertisement because every offer usually involves paying for postage or buy something. Usually more than the software you want to register.
It basically like those “Get a Ring tone free” scams. When you read the fine print, the second ring tone is free, and the first one costs something stupid like $30, per week.
Although the system is basically a scam, it is a very neat package, and if you can see an offer that you think is worth it, I suppose it work for you. I don’t really need 200 Business cards 
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crav-ing |ˈkrāvi ng | |ˈkreɪvɪŋ| |ˈkreɪvɪŋ|
noun
a powerful desire for something : a craving for chocolate.
Cravings are weird. An internal impulse to do something, sometimes something you typically don’t do, or dislike. This morning I had a craving for drinking a glass of plain milk. I hate milk and I am also semi lactose intolerant. I didn’t end up drinking the glass of milk.
Earlier in this week I craved playing Douglas Adams Starship Titanic, which I started playing while I was at my Nan’s several years. I got most of the way through the game, but never finished it(I think I was up to the musical instruments part [possibly]). I found it really enjoyable, and I believe it has a quality many new games are missing, that is, letting the user think for them selves.
New games I’ve seen focus on “Kill 50 bores and get their blood” (The grind-tastic ones, World of Warcraft and the like), “Shoot and kill everything on the map” (Unreal Tourny, Counter-Strike ect..) and the “Go save this person, along the way level up, loot some mad weapons and gain guest points” (Similar to the grind-tastic ones, but a little less grind and more game play, Diablo ect..). Don’t get me wrong these are great games and I like to play them, but I really like to think now and then.
Starship Titanic is an excellent game, even if it is a little bit out dated (Made is 1998) but the graphics, sound and game play is still awesome. It lacks in features , but who cares, when the puzzles are so awesome and fun. I feel that I should buy the Mac version and play that, however their shop seems to be down at the moment.
My last note, I thought my blog theme was getting a bit outdated so I decided to change it. (Another craving). It’s fairly basic, which is what I like. Now to make the changes to my MySpace profile, to make it look the same.
In the time it took me to write the post, I got 3 RSS feeds and 8 Plurk replies.
I just took this photo from our deck. It’s been raining for the last day and bit which has made it all cold, but I suppose I can forgive it, considering our beautiful of a sunset it was. I hate when you take photos of sunsets, how they never come out as nice as it looks. This one came out pretty damn close, so I’m fairly happy with it. I’m not sure if I should start using the wide shot mode on my camera or not, considering it’s the same lens and that, I gather it just cuts the top and bottom off the photo, it’d make it easier for making wallpapers though.
I also created a panorama shot of the sunset (view) using Calico. I tried using photoshop but it took my CPU and RAM, and left me with a garbled picture. It still hasn’t returned either. Calico is pretty nice software and is simple to use. I like it.
Onto other news, I’ve started using Plurk, for a bit to see what it is, how it works, and that. So far i’ve enjoyed it, and it is a step up from twitter, although it’s lacking features such as IM, free sms and API. I’m thinking of setting up a bot to relay messages between plurk and twitter just for me, so I can get the sms. Since it’s the holidays I might. My account should be linked in the side bar to your right sometime soon.
IS IT A BIRD, IS IT A PLANE, NO IT’S A NEW ICON.
Decided to quickly update the icon so it looks a bit more appealing, instead of the standard blogger icon. Also Firefox 3 is looking good, hopefully by Firefox 4 they’ll have decent OS X Keychain support.
Or maybe Opera will beat them. The race is on Firefox and Opera.
This is my current pump design for a CAD assignment. We have to design a system to lift water 6m high into a second tank. I’ve decided to go with the standard piston pump, in the opposite way of a car. In a car fuel explodes pushing the pistons up and down, which turns a shaft. This system turns a shaft which pushes water up and down, and with the use of valves, forces the water in the cryan hose and out the orange hose, using suction. Kinda what happens when you start a car, with a starter motor.
I still need to design a power source for the pump, something like a bike or windmill. I’m thinking more of a bike setup, with a gear ratio of 3:1, 3 bike pedals to 1 revolution of the pump. It should be fairly easy to implement.
A friend of mine is going for a ram pump setup that doesn’t require a power source, however is quite wasteful, as some of the water is discarded.
So far I’m liking this assignment, however I’m not looking forward to the write up.
Now that I’ve seen the iPhone pricing plans from Optus I’m pretty sure I want to get one. I’ll only get the cheapest capped plan of $19 a month to start off with and if I need more I can increase it. I only send about 5 sms a month and maybe one phone call, so I’m sure it’ll be alright.
I’m disappointed with Optus, because I expecting some real competition with the Telstra Sidekick which has unlimited data. The iPhone only comes with 100mb data on the cheapest plan and on the $79 plan comes with a gigabyte. I suppose I’m only going to be using this for a bit of IM or small research, not to torrent off or anything silly. I have wifi at home and I can always borrow from wifi hot spots.
I’m looking forward to using bluetooth and gps on the iPhone, and the possibility of geo tagging photos. I hope to see some nice applications in the iPhone App Store, and I hope most of them are free. I have an iPod touch and I have really liked the Installer.app, so hopefully someone can get that working on the iPhone 3g.
Uh. These posts are starting to get Yum9me sized.
Now Blogger has woken up and gotten their bums into gear and made up what they call embedded comments. If you’ve been to a non Blogger blog before, you would have seen how easy it is to comment. It’s all on the same page, and with all the previous auth methods, commenting is even more easier.
It’s a shame blogger hasn’t done this for so long, but I know feel that my blog is perfect. (I now expect a comment from zzap, telling me to conver to wordpress)