December 2008
Easy Peasy Linux, logo submissions
As I’ve mentioned here before, Ubuntu Eee, the first OS that I installed on my then-new Asus Eee PC, is having to rebrand itself so it no longer mimics the Ubuntu identity. They kicked off a competition to design a logo and win a snazzy netbook, and now the submissions are all in. I hope they have the good taste to pick one of the more polished and original concepts. It’s obvious which...
Interactive fiction (and my ongoing love/hate...
Today a discussion on the CrunchBang Linux forums started me off exploring the fascinating world of interactive fiction. Initially I just wanted to get a local copy of the Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy text adventure up and running. The download is a ZIP containing a .z3 file. All I needed was Frotz (or another interpreter) and I was up and running. But my investigation had piqued my interest....
claimID: Ma.gnolia bookmarks →
Used exclusively to bookmark Linux or other open source pages for reference.
The Virgin Media Twitter account saga
I was finally able to access the Gmail account that I used for my @virginmedia Twitter profile that Virgin Media ‘stole’ from me earlier this month. I now know that I received only one email from Twitter on the subject. They then gave me four days (only two working days!) to change my account name before they changed it. They also stripped the avatar, background image and bio...
Boxing Day photos, Tregantle Beach
See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from foomandoonian’s halfblog | Comment »
#!CRUNCHBANG LINUX
Just a quick screenshot of my new desktop. I have just installed #!CrunchBang Linux on my Eee PC, in place of Ubuntu Eee. (which is going to be re-branded as ‘Easy Peasy’, incidentally!). Branding issues aside, I felt that the netbook remix interface was a little limiting, and I want to try a ‘proper’ distro on my Eee. I was going to try Ubuntu, or my old friend Linux Mint,...
listening to "What Is The Light? - The Flaming... →
Is it chemically derived?
listening to "The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth... →
…explaining that the sky holds the wind, the sun rushes in and a child with a shotgun can shoot down honeybees that sting…
listening to "1730 Know How Frogs Function.mp3 -... →
From the Kleptones epic album, 24 Hours - http://tr.im/24hours
Posterous 'halfblog' →
I’m currently pretty active at foomandoonian.posterous.com, so you know…
listening to "Sleepless - High Contrast" →
Warning: contains drum and bass
Torchwood set photos: the last few
I had almost forgotten to finish uploading my behind the scenes pictures from my time on the Dr Who and Torchwood sets! The big cog-wheel-door (which always reminded me of Deep Space Nine) is as convincing as the rest of the set, until you thump it and hear the dull thud of plywood. You can also see a few more monitors here, this time running an ‘alert’ cycle. When I posted the first...
This Week in Tweets: 002
isitchristmas.com - Although the decorations in the office and music in the shops seems to suggest otherwise… Torn by good & evil and an incestuous love affair, a lonely and depraved Darth Vader has a nervous breakdown: tr.im/vader
Tuesday? Oh, so it is! isittuesday.com I’m going to start making more use of my flickr account. I’m taking a lot more pictures lately:...
del.icio.us: Nice Translator →
ニース翻訳者-高速、オンライン翻訳を使用するように簡単に
del.icio.us: Array.org EeePC Ubuntu Repository →
Custom Linux Kernel for Ubuntu
RE: ACCRUED INTEREST PAYMENT
From: hsbcbankghana025@gmail.com DEAR BENEFICIARY, RE:SWIFT TRANSFER OF US$ 1.5 MILLION ACCRUED INTEREST INTO YOUR ACCOUNT LETTER ATTACHED TO YOUR PERUSAL. BEST REGARDS, DR. CHRISTIAN AKWA, HEAD OF TREASURY DEPARTMENT HSBC BANK GHANA 1 attachment(s) RE ACCRUE…JPG (121.7 KB)
listening to "The Town Crotch - Jonathan Coulton" →
‘Someone played Steve Miller, someone set some stuff on fire’…
listening to "Under Pressure - Joss Stone" →
Chippin’ around, kick my brains around the floor…
listening to "Dakota - Stereophonics" →
Sleeping in the back of my car…
listening to "Buck Rogers - Feeder" →
Get a house in Devon, drink cider from a lemon…
The birth of Tux
Not an artist: Let's make a revolutionary operating system!
Not a designer: What should our mascot be?
Not an artist: How about a fat flightless bird sat on its arse
Not a designer: Okay. Can you draw?
Not an artist: Not really, but I'll have a go
KolourPaint - feature suggestion
[Note: This post is mostly here to support a wishlist bug submitted at bugs.kde.org] Some years ago I used a generative art package (called Signwave Auto Illustrator) that used to let you import a bitmap image to use as a palette. The image would distort to fit in the palette area and you could easily select colours from there. A simple, brilliant idea and one that would fit in nicely with...
@virginmedia 'Stole' my Twitter account!
About a year ago, after a particularly frustrating experience with Virgin Media, I created a Twitter profile, @virginmedia, and set up a TwitterFeed, drawing from various forums and keyword based news searches. The design of the profile copied their branding (better than it currently does!) and had the sarcastic bio: ‘We’re Virgin Media, you’re just a customer’. So not...
Custom Moleskine notebook for Asus Eee PC
A few snapshots of my notebook for my Asus Eee PC, all inked by myself with Faber-Castell PITT artist pens. I use it too keep notes of all the applications I like, solutions to problems, all the Firefox extensions I can’t live without and various other things. (I use Google Notebook a lot for this kind of thing, but that’s of limited usefulness if you can’t get your internet...
Anyone want to help develop a pixel art app?
I’ve been trying out KolourPaint for a short while now. It’s basically MS Paint, but with some nicely implemented features. I’m using it to experiment with pixel art, a job for which KolourPaint is almost perfectly suited. (Ironically enough, the power of Gimp or Photoshop counts for very little here!) It strikes me that this would be the perfect starting point to make an...
Today's photos: Cosmeston Lake
Another set taken at Cosmeston Lake, in South Wales. It was clear and sunny when we arrived, but almost instantly became foggy.
See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from foomandoonian’s halfblog | Comment »
claimID: My Yahoo! Pipes →
del.icio.us: Pencil Project →
Pencil is a Firefox add-on to do GUI prototyping and simple sketching
Today's fun cemetery pics
None of these came out as well as I had hoped. I thought the wonky headstones would look great as a black and white. Then I overcompensated and over-saturated the others! The last one is an attempt at a lomo look.
See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from foomandoonian’s halfblog | Comment »
This Week in Tweets: 001
I might make this a regular feature. What follows is a selection of recent links I’ve shared on Twitter. I think a lot of these are worth one more pimp before they fade back into the interwebs: http://tr.im/foomonster - I rediscovered my ‘Monster by Mail’ http://tr.im/haver - Haver: It means to talk nonsense, chatter. “And if I haver, I’m going to be the one havering...
del.icio.us: CrunchBang Linux →
An Ubuntu based distribution featuring the lightweight Openbox window manager and GTK+ applications. The distribution is developed from a minimal Ubuntu install and has been designed to offer a good…
Design: 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's pin badges
Each of these have been designed to illustrate a decade. I’m least happy with the 60’s one, but I’m pleased with 70’s and 80’s. Turns out I can’t install fonts at work, so I had to make do with what was already on my system. What do you think? Anyone have a better idea for 60’s or 90’s?
Posted via email from foomandoonian’s...
del.icio.us: Telnic →
The .tel is a service that allows individuals and businesses alike to store and manage all their contact information and keywords directly in the DNS without the need to build, host or manage a…
listening to "Money For Nothing - Dire Straits" →
I’m running low on props! (Prop me up?)
Upgrading my Eee PC to 2GB of RAM
And I’m pleased to report that it was as dead easy as it looked, took five minutes and caused zero complications. I can’t say that I’ve noticed any speed bump though. I also bought a 1GB SD card for about £3.40, which I plan to just leave in the SD slot instead of the blank piece. Next on the list: Mobile broadband dongle and big extra battery…
See and download the...
listening to "National Express - The Divine... →
All human life is here, from the feeble old dear to the screaming child…
Frosty looks
I got a strange look from a cyclist this morning as I was taking a closeup of this frosty bench The same one I found the dead Tellytubby on, actually), but I think the results were worth it…
See and download the full gallery on posterousPosted by email from foomandoonian’s halfblog (posterous) | Comment »