Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2010
10 Worst Valentines Albums in the World Ever!
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Greatest Sickly Love Songs The One with Pink Roses on the Cover Twelve Songs You’d Forgotten and One You Still Sing in the Bath Last Years Valentines Album with a Different Cover on It Songs that Say I Hate You More than Words Ever Could (Double CD with Sleeve Notes) Some Random Album I Grabbed […]
Where Should Buzz Have Been?
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Google launching Buzz has crystalized a thought that’s been running through my head for a while. Ever since the WWW came on the scene there have been a series of landgrabs for bits of the Internet. Bits that give revenue which might be page impressions giving advertising revenue or e-commerce giving cold, hard, cash revenue. […]
Go Penguins II
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010I had hoped to post a gallery of Go Penguin photographs I took after work tonight in St George’s Hall Liverpool as sixty of them are displayed before being put up for auction later in the week. Photoshop doesn’t seem to want to do the image processing automatically so I’ll have to go through them […]
Downloads Fixed
Saturday, January 30th, 2010My apologies to anyone who was trying to download anything directly from impworks. I managed to knock out the download handling so all the links were broken. It’s up and running again now.
Rotating Star Field II
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Last week I posted a Rotating Star Field. I’ve enhanced the script that builds the Vue scene from the star data to approximate the colour of the stars from their spectra and to size them relative to each other too. Unfortunately the high quality, uncompressed render comes in at about 1.2GB and I’ve yet to […]
Translate This Button
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010I’ve just added a Translate.This button in about 5 minutes to the left hand menu. Looks to be a nice little JavaScript implementation of the Google translation service. I know there are WordPress plug-ins to do this but I’ve had mixed experience with those in the past so I’m going to try this one out […]
Rotating Star Field
Sunday, January 17th, 2010A tweet last night took me to a site that linked to another The Astronomy Nexus which had a handy csv file of astronomical data. The CSV includes all stars in Hipparcos or closer than 50 parsecs to us. Thats almost 120,000 stars. I knocked together a quick script to import the data into Vue […]
Pancetta, Chorizo and Broad Bean Risotto
Sunday, January 10th, 2010A warming risotto for the cold snap. Feeds 4. Ingredients 2 Onion Chopped 2 cloves Garlic finely Chopped 1tbsp Olive Oil 225g Frozen Broad Beans 150g Chorizo Sausage – Cooked and chopped into chunks 150g Smoked Pancetta – Diced 350g Risotto Rice 1.2l Chicken Stock 1tbsp or fresh Dried Thyme 1tbsp Dried or fresh Oregano […]
A Town Called Eureka – Season 2
Saturday, January 9th, 2010I finished watching Season 2 of A Town Called Eureka tonight. I like TV shows about quirky communities. A Town Called Eureka is an excellent addition to the likes of Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, the first season of The League of Gentlemen and Trumpton. Each uses an outsider as a way into the strange place: […]
Snowfall 2 – The Return of the White Stuff
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010I’ve been living in Liverpool since the early ’90s and I can’t remember snow this deep. Certainly beats the light dusting of snow in December. See also: Winter Wonderland – Snow Day and Snow day 🙂.