Too Many Ideas - Posts Tagged ‘WAI’
Plutoed gets Plutoed
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007At lunchtime I thought tonight I was going to blog about The American Dialect Society’s choice of Word of the Year. It got Plutoed. This afternoon I thought it might be that the BBC’s new children’s spy show M.I.High is supposed to be about teenage members of MI9. Not sure why anyone would reactivate the […]
Sci-Fi Book Meme
Friday, November 17th, 2006The 50 most significant SF/F novels from 1953-2002 according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien * The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov * […]
Characters on the Couch (Part 9)
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 8). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). Leaving a Thumb Print on the World The Hero Archetype "Where there’s a will there’s a way." The hero’s core desire is to act courageously. With heroes it’s all about winning and […]
United Utilities to English Dictionary
Monday, August 21st, 2006After doing some work in the street outside my home last week United Utilities and their subcontractors have yet to succeed in properly restoring a full supply. To mark the occasion I thought a little low quality satire wouldn’t go amiss. United Utilities Speak English 24 hour emergency number Our only number Please wait all […]
Characters on the Couch (Part 4)
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006The Creator Archetype This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 3). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). "If it can be imagined, it can be created" These characters have artistic vision and focus on creativity and the imagination. They seek to innovate and craft something new. […]
Vue Python for Beginners
Thursday, May 4th, 2006An updated version of this article is now available on my website at http://www.impworks.co.uk/vue/vuepythonforbeginners.php. Tonight, by special request, a short introduction to using Vue and Python for beginners. What is Python “Python is the industry standard, cross-platform, object-oriented application scripting language. It is both sufficiently easy to use and powerful to let you develop complex […]
Saturday on Sunday
Sunday, April 30th, 2006Last night both my PCs were running full time rendering different versions of the same picture till I got one version I liked so I couldn’t post this till now. I spent the first half of the day resolving all those issues from Friday (Too many Ideas: Todays a Lemon and I’d like my Money […]