We’ve found our spot

April 28th, 2011

It’s near the Cenotaph, Downing Street and admiralty house (I think) which they'll go through to St James park.

We’re on our way in to London!

April 28th, 2011

I’m Trying to work out how to put up pics here…

What is this?!

April 27th, 2011

What is this?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancelrepairliability

Andrew and Gail Wallbank received a demand for £100,000 pounds to fund repairs of a local church. After a protacted legal battle, the Law Lords found in favour of the parish council, leaving the Wallbanks with a £350,000 bill after legal costs

F*ck You, Tiny Wings →

April 27th, 2011

I guess Tiny Wings isn't for everyone.

The realization is now →

April 23rd, 2011

Not much to add to this. Interesting thoughts.

The promise that you can get paid really well to do precisely what your boss instructs you to do is now a dream, no longer a reality.

Is AV better than FPTP? →

April 23rd, 2011

Vote YES to alternate voting

Cherry raisins are yummy :)

April 22nd, 2011

Dropbox Lack of Security – Miguel de Icaza →

April 19th, 2011

This is sad news about dropbox.

Although, thinking about it, they've had a feature for a while that makes uploads of common files (e.g. a music file that lots of people already have in their dropbox) almost instant. A few times I've noticed a file transfer up to the cloud without actually uploading. I'm pretty sure that's a good indicator it wasn't as encrypted and locked down as they make out.

The magic of sox

April 18th, 2011

I've been trying to fiddle about with a 6 channel audio track, trying to get a movie soundtrack without the dialogue. The basic principle is that most of the dialogue is in the centre channel, so inverting left and adding that to right strips the dialogue, but keeps the music (and sound effects). I was using audacity, but the size of the files meant it brought my computer to its knees (because of hard drive access and a stupidly large paging file).

After some searching I found vox, which is a command line tool. It's pretty much like piping text from one tool to another, but with audio 😀 yummm!

The trees down our street had their branches cut back, and now leaves are growing out the stumps….

April 16th, 2011

The trees down our street had their branches cut back, and now leaves are growing out the stumps. Thats like chopping a man's arms off, and finding fingers growing out his shoulders!