This website epitomises the problem with pretty websites on Windows

September 26th, 2011

Try loading this website in all your browsers on Windows.

http://www.jaguarfuture.com/

  • IE can't load it, because it doesn't have good enough support of HTML5 and modern web standards.
  • FF has horrible resizing of images (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517294)
  • Chrome has horrible font rendering (maybe it's only when there's shadows). See the text on the right of this particular website.
  • Safari has horrible chrome and isn't a windowsey application. But at least the website looks right!

Artificial Heart by Jonathan Coulton

September 16th, 2011

I bought my first Jonathan Coulton album today. He's gotten himself a real producer and studio time and professional musicians. It's good 🙂 Quite easy to listen to, and upbeat. It's got a really clean sound.

I also listened to him on a podcast with Merlin Mann, talking about the experience of entering a more professional world of music making.

Artificial Heart by Jonathan Coulton

If this, then that

September 12th, 2011

This looks like a cool new online service. As a test, I’m trying to use it to push my fredsherbet.com posts into my Google Reader shared feed.

Check it out at http://ifttt.com – you tell it when something online happens, do another thing.

(Although, in the process, I’ve found out how to create a normal RSS feed that excludes articles that have come from Buzz/Reader, so will fix my feeds properly soon!)

fredsherbet: We got The Megatome & we are the smartest. #gotmegatome #sworcery

September 6th, 2011

fredsherbet: We got The Megatome & we are the smartest. #gotmegatome #sworcery

Stars

August 21st, 2011

We're so in the middle of nowhere that there's hardly any light pollution, so we can see the stars really clearly; even the Milky Way. We managed to glimpse the ISS as it passed low through the sky.

I managed to snap this picture (the first few attempts had little success, then I realised I still had the lens cap on. Oops)

Dunstanburgh Castle

August 21st, 2011

Today, we went to see a castle. Sadly, half of it was missing.

I made a quick and dirty panorama with my iPhone of the view from beneath the castle. http://360.io/cPeNUf

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Holiday in Northumberland

August 21st, 2011

We're on holiday in Northumberland with Matt's family this week. The sky has been very dramatic for our first night! That's the cottage we're staying in. There's nothing else nearby… Sarah says it's like The Village, Signs and The Happening movies.

PS Sorry about the watermarks – the software is too expensive, so I've made do!

What to read next?

August 17th, 2011

William, can you recommend me something to read on our holiday?

Just seen Super 8

August 15th, 2011

Fantastic film. Very exciting and just enough jumpy bits to not put you off. Lots of emotion and fun.

I think it's the first proper, classic style film I've seen in a long time.

Even Caroline was disappointed it ended! And the credits are great 🙂

It's one to see at cinema if you can.

Weird experiment

August 9th, 2011

You can follow the community starbucks card's progress at http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard