Jonathan's Liverstone

The BIG Picture

Now this is a BIG picture.
2.5 Terapixels ... that's a 7.5 gb storage size.
You can zoom into the car park at the back of the University and read the number plates.
Broadband advised for extended exploring!

Posted by the denizen @ 11/30/2004 04:59:00 pm {0 comments }

Depressing ...

Sometimes you come across stuff that is just plain depressing.

Posted by the denizen @ 11/28/2004 01:19:00 pm {0 comments }

Is this nuts?

it seems MS (at least I guess it's them) has applied for a patent for BASIC's IsNot operator.

A system, method and computer-readable medium support the use of a single operator that allows a comparison of two variables to determine if the two variables point to the same location in memory.

And are they ever going for broke ...

Thus, the present invention may be implemented in an environment of networked hosted services in which very little or minimal client resources are implicated, e.g., a networked environment in which the client device serves merely as a browser or interface to the World Wide Web.

So who is going to be the first to apply for a patent the 1 + 1 = 2 ?
via Slashdot

Posted by the denizen @ 11/23/2004 10:13:00 pm {0 comments }

... and they survived!

Check out this BBC report that Digital Camera Shopper magazine subjected compact flash and other digital camera memory cards to being boiled, trampled, washed and dunked in coffee or cola.
It seems however that using a sledgehammer or nailing them to a tree is bad Kama.

Posted by the denizen @ 11/23/2004 10:05:00 pm {0 comments }

Mozilla Menagerie

Download Firefox 1.0 and upgrade
Download Thunderbird 0.9 and install (bye bye ximian)
Do I want to add Sunbird to the menagerie?
I think 18 Mb is enough for one night, time for bed.

Posted by the denizen @ 11/12/2004 01:10:00 am {0 comments }

Trendy Geek Phone

This looks like a real spiffy phone, with a real nice shape!

Wildseed has shipped the Identity cellphone, manfuactured by Curitel. It runs a Linux 2.4.19 kernel, has serial and USB 1.1 connectors, and includes busybox--although there's no way of getting to a terminal prompt, yet. The phone doesn't show its Linux roots; it's actually designed for teens. It has unusual features like Airtext and SmartSkins, which look like a cross between a faceplate, a Nintendo cartridge, and a Winamp skin."

But, maybe I'm just showing my age, but how the hell can you listen to the radio AND make phone calls at the same time??!!
via slashdot

Posted by the denizen @ 11/11/2004 02:10:00 pm {0 comments }

Blog History

Woohoo! And you thought that blogging was a recent phenomenon.
Now blogging has got a history that goes soooo faaaar back!
via Beautiful Monsters

Posted by the denizen @ 11/08/2004 11:56:00 pm {0 comments }

The Felling of the Peterborough Mast

An early Guy Fawkes victim in England knocking out a mess of technology.
this site has then story.
A collection of better photos is doing the e-mail rounds, but there don't seem to be any on-line (yet).

Posted by the denizen @ 11/05/2004 01:40:00 pm {0 comments }

Anti-spam Laws

Aardvark has hit the nail on the head again ...

Spammers who use faked header information are engaging in fraud and should be charged with such.
When a spam that pitches some product or service purports to be from xyz.com but actually comes from abc.com then the sender is guilty of fraud. In effect they are using a fraudulent document (an email) to obtain pecuniary gain and I believe that's already a crime with significant penalties available.
The problem is that authorities just aren't interested in pursuing such fraud. Why then, should we think that they'd be any more interested in prosecuting spammers -- even if we do have spam-specific laws?

Posted by the denizen @ 11/05/2004 01:00:00 pm {0 comments }

Is this No.2 in a Series?

So a while back we did shoelace tying ...
now how about ... shirt folding
Well, maybe it's only tee-shirts, but we have all gotta start somewhere.

Using a simple method, anyone can pinch and flip a tee into a perfect rectangle in less than three seconds (see below). I quickly became obsessed, showing off my new skill at parties.

Fold like the wind ...

Posted by the denizen @ 11/04/2004 08:57:00 pm {0 comments }

A Time-Lapse Lunar Eclipse

This NASA photo is really worth a look.
It uses the earth's rotation to get the effect ... dramatic!
(I like astronomical photos)

Posted by the denizen @ 11/04/2004 08:08:00 pm {0 comments }

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... But then again; I only link to sites 'cos I see something there that's worth linking to.