Archive: 2006-12
Worst. YouTube Rip. Ever.
Fixing ffmpeg on Ubuntu Edgy
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) users might be interested in a newer version.
Shop and search
Here’s a modern dilemma: should I suffer a random shop employee to stop and search me, just because a beeping sensor has erroneously accused me of theft?
Ming/Ruby on OS X
Google’s new AJAX API cracked
Following on from my last post, I just had a quick look at the data being transferred by Google’s AJAX search API. It’s really simple:
Google helps you crack its new API
After hearing from colleagues that Google is discontinuing its SOAP API in favour of an AJAX version, I decided to find out more; I ended up at the Google AJAX Search API page.
Spectral networking?
Something about this news report amused me:
Five meeeleeeon dollars!
I’m glad that I can finally shout about it: we’ve (Reevoo) received $5m in funding. (That’s £2.5m, but it sounds even better in US dollars!)
I hate TV Licensing
Under construction for Web 2.0
I was inspired by the story about Gap Inc. taking their websites offline for a month at a cost of $0.5m/day to renovate them (badly) in what they fondly imagine is a ‘Web 2.0’ manner.
Misery in the bagging area
I woke up early this morning. Strange but true. Since I had a couple of grocery-type items to buy, and there’s not much else to do at eight o’clock on a Saturday morning, I cycled to Tesco to get them. I anticipated, correctly, that it would be quiet: few people drag themselves out of bed at that time on a weekend. To be honest, I usually have immense difficulty in even waking up that early.
Rerouting Rails Part III
It’s genetic, innit?
Here’s a slightly belated story for World AIDS Day.
