Archive: 2010-07
DD18
What is the Dunwich Dynamo?
Flash: the new RealPlayer
Flash is just another legacy media player following the slow decline towards irrelevance.
Fish curry
This fish curry doesn’t belong to any particular regional cuisine. It’s just what I threw together tonight, and it came out rather well.
An accessible timetable for Thames Clippers
I’ve been playing around with ways to obtain schedule information for the Thames Clippers service. As a side-effect, I’ve made a more accessible HTML version of their PDF timetable.
How to paint over a rotten badger carcass (BBC News tabloid outrage edition)
Executive summary: some road painters paint lines on the road as contracted.
SimpleScrobbler
This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. —— Douglas McIlroy
Making Korean pickles
Korean pickled food is amazing stuff. It’s a technique that can take something as boring as cabbage and turn it into a piquant, invigorating delicacy. And it’s easy to make at home.
Turning JSONP callbacks into a Ruby API with Johnson
It’s fairly simple to extract the data from a JSONP callback in a reliable, repeatable way once you know how. Here’s how.