Rabidgremlin's Soapbox

Last week I released by first Android application on the Android Market.

Just in the process of moving hosting providers so I expect things to get a little bumpy….

Ok let me start off by saying “I love this application”.

_[Update]: I have created contactprotocol.org which now holds the draft specifications._ About ten years ago I had a couple of interesting ideas but due to sheer laziness on my part I never did anything with them.

The nice people at Balsamiq have given me a copy of their Mockups tool to review (thanks Valerie).

Very very funny (if you are a developer)

A couple of months ago, I watched Tim Berners-Lee’s TED talk on Linked Data in which he lays out his vision and explains why Linked Data will be the next major use of the web.

My Google Alerts just turned up this very nice article about mPass on the NZ herald site.

Just trying out the free wordpress iPhone app.

You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting as much as I normally do, part of the reason is my new job, the other reason is Twitter.

Finally put up my new template.

Looks like section 92a is going to get scrapped or at least get a rework.

I just sat down and watched the kutiman thru-you youtube mashups.

Google has just updated its advertising system to do “behavioral targeting”, in essence they track you as you move around the web and display ads that are targeted towards you based on what the perceive are your interests.

Apparently a smallish asteroid just had a near miss with Earth. 2009 DD45 passed by at 63000km which is well inside the Moons orbit.

mPass for the iPhone is now available.

I stumbled across a flash game called Auditorium last night.

Looks like Section92 may be delayed !!!

Cartoons by Rod Emmerson, Mike Moreu and Dylan Horrock on Section 92a it's insane pirating the justice system the Internet is evil Actually I suspect I just broke some copyright laws by posting these images here ;)

Interesting (but brief) video of Labour and National on section 92a during a Q&A session.

In the parliament debate, National’s Christopher Finlayson explains their reasoning for reinstating Section 92A: Christopher Finlayson: … The Minister [Judith Tizard] knows, and I certainly know, that we have all had approaches from various commercial ent…

Oh so much prettier then the G1 and has a virtual keyboard to boot.

I’m about to try transfer my domain between registrars (again).

As I type this, there are 19 days left until section 92 of the copyright law comes into effect.

I love the web and its ability to feed my brain (whilst sucking up my free time).

So one of my colleagues (thanks Matthew) just sent me this link which is so geeky I just had to blog about it.

Just received an update email from sourceforge which contained the list of the top 25 projects hosted with them for January 09.

A thought provoking video of a TED talk by Larry Lessig during which, he discusses how modern culture and law are clashing and how nonsensical laws are killing creativity.

Over the last 15 odd years I have been involved with dozens of IT projects of all shapes, sizes.

The ORCA EITS (Eye in the sea) has been deployed at 880m.

Wow some pretty amazing footage here.

Apparently doing two Google searches produces half the amount of CO2 that boiling a kettle does !

Just came across this animated movie due for release end of next year.

This is a bit of a WTF.

A very nice video explaining the origins of the Internet.

The Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 is not a bad bit of legislation EXCEPT for section 92 which allows a copyright holder to ask your ISP to terminate your Internet access if you infringe on their copyright.

On Friday, whilst at my parent-in-laws, we chased a large bug out the lounge.

Crashed Ice is a combination of downhill skiing, hockey, boardercross with a little bit of “roller ball” thrown in, awesome.

Ok I knew this wasn’t going to be good but oh boy was it bad.

This was much better then I anticipated.

A straight forward read with well defined characters.

This is third book in the Inheritance Cycle which started with Eragon.

I came across this t-shirt site a few months ago called Threadless, not only do they have some very cool T-shirt designs but they are all user created.

This animation was put together by a couple of the guys in my team here at Air New Zealand.

I started building my first Firefox extension last night and as a result I had to dig into XUL (pronounced zool, al la Ghostbusters).

So I wanted to take some close up photos of some Lego blocks (don’t ask) and I wanted them to be on a clean white background like you see in swanky product shots.

So I’d thought I’d give Google’s Friend Connect a whirl.

When people used to ask me what I did, I used to say “_I’m a solutions architect specialising in eCommerce and distributed systems_”, this invariably earned blank looks (and killed many a conversation with a potential date).

Oh the cuteness.

Fantastic chart showing what the last 12 US presidents did in their first 100 days in office: