Monthly Archives: July 2004

Cre­ativeBits has an inter­est­ing lit­tle piece on image manip­u­la­tion from the ter­mi­nal using sips. Pretty cool stuff (at least for lighter-than-light hack­ers like myself), but what really hit the spot was the claim that you could use this exact tech­nique to pull: Now, that I told you about this com­mand, you tell me what can you use it for, besides get­ting chicks of course? Con­tinue read­ing →

Sit­ting at the local cafe, doing my morn­ing rou­tine, pour­ing cof­fee into my sys­tem, catch­ing up on mail and news. Two brew­ery deliv­ery guys have just fin­ished load­ing what­ever these guys load — now they’re both enjoy­ing a pint of lager. Con­tinue read­ing →

From the excel­lent Lon­don Under­ground Tube Diary, an excel­lent weblog about the under­ground trans­port in the city you gotta love: down­load shaolin film All you can do is to hope it’s either fake or not permanent.

What d’ya know, Kerry is work­ing from a Power­book. Con­tinue read­ing →

What­ever the rev­enue model, I’m glad that peo­ple are start­ing to real­ize that with weblogs and other forms of web based writ­ing, even though much have changed, the good writ­ers offer­ing rel­e­vant and inter­est­ing mate­r­ial will always come out on top.… Peo­ple with love to the medium and a non-profit approach will always exist and as long as they feel they learn some­thing, can get their fund­ing from some­where else or just feel like mak­ing a dif­fer­ence, good, free stuff will be out there. Con­tinue read­ing →

Yet another rea­son to love Ham­mer­smith: The OYBike Sys­tem is a street-based rental sta­tion net­work that allows you to hire and return a bicy­cle 24/7 via your mobile phone. The OYBike sys­tem is based on the avail­abil­ity of rental bicy­cles at key loca­tions. Con­tinue read­ing →

I like the fact that even on days with shit­loads of work, I’m still able to go out, fak­ing hav­ing a life.… But that also means that I carry around basi­cally all my work with me — and I don’t really like the idea of hav­ing it stolen while I’m at the lit­tle boys room or order­ing more espres­sos. Con­tinue read­ing →

After­noon snap­shot: While tak­ing a walk at the har­bour, a Ger­man guy with a huge tray of straw­ber­ries is lean­ing over the side of his ship shout­ing “Gen­mod­i­fizierter Erd­beeren?!” at passer­bys… Con­tinue read­ing →