rob in ascii (funny)
This is my friend Rob 'Bobban' Jones in ASCII art format. I used jave to convert a jpeg photo. Best viewed by printing it out and standing a couple of yards away...
2007-02-08 15:27:20 [Link: 53] [Tweet it: 53] [Digg it: 53]
Windows/nix file opening (handy)
smbopengtk.pl is a little utility written in perl/gtk that allows you to open windows or unix style filepaths and switch between the two. It'll be a bit of a lifesaver at work, where I've just started using a Debian GNU/Linux box in a primarily windows environment.
First posted on Perl Monks. I've put up a screenshot of the interface.
2006-12-30 22:18:18 [Link: 68] [Tweet it: 68] [Digg it: 68]
resist.pl - political perl poetry (politics)
I submitted this perl poem (late blush) to Corporatewatch's 10 year anniversery poetry compilation, Poems in the face of corporate power.
They were after "writing from anyone in any creative form", so I thought "why not perl?!".
If you like it why not give them some money/support they are a brill bunch of folks doing an amazing job on a shoestring.
2006-11-30 22:10:21 [Link: 67] [Tweet it: 67] [Digg it: 67]
Third World First website (culture)
My flatmate Graham is working on a new Third World First website . Third World First was the progenitor of People & Planet, for whom I work, and for whom Graham used to.
Keep watching the site - there isn't much there yet, but I've seen the previews and it's going to be cool!
Nb. copyright on the site is G's, not mine.
2006-07-06 15:30:44 [Link: 66] [Tweet it: 66] [Digg it: 66]
Spinal Text Firefox Extension (funny)
I wanted to learn how to write a
firefox extension.
This is it!
Spinal Text - an extension to turn
your text up to ELEVEN!
2006-04-18 10:18:01 [Link: 65] [Tweet it: 65] [Digg it: 65]
Solidarity with Berkley Students (rants)
Mean spirited US University Berkley has had eighteen of its own students arrested for protesting about the exploitation of workers involved in producing University apparrel. Needless to say I thought this required a rant! If you fancy one too how about using unionvoice.org to make the point?
2006-04-12 10:11:53 [Link: 64] [Tweet it: 64] [Digg it: 64]
New People & Planet web site (culture)
Its been busy web-wise at P&P in the last few months. My Ruby on Rails rewrite of the organizational intranet launched in January. And now Rich's new version of peopleandplanet.org, which went live on Friday 2006-04-07 at 19:48.
It was 'fun' upgrading to mysql5 on our webserver and messing with various rewrite rules to prevent any downtime. The new site has a CMS and is really quite amazingly pretty as well as being valid xhtml.
2006-04-10 15:52:38 [Link: 63] [Tweet it: 63] [Digg it: 63]
Space Invaders (funny)
Following on from Pong, I had a crack at the arcade classic Space Invaders. This is a work in progress, so it may be volatile.
You can download the source, classes and resources(tar.bzip2) under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. You can also browse the source(java source).
2006-03-27 15:06:35 [Link: 62] [Tweet it: 62] [Digg it: 62]