Over the weekend I found time to rebuild the rest of my missing planets. I’ve resurrected Planet Balham (Atom), Planet Westminster (Atom) and Planet Doctor Who (Atom). They all have Atom feeds available as well. This has been an interesting test of Perlanet (my simple planet-building program). When building planet davorg, I was only using… Continue reading More Planets
Author: Dave Cross
Rebuilding Planets
A few months ago I moved this site to another server. At that point all of the “planets” that I was hosting on theplanetarium.org stopped working too because the software that I was using to build them wasn’t installed on the new server. And installing it was going to be a bit of a nightmare.… Continue reading Rebuilding Planets
links for 2008-03-10
Jack the Ripper Walk – a photoset on Flickr Photos from an unofficial Jack the Ripper walk. I’m considering orgnaising something like this myself later this year. (tags: london walking jacktheripper flickr photos) GooSync Home Page Synchronise your phone calendar with Google calendar. Why didn’t I know about this? (tags: google calendar sync mobile phone)… Continue reading links for 2008-03-10
links for 2008-03-08
MathMiracle.com – Witness a Miracle Conclusive proof (apparently) that god exists. It’s all nonsense of course. (tags: religion idiocy numerology)
H2G2 Anniversary
Tomorrow is the thirtieth anniversary of the first broadcast of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This makes me feel more than a little old. I didn’t listen to the first episode but, having heard about it from friends at school, I started listening from episode two. The BBC web site has decided to commemorate… Continue reading H2G2 Anniversary
links for 2008-03-07
chaff:: feeding the daemons Paul talks about an issue that I’ve been thinking about recently. When you are generating multiple RSS feeds, how do you deal with the overlap between feeds? Or users who only want to see particular types of post? (tags: husk, blech, rss) One Year to Midnight (Watchmen) Pictures of the Comedian,… Continue reading links for 2008-03-07
Rip It Up And Start Again
Yesterday I mentioned that I had recently read Rip It Up And Start Again by Simon Reynolds. It was a really interesting read, but (at least in part) not for the reasons I expected. It was interesting because it was full of bands that I had never listened to and had always meant to. This… Continue reading Rip It Up And Start Again
Surveillance
The Metropolitan Police have started a new counter-terrorism campaign which encourages people to report any suspicious activity that they see. Suspicious activity like owning too many mobile phones and taking photographs. I’m particularly puzzled by the poster about photography. It asks you to report people taking photos of CCTV cameras. Surely if you have a… Continue reading Surveillance
Books I Read in February 2008
Fewer books this month. It’s a shorter month, of course, but really I got a bit bogged down in a couple of books. I’m still reading David Mitchell’s number9dream, but I’ll finish it in a couple of days so it will be included in next month’s list. Oh, and I read a few X-Men comic… Continue reading Books I Read in February 2008
links for 2008-03-03
Londonist: Monday Miscellanea The Londonist use one of my photos to illustrate their “Monday Miscellanea” article. I wish it wasn’t quite so blurry. (tags: londonist barbican usingmyphotos) Livery Companies – Grocer’s Hall, London on Squidoo Lots of my photos of Livery Company Halls being used here. (tags: liverycompanies squidoo usingmyphotos)