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  • accelerometers: can they be used to work out what your doing?

    So more & more devices are coming with accelerometers, can they be used to work out if I’m sitting, walking, driving, dancing (as if) etc? is there an API or SW toolkit to do this? Should I write one and become a millionaire? [or just be lazy/evil & patent it :-)] This though is brought to you by: The Reg

  • Mobile Monday comes to Belfast

    I’m one of the speakers at the first Mobile Monday event in Belfast, I’m still working on my slides, I have a “tech” talk and a “business” talk, I may have to toss a coin to make the decision.

  • Exchange to ICS

    I found thispost Ryan Hadley a few days ago, which I got working with a little bit of time, I noticed that Thunderbird was displaying all-days events oddly, so I checked the VEVENT info being generated & tweaked to work correctly with Thunderbird/Lightening. I also dropped in the URL of the event in OWA & fixed it for situations where there are public & private names for the OWA/Exchange instance, handy when you want to go and amend an entry etc.

  • There are two great silences…

    I saw this line in the Irish Times on Friday, it amused me greatly 🙂 “There are two great silences in life. One is the silence in a church before a funeral. The other is the silence in a pub, when the guards are outside.” –Packie Duignan

  • Why would you do that?

    I indulged myself recently and obtained a new MacBook, which I’ve spent the last few days loading up with the usual suspects (Firefox) as well as getting acquainted with some new tools (Mail.app). I use Foxmarks to keep my bookmarks in order, with a neat toolbar of my regular sites, I noticed that in FF on OSX, all my toolbar favicon images were missing (several of my bookmarks on the Personal Toolbar have no text, so just the Icon shows up on my other machines (XP & Ubuntu/Linux))

  • Old Friends

    I bumped into a guy I went to school with yesterday on the Belfast/Gatwick flight, Keith � his wife Kristyn are home from Ohio for Christmas. Talk about a blast from the past 🙂 http://gettymusic.com/

  • Writing, Briefly

    My job seems to have morphed into writing a lot and not doing a lot1, while distracting myself from something I should have been doing, I stumbled on this: Writing, Briefly, from Paul Graham. A good read. Although I’d break stuff up more than he does/has in that article 🙂

  • Bright Ideas II: Photo Tagging

    I use a mix of photo gallery software, I use Flickrfor some things, notable stuff that’s public for other people to use, I also use Fuzzy Monkey‘s My Photo Gallery, which is simple, but has some neat features (like auto thumbnail generation, keeps photos and thumbnails seperate, allowing me to use Unison/rsync to keep my online photos in sync with an offline copy, simple passwording etc). But I’m beginning to dig tagging, so I hoked about for some web gallery software that does this, and there seems to be a real shortage, I found Originaland a modificationof it that supports tagging, but it mix of php � python, and I couldn’t get my head round all of the Python.

  • Computer Voodoo!

    Somebody else has similar powers to me: Problem: Friend/Collegue/Family member with broken PC Remedy: Walk into the room! http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194486&cid=15938145