• russell davies: interesting timelapse - A great summary of the day from the stage's point of view.
• Wii nunchuck data logger | Windmeadow Labs - Arduino based data logger for the Wii Nunchuck. Can store 21,000 readings from the Nunchuck.
• Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - "a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text." [via:rooreynolds]
• She Went Of Her Own Accord - My wife went to the Caribbean. Jamaica? No, she went of her own accord. Dot com. A weeks worth of hacking by Roo and myself.
• cityofsound: The Personal Well-Tempered Environment - "Essentially, the idea is for a system that makes previously invisible aspects of people's behaviour visible, in order to help change individual and collective behaviour."

• Official Google Reader Blog: Brand new Google Reader for iPhone - Look forward to trying this on the N800 which does struggle with the standard reader interface.
• MAKE: Blog: Arduino wifi shield - The first wifi shield I've seen. But at $295, not something I'm going to rush out to get.
• CrunchBang ~ GIMP Lomo Filter - Nice lomo effect filter for GIMP
• Open Tech 2008 - 5th July in London. - "Open Tech 2008 is an informal, low cost one-day conference on technology, society and low-carbon living, featuring Open Source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at."
• Ethernet Shield V1.0 for Arduino Arduino Etherenet Shield with ENC28J60 SPI [] - £12.99 : nuelectronics.com, new idea, new project, new electronics - Another ethernet shield for an Arduino. Cheaper than the XPort based one, but not as powerful out of the box. Am currently working on an improved TCP stack for it.

• MAKE: Blog: Open GPS tracker - A low cost, simple, GPS tracker
• pachube :: connecting environments, patching the planet - - "a service that enables people to tag and share real time environmental data from objects, devices and spaces around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual."
• xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe - "I've taught it obstacle avoidance and blogging."
• Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org - Fascinating background on the game that wasn't to be. The comments are worth reading, as my of the parties involved have commented - not all happy about the article.
• Home Easy - SAVE your money, by reducing ‘Standby’ power and wasted electricity. - The range of home automation products that B&Q sells.
• Ethernet shield for Arduino - Ethernet enabling an arduino - including running a webserver on the board. Interesting possibilities for tweetjects. Update: odd that I bookmarked this one, and not the one I actually bought.
• BBC NEWS | Magazine | World’s best-known protest symbol turns 50 - Interesting history to the CND logo. Never knew it was based on the semaphore for N and D.
• We Tell Stories - ‘The 21 Steps’, by Charles Cumming -

As the server hosting this blog is soon to disappear, I have been migrating the site to a new host. With any luck, the fact you are reading this post means the DNS updates have happened and the new host is live.

For those visiting the site rather than subscribed to the feed, you’ll notice a return to the default theme around here. The knolleary theme was hand-crafted for an old version of Wordpress and with the move of host I’ve taken the opportunity to upgrade to the newly released Wordpress 2.5 as well. I will update the theme sometime soon.

[update] after a slighty bumpy day of email back-and-forth with my new hosting company, I think we’re up and running. Still a few broken links; my uploads directory seems to have moved so a handful of posts are missing images, and I haven’t got my planet installed and running on the new server.

Also, just discover a problem with writing posts with links in them; Roo hit this with his blog and is something to do with a mod_security setting. Here we go with some more email tennis wih support…

[update2] it should now let me post html.

• The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks - “Great” stuff.
• Nifty Corners Cube - freedom to round - Javascript library for adding rounded corners to elements on a page. Some very Nifty examples.
• BBC - Radio Labs - Now Playing in the Cloud - Using XMPP to be notified of what is being played on BBC radio stations. It will be interesting to see what else is done with this. XMPP is being used to glue more and more parts of the internet together these days.
• FreakAngels - “FREAKANGELS is a free, weekly, ongoing comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield.”
• Five Chinese Crackers: Misquoting the Archbishop - 5CC does a great job of pointing out the flagrant misreporting in the tabloid press. The incorrect reporting of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech from last week is a great example. For all those calling for him to resign, I wonder how many have actual

• Amazon MP3 store to go global - Boing Boing - Confirmation that Amazon’s MP3 store will be rolling out this side of the pond.
• Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture - I can’t think of enough words to describe this. Powerful and moving don’t begin to cover it.
• Tetrical - 3D Tetris Stacking Game Developed by Digital Machina - 3D tetris - what more can I say?
• Evan Davis: How interest rates work - Evan does a good job of explaining the economics of interest rates. It’s simple stuff, but I always struggle to make it stick in my head.
• Scripted Web Frameworks, and why Django Got it Right - “The problem I started to run into fairly early on was I didn’t know the ‘Ruby on Rails’ way to do it, but knew perfectly well how I might have done it in a chitzy CGI.” Interesting piece on why Django was a better fit for one person. I am inclined to ag

• Gaming the Creative Commons for Profit - Fascinating explanation of how a CC license is the perfect tool for someone wanting to make money suing over copyright infringement. As a non-professional, not-out-to-scam, hobbyist photographer, I’m happy to stick with CC.
• Amazon S3 plugin for WordPress : tan tan noodles - msg free since 2005 - A plugin that seamlessly integrates S3 into Wordpress. WIll be interesting to see if this works over the xml-rpc upload mechanism as well.
• Black Bird | Progetti » WordPress Library - A python library for accessing Wordpress installations over XML-RPC.
• http://www.cartoonlabs.com/comics/index.php?date=2008-01-01&show=sinfest - The true meaning of the New Year.
• Dave Gorman: Problem Solving. - Dave proposes a solution to the “a month isn’t exactly 4 weeks” problem. I for one look forward to Gormanuary and Intermission ‘08.

• tinker store - UK source of arduino boards.
• 3D LED Charlieplex Cube from Chrismas Tree Lights - The World’s Biggest Show & Tell - tech, diy - Another LED cube project; this uses charlieplexing to provide control over the LEDs.
• DVD playback now standard for Dell Ubuntu customers - Mark shares the news that the pre-installed Ubuntu image comes with DVD playback as standard. No word on the app used, but it is a good start.
• Howto : Scratchbox + Maemo 4.0 + Ubuntu Gutsy = Nokia N800 Dev Environment - Howto setup the Nokia N800 Dev environment using: Scratchbox + Maemo 4.0 + Ubuntu Gutsy Nokia N800 Dev Environment. Now the N800 is £129.99 on play.com, this may soon be something I’ll want to play with.
• GETSful - Joe provides the term for sites that aim for RESTful, but miss.

Note to self: now these are being auto-blogged, make more of an effort to add useful descriptions!