Radio Pop - social radio listening from BBC Radio Labs
September 3rd, 2008 / No Comments » / by srboisvert
Radio Pop - social radio listening from BBC Radio Labs.
BBC Radio goes all social Last.fm ish with a prototype site.
Unicode Fonts
September 3rd, 2008 / No Comments » / by srboisvert
Flickr Photo Download: Unicode Fonts.
What are these box fonts called? Anybody know?
Sugarhill Gang playing at Gigbeth?
September 2nd, 2008 / No Comments » / by srboisvert
YouTube - Raper’s delight (Sugarhill Gang).
These guys were one of the first 45s I ever bought. Up jump the boogie. Not sure I want to see a bunch of 50 year old rappers though. Gigbeth 2008, Hopefully they won’t withhold schedule details in order to sell programs the way the Moseley folk festival did. [via BINS]
Moseley Folk Festival Show Times
August 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by srboisvert
Moseley Folk Festival Show Times on Flickr - Photo Sharing!.
YouTube - Lost Coastlines- A.C. Newman and Will Sheff
August 29th, 2008 / No Comments » / by srboisvert
BBC - Press Office - BBC to offer “series stacking”
August 27th, 2008 / No Comments » / by srboisvert
The BBC is to offer viewers the chance to catch up on every episode of some of their favourite series as “series stacking” is introduced to BBC iPlayer and programme sites from 13 September 2008.
Viewers will be able to enjoy any episode, after it has first been broadcast, for the duration of the entire series.
Nice. Now all they have to is let everyone download DRM free files instead of just iPhonies.
Computer virus infects International Space Station laptops - Telegraph
August 27th, 2008 / No Comments » / by srboisvert
A malicious computer virus that steals passwords has been brought on board the International Space Station, Nasa has confirmed.
Computer virus infects International Space Station laptops - Telegraph.
Not to worry though. It turns out they are on Dial-up!
Computers on the ISS are not directly connected to the internet, although they have access to a satellite data link which allows then to send and receive emails, information and videos.
Ai haz a new favourite curreh. nom nom nom.
August 21st, 2008 / No Comments » / by srboisvert
Chicken Adhruk - hot £8.00
Diced chicken breast, sauteed fresh ginger, crushed peppers, garlic tomatoes, fresh herbs in hotish sauce
kababish.co.uk - Moseley Table menu.
[However, this was combined with a Gulden Draak, a Hoegaarden Grand Cru and complimentary pint of Cobra for a takeaway order screw up. You may want to await, or perhaps, in the interest of science, fund, a more sober assessment.]
missing sourcefile (no such file to load)– squlite3 error - Ruby Forum
August 21st, 2008 / No Comments » / by srboisvert
missing sourcefile (no such file to load)– squlite3 error - Ruby Forum.
I had the same problem. Over and over I updated my gems, reran my script and googled all to no avail. Every time I ran my script I got this error message:
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to load — sqlite (MissingSourceFile)
My environment:
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]
gems: 0.9.4
sqlite 3.6.1
Was it one of those oh so common windows problems with ruby or gems? Nope. Although that is usually my first guess these days. The problem was simple. I was going from this DZone snippet which is based on SQLite3 but doesn’t explicitly have a line with “require sqlite3″. I assumed that the code was fine but it turns out that SQLite3 needed to be required. Don’t we all. In my trial and tribulations I also tried this code, which probably predates sqlite3 but doesn’t explicitly reqire sqlite either. I am not sure why these aren’t in the code examples - maybe different environments include them by default? [There is no mention of this in Pro Active Record
Adding:
require 'sqlite3'
did the trick.
Allan Shepherd on his gentle battle to deflect the slugs | Life and style | The Guardian
August 20th, 2008 / No Comments » / by srboisvert
Allan Shepherd on his gentle battle to deflect the slugs | Life and style | The Guardian.
Slugduggery: using one’s guile against garden molluscs. I’ve been wondering what to call the underhand, unscrupulous but necessary pursuit of gastropods. Now I know.
After reading this Saturday’s story in the Guardian Magazine I’ve decided to stop wasting perfectly good beer (or in the case of Beck’s - perfectly adequate beer) on drowning the slimy gastropod molluscs in my yard. Instead I am engaging in a less serious slug war crime: forcible relocation to the compost bins where I will take advantage of their slave labour.
