BBC to arm journalists with mobile video phones

Interesting stuff. I wonder if they’ll be using off-the-shelf phones that you and I could get our hands on? I also wonder how they’re planning to send their videos through to the studio – you’d think that if they don’t have access to their video camera, they’re not going to have access to their satellite. 🙂

On a more sinister note, I wonder if this will become the de facto covert reporting tool for a little while, at least until the junta being investigated discovers it of course…

wireframe (via CSSVault via Whitespace) is an exceptionally good list of CSS demonstrations, many of which really blew me away (Beehemoth in particular). They demonstrate what the power and flexibility of CSS – there’s no way you could replicate these kinds of layout using tables and retain the usability of the underlying HTML.
These are definitely worth looking at for anyone even vaguely interested in CSS-based design and layout.

On a quite, quite different note, Mazda have decided to branch out into making giant robots

Sadly my new job has been too busy so far for me slip back into the blogging vibe, but may as well try and kick myself into gear….

After I was looking for one on Tuesday, yesterday I saw this: Sketsa is a vector drawing application based on SVG. via Erik

How to write in plain English

Seemingly free Email->SMS service from O2 via Jeremy Rayner

Connect .NET to J2EE apps with Janeva

UML Quick Reference card via Cheah Chu Yeow

Shatner to release new album via kottke.org

A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design via Cheah Chu Yeow

Stop using motherfucking href=”javascript:” pseudo-links, or Links & JavaScript Living Together in Harmony also features a nice dissing of Flash-driven sites in the comments.

Following up from my previous “Why I gave up on J2ME development” article, Russ has written an article about lack of MIDP Quality Control in which we learn nothing much has changed.

MaxDesign presentations and articles web design and graphic design. Nice walkthroughs and tutorials here. Includes the now-famous Building a site with web standards.

Britain’s Top 50 sitcoms (unordered).

I’ve not read the whole list, but the fact that both ‘Dinnerladies’ and ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’ are in this list, as well as the pretty poor ‘Thin Blue Line’ films me with horror.

Holy crap! I’m not dead! Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas, and a Happy New Year (and other capitalisations).

Mid-December, I successfully trashed the server that hosts all of the resources this site uses (rss, images etc.). Finally back up now.

Then it was my holiday, then I changed job. Goodbye lameass ibase and hello new lord and master Zoo.

Yesterday Leigh wrote a bit about lazy photo annotation, and mentioned my RDF skin for JAlbum.

Leigh’s entry reminded me that my skin is still quite lacking in a few areas, some of which he and I spoke about via email at the time and others of which I have still to resolve. Since then though, the skin now publishes:

  • an image index with links to each image
  • an RDF index with links to the describing RDF file for each image
  • each image separately
  • each RDF image annotation file separately containing image details such as dimensions, comment, creation time/date and co-depiction

I don’t describe location, nor keywords like Bryce does in his MT photo annotation template mainly because a) I’m not happy with the current means of location description and b) I’m lazy and wordnet is just too much effort.

It’s my birthday at the weekend, so I shan’t get time to finish my photo annotations then, but as soon as I can, I will, and publish with all the new data. It’s a shame I didn’t bump into anyone FOAFy in Bristol, it would have been nice to be linked in to the co-depiction club. 🙂

I’ve come home to Bristol for Christmas (wonder if I’ll see any of the ILRT folks like Libby Miller or Dan Brickley doing their Christmas shopping?), and what do I find? I find that not only has my Mum bought a new computer (a 2.2GHz Dell with half a gig of RAM!), but that it connects to the Internet via the 802.11g wifi router sitting in my bedroom! Bloody hell, I wish my house was like this! Talk about way to make a boy feel jealous!