“This paper lays out a unified framework of the ergodic animage, the rule-based and interaction driven part of visual representation in video games” I do sometimes wonder if other people browse the web in the same way that I do. I was followi...

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Building a modern website which also performs well is hard. The amount of JavaScript and CSS we add to our pages is going up, but we still need to keep them loading quickly. Tools like Grunt and Gulp help us manage thes...

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Apparently there is a thing called ownCloud which lets you run, amongst other things, a calendar server and a contact directory, both of which will sync with your android phone and here is a writeup of doing just that. I’ve not tried it yet, but any option to prise the dat...

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Whilst I’m thinking about all these different topics that I’m interested in, can anyone help? I’m in the market for a new desktop note-taking tool. It must start up in <3 seconds and save each note as a standalone text file, using some form of text-based notation (like wiki, textile or markdown). If that didn’t eliminate en...

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So, everyone's favourite web company, 37signals , have started to publish their customer happiness rates at smiley.37signals.com. People can rate them as "great", "OK" or "not so good". At the time of writing, they have an 87% "great" rating, 5% "OK" and 8% "not so good".

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A few weeks ago I got the chance to be the first to make use of our innovation time. After watching a demo on hacks.mozilla.org I wanted to experiment with HTML5 and Firefox's new support for drag and drop of files from your d...

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So what an exciting first few weeks back we’ve had! We started off nice and easy, picking up all the support requests that had been filed over the Christmas break and, after a suggestion from Kelvin last year, put together a demo of an augmented reality map of the University campus using Layar (which I will post more about later). We also started pr...

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A couple of days ago I got asked on my personal blog if it was possible to get the Univeristy terms dates into Google Calendar. The answer is a wholehearted "yes!" and this is how: Step 1 Go to http://www.bath.ac.uk/semester/ and look underneath the Key on the right hand side and choose which calendar you...

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38cm Black and Decker rotary lawnmower a rake a pair of shears gardening gloves two trowels two pairs of secateurs a set of 51 tools (mostly different screw and drill bits) a stepladder a large gardening fork a bow saw geraniums, busy lizzies, tomato plants, chilli plants, sweet peas, currant bushes

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Gwibber is a native desktop Twitter client for Ubuntu. It will post updates to and receive updates from Twitter as well as a host of...

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