Project Shed

Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by James.
Categories: General.

Many many moons ago, there was a nice clean tidy house. It’s rooms were spacious and full of potential. You could swing a cat.. and the acoustics were wonderful.

Then we moved in and slowly accumulated “stuff”.. “things”.. and “bits’n'bobs”. They piled up.. evolved.. and formed gangs, which attacked us on the way to the fridge. We fought back with charity shop donations and car boot sales, but the onslaught eventually overpowered us.

So, in capitulation to their demands, we thus embark on “Project Shed”. A shiny new home for our devious captors.

Day 1

Crap Shed Crap shed roof

The old shed. Dirty, leaky, unsafe for human habitation. Project shed stage #1: DESTROY! (more…)

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I’m engaged!

Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by James.
Categories: General.

On March 23rd at about 10pm UK time I asked Rachel to marry me and she said yes! :-)

Kisses in the snow at the Atomium The Ring

I proposed in front of the Atomium in Brussels. I think I picked a pretty romantic spot :-) It was snowing softly and the lighting was very pretty.

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Robots from the future are cleaning my house

Posted on September 26th, 2007 by James.
Categories: Shiny Things.

It’s official, we’re living in the future. I now own a robot which vacuums my house!

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QR DataMatrix codes

Posted on August 23rd, 2007 by James.
Categories: Code.

A couple of days ago I got a sexy new phone; the E65. I made the choice to get it over the N95, because everyone I know with an N95 complains that it’s a brick and the battery is crap. I’m very very happy with my E65, but one of the guys in the office was showing off his N95 and he had an app mine didn’t; the “barcode reader”.

After much investigation from us both, we discovered that is doesn’t read barcodes, but datamatrix and QR codes. In retaliation, I downloaded a reader for my E65 called i-nigma, which works a shit load faster and more reliably than the N95 one! ;-)

So obviously after all that, I had to go and make my own QR code ;-) (more…)

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Bliggidy Black

Posted on June 28th, 2007 by James.
Categories: General, Shiny Things.

My new computer is finally complete and resplendent in bliggidy black y’all! (more…)

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