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Photo by John Leonard. Warning: post contains serious navel gazing. Lying around in the dark trying to get my sleeping patterns back into Western Australia time from Western Scotland time has got me...
View ArticleInfinity And Beyond
I think about this video all the time: What an incredible moment. Humans defying the crushing immensity of the gravity well of our 4 billion year old world. Filmed onto an incredibly powerful turing...
View ArticleMy first Makerbot print
My first makerbot print. Felt like the first time Mum and Dad brought home the Apple IIe. Everything feels different today than it was yesterday. Thanks so much to Mike for letting me (ab)use his...
View ArticleThank You, LMG
The good folks at Let's Make Games have been supporting the Western Australian indie and commercial game making scene for a while now with generous amounts of their own time poured into reports, moral...
View ArticleIrony At The Heart Of Capitalism
Irony: the most valuable capitalist icon in the marketplace right now, Apple, got rich selling products containing millions of hours of socialist labour - Free and Open Source software. This is the...
View ArticleOptimise HTML5 Apps For Mobile WebKit
Use zepto.js not jQuery. Use -webkit-transition and -webkit-transform wherever possible. Especially useful if you are developing with PhoneGap/Cordova on iPad and iPhone, or Android. Those webkit...
View ArticleXmas Billabong Times
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View ArticleHow to Open a Coconut
This is a fairly solid instructable on how to open a coconut very easily.
View ArticleStylus Prediction
Prediction: within 3 years the stylus will be the killer feature of Android tablets. I'm talking about true stylus input via induction, not those capacitive styluses you can buy for the current crop...
View ArticleIsolated Browsing with Chrome
You can run a single-use instance or site specific browser using Chrome web browser with it's own self-contained user data on GNU/Linux like this: chromium-browser --app=https://plus.google.com/...
View ArticleWorking From the Beach
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View ArticleDeviator ARG-like in Perth
Deviator, the smartphone based ARG-like artwork by pvi collective that I worked on is showing at PICA in Perth, Western Australia next week after it's successful tour of Glasgow last year. Apparently...
View ArticleScript to Fetch BitBucket Tasks as Text
These days I am using Bitbucket for the git repository hosting and task management on my commercial projects. One thing I often need to do is fetch a list of current tasks so that I can update a...
View ArticleArrow of Time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word...
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