http://www.aquarionics.com/category/events en-gb Aquarion (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Site Admin (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:14:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/05/23/Magic_Trees%2C_Level_II A while ago, I invented a concept of “Magic Trees”, named after the story of a vicar who chopped down a 140 year old tree and justified it by saying “A paedophile might have been hiding behind it”. This was later expanded to include invisible terrorists. This morning a different story caught my attention. A social network site I’ve never heard of has recently... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/05/23/Magic_Trees%2C_Level_II A while ago, I invented a concept of “Magic Trees”, named after the story of a vicar who chopped down a 140 year old tree and justified it by saying “A paedophile might have been hiding behind it”. This was later expanded to include invisible terrorists. This morning a different story caught my attention. A social network site I’ve never heard of has recently... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/05/07/GameCamp_London_2008 I went to Gamecamp. It’s becoming quite common in reports of this event to wax lyrical about the location for a little while first, so I’ll do that. It was held at 3Rooms (I’m sixth from the left in that photo), which is a PR venue belonging to Sony’s PlayStation division. Effectively, it’s where they take journalists to demo new products. It’s... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/05/06/They_say_we_want_a_revolution I didn’t expect Alexander ‘Boris’ Johnson to be the new London Mayor. I hoped Ken would carry on, because I live in (the outer edges of) central London, and everything Ken’s done over the last eight years to join up the transport network has improved the live of me, personally. I am a fan of the congestion charge, and that it isn’t on account, because it means... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/05/06/They_say_we_want_a_revolution I didn’t expect Alexander ‘Boris’ Johnson to be the new London Mayor. I hoped Ken would carry on, because I live in (the outer edges of) central London, and everything Ken’s done over the last eight years to join up the transport network has improved the live of me, personally. I am a fan of the congestion charge, and that it isn’t on account, because it means... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/04/18/Mister_Lehrer On Youtube, there is an archive of videos of Tom Lehrer performing. This is him performing songs you've not heard before, even if you have the full box set: Part two can be found here Tom Lehrer is eighty today. http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/03/29/Jocoloco A few hours before Jonathan Coulton performed his very first gig in the UK ever (And the first outside the states, I believe), he bought a Tenori-on which is apparently only available over here. This means we ended up being the first people to ever see him perform playing with a new geeky toy. It looked very much like this: I also, briefly, met Rory Parle. We also ended up with covers... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/03/29/Jocoloco A few hours before Jonathan Coulton performed his very first gig in the UK ever (And the first outside the states, I believe), he bought a Tenori-on which is apparently only available over here. This means we ended up being the first people to ever see him perform playing with a new geeky toy. It looked very much like this: I also, briefly, met Rory Parle. We also ended up with covers... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/03/11/Wegame So, I was playing City of Heroes, and a thought came to me. This game was released in 2004 (It’s had a few graphical upgrades since then, but this demo doesn’t really show them): WeGame.com – Gaming Videos This morning, I turned on my own personal computer and logged into a 3D online universe on an international network of computers, where I chatted to people and played... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/02/24/Ten_Years Yesterday marked the ten year anniversary of Mozilla.org, a celebration of the single most successful transition of a closed source product to an open source one. Arguably. If you’re wondering why there’s been no announcement of a party, there’s a bug for that, and when JWZ offered his nightclub (for free) to host the event, it was rejected (by Moz Corp) on the basis that... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/02/24/Ten_Years Yesterday marked the ten year anniversary of Mozilla.org, a celebration of the single most successful transition of a closed source product to an open source one. Arguably. If you’re wondering why there’s been no announcement of a party, there’s a bug for that, and when JWZ offered his nightclub (for free) to host the event, it was rejected (by Moz Corp) on the basis that... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/02/04/It_all_began_with_a_god_named_Thor ...there were vikings and boats and some plans for a furniture store. I went to Ikea with a List. I have to go to Ikea with a List, otherwise I end up with a trolley full of crap that is astoundingly useful but is not what I went in for. I went to: Bounce on some sofas a bit. Buy some instances of Billy the Bookcase ...and another bookcase. ...some more bookcases. And a wardrobe, and a chest... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/01/26/One_score_and_a_baker%27s_half_dozen Today, I: Made vegatable soup. It was nice. Played Meteroid Prime. It was nice. Looked at sofas. They were nice. Drank a lot of tea. It was nice. Became 27. It’s indifferent. Told various banks and organisations of my new address. It was complicated. It was complicated because one of the standard security questions is “How old will you be on your next birthday”... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/01/16/A_decade_of_geek_codes Traditions are fun. Every two years for the past ten I’ve run though Robert Hayden’s Geek Code test (which hasn’t changed in that time). The rules are simple: I run it without looking at previous years tests. That’s it. I haven’t put it in this entry, because it’s slightly clearer as a text file See my brief flirtation with Babylon 5 and X files! Watch as my... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/01/16/A_decade_of_geek_codes Traditions are fun. Every two years for the past ten I’ve run though Robert Hayden’s Geek Code test (which hasn’t changed in that time). The rules are simple: I run it without looking at previous years tests. That’s it. I haven’t put it in this entry, because it’s slightly clearer as a text file See my brief flirtation with Babylon 5 and X files! Watch as my... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/01/16/A_decade_of_geek_codes Traditions are fun. Every two years for the past ten I’ve run though Robert Hayden’s Geek Code test (which hasn’t changed in that time). The rules are simple: I run it without looking at previous years tests. That’s it. I haven’t put it in this entry, because it’s slightly clearer as a text file See my brief flirtation with Babylon 5 and X files! Watch as my... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/01/16/A_decade_of_geek_codes Traditions are fun. Every two years for the past ten I’ve run though Robert Hayden’s Geek Code test (which hasn’t changed in that time). The rules are simple: I run it without looking at previous years tests. That’s it. I haven’t put it in this entry, because it’s slightly clearer as a text file See my brief flirtation with Babylon 5 and X files! Watch as my... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/01/14/New_flat_is_new I have new flat. I am the king of boxes, all boxes flock to my presence. Somehow, in moving from one small room in E17 to two medium/large rooms in E10, I have manged to cover the entire floorspace in the latter with the contents of the former. By which I mean, I have a lot of boxes. Some of which haven’t been opened since the last time I moved. Sleeping on a proper bed for... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/01/12/Ladybird%2C_Ladybird%2C_fly_away_home So, I have a new flat in Leyton. It’s physically further from the station, but with a bus it’s quicker than walking from my old place, though I intend to put my bike back together and cycle. Things that will get progressively less cute about my new flat: The windows appear to have nests of ladybirds in them over wintering, which is fun to take photos of but I suspect might get... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2008/01/07/Pandora_closes_the_box I just got an email from pandora It says: As you probably know, in July of 2007 we had to block usage of Pandora outside the U.S. because of the lack of a viable license structure for Internet radio streaming in other countries. It was a terrible day. We did however hold out some hope that a solution might exist for the UK, so we left it unblocked as we worked diligently with the rights...