Author: karlbunyan

Floyd inflatable pig goes missing

Floyd inflatable pig goes missing

A reward has been offered for a giant inflatable pig which floated into the Californian desert during a concert by Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters. This isn’t one of Roger Waters’s best quotes: “Waters said ‘that’s my pig’ as it drifted away during Sunday’s gig.” Floyd inflatable pig goes missing

Multiple monitor utility

Multiple monitor utility

I’ve just installed a really useful tool to help me deal with my array of monitors called Ultramon. The big benefit is: having a taskbar for each monitor, that only displays the applications open on that monitor. Having four screens worth of apps open is one thing, but switching between them in the taskbar was …

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Word popularity on Facebook

Word popularity on Facebook

Facebook have posted a link to a tool they’ve built to track the popularity of different words and phrases within wall posts. It’s available here as the Facebook Lexicon. Basically, type in one word to see its popularity, and then type in another after a comma to compare. I compared Olympics and Tibet and it’s …

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Trip to Girona

Trip to Girona

Okay, I went to Girona last December, and it’s taken me over three months to put the photos up, but stop complaining… Anyway, there was me, Paul J White, Neelesh Sonaware and Deborah Causton (are you reading this Google?). Paul, pretending to be Borg, or Dalek, or something… Shot glasses stuck to his head, anyway: …

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Trip to Washington DC

Trip to Washington DC

While I was in Washington last week (as one often just happens to be, obviously), I had a few hours in the morning to wander around. Assisted by being still on UK time which meant I could get up very early and not think much of it, of course. But here are the photos: The …

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New feed publication methods in Facebook

New feed publication methods in Facebook

The new feed forms available to Facebook applications look like they could be interesting, although I’m wary of any documentation that contains text like “Now when the user submits the form, a little magic happens.”

A glass half full attitude

A glass half full attitude

Apparently, depression can be good for you, or so says this BBC article. But this quote is the best bit: Everybody’s life is full of occasional misery and we are going to suffer. All life ends in grief, unless you are lucky and you and your loved ones all die simultaneously in some plane crash. …

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