Re: [backstage] A familiar face...

2011-05-18 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 18 May 2011, at 14:23, Robert Binney wrote: > I have been told that "no sailors listen to the Shipping Forecast" - can this > be true? Well - if you have the money (and enough battery power and ample of pricey thermal paper) - you get it off your navtex(1) or from the met-office feed of im

Re: [backstage] Kinect.. what if..

2010-11-18 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 18 Nov 2010, at 17:12, Ant Miller wrote: > From Roderick Hodgson in R&D who is now actively hacking this platform > (mostly in spare time, though we may have somethig for either Big Bang or > Maker Faire): > Aye - has kept me up all night. Wonderfuly easy to do things like 3D ing a room o

[backstage] Kinect.. what if..

2010-11-18 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
...all this bumpf about how fancy they are[0] is just a load bollocks. I am wondering if them Kinect things are really working a lot simpler; and after waking up in the middle of a shower am now postulating that: 1. They have a simple static laser interference pattern (e.g. akin to [1] or

Re: [backstage] Internet Standards role

2010-09-07 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 7 Sep 2010, at 09:20, Richard P Edwards wrote: > Is that a 56 hour week with overtime only after that point then? I doubt it - someone who excels at a job as cool as this one - is likely to be very hard to control - and won't let himself or herself limited to a mere 56 hours :) This type of

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer for Apple TV

2010-02-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 2 Feb 2010, at 21:14, Jonathan Tweed wrote: > > I've been working on something over the last few weeks that might be of > interest to a few people here: an Apple TV plugin for BBC iPlayer. > > Details are here: > > http://jonathan.tweed.name/2010/02/02/bbc-iplayer-for-apple-tv/ > > And the

Re: [backstage] Mobile sites - how wide

2009-07-14 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Brian Butterworth wrote: 2009/7/14 Dirk-Willem van Gulik <mailto:di...@webweaving.org>> Try a search for UAProf and Wurfl. The latter is prolly simplest. It is a centrally maintained file. Fetch the XML file at https://sourceforge.net/projects/wurfl/files/ regula

Re: [backstage] Mobile sites - how wide

2009-07-14 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Try a search for UAProf and Wurfl. The latter is prolly simplest. It is a centrally maintained file. Fetch the XML file at https://sourceforge.net/projects/wurfl/files/ regularly - and preparse - or use the sample code. It basically contains somethng like Followed

[backstage] [Fwd: OpenCommunity Camp 2009]

2009-05-26 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 See below - and feel free to pass on. Nice relaxed low key week of hacking community, code and kit at a nice location just south of Amsterdam Airport - on cycling distance from of Leiden and the beach. Started as a community wifi camp - each year the

Re: [backstage] video cameras + sailing dingies

2009-05-25 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Tim Dobson wrote: > So basically I've just acquired a small waterproof HD video camera and > I'm looking for the best way to mount it onto my Laser EPS[1] sailing > dinghy. > > It has a standard tripod mount so I was wondering about tying it on with > desk tripod near the mast foot or something b

Re: [backstage] BBC5.TV

2009-02-25 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Feb 25, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Richard Lockwood wrote: OMFG Drat! I missed that - did Anthony Reorganize His Department Again ?! But four letter words^H^H^H^H^Hdepartment acronyms are good ! - TEH CONSPIRISSY TEHEORISTS R OUT IN FORSE Dw - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussi

Re: [backstage] BBC - "a typical Google search on a desktop computer produces about 7g (0.25oz) of carbon dioxide"

2009-01-12 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Brian Butterworth wrote: > Does anyone have the working for this? I would LOVE to see it, given that > (for a start): No - but willing to guess that they either took the total energy consumption and divided it - or took a reasonable number x number of servers; assumed 100watt and took it from th