wade womersley – york based software engineer
See those black bits scattered around this Boeing? It’s just part of a massive flock of starlings hitting its fuselage and engine as it was taking off at 200mph. About two hundred birds were sucked into the turbine. The photographer, Juergen Kienast, said the sound of the engine as it sucked the birds was defeaning: … Read More “Starling Purée Anyone? Airplane hits a flock of birds” »
PeerBlock was a “spin off” from PeerGuardian, a program that completely blocks access to certain IP addresses at the network level making it completely impossible to connect to them (or from people on those IP addresses to connect to you.) The reason I love this program so much is it blocks access to known spyware … Read More “PeerBlock 1.0 Released – Now with signed driver” »
It’s almost the end of September and so only a month to go until Halloween, that time of year where for a week kids want some nice treat like candy or are rude little gits and expect money – so they get the trick, permanent marker on the face. There’s a site available with links … Read More “Halloween – Monster Page of Projects” »
While I never really got into WoW (I have played, I have characters, I rarely touch it) I do love FFXI and have played many many hours on that game – less now, it just feels dated and that can ruin a game for me. However, FFXIV is coming soon, sometime in 2010, and I … Read More “FFXIV – Final Fantasy 14 – TGS Trailer” »
Yes I know it’s only September but Christmas Puddings are best if they’re made early. The reason for this is you can “feed” the pudding alcohol for months so by Christmas it’s absolutely delicious and is the perfect excuse to get everyone drunk without anyone truly realising why they feel so tipsy. Nothing like months … Read More “Christmas Pudding 2009 – Home Made Recipe” »
I’m torn on this, it has some great ideas (updating interface with dynamic search – real time search Ben?) and it has some big failings (updating interface with resizing objects.)For example, the login screen, rarely seen but those little changes with the moving/scaling image is a great idea; the live search with an updating UI … Read More “Copenhagen User Experience” »
It’s been 5 days since I became ill and two days since I found out it was H1N1 and after taking tamiflu for the 3rd day now, I am feeling a lot better, it really clears up the symptoms very well; actually it just hides the symptoms like most over-the-counter cold/flu remedies but it’s stronger! … Read More “Feeling Better and Net Neutrality” »
I hate colds, they make you feel lethargic and depressed and make you want to stay in bed for 12 hours at a time even though you spend more time tossing and turning and getting up to blow your nose than you do actually sleeping. I’ve got a cold at the moment, I blame Dan … Read More “Home Remedies for the Common Cold” »
I watched Derren Brown – How to Control the Nation last night as I wanted to see how his subliminal video (or as he calls it, PWA) would really work and while I know subliminal messaging can be easily ignored if you expect it, I wanted this one to work (it’s always more fun when … Read More “Derren Brown – How to Control the Nation” »
Drug dealers Software developers Refer to their clients as “users”. Refer to their clients as “users”. “The first one’s free!” “Download a free trial version…” Have important South-East Asian connections (to help move the stuff). Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug the code). Strange jargon: “Stick”, “Rock”, “Dime bag,” “E”. Strange jargon: “SCSI”, … Read More “Drug Dealers vs Software Developers” »