wade womersley – york based software engineer
I’m sure a lot of you have heard our sorely out-of-the-times member of parliament Theresa May wants to give UK police to request users internet history + search queries without a warrant at any time. I for one am not a fan of a nanny state and especially not one that believes this is somehow … Read More “How to make the governments attempts to view your search history that bit harder (in Chrome)” »
The next time anyone mentions anything to do with America and refusing to accept gay marriage, straight marriage or any marriage between two people – particularly those people in government jobs, please just point them to the first amendment page on Wikipedia and quote: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free … Read More “America, religion, marriage for all and why those who disagree are not American” »
In what I can cool but many will call scary, Google has released Timeline which basically allows you to stalk yourself, quoting from the announcement on the Google blog: Have you ever wanted a way to easily remember all the places you’ve been — whether it’s a museum you visited during your last vacation or that … Read More “Google Maps – now with Timeline” »
Christopher Lloyd and Michael J.Fox (Universal) Yup, Back to the Future is coming back to cinemas (hopefully across the country) on October 21st 2015 alongside the launch of several box sets including the movies, the animated series, extra content, a light up flux capacitor, behind the scenes footage and more. October 21st is the date … Read More “Back to the … Theatres” »
Really short post this one on indexing using Cloudant Query to index arrays in your document, e.g. documents that have a field like this: { “ids”: [ “alpha”, “bravo”, “charlie” ] } I was reading the documentation and just could not get it to index these items using anything but the default _all_docs indexer (don’t use … Read More “Cloudant (IBM) Query – Indexing arrays directly using Erlang” »
In what may be one of the happiest events of my life, The Crystal Maze will be back in a format for everyone to enjoy! At the moment there is a funding event on Indiegogo with a rather easy target of £500,000 – at the moment of writing this, just 8 hours in from the midnight … Read More “The Crystal Maze is Back – and it’s for all of us!” »
Well it looks like one of my biggest wishes is coming true – The Crystal Maze is coming back to the world! However it quite possibly will not be a TV series to enjoy for a few years – boo! What it might be though is a theme park-esque style location to go to – … Read More “The Crystal Maze is back! …. in some format” »
I recently overheard a discussion in the SEO world to do with IPs and the dangerous* world of link acquisition. The discussion was to do with clients who ask for things like “unique class C” as a requirement. Many moons ago, IP was almost certainly a factor in link acquisition, big bad Google did not … Read More “IP Uniqueness – An SEO Perspective” »
There’s not much to say about this other than you have to watch it because, ignoring Beyonce’s lips, it works near perfectly. Thank you internet for bringing two apparently unrelated things together perfectly. So here it is, Single Ladies featuring Duck Tales.
What can only be described as “the 80’s in a movie” is finally here, the epic named Kung Fury. Described as “a homage and a love letter to the 80’s from the director David Sandberg”, this fill was a Kickstarter that was bound to succeed. Paying tribute to everything that was crazy and awesome in the … Read More “Kickstarted 80’s epic short movie Kung Fury Has Arrived!” »
