wade womersley – york based software engineer
We’ve all seen the movies where interactive displays are done on transparent glass, well Samsung, using OLED (organic light emitting diodes) have finally created one for us all to gawp over. Details are scarce, but it shows that yet another sci-fi idea is becoming mainstream reality. For now, here’s a video of the display, courtesy … Read More “Transparent Laptop? Samsung’s new 14 inch OLED display” »
NASA uploaded an image today of Great Britain from space as of 11:50 UTC today, it’s a truly remarkable picture showing just how much it has snowed here. For anyone not from the UK, snow like this has not hit Britain for over 30 years, hence all the hoo-haa about. It looks beautiful though, although … Read More “Snowy Britain – NASA Terra image” »
Yes, that’s right, we’re getting an extra bank holiday in 2012 (I know, a little bit of a wait still) as a result of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The bank holiday will be on the 5th of June and the Whitsun bank Holiday will be moved to the 4th of June to give a nice … Read More “New Bank Holiday coming up (hopefully permanent)” »
Well, it was good while it was getting better, now we’re back to square one again, I’m talking about airport security of course. After the attempted plane bombing attempt on Christmas Day, security has now been upped at international US airports again for any incoming flights deemed to be from “terror-prone” countries. The new rules … Read More “US Toughens up on incoming planes from “terror-prone” countries” »
The UK is continuing to push ahead with equality for all. From queeried.com: The UK prime minister Gordon Brown has said in a interview with gay lifestyle magazine, Attitude, that he is focused on making sure the rights of British civil partnerships are recognised across the EU, including Eastern Europe, believing “respect for gay people … Read More “While the US still struggles with equality…” »
Well, the good news is, the X-Factor single didn’t reach number one, no matter how you look at it, that is a good thing, it would have been yet another year, yet another X-Factor winner – many people are sick of that. However, the Christmas number one is now Rage Against the Machine – Killing … Read More “X-Factor Not Christmas Number 1! … Rage Against the Machine is instead” »
The excerpt I was just reading from BBC News goes as follows: A Christmas card has been withdrawn from two Tesco stores in York after complaints that it makes fun of children with ginger hair. The card shows a child with ginger hair sitting on the lap of Santa Claus, and the words: “Santa loves … Read More “Tesco apologises over ‘ginger jibe’ Christmas card – for gods sake!” »
I’ve updated my Link Checker (site crawler) located at https://wade.one/tools/linkchecker to allow downloading of the data it finds as CSV files. So all redirect URL’s, 404’s and meta data for all pages can be downloaded. The links are at the bottom of the page after the initial output of data. Use the Link Checker here.
Artificially generated black holes could provide us with the power to make inter-solar travel a possibility. New research shows how strapping a black hole to your starship might just give you the juice to get to Alpha Centauri. Louis Crane and Shawn Westmoreland of Kansas State University propose a way to use black holes as … Read More “Artificial Black Hole Could Power Space Ships Soon” »
I’ve just finished writing version one of my link checker tool and have now launched it on my site. The tool will parse a given URL, extract all links on that page that point to the same domain and follow them, and keep doing that until it’s finished. It will then show you the results … Read More “Link Checker – Free Tool Launched on Site” »
