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Thursday, August 17
6 Airports in 4 days.. If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 17 Aug 2006 16:30 BST
Today is Thursday......it must be Dallas. This mornings image...
 Had a great day yesterday in Seattle, all I can say is what a cool city. Very chilled out people and what a great place to work. Nice to show what a little company in London can do and have the big boys listen and lap it up. Anway back to the treadmill Tuesday, August 15
Strange things you find in hotel rooms
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 15 Aug 2006 15:48 BST
Part of me was really scared to read this and the other park went, what the worst that could happen.... more »
M$ 1 Sony 0
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 15 Aug 2006 14:52 BST
Friend Roy did post:
Microsoft have just pulled their joker out of the hat before the Playstation3 launch. After learning from the original xbox hackers and giving the 360 a mediacentre, (they did Actually credit the xbox hackers in their launch video), they've now announced that they will not only allow homebrew content on the 360, they are encouraging it! http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10458 And Sony must be sick to their stomach as they were the most well known company for doing this with their PS1 Net Yaroze project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze Monday, August 14
check in hell or getting there is half the fun
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 14 Aug 2006 04:28 BST
Stay at home, stay tucked up in bed. Thats what my "horrorscope" said this morning. Waking up knowing that I had to got Heathrow I tried to mentally prepare myself for the pain. So i got cleaned up and picked up my last few things and turned on the work mobile. I had a message from 10pm on Saturday night. "Mr King this is to inform you that your flight to Vancouver is now leaving at 12:30 and not the time advertised." PANIC, I'm standing in East London at 9.30 thinking I should be at Heathrow now, thanks for the ...So I get my cases together get on the tube and get going on the hammersmith and city line to paddington to get the Heathrow Express. London Underground don't let me down I need you today please I screamed and woe betide the man who wishes for London Underground not to fail. It pulls a classic out of the hat and deals me "person taken ill in the train in front". I we hadn't been stuck in a tunnel then I think I would have got out there and got a taxi to Paddington. Finally after what seems like hours we get going we get to Baker Street, they is an announcement which I don't hear because I'm listening Johnny Cash "Hurt" on the old Iriver. Which is that the train will now terminate at Edware Road, one stop short of Paddington. We get to Edware Road everyone disembarks its 10.50am I'm getting stopped at every turn I'm starting to feel like John Clease in "Clockwise". Bugger the tube, Jump into a cab the one stop to Paddington. Get my ticket for the express and then I turn the corner and see a almighty queue of about 200 people, my heart sinks then I notice all the shirts they are all wearing blue, they are Chelsea fans going to the charity shield match and not going to the airport, result. Well I get on the heathrow express and can you guess what happens....yes points failure at airport crossover. Joy oh joy. Its 11.20 we get to Heathrow I rush upstairs and am greeted by a scene out of a nightmare I once had, everywhere is people with bags trying to get into the terminal. I'm think noway am I going to get into the terminal before 12.30 never mind that checkin will be closed. That is when an angel appeared, in a high-vis jacket "Which flight sir?" "The 12:30 to Vancouver but I think I'd have missed it" "No sir you haven't come with me" and with that she clears away through the throng and escorts me to the Air Canada checkin, the high-vis girl drops me next to the air cananda queue and an attendant say "Which flight sir?" "the 12:30 to Vancouver", "Oh Sir that flight has been delayed you'll be travelling at 3.30pm, what the original time that flight was booked for?" "Yes Sir". At this point my body stopped work, my mind crashed....the red mist disappeared....I've never been happier to have a 3 hour delay in a airport. so after a nine and half hour flight with no music and a v. poor entertainment system, X-men was really bad the first time, and the only consolation was that I had a very nice person called Kate next to me to speak to I'm here in Vancouver. So it 4.30am Monday UK time so I'm off to bed now.
 Friday, August 11
Happy Birthday "the PC"
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 11 Aug 2006 11:05 BST
Today is the PC's 25th Birthday, 25 years ago IBM displayed their 5150 to the public, oh what have you done!
 Monday, August 7
The review of the funding of political parties
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 07 Aug 2006 15:51 BST
Every wanted to have a bit of fun at the political parties expense, well here is you chance. check out ... more »
Modern Etiquette
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 07 Aug 2006 11:00 BST
From the Independent this morning there was a piece in Extra about the use of Modern Etiquette by J.H.M. Walsh.... more »
Saturday, August 5
Communting
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 05 Aug 2006 11:12 BST
I saw this article on the BBC website it says that the average commute is now 139 hours a year, so I thought I'd work out how long I spend in on my commute into London, and I wasn't shocked to find it is 348 hours or 14 and half days a year. (45 minutes each way, it’s the same on bike or tube) Apparently the average on the survey for London is 225 hours per year. Which works out at 29 minutes each way, personally I can only think of one person who I know that has a commute of about that. I would love to know what the definition of London they are using, is that greater London all the way to the M25 or people working in the main core say working inside Tube zone 3.
The Math of the Journey 225 hours = 13500 minutes working days in a year 260 - (20holidays - 8 bank holidays) = 232 working days 13500 / 232 = commute per day 58.189 minutes per day 29.1 minutes each way University of the West of England academics, urged commuters to use the time to "re-energise". Reading the paper, sleeping or day-dreaming had benefits, they said. HAHAHAHA they have never been on the Tube in rush hour have they. If you can get a seat away for the woman who forgot to put her makeup on before leaving the house and is trying in vein to do it on a bouncing train and not to look like koko the clown or the commuter with there Ipod so loud that you can just about make out the whole tune that you can sing along. Then you might be the lucky to daydream just before getting shoved in the back by someone with backpack or a handbag who has zero space awareness.. ah the joys of commuting Friday, August 4
Galway
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 04 Aug 2006 21:41 BST
I
   I spent the early part of this week in Galway Ireland, I've got to say the countryside was lovely and amazing place. I've posted some more pictures in my flickr acount. Monday, July 31
bring out your dead...Quack
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 31 Jul 2006 15:13 BST
pple has asked owners of its 15in MacBook Pro notebook who bought their
machine between February and May 2006 to ... more »
HDMI Standard evolves
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 31 Jul 2006 10:31 BST
While talking in the office James mentioned that there was going to be yet another leap in the HDMI Standard, ... more »Sunday, July 30
Shaken not Stirred
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 30 Jul 2006 20:38 BST
The 007 stage at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire has been destroyed by fire. The sets we currently being removed after ... more »
The strange things that turn up in your log files
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 30 Jul 2006 18:36 BST
I was doing a bit of house keeping on my webserver this afternoon and came across the very strange entry ... more »
Saturday, July 29
Image processing the microsoft way
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 29 Jul 2006 22:41 BST
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/whatis/default.html
Photosynth is a new image processing technology from Microsoft that takes a collection of images (say, of a famous ... more » Wednesday, July 26
Oh the Joys of ordering online
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 26 Jul 2006 00:07 BST
On Friday I ordered a USB tv tuner for my new pc. I did the normal web search for the ... more »
Tuesday, July 25
Digital music player for the serious
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 25 Jul 2006 09:40 BST
Wi-fi music player gets serious
it plays for Compressed formats (MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP2, MusePack, WMA), Uncompressed formats (AIFF, WAV, PCM) and of course Lossless Formats (Apple Lossless, FLAC, WMA Lossless) It seem they really have up'd their game and not compromised with any of the parts or connectors in this one and at $1,999 (£1,079) is not that too pricey for the audiophile pockets. DataSheet Manufactures website
AMD to buy graphics vendor ATI for $5.4B
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 25 Jul 2006 00:15 BST
It’s a TLA Day, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has agreed to buy Canadian
graphics chip vendor ATI Technologies Inc. for about $5.4 billion in cash and stock, the companies announced today. Rumors that AMD would buy ATI have circulated for a couple of months. If approved, the deal will add significantly to AMD's product line, bringing in a lineup of cutting-edge graphics chips and chip sets that include integrated graphics capabilities. Much like the Intel line up Sunday, July 23
dreamspace accident
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 23 Jul 2006 20:48 BST
I took some photos a few years ago of Dreamspace when it was at Mile End, it was a amazing ... more »
Saturday, July 22
Spam
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 22 Jul 2006 11:19 BST
Yesterday and this morning I have mostly been fending off a spam attack to my domain offmybox,com, i've been recieving ... more »
Monday, July 17
How to fry an egg... on an Apple MacBook
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:54 BST
Now we know why Apple's notebooks run hot - the company wants you to own a computer you can cook ... more »
Mark Thomas Protest about a Protest
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 17 Jul 2006 13:43 BST
ContentAgent 2.1
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 17 Jul 2006 12:00 BST
James the CTO of Root6 Technology post in his blog
ContentAgent 2.1 has just gone into the final stages of testing. Some of the new features include:
General Enhancements
Capture Enhancements
Image sequence creation
MPEG Multiplexing Workflow node AutoCropping on still frame grabs Export clip metadata as XML This release will be available as a free-of-charge update to all on software maintenance. Sunday, July 16
AutoClav1.1 Photos
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 16 Jul 2006 12:15 BST
I spent most of Saturday on the balcony in the sun correcting photos I'd taken the previous weekend of Tony Young from Autoclav1.1.with some new techniques I've learnt in Photoshop.
Examples of this shoot can be found below, click on a the image to see the larger version and description    ©2006 K2 Visuals There are more if you've got a flickr account ping me a message and i'll add you as a friend Friday, July 14
You call is important to us!
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 14 Jul 2006 16:52 BST
How important, so important that we don't answer your call and when we do we cut you off. So more hold music at the back of the queue when you call back.
Isn't it wonderful when people don't do there job and promise you that they will sort it, rearraging a delivery for the day you can make rather than a day when you can't, are you listening Dell Customer Service. Have you ever though about asking your staff to do what they say to customers. I won't name and shame yet but if a company is judged by the way it treats it customers through customer service the Dell has poor third world customer service,
Courier Companies
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 14 Jul 2006 13:19 BST
I've always wondered by courier companies never ring the person they are going to delivery to before they send the ... more » Tuesday, July 11
The lunatic is no longer on the grass
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 11 Jul 2006 17:25 BST
 Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett 1946 - 2006Monday, July 10
German archivists have found a way to store and access digital data for centuries -- convert it to analog.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 10 Jul 2006 17:18 BST
The data pool in the universe is continuously growing. More and more information is being saved digitally on CDs and DVDs -- but these thin silver disks have a life-span of only about five years. That may be sufficient for the average user at home or work, but archives and libraries face the threat of massive loss.
At the end of June, specialists gathered for a colloquium in the library at the University of Stuttgart. They met to conclude the so called ARCHE project, which sought a long-term solution for storing digital data -- and found one. microfilm
Tomorrow is D-day
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 10 Jul 2006 15:25 BST
Tuesday is D-Day for Windows 98, 98 SE and ME users. After some
extensions, Microsoft is finally ending its association ... more »
Friday, July 7
PlayStation 2 in VAT Sting
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 07 Jul 2006 16:18 BST
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd have been caught by the TaxMan They have been calling the Playstation 2 machines as ... more »
Thursday, July 6
Cops spot-fine Goth £80 for upsetting weapons detector
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 13:59 BST
Metal detectors have feelings too, apparently.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/06/accursed_metal_detector/ more »
Start your own arms race in the office
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 12:57 BST
Every office should have one
http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/search.do?productCode=mislau The USB Missile Launcher is the ultimate deterrent against those annoying people who lurk ... more »
Sky launches its text to record service
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 12:37 BST
Sky
has launched a service allowing customers to text their Sky+ boxes from
anywhere in the world, instructing it to ... more »
Microsoft will be the sole supplier of Engine Control Units to Formula 1.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 10:50 BST
beginning in 2008, Microsoft will be the sole supplier of Engine Control Units to Formula 1.
Apparently, moving to ... more »
Wednesday, July 5
Breaking News
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 05 Jul 2006 11:15 BST
It's alleged that one of the Portuguese football players failed a drugs and alcohol test after the match. If this ... more »
Monday, July 3
The man is a god
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 03 Jul 2006 23:07 BST
Stay Beautiful's pavement is normally covered in glitter on the best of night but tonight was special the Manics ... more »
WiMAX in the UK. Here's why it won't fly
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 03 Jul 2006 17:43 BST
This article is from old friend Steve KennedyThe Article is from the great technology news service http://www.theregister.co.uk WiMAX is ... more » Friday, June 30
Fatman iTube
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 30 Jun 2006 16:12 BST
Forget today's synthetic sound systems - if you want to give your
digital tracks the audiophile treatment, you need to take a look at the
Fatman iTube.
Yes, it's an old-fashioned valve amp for your portable player, which
promises to give the music from your iPod "a luscious warm analogue
sound". While old-school technology might be at work for the music
output, the iTube is still a very modern piece of kit. It's essentially
a docking station for all iPods (except the shuffle), which comes with
a remote control so you can sit back and enjoy the music - or if you
hook it up to the TV, you can enjoy your pictures and video clips,
again controlled by the remote.
Will it really improve your music that much? You can find out in July, when it goes on sale for £300. http://www.fat-man.co.uk/ Thursday, June 29
dedicated 2nd video out from the ibooks
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 29 Jun 2006 14:47 BST
Owen a good friend and Video Artist has told me that "You can get dedicated 2nd video out from the ibooks – it’s built into the graphics card, but has been disabled in the operating system. Install this - http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html and you have a dedicated second video out J It’s installed on Tony’s ibook and has been
on two of Andy’s without any negative effects…there’s even the software to undo
it should you want to take it in for repair and not have a voided
warranty…. Tuesday, June 27
Anonymous Posting
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 27 Jun 2006 17:46 BST
After much complaining for various people, yes you know who you are! I have allowed anonymous posting on the blog ... more »
There are still tickets left - A Night of Conscience
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 27 Jun 2006 13:58 BST
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/StoptheWar-Kendall-Smith.htm
WEDNESDAY 28 JUNE 7.30PM: A Night of Conscience Intoduced by Tony Benn St. James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J ... more »
James Dean Bradfield
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 27 Jun 2006 11:39 BST
James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers is playing University London Union on Tuesday the 11/07/2006 more »
Monday, June 26
Tiger Woods '06
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 26 Jun 2006 23:21 BST
Well as much as I don't normally get sucked into computer games, well the last one to get me really ... more »
Friday, June 23
UK Mobile Phone Throwing championship
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 23 Jun 2006 17:35 BST
The event takes place on 20 August at London's Tooting Bec Athletics Track. The first throw is due to take place at 2pm. It costs £5 to enter, which gives you three attempts at elevating a handset. Entrants have to be 18 years old or above. more »
Roys New Toy
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 23 Jun 2006 14:41 BST
help people send big links via the web or for that matter over the telphone its called threesimplewords.net more »
Gamma Curves
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 23 Jun 2006 12:44 BST
This was a post that Phil the Chief Engineer here at Root6 made in his blog regarding Gama Curves and future developement of ContentAgent.....permlink to the post
Broadcast live
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 23 Jun 2006 12:21 BST
just having spent three days on a stand setting my purple flares 'hot wares' at Broadcast live www.broadcastlive.co.uk
at Earl Court Two, were the great and the good of the Television industry came to look at shiny boxes and electronics with blue leds on them, I bumped into a few old faces and had a good time meeting some new ones and hopefully soon to be good customers as well. Had the wonder pleasure of showing the sales people at Sony how to dub one tape format to another with audio. The key to it guys is arming the audio tracks, giggles He's a picture of top bloke Phil...is it all going well Phil?  Other pictures here and here Sunday, June 18
optical illusion
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 18 Jun 2006 03:53 BST
my first attempt at creating an optical illusion
order your Sony Playstation 3 now
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 18 Jun 2006 01:59 BST
Bloody hell not at that price....Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) has gone on sale on the web despite not being launched until November this year. Pre order now for disappointment at Christmas, at the very cheap honest guv price of £550 ($1,020) at online shop, play.com.
Friday, June 16
mobile blogging test
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 16 Jun 2006 08:33 BST
Testing mobile blogging
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