Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

Hugo on the Tele

04/07/10

Some of the gang went to Bletchley Park for the first vintage computer festival a couple of weeks ago ago. It was covered by BBC Click and they spotted Hugo standing in front of an Acorn sounding like he knew what he was talking about so persuaded him to do a piece to camera and he came out with a great metaphor for how writing software used to be. read more ...

Google and Privacy

03/03/10

Sarah just re-tweeted this rather excellent story in The Onion about Google which I think deserves wider circulation. And while I'm at it here's two other items courtesy of Kirk. read more ...

Country Park in the Snow

18/12/09

The country park is a picture too. I took lots of photos there and this video: read more ...

XH558 Vulcan

20/09/09

It was at Cambridge today for Marshall's 100th birthday. We were walking over at Quy Fen when it arrived ... read more ...

H264 v FLV

03/08/09

Having watched the video I took yesterday get pixellated by its conversion to Flash video format I took the plunge today and got H264 support working. read more ...

Collies

02/08/09

We bumped into some old friends of ours in the park today: Cassie and Mitch, along Flo with the newest member of their pack. read more ...

New Toy

28/07/09

My Panasonic TZ7 came today. I've spent far too long poring over camera specs trying to decide what "point and shot" to get next and in the end this was the one I went for. read more ...

Spitfire!

01/06/09

... and Hurricane and Lancaster too. We went for a walk on Saturday. We parked at Lode, walked to the river, along the ride bank to Upware, back down quiet lanes and byways ... read more ...

flowplayer 3.0

10/12/08

In between doing various chores including shopping (spit!) I have been tinkering with flowplayer... read more ...

Teslathon

05/11/08

I went to the Teslathon at the Cambridge Technology Museum a couple of Saturdays ago and took some video ... read more ...

Current status: (via twitter)
Paul was stunned by some of talent on show at "Home Made in Shetland" #shetland #screenplay

I am currently reading:

Smoke in the Valley
by David Kynaston
Great Northern?
by Arthur Ransome
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner

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Word of the Day:

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