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July 29th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Technology

Microsoft Research say:

By combining 360-degree panoramic zooming with dynamically adaptive multi-perspective panoramas, Street Slide provides both an immersive and an informative experience for exploring street-side imagery and geo-located information.

Skuds translates:

It’s cool

If phrases like “adaptive multi-perspective panoramas” leave you cold then this demo of Microsoft’s answer to Google Street View is best watched with the sound turned off.

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The first rule of Fight Club is…

July 28th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Life

…one never mentions Fight Club.

Got to love the idea of Jane Austen’s Fight Club!   (hat tip to Stroppybird)

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Perfect moments

July 28th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Life

There is one little part of the Amsterdam ‘city-pick’ book that has kept returning to my thoughts ever since I read it.  A good example of how the best bits are by the lesser-known writers. This is the particular passage that has been haunting me, from the diary of Simona Luff1 [Read more →]

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  1. No. Me neither. []

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Piet Koopt Hoge Schoenen

July 27th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Uncategorized

I have just finished reading Amsterdam from the ‘City-Pick series of books, which I got through Amazon’s Vine programme.  It is a collection of snippets from literature about the city.   I must have visited Amsterdam more than anywhere other city except Paris and can find my way round it better than anywhere except London, but after reading this book I realise I have only scratched the surface. [Read more →]

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A Study in Pink

July 26th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Life

As soon as I got home from work today I fired up iPlayer on the TV and watched the BBC’s new Sherlock programme, and now I have to join in with the general consensus that it is very good indeed.  It went down very well here, playing to a mixed audience of me (read all the books several times and books about the books etc.) and Jayne (seen a film or two). [Read more →]

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Sherlock

July 25th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Life

I am a little bit of a fan of Sherlock Holmes.  Not totally obsessive – only a couple of the boxes I am packing are full of Holmes-related books, and I have only visited the set of the Granada series once.  OK, so I used to have a Sherlock Holmes tea towel and like to pop into the Sherlock Holmes pub in Charing Cross when I am up in town,  and did go to see the stage play with Jeremy Brett in it…  but lots of people are more fanatical about it all than me.

I bet they didn’t forget to watch the new Sherlock programme on TV tonight… [Read more →]

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Not just bloggers

July 23rd, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Life

Good advice here from Problogger, but it applies a lot more widely than bloggers and should be mandatory reading for commenters on blogs and newspaper sites and email authors and writers of memos and reports at work.

But only after the list is extended to eleven items and a new number one is inserted to cover “should of” vs “should have”.

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Where Venables has been

July 23rd, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Life, Technology

So now we know what Jon Venables has been doing under his new identity.  From the Guardian:

Half an hour later, the probation officer found his 27-year-old charge sitting at a desktop computer frantically hacking away at the hard drive with a knife, and then a tin opener. “I’m trying to reformat the hard drive,” Venables said, explaining that he wanted to delete personal details.

He has obviously been working in IT tech support.  We always use the knife and tin opener approach instead of the old, unreliable FORMAT C: which ‘civilians’ use.

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Thank you for the music

July 23rd, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Music

I did something a little bit upsetting this evening: I got rid of all my remaining vinyl.

With all the preparations for moving house I realised that it was not sensible to take a load of old records out of one loft just to have them consigned to a different loft.

I had already let some friends go through them and take what they wanted but was still left with a couple of hundred LPs, and some boxes of singles.  I was wondering how to get rid of the rest when I saw a poster in the window of a car at work saying ‘record collections bought’ so I got in touch.

I have just kept one or two for sentimental reasons – basically ones where I know the artists – but the rest have now gone to a good home.

I have not had a turntable hooked up for years and have CD or MP3 replacements for anything I really liked but still… it was sad to say goodbye to them all.

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Outbreaks of perversity

July 22nd, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Life

A couple of news stories today that caught my eye.  First of all from the Telegraph: Transvestite had sex with a dog at English Heritage castle and then closer to home there is the Lewes knob-poster.  Just a couple of comments and observations to make. [Read more →]

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