Digitalia Alasdair’s workblog and linkdump

The Internet Of Trees

I have been kicking around this idea of a papernet (in brief: internet content in an auto-printed form) with a few folks. I’m currently building a OS X app that will do the early stages of what I want in a papernet endpoint in my ever diminishing free time, and generally thinking about [...]

To Do List

Various techy things I want to get done in the next few weeks, just so I’ve got a record.

Sort out home network, add secure wireless.
Get all 4 of my machines on speaking terms.
Clean down Sindri. Get it back up and running with both a Rails and a PHP environment on there.
Make a final decision [...]

Note to Self

The much-beloved last.fm expose a “top albums” feed (here) that provides amazon URLs to images. It doesn’t change enough to be worth tying directly in to my weekly “top ten” list on ala.sda.ir but it might be a useful data source, to then build a personal weekly top ten albums.
I’m thinking about this because [...]

The Value Of Professionals

Blowing the trumpet one last time for work for at Sanctuary, and further proof that anyone going out-of-house there (as happens all too often) is on the bad crack:
Fan response to the new Robert Plant site (and in it’s own thread here) – starts about halfway down the page, and is almost uniformly positive. [...]

Atomic Batteries To Power!

As some of you may know, today is my last day working at [crisis-hit/ailing/beleaguered] (delete as appropriate) Sanctuary Group after 15 months with this. With about 15 minutes to go before I leave, the first website I’ve worked on for them (of any size – I don’t count the wee puff piece three page [...]