geocaching
We tried the Garden Sculptures geocache today. Dead fun, will definitely do it again. I especially liked being able to have a wee treasure hunt in the middle of the city as a small break from shopping…
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Success!!
After an afternoon of learning APIs and library porting, I have just taken my first camera picture controlled over USB/PTP by clicking a GUI button on the Nokia N770! Apart from porting the python usb…
Cramond
We went to Cramond today; got the 41 bus there and walked down. Had a look at what was left of the the Roman fort, which seemed infested with Dowsers. After that, we walked up the River Almond until w…
Photos from last weekend
Just uploaded some new photos from last weekend to my flickr. Some infrared shots from round calton hill, and my first attempt at a panorama shot. I stitched the panorama together using the opensource…
Beautiful Python
I wrote this line of code last night: reduce(lambda acc,v: (acc << 8) | (v & 0xff), bytes\[::-1\]) That takes an array of bytes, reverses it (for CPU endianness), and then builds it into a single inte…
photos from the botanics and inverleith park
I had a whole piece written about the weekend, but managed to accidentally zap it, and I can't be arsed rewriting it just now. Anyway, I've just posted some more photos from the Botanics and Inverleit…
Wee camera
Hmm, I think I need to get a wee camera for taking to parties/ windy-hilltops-when-I've-had-far-too-much-to-drink-\cough\. Looking about, I think its gonna have to be a Canon. Why Canon specifically?…
Shadowtrees
I went for a wander in the Botanics this morning with the two D's (David+Diego). Glad to get out of the house on such a nice day, as I spent all yesterday in bed with a headache. I took some photos of…
Symbian phone hacked
Booo, someone beat me to it! Anyway, I followed the instructions here, and they worked perfectly; I can see all the private interesting folders and do pretty much anything I want to my phone now. I ca…
ipodsync python script
I am fed up with using GUIs to sync my ipod with my music database, so I hacked the attached script together this evening. It uses the python bindings of libgpod. Originally, I thought of using rsync…