Missing from East London since 23rd March 2009. Send any information
to missingplin@gmail.com
July 2, 2009
Saw this poster in Islington. Taking missing person search online -East London 32yr old woman called Plin.
June 3, 2009
Video of @utarg’s disgrace - turns down eee pc for table football
> —–Original Message—–
From: James Hawkins Sent: 03 June 2009 14:11
To: Mauricio Reyes
Subject: Emailing: video-2009-06-03-14-03-53.3gp
Probably needs to be converted or something
May 12, 2009
March 26, 2009
February 12, 2009
If I was on Streetfighter…
Take one picture:
Get it super imposed onto a video with some technical wizardry (not done be me) et voila!
courtesy of http://www.becomestreetfighter.com/
December 23, 2008
Twitter + Winter + Festival = Twinterval
What's wrong with fellow twitterers meeting up?
Following the announcement that there would be a twitter meetup called the ‘Twinterval’ I would occassionally check the #twinterval backchannel to see the buzz happening around the event and to see who would be attending, on the day of the event one tweet caught my eye from Nico MacDonald, now I replied and there was a quick exchange of tweets at which point you will see that I tried to back out only to be egged on to justify the Twinterval, well here I go:
Now Twitter is just a tool for expressing oneself in short messages - this has evolved into conversations that happen on a one to one or one to many basis. People can personalise their twitter experience by choosing who to follow, they can also be as engaging as they want to be with their follower/friend lists or ‘community’ that they create on subjects that interest them.
A gathering which is announced and promoted mainly via Twitter will crudely spread in a way that suits the foaf principle, what I mean to say is that invite goes out to people in the immediate followers list and they in turn can also extend the invite to people they know. The Twinterval event operated a system whereby preference was given to heavy users of Twitter and also the key announcements were made on Twitter (amongst other sites which included Upcoming and Facebook). Falling into the foaf sphere that enabled me to firstly hear of the Twinterval and then advertise it to people in my follower list I was able to go to the event and recognise a number of people I had spoken to before using Twitter.
Now I did not then spend the evening talking about Twitter, what I did do was speak to people that had been reading my twitter stream and I was equally able to converse with people whose twitter stream I had been following. For example I was asked how I was doing following the news (which I had tweeted on two occasions in the last six months) that I had survived two rounds of redundancy this year.
I was able to say hi and discuss subjects which interested me such as:
- Web app technology
- Blogging software such as Wordpress and Drupal
- Five a side football
- Mobile apps
- Mobile manufacturers - Apple, Nokia, HTC
- Mobile Operators
- Mobile tech conferences
- Famous name sakes on the internet
- Web 2.0 Startups
- Beer
I wouldn’t necessarily cover all these subjects in a single ‘normal’ night out with people I know outside of Twitter but I was able to cover this ground at the Twinterval. I found that the Twinterval gathering contained a large cross section of my Twitter friends list and similar, this resulted in me talking with people with backgrounds in subjects that interested me. My conversations were then similar to the more popular subjects found in my tweet cloud. At the event the same experience would also be happening to the other attendees.
What I have done in effect is to personalise my night out as I have done with part of my web experience. I look forward to the next Twitter based night out, details of which incidentally can be found here.
October 21, 2008
A private dancer, a dancer for money #2
And this is what he does for free after a couple of beers wearing a storm trooper mask:
A private dancer, a dancer for money
This is what a fiver buys you at the Symbian Smartphone Show party when there’s an empty dancefloor and you want some action to get the party started:
Enter this soldier of fortune; j2ME programmer by day, Travoltaesque God by night
October 20, 2008
Animated adventures of Gman
He’s a usb memory stick in the body of a man. His powers involve storing 1gb of data and removing his head. He is Gman
- Please note that I make no apologies for the rubbishness of my animation prowess!
October 9, 2008
Brush shoulders with Twitter elite
Okay so you got yourself an account on twitter and you’ve added some friends you know in real life. You’ve then added some people with similar tastes. You get replies to your tweets and you reply to tweets. Life is good.
What happens next is that through these associations you get introduced to twitter accounts of the famous (well internet famous anyway). These people have thousands of followers and might friend just a few or maybe thousands back. Either way when you tweet them you might never get a reply back, they might never even read your stream. To get these people to notice you might prove to be an issue. And of course you want to speak to these people, you need that buzz of rubbing shoulders with the Twitter elite. So how do you do it?
• Do you reply to their tweets and try and be funny?
• Do you jump into their discussions and support their views?
• Do you jump in to correct them and offer up some pearls of wisdom to impress them?
• How many times should you reply to them?
• How fruity should your tweets be to stimulate a reply?
Well no need to suffer any longer. Just watch this live twitter stream to see what other people tweet to try to get a reply back from someone famous: http://cli.gs/B0gnQ4