Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Love Maggie’s Day 2010

Friday, March 26th, 2010

It’s Love Maggie’s Day today, raising awareness of and money for the Maggie’s cancer charity.  At work we’re having a little bit of a competition for the best photo of “London from up high.”  It’s open to everyone, the best photos wins a prize, and best of all Vexed donate £5 to charity for every picture uploaded.

The competition’s on our Facebook page, so rifle through your camera, become a fan and upload a pic to donate £5 to charity with no extra effort required.

Applying a bit of creative licence (and whatever I had to hand), here’s a couple of my entries.  I might see if I can climb some trees* during lunchtime.

Santa’s Wish Kingdom @ Westfield Shopping Centre, Xmas

Disney Store, Oxford Street, a busy Saturday

* Unlikely, of course.

Good News Week

Friday, March 19th, 2010

I went to see the excellent Russell Howard last night trying out some new material at the Tabard Theatre.  Interesting, tiny little venue with steep seating and an intimate atmosphere.  No loos – use the pub downstairs – and some bizarre, ornate wallpaper.

The material was for his Russell Howard’s Good News show which’ll go out in a couple of weeks.  From what I heard (and the amount of laughing I and everyone else was doing) it’ll be well worth vegging in front of it when it airs, even if it is hiding on the digital-only BBC3.  Your mother wouldn’t like it.

Labs News : Autowhack 0.3, DownTheTubes

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Some quick news from the Shinypixel Labs – AutoWhack 0.3 is officially stable and available to download.   AutoWhack is a small GUI application to assist with compressing and obfuscating Javascript for production websites.  It uses the YUI Compressor under the hood, and allows you to conveniently concatenate and compress whole folder trees of Javascript automatically or as a one-shot process.

Autowhack 0.3 is now available.

(Usual disclaimer applies.  May turn your cat green, but it’s pretty unlikely.)

There’s also DownTheTubes, which is a little experiment of mine in the world of Maemo 5 development for my Nokia N900.  It’s a map for giving you a tube map and status in a convenient little package; it’s kinda working but nowhere near being finished, but it ‘s got its own page now.

An Englishman’s Home

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

…is his castle, as they say.  I’ve finally finished digging the moat and pointing up the ramparts around my new place and so without further ado, some pics of my new abode in W6:

Happy New Decade!

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

To everyone in real life, on the interwang, and those reading via the magic of that Bookface thing somewhere in between: A very Happy New Year, and all the best for the next 10 coming years…

Who would have thought we’d all come such a long way in 10 years, eh?