On Saturday Bhav and I went sea fishing for the first time. We had the chance to do it since Bhav works for Recreational Services at the University of Otago. We woke up early (by our standards) to drive up to Port Chalmers to get on the catamaran. On the way out Bhav got the [...]
So it turns out that I was on to a good idea with my iPhone app. The problem is that on the 6th Feb someone else released exactly what I had in mind. They even used the same open source libraries as I was going to use. That’s the second time in recent months when [...]
Haiku, the operating system (not the poetry) aims to pick up where BeOS left off. BeOS was an operating system for personal computers created in the 1990’s. It was famed for it’s ability to multitask and it’s many other ground breaking features. Whilst it wasn’t based on any of the more familiar alternatives to Windows [...]
It has to be one of the most unfortunate and uncanny coincidence I’ve heard in a while. A German woman who travelled to the Roslyn suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand (where I am currently sat) has been rescued by police from a man “not who he had portrayed himself to be”, Detective Senior Sergeant Steve [...]
Before I headed of to New Zealand I performed as the Bass Trombonist in Callander Brass at their first concert. For such a new band containing a number of players who had only recently picked up instruments we made a good noise. Watch the video below of our opening number, Southdown.
Too late for Valentines 09 (I had a good one, thanks for asking) comes the DIY LED heart shaped microcontroller card. How many girls can say their Valentines card runs at 14 MHz?
After 5 flights I’ve made it to Dunedin, on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. This is my fifth day here and I’m really enjoying it. Apart from the minor sunburn (it’s strange to think it was snowing when I left Glasgow) I’ve had no ill effects, even managing to avoid [...]
I didn’t do much art at school on account of not being very good at it so I appreciate a cheat when I see one. Recently I’ve been learning to programme Objective-C with a view to creating my own app for the App Store. Through that I decided that I should mock up the various [...]
Objective-C seems to be quite fashionable at the moment and it’s something I’ve been meaning to learn for a while. Objective-C is an extension of the C language and so allows you to do normal C programming but with added extras like Objects. If you’ve done any programming before you might have heard of Object [...]
So having spent the last few months trying to find the ideal job I’ve decided that it’s better to move to New Zealand for a few months. I’ve got a number of reasons; such as the kiwi economy being more buoyant, the desire to live abroad when I’m young and having friends over there. I’m [...]