The Curious Engineer

Terence Eden’s Blog

1993–2013

816 posts

2014–2021 →

2013 175

December 2013

  1. 2013 - What a year!
  2. Graphing My Solar Panels (Open Source)
  3. How Do You Pronounce Your Domain Name?
  4. Samsung's Bug Bounty
  5. Solar Panel Cyber Security
  6. FREE MONEY FROM THE SKY!
  7. Case Conflicts in Dropbox for Linux
  8. Rethinking Telephone Call Charges
  9. ONS And Childfree Intentions
  10. Nelson Mandela says "Check Your Privilege"
  11. Paper (Plane) Prototyping
  12. The Infographic Election Is Coming
  13. Stopping Coral's SMS Spam
  14. Anatomy of an Android Scam
  15. Game Review: Blackbar ★★★★★

November 2013

  1. The Danger Of Auto Displaying Pictures On Twitter
  2. Creating Animated Gifs from 3D Movies (HSBS to Gif)
  3. BBC iPlayer and 3D
  4. They Read Minds, Don’t They?
  5. Perfect Christmas Gifts For Young Feminists
  6. Civic Hygiene
  7. Why You Can't Trust Government Provided Cryptography
  8. Review - Max Value 500Mbps 3 Port Home Plug Adapter (MV171660 NLHP-5003PORT)
  9. You Can't Buy Your Way Into Social Media
  10. Valkee Follow Up
  11. Should MPs have to publicly display who pays them?
  12. YouGov Leaking Clients' Information?
  13. A New Life for QRpedia
  14. Is rehearsed comedy "real"?
  15. Why Do Companies Still Use Microsoft Windows For Displays?
  16. iOS Only Kills - Open Data Saves Lives
  17. Hacking Around With Network Cameras
  18. Vegetarian Prisons
  19. Podcast Showdown - Mobile Industry
  20. Use Peak Schedule Email To Improve Your Work Life Balance
  21. Dinnertime at the Food Bank
  22. Passive Aggressive Note - my name is spelt "T-E-R-E-N-C-E"
  23. No Javascript Day
  24. Social Media Marketing Fatally Undermined By User Sabotage
  25. Whatever Happened To Pingbacks?
  26. How To Write An Email
  27. Samsung / Android Calculator Limitation
  28. QR Codes in the Hardware Store
  29. The War of the Worlds Panic that wasn't - or was it?
  30. How I Got €800 Compensation From Thomas Cook

October 2013

  1. Google+'s Broken Name Policy - Again!
  2. What's Up With BBM's Android Reviews?
  3. Should Journalists Bother Checking Sources?
  4. 3D Printing at Over The Air

September 2013

  1. Assessing My Personal Gender Bias on Twitter
  2. 3D Printing the 2600 Whistle
  3. Facebook 2FA Security Flaw (Disclosed)
  4. Demoing BlipDrop at Mobile Monday London
  5. Should Wikipedia Have 3D Models of Sculptures?
  6. 7 Management Myths That Need To Be Busted

August 2013

  1. 3D Printing A Fossil
  2. The British Summer Generates 1.5 MegaWatts Per Roof
  3. 3D Printing Fossils
  4. Exporting TwitPic Images - Python
  5. How To Crack Amazon's Kindle Best Seller List? Sell 4 Books!
  6. Converting the Voynich Manuscript into an eBook
  7. "Let's ban tiny phones!" - UK Government
  8. Two-Factor Authentication and the Police State
  9. The End of MS Tag
  10. How To Add Twitter's "Report Abuse" Button To Your App
  11. Celeb Hypocrisy on Twitter
  12. Does The Times Care About Mobile Users?
  13. Review: The Art of the Brick
  14. 3D Printed Coins

July 2013

  1. Strawberries and Teabags
  2. The Invisible Nightmare
  3. A Dangerous Change To Google Maps
  4. Cryptography and the Coventry Problem
  5. This Call Is Being Recorded
  6. I *Love* The New MySpace

June 2013

  1. How Not To Manage Email Subscriptions - Apple
  2. Operation Weeting: Voicemail Interception Confusion
  3. Opt Out of Klout - Now!
  4. New Python Pals - How To Help
  5. Google's Inconsistent Maps UI
  6. Introducing 莎士比亚.org - Readable Shakespeare Plays In Chinese
  7. Text Adventures Via Text Message
  8. A QR Specification For Mobile Payments
  9. No One Must Know This Is A Sponsored Post - Part 2
  10. One Million
  11. The Best Photographer Is The One You Have With You
  12. Prism and Plausible Deniability
  13. How Not To Run An Interactive Advertising Campaign #TAP4offers
  14. Is GitHub Racist?

May 2013

  1. Rooting The Nook
  2. Subsetting (Chinese) Fonts
  3. Why Can't I Pay Tax Only On My Profits?
  4. Why Don't Startups Get Their Users To Invest In Them?
  5. OpenTech 2013
  6. On Swearing and UX Antipaterns
  7. Guide to Using the Nook STR / Glow Without a B&N Account (Pictures!)
  8. The Gun That Fits On A Floppy Disk
  9. It's The Little Things Which Make An App
  10. Carve Your Brand Into Stone
  11. iPhone Usability "Quirks"

April 2013

  1. Caution Needed When Using CloudFlare and Better WP Security
  2. Brightening Up The Office - TARDIS Lanyards
  3. Can Oneko Help Beat RSI?
  4. Screenscraping Album Artwork From The Linux Command Line
  5. What Can Android Learn From Symbian's Security Model?
  6. No One Must Know This Is A Sponsored Post
  7. Traditional Book Publishers Don't Own The Future
  8. Clear Channel's NFC Mistake
  9. Why Aren't Terrorists Bombing Queues?
  10. Disassembling an eReader
  11. Extracting Your Data from the AudioBoo API
  12. Lambeth's Brilliant QR Codes
  13. Inferring Facebook's Mobile Use Via Bit.ly
  14. The Future of AudioBoo is Uncertain - A Reply to @Documentally
  15. Aggressively Defensive Programming
  16. Use DRAKON to Generate Code from Flowcharts
  17. Why Does Tucows Send Important Emails Which Look Like Phishing?
  18. Are Megabytes Meaningless To Customers?

March 2013

  1. HOWTO: Make a Doctor Who "Bells of St John" Style WiFi Name
  2. Photographing The Moon With A Phone*
  3. How To Orient WiFi Antennae
  4. Preparing for the Collapse of Digital Civilization
  5. New! Samsung Security Flaw - Disable Lockscreen - Total Control
  6. Surrey Police and the Case of The Misleading Pie Charts
  7. Experiments Using (not quite) Google Glass
  8. Is there a future in .tel?
  9. Podcasting on the Voicemail
  10. Inkscape - cropping SVG files on the Command Line
  11. Achievement Unlocked! Pil Sung Do
  12. Samsung Lock Screen Security Flaw
  13. #libcampldn Library Camp London - Audio Recordings & Writeup
  14. Pottermore Reaches Out To Harry Potter Fan Sites
  15. Chrome For Android Font Rendering Bug

February 2013

  1. Galaxy Note 2 - Copy Bug Update
  2. Ephemeral Media
  3. Solar Update
  4. Google's Customer Contempt Conundrum
  5. Deficiencies in the Twitter Archive
  6. Code Club Lessons - The Checklist
  7. The Proximity To Genius Effect
  8. Samsung Copy & Paste Bug (AKA Never Trust Samsung)
  9. Love Thy Vendor
  10. Shakespeare And Emoticons
  11. SamKnows Whitebox - Broadband Monitoring
  12. Controlling Android Using A MakeyMakey
  13. NFC In Las Vegas
  14. Burn The Libraries
  15. Micro USB-OTG for Android for less than a quid!
  16. The USA is Weird
  17. Raspberry Pi + MakeyMakey + Scratch = Fruit & Veg interface

January 2013

  1. Should I Go To A Gun Range?
  2. A Day With The Galaxy Note II
  3. The Levellers, The Diggers, The Hackers, and The Builders
  4. Who Funds The TaxPayer's Alliance?
  5. Votes For Children
  6. The Proper Use Of The Library
  7. Usability of mixing LTR and RTL text?
  8. Why Didn't The Romans Invent The Internet?
  9. A Small QR Tip
  10. How To Steal A Million Dollars?
  11. When is it better to ask permission than forgiveness?
  12. What's The Real Cost of a SmartPhone?
  13. Predicting The Next Social Network
  14. Email Is The New Snail Mail
  15. Lessons From CodeClub
  16. It's Pronounced "Reading"
  17. Crowd-Sourced Tracking of Unmarked Police Cars
  18. Why QR Codes Are Perfect For The Internet of Things
  19. Sex Ratios in Delhi
  20. A Stock Exchange For Digital Media
  21. Revenge of the Spammed
  22. Be A Better Speaker
  23. Are Designers Crazy?
  24. Changing Theme
  25. Is It Wrong To Use A Svbtle Theme?

2012 165

December 2012

  1. Mobile and Technology Predictions for 2013
  2. The Greatest Day Of 2012
  3. Why Facebook Makes Me Feel Like A Loser
  4. A Kickstarter for Political "Donations"
  5. Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite
  6. Should You Trust App Store Reviews?
  7. Astrology For Businesses
  8. Which Charities Do You Donate To?
  9. Volunteer With AppsForGood
  10. The Moon
  11. Uber London - Poor Experiences
  12. Instagram Got You Down? Don't Be Fooled By Flickr.
  13. Why You Should Make Your QR Codes Unique
  14. The Silliest QR Code I've Seen
  15. More Fresh Wasabi In The UK
  16. Mitt Romney And Gun Control
  17. If You Have Nothing To Hide... You Still Have Something To Fear
  18. BBC News Don't Get Responsive Design
  19. Android Security Cameras?
  20. No One Scans QR Codes - Apart From These 25 Thousand People
  21. QR and NFC Living In Harmony?
  22. "The success of smartphones comes at a price" errr, what?
  23. Amex Don't Get Security
  24. Giving Back - CodeClub and AppsForGood
  25. Car Hacking - With Bluetooth OBD
  26. How Our Solar Panels Have Performed After 1 Year
  27. Coding For Kids - In Woking Library
  28. So Why Aren't You?
  29. New Car!
  30. New Ex Libris Cards

November 2012

  1. What I've Learned From A Crazy Month of Blogging
  2. Is Samsung Spying on your Printer?
  3. The Future Is Now - But Not Everybody Knows It
  4. Blue Screen Bat'leth
  5. Rewired State - UK Parliament 2012
  6. Should you edit old blog posts?
  7. What Twitter Can Learn From App.net's Developer Incentive Program
  8. I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem
  9. What's The Front Page of HackerNews Worth?
  10. Hackdays - How Much Preparation is Acceptable?
  11. The Perils of URL Shortners
  12. The End Is Nigh
  13. I Have A Bacon Number of 3
  14. Network Effects
  15. Helen Goodman MP is "Particularly Stupid"
  16. If The Kindle is Sold at Break-Even, Why Doesn't Amazon Sell ePub?
  17. How Strengthening Security Can Weaken Security
  18. Apple - Death Through Familiarity
  19. Can Social Media Help You Get A Job?
  20. Smuggling USB Sticks
  21. The Future of Internet Services
  22. The Python Pals Divine A Date
  23. Why Android Is Not Safe In Google's Hands
  24. What If They Gave Us Capitalism - But Nobody Cared?
  25. Python Pals and the Letter Logjam
  26. 4G Thoughts
  27. The War of The Internet Has Begun
  28. The Python Pals Program A Problem
  29. Time To Resurrect The Byte Brothers?
  30. NaBloPoMo - Stats

October 2012

  1. The Eye Of The Storm
  2. Facebook's Mobile Adverts - Real Stats
  3. Ada Lovelace Day 2012
  4. Browser Statistics for UK Government Websites
  5. No One Scans QR Codes (apart from the thousands of people who do)
  6. Fresh Wasabi In The UK
  7. The Unintended Consequences of Gamification

September 2012

  1. LTE Woes
  2. HP's Smartphone Conundrum
  3. Review: Panasonic TX-L37ET5B
  4. I Haven't Quit Twitter - Twitter Quit Me
  5. A UTF-8 Aware substr_replace (for use in App.net)
  6. Visualising Conversation Threads In Hyperbolic Space

August 2012

  1. App.net isn't racist - but it does have a privilege problem
  2. Smartphone Mutually Assured Destruction.
  3. The Social Pendulum
  4. Are Call Centre Workers Human?
  5. iToldYouSo
  6. The Hirsute Pursuit
  7. The Engagement Economy
  8. Xbox 360 - Confessions of a First Time User

July 2012

  1. Fairwell InMobi - Hello Telefónica!
  2. Councillor Carl Thomson's Deleted Tweets
  3. 3G Internet on Raspberry Pi - Success!
  4. Protecting Against Credit Card Scams
  5. Homeless Hackday
  6. Authentec Fingerprint Scanners - Full Specifications (AES2810 & AES2550)
  7. Ink is Cheap
  8. Criminal Punishments For Destabilising The Economy - A (Very) Short History

June 2012

  1. How Do You Solve A Problem Like BlackBerry
  2. Raspberry Pi, Python, and 3G Dongles - oh my!
  3. Making Hay While The Sun Shines
  4. Soldering At The Science Museum
  5. SMS PDU in Python for Raspberry Pi
  6. Raspberry Pi and Frontline SMS
  7. Goodyear Blimp Docking with The Shard (Time Lapse)
  8. And THE LORD sayeth "Thou Shalt Give Free Parking To The Faithful"
  9. QR Interview in Metro
  10. Optical Theremin - Demo
  11. Helicopters Flying Through Tower Bridge
  12. There is no HTTP code for censorship (but perhaps there should be)
  13. How To Redirect Mobile Users
  14. Equal Marriage
  15. Button, button, who's got the button?
  16. Over The Air 2012

May 2012

  1. David Willetts Can't Do Maths
  2. Valkee's Website Was Misleading
  3. Choc In To Joyville - Cadbury's Hackday
  4. The SIM-less Phone Is Coming. And It Should Scare The Shit Out Of You
  5. Crowdsourcing Leveson
  6. Senseg Feelable Touchscreen Video
  7. Why Can't Red Dwarf Predict The Future?
  8. Interesting Twitter Hashbang Bug
  9. YQL and The Pirate Bay
  10. Windows Phone 7 vs Android

April 2012

  1. Choosing an "Example Number" For Your App
  2. Museums Showoff
  3. Leveson - Death By A Thousand (Paper) Cuts
  4. Train Tickets With QR Codes
  5. The OAuth / App Anti-Pattern
  6. Open Source Shakespeare (in MySQL)
  7. Do In App Payments Piss Off Users?
  8. Give Customers an Elevator Pitch for Your App
  9. BlackBerry PlayBook and Ubuntu Linux - HOWTO with Screenshots
  10. Context Specific Content Surfacing
  11. #TeaCamp - Social Media Guidance for Civil Servants
  12. Should < img > Deprecate "height" and "width"?
  13. TfL QR Followup - 5,000 scans per month!
  14. The Reluctant Landlord
  15. A Year of QRpedia!

March 2012

  1. Dear Technology World - Please Stop Trying To Give Me An Erection
  2. Burning All My Books
  3. Final Day In India - Food
  4. Fourth Day In India - Colours
  5. India Day Three - Money
  6. Do Adverts Really Use 75% Of Your Phone's Battery?
  7. Day 2 in India - Bangalore Is Las Vegas
  8. First Day In India
  9. Y-Cam Knight SD - Review &amp; Linux Guide
  10. More Real QR Statistics
  11. "What next? Will our courts overrule the Ten Commandments?"
  12. Open Letter To Jonathan Lord
  13. API Design is UI for Developers

February 2012

  1. Introducing a NEW QR Generator
  2. Command Line Backup for DVDs
  3. Dave Winer is Wrong About Hackdays
  4. Data Protection and Twitter
  5. 1971 - Bananas
  6. 1969 - Take the Money and Run
  7. Video From GovCamp #ukgc12
  8. Tropo Voicemail Transcription Service

January 2012

  1. Sky News Infringed My Copyright
  2. IPEXPO and the Unscannable QR Code
  3. Gov Camp UK
  4. Path - Privacy &amp; Security Problems
  5. QRpedia - We Made The Shortlist for Most Innovative Mobile Company!
  6. More *Real* QR Statistics
  7. Brilliant! Bigger Battery Boosts Business
  8. Real QR Statistics from TfL
  9. WURFL and Database Copyright
  10. SouthWest Trains' Silly Twitter Mistake
  11. TSA's QR Statistics
  12. British Transport Police - Pickpockets QR Code
  13. Connecting Samsung ICS to Ubuntu using MTP
  14. Woody Allen Challenge 1965 - What's New Pussycat

2011 141

December 2011

  1. Kneel Before Your QR Master
  2. Changing the Microsoft 4000's Zoom Keys in Ubuntu
  3. Woody Allen Challenge 1966 - What's Up Tiger Lilly?
  4. Woody Allen Challenge
  5. Xbox QR Code - Proof that MS Tag is Dead?
  6. Bit.ly Considered Unsafe (for QR Codes)
  7. Review: Motorola Pro Plus
  8. Southeastern Trains QR Failure
  9. Maplin's QR Code Mistakes
  10. A Right Pain In The Balls
  11. Review: Howl's Moving Castle
  12. Windows Phone 7's QR Scanner
  13. Linux Spotify Keybindings
  14. The Perfect Phone
  15. Occupy QR Codes
  16. Lumia Review
  17. How To Prevent QR Hijacking

November 2011

  1. You Are Not Stuck In Traffic
  2. Stephen Fry Ringtone
  3. Take Shelter from this Crap QR Code
  4. Watching and Simultaneously Saving Video in mplayer - is it possible?
  5. QRpedia - Custom URLs
  6. Choosing a URL for your QR Code
  7. Vodafone Content Control
  8. Calibre PHP Patches
  9. Installing Calibre PHP
  10. QR Codes Where There Is No Signal
  11. QRpedia video at Fundació Joan Miró
  12. SMS Spam From PeekabooTV
  13. Solar Panels and FIT
  14. I Am No Longer a Vodafone Shareholder
  15. SMS Spammers
  16. Bitcoin Sucks - But It Doesn't Have To!
  17. Calling BS on Banks
  18. Mobile Bit Torrent
  19. Linux support for the AuthenTec AES2810
  20. Police And Blue Boxes
  21. Photos: Student Protests
  22. Copyright Strikes Again!
  23. New Cards for Ex Libris
  24. QRpedia in Indianapolis Woman Magazine
  25. QRpedia Video
  26. Fixing Spotify In Wine - Remove Facebook
  27. Leaving Klout
  28. QRpedia in Russia
  29. A Year In The Life
  30. Why Hoax Emails Refuse To Die

October 2011

  1. QRpedia and Joan Miró
  2. QRpedia at Over The Air 11 - Ignite
  3. QR and TfL Countdown
  4. Coding For Kids - Android
  5. QR codes - Bigger Doesn't Always Mean Better
  6. QRpedia - Dealing With Minority Languages
  7. QRpedia In The News

September 2011

  1. National Archives and QRpedia
  2. Technology Scams
  3. Dear Recruitment Consultants
  4. Jimmy Wales ♥ QRpedia
  5. QR Treasure Hunt - Brighton
  6. QRpedia and Images
  7. QRpedia in the news
  8. QRpedia - Dealing With Missing Entries
  9. Access to Clean Water vs Access To Mobile Phones in Africa
  10. What Exactly Is The Point of a Tablet?
  11. Paying for Parking via QR Code

August 2011

  1. Trip to South Africa
  2. QR Pal - When is an Android App not an Android App?
  3. What's Happening With Ribbit Mobile?
  4. QRpedia Updates
  5. Roaming Costs in Africa

July 2011

  1. Tracey Emin, Cambridge University, QR Codes, Statistics and Bit.ly
  2. Barefoot Into Cyberspace
  3. When is a URL not a URL?
  4. Africa!
  5. Apps For Good
  6. A Pun About Google Plus and The Circles of Hell
  7. Windows XP is Better Than Ubuntu 11.04

June 2011

  1. Twitter Hashtags and QR Codes
  2. Dabr Helps Ai Weiwei!
  3. Does Your Employer Own Your Twitter Account?
  4. How Long Does It Take To Fix an eBook?
  5. Review: Evoluent Vertical Mouse 4 (and how to make it work in Ubuntu)
  6. QR Business Cards and Moo.com
  7. Displaying Twitter Photos via Entities
  8. OK, you *are* too stupid to use QR codes

May 2011

  1. You Are Too Stupid To Use QR Codes Correctly
  2. Windows Phone 7: Mango. So what?
  3. OpenTech 2011
  4. Charity QR Codes - A Missed Opportunity?
  5. A (Minor) Twitter Privacy Bug?
  6. Are QR Codes Effective for Advertisers?
  7. ebuzzing - formalising the PR relationship with Bloggers?
  8. Tales of two smart phones: or how one woman made an impression on a Scottish Museum

April 2011

  1. Dear Nokia...
  2. Ubiquitous QR Codes
  3. QRpedia Demo at Mobile Monday
  4. QRator - QR Codes in the Petrie Museum
  5. QR Codes In Museums
  6. QRpedia Presentation at Derby Museum
  7. Derby Silk Mill Interview
  8. Advertising On The Kindle
  9. QRpedia - Results from First Trial at Derby Museum
  10. [Sponsored Post] Dell Inspiron Duo
  11. Review: WorldCard Mobile
  12. Introducing QRpedia

March 2011

  1. The Problem With RFID
  2. Review: Verso Arc Light for Kindle - from LightWedge
  3. The Death Of The BlackBerry
  4. Dabr, Dabr, Everywhere...
  5. London Web Standards - State of the Browser
  6. Back to BlackBerry
  7. Getting Images from a Foursquare Checkin
  8. Stop Smoking With A QR Code?
  9. How Do You Upgrade An eBook?
  10. Remote Storage: Ubuntu One vs Dropbox
  11. #O2Fail - What You Need To Know About Mobile Phone Content Control
  12. Review: S16 Mobile Phone Watch

February 2011

  1. RBS Treat QR Codes Like They Treat Our Cash
  2. Email Via QR Codes
  3. Kindle Wallpaper: Books are weapons in the war of ideas
  4. Quoting Page Numbers from eBooks Considered Harmful
  5. #WeLoveBaskers
  6. MWC11 Predictions
  7. QR Moo Cards: New Designs
  8. Wall Street QR Code - Some Comments
  9. QR Codes for Museums
  10. Bad Oxfam! No QR Cookie for you!
  11. Sky's QR Code Campaign

January 2011

  1. (Gadget) Geeks Of London
  2. Sponsored Post - The Art of Technology
  3. Restaurant Review: Le Bel Canto
  4. OAuth Will Murder Your Children - for one week only!
  5. Wonga Mobile Adverts
  6. What's The Point of the BCS?
  7. Sponsored Post - The Art of Technology
  8. Review - Richard Herring's "Christ on a Bike"
  9. The Mechanic QR Code
  10. Metro's Use of QR Codes
  11. How Sony Ericsson Killed Android
  12. Virgin Atlantic Don't Understand Vegetarians
  13. Holiday Reading

2010 136

December 2010

  1. Mobile Badvertising: Groupon
  2. A (Virtual) Blockade of Parliament
  3. Releasing a PDF eBook is Like Writing an iPhone App - and I don't mean that as a compliment!
  4. Debenhams Don't Get QR Codes
  5. Which eBooks Should I Read On Holiday?
  6. 2D Tags in the Metro
  7. Tron: Legacy - A Review ★★☆☆☆
  8. What I've Been Up To
  9. Olympus Pen QR Advert

November 2010

  1. The Best Phone for Blogging?
  2. MS Tags vs QR Codes
  3. Show Film First
  4. My Goals for the Next Two Years
  5. Voynich Manuscript for Kindle and other eBook Readers
  6. Eastpak QR Campaign on the Tube
  7. Geek of the Year
  8. Lacoste QR Campaign
  9. An Android Super Computer?
  10. Vegetarian Caviar
  11. Three Long Years of Blogging
  12. HTC Wildfire (Sponsored Post)
  13. Floatworks - Flotation Tank Review
  14. Practical Uses for QR Codes
  15. QR Tetris
  16. MobileMonday London - mHealth
  17. The Design Of Everyday Hotel Rooms
  18. Mobile Badvertising - British Gas and Inclusive Minutes
  19. HOWTO: Preserving BarCamps
  20. Video Sunglasses - Further Details
  21. Hiding Space Invaders In QR Codes
  22. HOWTO: Android Audio Widget
  23. This Photo Symbolises Everything Wrong With The N8
  24. Video Sunglasses
  25. Augmented Reality Games - How Far Have We Come In 7 Years?
  26. Invasion Paris!
  27. I'm Proud Of Mitch Benn
  28. Am I A Time Traveller?
  29. QR Codes In Paris
  30. Am I A Jedi or An Atheist?

October 2010

  1. Luncheon vouchers?!?!
  2. QR Codes and Tesco
  3. Voluntary Paywall
  4. QR Codes hit ITV2...
  5. QR Codes and Error Correction
  6. QR Codes Going Mainstream? ASDA and Martina Cole
  7. Mobile Badvertising: Sony Pictures - Easy A
  8. N8 Fail - Reasons Why the Nokia N8 Sucks
  9. Hack Your Kindle
  10. XMTS - X Marks The Spot

September 2010

  1. Home Made Kindle Case
  2. Get Paid For Searching?
  3. Reputation Management at the Speed of Fright
  4. Vodafone Exposes Users' Email Addresses
  5. Charity Hack - QR Codes For Enhanced Mobile Giving
  6. Mobile Badvertising: Tesco, Nokia, Guardian
  7. Kindle and SureSignal - or how to find your Kindle's phone number
  8. Kindle 3 Vs Elonex 511EB
  9. Why Doesn't Your Site Work On My Mobile?
  10. OpenTech 2010
  11. London - As Though I Had Never Seen It Before

August 2010

  1. The 511EB Is Getting a Firmware Update
  2. Mobile Badvertising: Peugeot
  3. Google Contacts Copyright Madness
  4. The Future Of Android ... And How To Stop It
  5. Mobile Badvertising: Nokia Music
  6. Mobile Badvertising: Floors-2-Go Have Crappy SMS Spam
  7. Moo Cards with QR Codes
  8. eBook Libraries and DRM

July 2010

  1. Hello Kindle - Goodbye Elonex?
  2. Review: Jabra Clipper
  3. Digital Economy Act - #DEAPPG
  4. Making DynamicWP's Simple White Theme XHTML Compliant
  5. Split Personalities of Windows Phone 7
  6. EXCLUSIVE! Nokia Phones *WILL* Have Android!
  7. Looking for a new BlueTooth Headset
  8. Scientology is stupid - but so is John Dixon
  9. Share Android Apps on Twitter (or anywhere else)
  10. Hate Microsoft - Love Windows Phone 7?
  11. Ussd
  12. Android Tutorial - Clickable Widgets
  13. Mobile Badvertising: Samsung Galaxy S
  14. Android App - Vodafone UK USSD Commands
  15. Android App - Advanced Test Card

June 2010

  1. Twitter API - pagination and IDs
  2. Mobile Badvertising - Guardian, Barclay's, Apple Redux
  3. Orange Mobile Badvertising

May 2010

  1. HOWTO: Twitpic and OAuth
  2. Twitpic OAuth - I'm Stuck
  3. Did The Lib Dems Cost Labour The Election?
  4. Tardis

April 2010

  1. Android and Google Contacts - Address Incompatibility
  2. When is a Nexus not a Nexus?
  3. Why I'm Joining The Lib Dems
  4. Touchnote
  5. Terence Eden - Regeneration
  6. iplayer-dl on Xbox Xebian
  7. A Glimpse Into The Future
  8. Doctor Who QR Codes
  9. Doctor Who and Mobile Phones
  10. Plot Holes in The Eleventh Hour
  11. Wanted: TARDIS
  12. Elections In A Digital Age - blogging, tweeting and buzzing to the polls
  13. Pair &amp; Go Wii Fit Battery Pack - Rubbish!

March 2010

  1. Bugs in Twitter Text Libraries
  2. Direct Digital Democracy - A Disaster?
  3. Protesting the Digital Economy Bill
  4. Mobile Badvertising - Intercontinental (and the BBC)
  5. Dabr - Reply to all and Geotagging
  6. Ada Lovelace Day 2010 - Rachel Armstrong
  7. NESTA - What's App
  8. Mobile Badvertising - Guardian &amp; STA
  9. Choosing a New Phone
  10. Elonex 511EB Firmware Update
  11. Ribbit Voicemail
  12. The Perfect Twitter Spam Attack?

February 2010

  1. I Love Open Source
  2. Hashtag Standards
  3. Girl With A One Track Mind
  4. Hashtags and Implicit Knowledge
  5. Carnival of the Mobilists #212
  6. Don't Let Users Do Things They Can't Do
  7. WordPress Mobile - For The Rest of Us
  8. Twitter For BlackBerry - Review
  9. Twitter and Linebreaks
  10. VoteUK - Updates
  11. Twitter's new OAuth Problem
  12. EU 112 Day Widget
  13. Twitter OAuth - Mobile Failures
  14. What Super Bowl Sunday Means To Me
  15. Holiday Book Reviews

January 2010

  1. Does Facebook Think My Marriage Is In Trouble?
  2. ORG Election
  3. Dabr Widget for 360 H1
  4. Redefining The Book
  5. Waterstones Elonex 511EB Review - Part 2
  6. Open Rights Group - Standing For the Board of Directors

2009 136

December 2009

  1. Do Newspapers Get The (Mobile) Web?
  2. Integrating AudioBoo and Phreadz with Dabr
  3. Review: Elonex 511EB from Waterstones
  4. Mobile Badvertising: Capgemini
  5. When Will Amazon's MP3 Store Come To Mobile?
  6. Mobile Badvertising - Nokia E72
  7. When Did You Last Beat Your Wife?
  8. Tweeting via QR
  9. Building a Sudokube
  10. Mobile Badvertising - BarCap
  11. I *Am* The Cheese Lord
  12. Mobile Newspapers
  13. Microsoft's New Marketing Campaign
  14. Why I Love Open Source
  15. Mobile Badvertising - Flickr &amp; iPhone

November 2009

  1. NaBloPoMo
  2. Review: Dans Le Noir? ★★★★⯪
  3. Recycling The FreshCase
  4. Mobile Badvertising - NatWest
  5. Mobile Badvertising - #tweetsgiving
  6. Apathist
  7. Repairing an Xbox's DVD Drive
  8. Response to Ewan
  9. Seesmic Twitter Client for BlackBerry
  10. Sudokube
  11. I Am The Cheese Man!
  12. BlackBerry Wireless Update
  13. Blocking News International
  14. Times Cheltnam Twitter Competition
  15. Woking Beer Festival
  16. Connect Merger with Prospect
  17. Slingers
  18. Recording Phone Calls
  19. DNA Database Consultation
  20. Unlimited?
  21. Boxes of Wine
  22. Gig Review - Mitch Benn ★★★★★
  23. BarCamp Africa UK
  24. Mobile Badvertising - Click Here
  25. Taking The Internet Mobile - Mobile Squared Roadshow
  26. Mobile Badvertising - BlackBerry Characters
  27. Twitter, OAuth and Passwords - Oh My!
  28. Boffoonery
  29. Movie Review - Harry Brown
  30. Mobile Badvertising - Language
  31. Beatles Rock Band

October 2009

  1. You Never Call, You Never Write...
  2. BBC, BNP and Statistics
  3. Mobile Badvertising – Part 3
  4. Twitter Favourites
  5. Universal Power Supplies
  6. Mobile Badvertising - Part 2
  7. Do People Understand How To Use Twitter?
  8. Linking Papers to The Web
  9. Humm Energy Monitor Set Up – Part 5 – Data Visualisation
  10. The Guardian - A Review
  11. Holborn Station and Sousveillance
  12. When Does Bruce Wayne Sleep?
  13. Amendment 138
  14. Feminism in London - 2009
  15. Privatise The Post Office - Co-Op Style
  16. Vodafone Update - Twitter Client
  17. Connect Merger With Prospect
  18. Free Our Postcodes
  19. Humm Energy Monitor Set Up – Part 4 – Data Upload
  20. Mobile News Sites - The Times
  21. Connect Merger With Prospect
  22. Browser Statistics of 10 Downing Street

September 2009

  1. Do Newspapers Get The Web?
  2. Embedding Mobile YouTube in Dabr / Twitter
  3. Saving Money - Switching Tarrifs
  4. Humm Duet - Speedometer
  5. Humm Energy Monitor Set Up – Part 3 – Data
  6. Review: Opera Mini 5 Beta - BlackBerry
  7. Humm Energy Monitor Set Up – Part 2 - Gas
  8. Humm Energy Monitor Set Up - Part 1
  9. Unboxing Videos - Humm Duet Energy Monitor
  10. BarCampBrighton4 and High Def Video
  11. Response to Government P2P Consultation
  12. Expanding URLs in Dabr / Twitter

August 2009

  1. A Tax On Stupidity
  2. VoteUK - Some Minor Setbacks
  3. Government Statement on the Proposed P2P File-Sharing Legislation
  4. An Idea For A Movie
  5. VoteUK - Some Progress!
  6. Who Owns The Customer?
  7. Book Review: The Noughtie Girl's Guide to Feminism ★★★★⯪
  8. How Not To Design A Mobile Site - TasteLondon
  9. How Not To Get People To Download Your App
  10. Video Surveillance Comes to Mobile

July 2009

  1. Alternative Voicemail Providers
  2. BarCamp Transparency #BCT09
  3. Armadillo Roll - Open GL Game for Android
  4. Bletchley Park
  5. YouTube and QR Codes
  6. Connect Conference - Part 1
  7. WordPress Plugin - YouTube for XHTML and Mobile
  8. Mashed Up Maps
  9. UberTwitter Review
  10. Getting People To The Polling Station

June 2009

  1. DVD Swap - Because it's good to share your toys
  2. Police, Camera, Action...
  3. You Know You're A "Citizen Journalist" if...
  4. Why "Raw Data Now" Could Fail...
  5. MDA Presentation
  6. Prime - My New Addiction
  7. What I Want From SpinVox
  8. An Open Letter To The Labour Party

May 2009

  1. The 10th Anniversary of the Death of the Modern Film Industry
  2. Sharing *is* Caring
  3. Nokia Ovi - 25 Mistakes
  4. Nokia Ovi Store. Oh dear...
  5. Donate Minutes Via Your Mobile
  6. Exporting Blogger to Wordpress
  7. Thoughts on Mobile Tech 4 Social Change UK
  8. Playing with Wordpress
  9. This Machine Stops Fascists*
  10. The Usability of Toilet Paper Dispensers
  11. Worth Retweeting
  12. Nitdroid: Installing Android on the Nokia N810

April 2009

  1. Mafia Wars - Two UI Flaws
  2. The Perfect Ingredients for a Miracle Berry Party
  3. Thoughts on #AmazonFail
  4. Carpool
  5. The Worst Thing About Being Vegetarian - Part 1
  6. Porn and Social Media #SMCLondon
  7. BlackBerry AppWorld - Pictures and thoughts

March 2009

  1. Some thoughts on .tel
  2. Ada Lovelace Day
  3. MobileCampBrighton Mon, 2 Mar 2009

February 2009

  1. iTunes - Why The Sad Face?
  2. iTunes Sucks. A Rational Discussion
  3. Twestival - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
  4. BitchBuzz Reply
  5. MPs' Expenses - Humfrey Malins

January 2009

  1. How Safe is Your Social Network?

2008 20

December 2008

  1. Don't blame Andy Burnham for wanting to censor the web.

November 2008

  1. I'm looking through you - but you're not there...
  2. Building the ultimate Xbox Server

October 2008

  1. Edent says: Find Me
  2. Mobile Twitter on the Blackberry
  3. Social Media Camp London 2008 - #smclondon08

September 2008

  1. Lufthansa - 2D Barcode Boarding Passes

August 2008

  1. Selling Out
  2. FoI BTP
  3. Am I A Dick?

July 2008

  1. The unstoppable rise of QR codes continues!

May 2008

  1. Transcoding - personal thoughts
  2. The Future of Voice

April 2008

  1. Changes to the blog
  2. iPhone vs iPlayer : 3G capacity planning
  3. N-gage user experience. 100% failure.

March 2008

  1. BBC iPlayer on your phone in 4 easy steps (and 2 hard ones)
  2. Time To Grow Up And Get Married

January 2008

  1. Mobile Badvertising
  2. I'm a former Scrable Champion

2007 9

December 2007

  1. QR Codes seen in the wild!
  2. Bluetooth Spam from Coca-Cola
  3. Turn Your N95 into an iPhone
  4. QR Codes
  5. MusicStation, some thoughts

November 2007

  1. Quake on your phone
  2. Turn your N95 into a Light Sabre
  3. On international roaming.
  4. SHKSPR.mobi goes live

2006 2

November 2006

  1. Component over Ethernet (CAT 5) Lots of pics

April 2006

  1. ~ Our little bundle of joy.... ~

2005 2

September 2005

  1. Speech to TUC

March 2005

  1. Doctor Who "Rose" - a review of the CulTV review

2004 10

July 2004

  1. Focus groups

June 2004

  1. The Vodafone Ball
  2. Haircut
  3. We are the champions!

May 2004

  1. Moving house
  2. Friday Giggle
  3. E-Voting
  4. I also have a Blackberry
  5. In the begggggininggggg

January 2004

  1. Review: Teal Movie

2003 2

March 2003

  1. Icons are usually not culture-neutral
  2. Review - Hauppauge DEC 1000-t

2002 4

April 2002

  1. Disappearing Computer (2002)
  2. Review Mello MP3 Player
  3. Uses for multiple monitors

February 2002

  1. Users are socially conditioned to believe that tasks should be difficult

2001 2

October 2001

  1. Review: Pratchett "The Last Hero" Illustrated by Paul Kidby ★★★⯪☆

July 2001

  1. Fantasy Casting for Harry Potter - Tim Curry as Gilderoy Lockhard

2000 3

November 2000

  1. Review: Terry Pratchett at UEA

October 2000

  1. A (Nuclear) Blast From The Past

March 2000

  1. Sock And Buskin - Improv Superbowl

1999 2

December 1999

  1. Oh! Canada!

September 1999

  1. Montreal

1998 1

May 1998

  1. Unofficial Exam Guidelines. Please Display.

1997 1

January 1997

  1. Mixed Up Memory (Letter to PC Format)

1995 2

May 1995

  1. Interview with my Aunt

March 1995

  1. Letter to Sega Magazine

1994 1

April 1994

  1. Surrey Herald

1993 2

August 1993

  1. Children's show of animal magic

June 1993

  1. French Exchange Diary

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