All the survivors of the secret department store wars of the 80s seem to be from House Fraser. I imagine that's actually a nom du guerre and their ancestral homeworld is Giedi Prime. You could tell that something odd was going on if you bothered to pay attention to the layout of the buildings, because nothing quite lined up the way you thought it ( Read more... )

A five-minute Arduino lash-up.

(When I get around to writing more code) Sending me a tweet will cause the pointy birds to rotate around the watcher. Anointy-anointy.

It uses one of the stepper driver boards that I was pointed towards here, and five lines of code. £1.50, some rubber bands and a small amount of soldering. Bargain fun, I think.

Jabbering about lunch is one of the web2.0 things that people are supposed to do. Or was it taking pictures of your lunch? I forget ( Read more... )

I think I shall be vaguely sad about the vanishment of Habitat. It sort of marks the end of a potential alternative retro-future that I never quite got around to having ( Read more... )

Dear global climate patterns,

Where's my blasted summer you bastards?

Boomshanka, JH-R.

(Oh, and happy birthday to miss_soap who still remains younger than I.)