Category Archives: my projects

I can see our house from here

I can see our house from here Originally uploaded by bounder Google Earth for the iPhone is a stunning application – new photos of Birmingham too, as we hadn’t moved into our current house on the previous pics and there’s my car on the drive.

Push or pull?

I’ve just come back from a few days in Tuscany, we stayed in Pisa where there isn’t a whole lot going on (nice — we went to not do much) apart from visiting the leaning tower. Once you’re there, it’s obligatory to pose as if you’re interacting with the round leany thing. The odd person […]

Oops

Oops Originally uploaded by bounder It still worked fine, apart from getting little glass splinters in your fingers (when surfing the web) and your ear (if answering a call).

The International – you can find anything on the interweb

I was just looking a website for an unsigned bands competition (Festibull), which got me thinking about bands I’ve been in. The longest running and most interesting was ‘The International’ — we didn’t gig much, but we were completely out-of-time modish art-rock. We used to have a practise room next to Mistress (very metal) and […]

At Cape York – Group of Arctic Highlanders and Seamen of the Expedition

At Cape York – Group of Arctic Highlanders and Seamen of the Expedition Originally uploaded by National Maritime Museum Third guy from left, back row — cardboard cut out?

The Nation’s Favourite

The Nation’s Favourite Originally uploaded by diamond geezer

Famous Scenes from Spectrum Football Manager History

After Through the Wall, and a dodgy (by which I mean rubbish) text adventure called Planet of Death (of which no record exists), one of the first games I played on my ZX Spectrum was Football Manager. It was slow, written in BASIC, and the amount of control you had over the success or otherwise […]

Watching me Jon Bounds, Watching you Google Street View Car

Google Street Map Car – Moseley, Bimingham UK Originally uploaded by bounder While I’m sitting working, what should I see out of the corner of my eye than the Google Street View Car. Breathlessly excited, I rushed to get my camera — luckily I’m in a cul-de-sac so I knew it was coming back. I […]

Geeky Picture Quiz

I wrote a quiz for WordCampUK, the picture round is 20 “famous people” to identifiy — I thought it was worthwhile to pop it up on the net. So here it is (PDF link) – answers are on page two, and link to somewhere on the net that should explain who they are if you’re […]

Tweets for Today

22:18 blogging on train FAIL. Went through a tunnel whilst publishing and now the post is tuck in published-but-not-there limbo. # 12:11 thinking about writing up yesterdays’ Tim Berners Lee talk — do i write up the talk, or the ideas? they’re very different. # 12:44 #brumbloggers how does Thur 24th Aug grab you for […]