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.
Category Archives: my projects
Push or pull?
19 October 2008 – 1:40 pm
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
6 October 2008 – 11:03 am
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
24 September 2008 – 2:56 pm
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
17 September 2008 – 5:09 pm
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
26 August 2008 – 8:18 am
The Nation’s Favourite Originally uploaded by diamond geezer
Famous Scenes from Spectrum Football Manager History
13 August 2008 – 2:10 pm
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
21 July 2008 – 4:52 pm
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
20 July 2008 – 7:22 pm
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
9 July 2008 – 6:33 pm
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 [...]
