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Category Archives: Random

Ran­dom, or uncat­e­gorised post

ANPR — Automatic Number Plate Recognition

Feel free to try out this Auto­matic Num­ber Plate Recog­ni­tion demo… upload a pho­to­graph with a car’s licence plate in the frame and it’ll try and read it… it takes some time to process so be patient. It isn’t very reli­able:
Auto­matic Num­ber Plate Recog­ni­tion demonstration

Happy New Year

Happy New Year.

Happy Christmas

Happy Christ­mas

C-c-c-c-c-ooooll-d-d-d

Brrr it is cold today:

Camera contest

Check out Scott Bourne’s web site for details on cam­era give­aways… I’ve entered and so should you. I wouldn’t mind a Canon 7D!

http://www.photofocus.com
http://www.scottbourne.com

Christmas wish list

My Christ­mas wish list

Facebook applications

Around 130 years of peo­ples’ time have been spent using my var­i­ous Face­book appli­ca­tions since August 2009. How­ever, I think that the upcom­ing changes to the plat­form will have a neg­a­tive effect for most Face­book API devel­op­ers. The changes being made include remov­ing noti­fi­ca­tions for when a user makes an action with an appli­ca­tion (e.g. […]

Years spent a month by website users

Tak­ing last month as an exam­ple (Sep­tem­ber 1st  —  Octo­ber 1st), one of my more pop­u­lar web appli­ca­tions was used by 332,174 unique vis­i­tors, spend­ing an aver­age of 6 mins 37 secs.
Work­ing from that fig­ure, 3.971 years are spent  using the appli­ca­tions per month!

Backup your Facebook photos and friends list

This is a use­ful appli­ca­tion that will back up your Face­book pho­tographs and friends list. It doesn’t require any instal­la­tion (I don’t like installing soft­ware as it can slow your com­puter down). It worked very well when I used it.
Face­book, a social net­work with over 250 mil­lion users, con­tains a mas­sive amount of pho­tographs (esti­mated at […]

Birthday wishlist 2009

Here is my Ama­zon birth­day wish list… worth a try:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/registry.html/ref=w_h_em-si-html_viewall?id=1K3Y9X1PADP8A
Includes:

Man­frotto 7302YB M-Y Tri­pod with Ball and Head

A light tri­pod with a head with no han­dle to help with panoramic pho­tographs. It also looks like the head can be reversed, so I can take a high-quality pho­to­graph of the ground (nadir).
Air blow Flash […]

Tokyo Capsule Hotel

I found these sites about Tokyo Cap­sule Hotels interesting:

Cap­sule Hotel in Ike­bukuro, Tokyo at Hotels­ByC­ity
Fea­tur­ing a pho­to­graph by Charles Tyack of the Cap­sule Hotel
Cap­sule Inn Akihabara

They look very inter­est­ing!
Here is the pho­to­graph from Charles Tyack (click on it to visit his Flickr page):
I’m going to be pub­lish­ing a pho­to­graph every week. You’ll be able to view […]

New ‘blog coming soon

I’m cur­rently work­ing on con­vert­ing my ‘blog’ from my home­spun blog soft­ware to Word­Press. I have decided to do this as there was lit­tle point rein­vent­ing the wheel, and when­ever I find a miss­ing fea­ture I’ll have the oppor­tu­nity to make one and share it and give some­thing back to this open source community.

Vacation — USA

I’m writ­ing this entry on an air­plane. I’m on vaca­tion going to the west coast of the USA for fun times. You may be able to see ran­dom videos sent from my phone on this Qik.com link.

Back!

The blog is back! After a long time of not hav­ing a place to pub­lish any inter­est­ing snip­pets or projects, I am slowly build­ing this new site. I’m not sure if I will keep this blog, but hey, it’s a per­sonal site so I can play around to my heart’s content.