Week 347
Weeknotes always seem to be written by people who are extremely busy and/or enthusiastic. Let’s look back at last week (346) and momentarily buck that trend.
In Writing on 8 Feb 2010
Recent YouTube Favourites
Links for Friday 29 January 2010
- The State of Split-Screen Gaming Article | Eurogamer
- A summary of decent games to play with a friend in the same room. (Thanks Tom A.)
- Boks - A Visual Grid Editor - Toki Woki.
- An AIR application that generates customised CSS etc files for use with the Blueprint CSS framework. Handy.
- Grange Hill Online - Locations
- Amazing: matching up shots from Grange Hill episodes with photos of the real world contemporary locations. The Internet's fab. (via EnemyOfChaos on Twitter)
More Pepys talks at St Olave’s
Samuel Pepys’ local church near the Tower of London, St Olave’s, has been hosting talks about their famous former parishioner for some time and are about to launch a new series to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the start of the diary.
At Pepys' Diary Site News on 15 Jan 2010
My Spotlight page
I recently got my page on Spotlight sorted out. I should also be appearing in the next edition of the Spotlight book.
At PhilipGyford.com on 11 Nov 2008
Photos for Saturday 6 February 2010
Home computing, 1982
Taken sometime in 1982, my family around the new Sinclair ZX81.
Metropolitan at Sundance
In December, Metropolitan was shown selected to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival as one of three films chosen for The Sundance Collection at UCLA, which exists to “preserve and restore documentaries, narratives, shorts, festival films, and commercially released independent films” according to this report on the Sundance site.
At Whit Stillman on 4 Feb 2010
What's the fastest way to write text? A keyboard, natch, but the relative speed and rank of the other devices is surprising.
He claims he can touch type, but “I tend to make too many mistakes.” Well, guess what: you can't touch type if you can't type by touch while looking at the source text!
A comment on another site on 31 Jan 2010
Ask MetaFilter’s best introductory books
When talking about the Best Books I linked to this great Ask MetaFilter thread from 2007: What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?.
At Septivium on 7 May 2009