Just checking out the site - clublime of a fellow HumHumer, Emil Korngold, and found a couple of real Gems -

http://www.abandonia.com - play old DOS based games, many to download. Just downloading Street Fighter 2 and Xenon 2 Megablast. Fantastic.

And also a link to one of my favourite ADs at the moment, the Volkswagon video remix of Singing in the Rain for the new Golf Gti: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-video/Media/video/2005/01/27/golfgti.mov

I am loving this short movie entitled “Delivery” by Till Nowak over at Framebox.

Check it out: http://www.delivery.framebox.de/

Its worth the download of the Divx version

Had a small problem the other day ( No such device or address while trying to open /dev/sda1 ) as I was building a new machine that had not only IDE harddisks but also SCSI disks. The system was giving me errors from fdisk whilst trying to get to /dev/sda1 and the reason being was that it didn’t have the modules loaded at the time.

Took the opportunity to install the latest kernel - 2.6.8 by downloading the source package from a debian apt source, then downloading fakeroot.

Basically I went through into /usr/src and did the following:

make-kpkg clean
make menuconfig
fakeroot make-kpkg –initrd –revision=customkernel.2.6.8 kernel_image
make-kpkg modules_image
CD ..
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.8_customkernel.2.6.8_i386.deb
shutdown -r now

Its worth reading the docs that come with the Kernel package ( /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz ) and also the Debian documentation before you start compiling the Kernel.

Amazon have changed their delivery date on the Sony PSP to the 24th June, 2005, of course they are taking pre-orders up until then but it could of course be delayed even later. But whats the point? Perhaps some of the button bugs that have been talked about will be ironed out by then.

If think I will be getting one just to carry on my almost forgotten obsession with WipeOut as WipeOut Pure is being launched at the same time. The latest issue of Edge magazine has a good article and of course ign has a review .

And meanwhile in the real online world of the BBC, the technology section has the following interesting reviews out:

Net V.2
Playing Exchange
Podcasting
Super Computers get Faster

Currently listening to Fixed::Content by Labradford perfect for a sunday morning - or what would have been my Sunday morn if the clocks hadn’t gone forwards, utterly pointless idea I think.

So the site has been down for a couple of days whilst we sort out the air-con. Startd working on the new version of this site already, new framework that should approve the ability to update with new features as this version is still very much a collection of scripts rather than a complete blogging framework.

I will post a list of the new features but if all goes well I will consider posting up the source code.

Well the sun has finally decided to make an showing in London to warm up the capital, and very nice it was too. Spent a nice day walking down The Thames and along Southbank taking in the views, the beach or what you can call a beach though I am sure the reclaim the beach parties are in aid of something and generally enjoying the weather before it takes a turn back to the norm.

As I have just started readingLondon: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd I felt like I had a little more knowledge on how London has been in times gone by, it certainly is a good read if you want to get to know more about the capital, and if you have a passing interest I recommend it.

After Southbank we ended up in Borough Market heaving as always with busy people looking for something rather good to eat. We ended up getting a nice Sea Bass, vegetables and flowers. I have never been disappointed with the food there yet, unfortuntely so perhaps for the waistline but the surrounding Pubs and Coffee bars are also worth a visit on their own merit and we ended up having a much needed Bitter in the Market Porter, founded in 1620 it still serves up some interesting ales and beers. One thing that would approve Stoney Street and the ajoining streets would be to get rid of the cars, and of course restrict access to the street for the market place traffic so we could get some much needed Benches and chairs out for a sunny day.

Rounded off the day by visiting Tas for a spot to eat, which has actually killed my appetite for the Steak and Guiness pie I was going to bake tonight.

The other day the winners of the 2005 Bloggies award were announced at sxsw and I think most of it was well deserved, though I am not sure about the more profereally be looked at - but then again I love Gizmodo as much as the next person. I am sure that if everyone had a sponser we could produce a better blog. Some of the others I read all the time and must admit the content is usually very good, these are the higlights for me:

Best Meme: flickr
Best Essay about Blogs: How to blog
Best Application: Movabletype
Best UK blog: PlasticBag claps!!
Best photo blog: Daily Dose
Best food weblog: Cooking for Engineers
Best tech blog: Gizmodo
Best writing: Dooce
Best group: BoingBoing
Lifetime achievement: Tom Coates of Plasticbag claps!!
Weblog of the year: BoingBoing

With regards the way that Cooking for Engineers presents the recipes - I am very impressed, its extremely straight forward and the diagrams are wonderful.

So congratulations to BoingBoing and PlasticBag

Theres also a write up from the bbc: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4350041.stm

This is very cool, putting borders of colour on to a black and white image or piece of motion footage this method can then colourise (english spelling?!) the image and it looks like it works really well.

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yweiss/Colorization/

I have seen several of these over the years but this is perhaps the best that I have seen for a long time and it is also running from a Mac, go check it out:

http://www.creativebastard.com/