Monthly Archives: May 2005

To My Song

Posted on May 31, 2005 by Rik Abel

That’s right, baby. To My Song by Captain Comatose is the feelgood hit of the summer. At least it is round these parts. (Free download, innit?) And judging by the glorious sunshine flooding through our kitchen window, summer may – … Continue reading →

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Twirling my baton

Posted on May 20, 2005 by Rik Abel

A musical baton has been passed to me by Neil "51.67GB" Lee and at last I’ve found the will to grasp the candle and bang on…Total volume of music files on my computer: 32.24GB, 4951 songs, 15.4 days. The last … Continue reading →

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Stop!

Posted on May 19, 2005 by Rik Abel

Wednesday night skate in London Originally uploaded by Rik Abel. Sometimes, you have to stop. The skate is very well organised, with numerous marshals who race ahead to ‘secure’ junctions and stop traffic. However, if everyone has to stop suddenly … Continue reading →

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Wednesday night skate in London

Posted on May 19, 2005 by Rik Abel

  Wednesday night skate in London    Originally uploaded by Rik Abel. Last night’s Wednesday Night Skate in London was most excellent. This is us (about 250 of us) setting off from Hyde Park Corner for a 14 mile loop … Continue reading →

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BBC Backstage

Posted on May 18, 2005 by Rik Abel

BBC Backstage has launched, and very exciting it is too, providing content feeds for anyone to build cool stuff with. Headshift has built a rather funky ‘shared tags’ tool for BBC News stories, which allows you to apply your own … Continue reading →

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flickr graph

Posted on May 11, 2005 by Rik Abel

Flickr Graph is just ridiculously cool. A social network graphing tool for flickr users with a swanky flash interface. The innovations just keep on comin’!I wish *I* had an API so that people could hack enhancements for me… Tweet This

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A Firefox, an Aardvark and a Greasemonkey…

Posted on May 11, 2005 by Rik Abel

Aardvark is a highly useful extension to the Firefox web browser (which we all use, right?), which allows you to do lots of fun things like view the divs in a page (v. handy for web designers/developers wanting to understand … Continue reading →

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google maps + flickr = fun

Posted on May 4, 2005 by Rik Abel

Geobloggers combines your flickr photos with google maps, very neat. I love all this cross-pollination between web apps. Where will it all end? How about integrating ‘mososos‘ like dodgeball or playtxt with google maps? I’d do it, but I can’t … Continue reading →

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Mink Sniffing

Posted on May 4, 2005 by Rik Abel

I had the funniest dream last night, that the latest craze to hit the UK was getting high by sniffing a mink. Specifically, one had to sniff behind the mink’s front legs, in it’s little armpits, and do so before … Continue reading →

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Broadway Market

Posted on May 3, 2005 by Rik Abel

I’ve really been enjoying living in London lately, largely because we are living in a great part of town. We live in Dalston, which I had always imagined was a bit of a dump – if you only see Dalston … Continue reading →

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