Phil Gyford’s Friends and Family

Flickr, Contacts and Greasemonkey

2008-10-11T14:01:45Z

A week or so ago, the lovely people at Flickr launched their new iPhone-specific mobile site. It's very nicely done, and there's one thing in particular I noticed that I've always wished for on their main site. When viewing photos by your conta...

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Jar Jar Economics

2008-10-10T16:46:18Z

"Yeah, well I blame George Lucas." "Oh for... Well you seem to have been consistantly blaming Lucas for everything bad the last few years. Do tell - how has this creator of fiction caused the current economic crisis?" "You say that, but the eco...

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Apple Keyboards: US vs UK

2008-10-10T09:15:28Z

I really should have posted this months ago, when it was first news (and I'd thought that I had, but I can't find a trace of it). Anyway. Apple now offer US keyboards in the UK, as a build to order option. For example, here's the page for customi...

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Thoughts on Photokina

2008-10-09T14:16:16Z

This year, more than most, the Photokina trade show seemed to produce a lot of interesting news in photography. Most of it filtered down to people outside the industry through sites like Digital Photography Review, who covered the long stream of p...

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Songs as G.S.V.s

2008-10-06T16:09:04Z

While not having read that much Iain M. Banks, I find myself thinking in Culture Ship names an awful lot. Blip.fm seems to encourage it. I try and think up a culture ship name that sums up the song I'm going to blip. No idea why. I enjoy it greatl...

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Canon vs Nikon: the 2008 Edition

2008-10-02T13:16:18Z

I'm a bit late to this (it's a whole week and a half old), but a recent Stephen Fry Dork Talk column covered the Canon/Nikon camera rivalry, and more specifically, the Canon EOS 1000D. I've not really talked about it, but unlike a lot of the earl...

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Freeriders of the purple sage

2008-10-02T12:03:41Z

The tragedy of the commons is a myth. There is a vast conspiracy enacted by those who would steal the common off the goose. A giant distributed clan of supervillainy: the free-riders. They are sent across the globe and beyond - into our fiction...

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snaptrip: some thoughts

2008-09-29T20:16:42Z

Having finally got snaptrip out there, I'm hoping you'll allow me a little (pretentious?) waffle about why I wrote it, where it fits, how I made some of my decisions, and what's next. I'm a big fan of Flickr's machine tags. Most of my images have...

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snaptrip: a weekend of changes

2008-09-22T15:39:26Z

I'd hoped to do a lot to snaptrip over the weekend, and I pretty much managed to do what I hoped for. There's a lot of changes which went live today; a lot of them are kind of invisible, but hopefully they're all useful. Firstly, there's some use...

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snaptrip: follow-up

2008-09-18T22:58:00Z

Just a quick note to say thanks to all of you who've been using snaptrip today, since it was mentioned on DopplrHQ's Twitter stream. As it says in the questions and answers on the front page, I'm still poking at lots of bits of functionality, and ...

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