Monthly Archives: July 2005

Scientific Debate in Newcastle

I came across an interesting web site [via]. The web site is called Café Scientifique, and I’ll let them explain: >The Cafe Scientifique Network > >Cafe Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or … Continue reading

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The New Doctor Who

The New Doctor Who Originally uploaded by Sam Judson. I have to say, I very much like the new look for Doctor Who. “Geek Chic” its called apparently. I’m not really that much of a Doctor Who ‘fan’ (I don’t … Continue reading

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Entrances to Hell

Hell Originally uploaded by Shooz. I’m a co-admin of a wonderful group on Flickr that tries to contain only entrances to the underworld domain of hell. (Being an admin isn’t all fun – I have to delete some pictures that … Continue reading

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Designing Web Controls in .Net – Buttons

As a little educational detoir from my current boring code monkeying (some people call it work) I got asked to look into creating a .Net photo gallery (using Flickr of course). I thought this would be a fun thing to … Continue reading

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Flickr.Net Source Release 1.3

Well after the last upload of source code I finally managed to work out how to log into dragnet, the bug tracker, and discovered a load of bugs had been logged. Damn! (Login as “guest”/”guest”) So I fixed all the … Continue reading

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Ghost Ship to arrive in Newcastle

Image a ship sailing up the Tyne with no-one on board. A Ghost ship. Well if you’re around on the 27th July near the end of the Tall Ships Race you may just see the ghost ship arrive… Travelling from … Continue reading

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Flickrwall – Flickr Project in Newcastle

A while ago I took a photo of a bit of chalked graffiti in Newcastle. There is an old alley (one of a pair) that leads off Pilgrim Street and down to Carliol Square. The chalk graffiti reads “Secret Entrance”, … Continue reading

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Great North Run on Google Maps

I found an absolutely brilliant google map hack the other day, called GMap Pedomoeter. I allows you to track a route using Google Maps and tells you the distance etc as you go along. Its great for measuring out running … Continue reading

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London explosions…

Holy crap… Listening to Radio 2 – apparently a until recently unheard of group of terrorists have claimed responsibility for the explosions, in the name of Al-Qaeda. More than 10 are dead! Update: German website has news on the Al-Qaeda … Continue reading

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