http://sionide.net /dev/brain >> internet Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:18:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I should have done this long ago. Every time I get McDonalds for lunch at work someone has a dig at me about it. Maybe they're just jealous because I eat so much crap and don't put much weight on, heh. But the other day I had a change of ... http://sionide.net/2008/07/08/no-more-mcdonalds/ FixMyStreet.com is one of the coolest websites I've found in a long time.. The other week I noticed that a street light on my road remained on during daylight hours and seeing as I had nothing better to do, I set about trying to get it fixed. Wayne told me ... http://sionide.net/2008/05/29/fixmystreetcom-fixed-my-street/ I just registered a Twitter account, if only to make sure I got my username before someone else does, known as "land grabbing" - some say this Twitter lark is the new Facebook but I'm not so sure. Maybe I'll use it, maybe I won't. It's pointless without anybody to ... http://sionide.net/2008/05/28/twitter/ MJ Ray wrote about a couple of things which puzzled him a while back... Here are a couple of things that puzzle me. 1. Templates Why is the ~/Templates/ directory empty on a default Ubuntu install? If there is a sensible reason, by all means comment and tell me. But if you right-click ... http://sionide.net/2008/05/20/what-puzzles-me/ My first phone... A Sagem MV3020 Mike was wondering what the average age of other peoples mobile phones as been. And from memory I will try to put the mobile phones I've owned into chronological order.. The first phone I ever sort of owned was my Mum's old Sagem. It was the most ... http://sionide.net/2008/05/09/a-history-of-mobile-phones/ [singlepic=1,320,240,,] Wow, Zattoo is amazing...! Thanks popey for the heads up. Zattoo is a peer-to-peer television streaming program. It's got a selection of UK Terrestrial channels, BBC One, Two, ITV, Channel4 and Five and some other random channels to choose from. It's quite handy for watching Neighbours without having to ... http://sionide.net/2008/05/03/zattoo/ GTA IV - Can't wait to play it! Because I don't have a PS3 or 360 (yet), I haven't had the chance to play GTA IV but I've heard a lot about in the media recently and I have had the chance to listen to a promo CD of the music ... http://sionide.net/2008/05/01/the-sound-of-gta-iv/ Widsets is another application I have found on my travels. It's a Java based thing which gives you a dashboard onto which you can put different widgets added either from the dashboard itself or via the website. The strange thing is, I'd have thought this would have taken off a lot ... http://sionide.net/2008/04/24/widsets/ Liero Screenshot (Wikipedia) If you've ever played Liero, you'll know that worms-style real time games are a lot of fun. Take that and mix it up with the graphics from Chase Ace 2 and you've pretty much got Teeworlds. There are less weapons than Liero had back in the day, just the ... http://sionide.net/2008/04/24/teeworlds/ I have found a killer app for my phone. This is one reason why I went for the N95 8GB in the first place, for software like this to crop up and make it well worth the investment! WalkingHotSpot turns a wifi-enabled smart phone (like mine) into a wifi ... http://sionide.net/2008/04/23/walking-hot-spot/