Category: General

Chalkboard Paint makes a chalkboard anywhere you can paint.

Some ideas on what to actually do with the stuff on the walls.

I like the idea of a calendar made of the stuff.

This is a simple template to use SoyLatte in Mac OS X 10.6 and have it appear in the JavaPreferences system.

You need to copy all of the contents of the /usr/local/soylatte16-i386-1.0.3/ directory into the directory contents/Home (inside the package), then copy the .jdk folder to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/

soylatte16-i386-1.0.3.jdk_1

[Edit] revised based on suggestions by Mike Swingler, it now doesn’t advertise capabilities that the SoyLatte distribution doesn’t offer.

Also another version: This simply symlinks to the existing installation in /usr/local/soylatte16-i386-1.0.3/ and doesn’t require anything except copying the result to the /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ folder.

soylatte-103-symlink

A vision of a technology future that is almost magical in its fluidity and the absence of any obvious equipment. This is what the future should be:

Spotted recently in a technical forum (which shall remain nameless):

Although I still don’t know what the final answer was, alas…

Real cocoa buyers, who are probably chocolate manufacturers, are getting tired of excessive speculation in the cocoa market; they’ve threatened to move from London to unspecified US cocoa futures exchanges if something isn’t done to improve things:

Telegraph Article
(Third section, after Gold movements and Shipping rates)

I suppose speculation is good if it balances demand and evens out prices, but bad if the end customers feel that they are being cheated.

More

Another article: Mystery trader buys all Europe’s cocoa.

No wonder people are annoyed.

back in my day, we didn’t pay to win a video game … we simply played them well

Marketing crazy

It’s the day of the UK general election.

It’s your democratic duty to vote!

If you don’t vote, you can’t complain about the government we get.

So please vote 🙂

Warburtons Bread Advert

It made me laugh, anyway.

(On their own site too)

I didn’t know this before but it definitely seems to work.

SVG is more compatible for web pages, though this could be useful for embedded webkit apps.

From High DPI Websites

In the nature of the European cooperation, I propose that the European Union should give out prizes to people who can speak significant numbers of european languages.
Perhaps 1 million euros for a person speaking all of the EU significant languages.

Then smaller prizes for people who speak some fraction (5 or 10 different languages perhaps)
I don’t know how many people could manage the million euro level (perhaps only a few hundred people, maybe even none?) but it would be a good thing to encourage us all to speak each other’s languages.

It would also offer a clear and obvious reward to study languages. (Like winning the lottery, just more predictably achievable)

🙂