Ahoy! As you may be aware its International Talk Like A Pirate Day! I ordered a couple hundred eye patches to distribute for charity:
There are eye patches in aid of the Jubilee Sailing Trust available around Shrewsbury:
More information:
While carrying out my day to day searching with Google, I’ve noticed occasionally the results page appears to be of a different design. It would seem Google’s at it again, testing new layouts!
The recent designs all seem to keep to a three column layout, with search options (web, images, groups, news, ect) removed from above the search box, and moved to a left column, these options are now also repeated at the bottom of the results page.
The traditionally blue coloured information bar underneath the logo and search box has been simplified and altered to a dull beige colour. Originally displaying the number of results on the current page, as well as the total number of results discovered, the bar now only displays which set of results you are viewing (“Results 1 – 10” for example). The information lost from this location is now located at the bottom of the results page, next to the page selector.
Clicking though to search images, simply returns the standard images results page. The changes don’t seem to make a real difference to usability unless you take into account the repeated search options being displayed at the bottom of the screen, however it’s never seemed like too much of a task to scroll back up to select image results! The colour choice doesn’t make any sense to me, I much preferred the blue layout 🙂
The setup of equipment was pretty painless, the most frustration was caused by the lack of an internet connection! After some investigation, we rang the Tiscalli technical support line, who kindly informed us, the service in our area was currently down for maintenance. Since finishing, connectivity has been restored! 😐
Without the internet, our code-a-thon “live” webcam was redundant, however the software still captured images every 30 seconds onto hard disk, which means, thanks to the wonder that is technology, you can watch our entire 24 hours in only 1 minutes, 30 seconds! Enjoy:
During the time, we also played a fair bit of Nexuiz, an open source FPS and Doom 2 over the LAN! As for real work, without the internet, we couldn’t access our test servers, but still we made a decent start on Delta CMS’s overall design/layout.
I have uploaded some photos to Flickr, check out the cable management!
So finally I’ve gotten round to blogging our crazy event! The basic motivation behind the 24 hour coding extravaganza is to finally get some work done! Nick and I are always planning new projects which never seem to take off, maybe because we are serial procrastinators (or at least I am)! 😀
From Thursday 31st August, midday till Friday the 1st September midday, we plan to spend our time working on various different programming related projects.
You can catch up on the action by watching our almost live (one frame every five seconds!) webcam. Expect special guest appearances from Adam Cosnett and Tom Vickers!
Things I hope to start work on: HowToUseA.com and Delta CMS.
I might make a few posts here throughout, and as usual, a flurry of random photos will appear on Flickr during or more likely, after the 24 hours.
What a great idea, sort your photos by their location! Perhaps Yahoo! maps offers greater detail in its native America, I can say that the UK coverage is poor, bordering on unusable! For instance, I thought I’d tag one of my holiday photos taken in Otford, the street map contains the motorway but very little else, so to pinpoint the exact location I thought the satellite view would help, and here comes the disappointing part… the satellite photo was either horribly out of date, or wasn’t even a image of Otford!
Me and Nick wondered why the system wasn’t based around Google Maps, then we remembered Flickr is owned by Yahoo! No-brainer 😐
So currently only three of my photos are geotagged! But still it’s an amazing idea, and its caught on, within 24 hours 1,234,384 photos were tagged by location!
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