I don’t have facebook but I still feel like doing this kind of thing sometimes.

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Thanks to Alex for pointing it out.

Tom and Jim, I think you have the same problem. It’s easy to fix though, by upgrading your Wordpress installation from scratch (i.e. delete the old version and probably your templates too in Jim’s case). Make sure you add security keys to your wp_config file too.

Hi, if you want one place to visit to see all the posts from here and my work blog, all my public flickr photos, delicious posts , last.fm stuff etc etc. then this is the place.

The RSS feed is http://tomp.soup.io/rss

That is all.

weather ?, originally uploaded by toffeemilkshake

There are many things I dislike about the BBCs weather graphics but this screen grab shows neatly just how useless they can be. Seriously what is the weather in this picture? Brown? Where might the weather be coming from? And where exactly am I? There’s not enough information about landmarks and landscape to help locate myself, sure I know roughly where Enfield etc. are but not well enough to situate myself with the accuracy that these maps imply is possible/ desirable.

Having said that, I should say I know and like many of the people who worked on the new BBC weather website, and I think that generally it represents an improvement over the old one. This style of map is something inherited from the god awful BBC TV maps designed and produced by New Zealand company metra.

Projects I’ve started but which seem to have kind of lost steam a little. Posted here in the hope that it will some how spur me to action …

• “When’s my birthday on Mercury?” RSS feed
• last.fm venn diagrams
• scanning all my old photos
• laser cut coloured perspex penrose tiles
• workblog
• delicious link popularity graphs
• a complete Zenith .pdf to be printed by one of those print yr own books sites at great personal expense in lieu of Rebellion actually publishing such a volume.
• a game about being an author of pulp sci-fi/ fantasy in the 50’s and 60’s (to be perfectly honest I’ve never even started on this one but I’ve been thinking about it for ages)
• a site about london cyclists
• A study of Judge Dredd helmet morphology

… and tres good

BIRDY NAM NAM – THE PARACHUTE ENDING from Steve Scott on Vimeo.

new pens, originally uploaded by toffeemilkshake.

Bought some new pens and paper today. Xbox 360 controllers have officially replaced hands as the thing I totally can’t draw.

I think buying unnecessary stationery is something I could really get addicted to.

Uganda Skateboard Union

SO… I have lots of things I want to write about (at least 5 things in the draft folder which I think might be worth pursuing) but my current schedule is kind of prohibitive: Wake up 6 work by 8 leave at 4 and then spend my late afternoon/ evening looking after our daughter (it’s that amazing none of the books mention it but I’ve discovered that Missy Elliots classic Under Construction album is the ultimate baby pacifier (it’s on Spotify, if you’ve not heard it then seriously, what are you waiting for?). Need to try and get hold of a ‘clean’ version before developing language skills make the lyrics an issue).

During paternity leave I uploaded all my digital photos (about 5000) to flickr and started on the arduous task of digitising all my old prints too.

In free time I’ve been playing Fable 2 which is much better than I expected. It’s easily one of the best games I’ve played on the 360. It’s like an extended choosy bit and choosy bits (you know where you design your avatar) are often my favourite bits of games. Also, unusually for X360 games E_ has displayed an interest; the good voice acting and fact you’re accompanied by a dog much of the time helps.

My character is a real goody two shoes (he has a halo), well dressed but massively over weight. I finished the main story line and still intend to play more but rather than ploughing on with my current guy I’m going to restart and make an evil skinny woman instead. The whole game has a lovely playful feel to it, encouraging you to experiment with the interlinking social and economic systems and underneath it all the moral choices seemed suitably weighty to me; I did actually care about NPCs in the game which is absolutely vital if its to be anything but a classic CRPG minimaxing excercise). Seriously, I think it’s a minor classic.

Also, I’m still using twitter a bit and it has grown on me but I think most people I know are too heavily invested in Facebook to take it up so my follower/following numbers probably won’t reach the critical mass required for me to be an addict. That said I think recent changes to the setup will, by adding a little more structure to proceedings, help the service to grow out of its sleb spotter + geeks niche a bit.

RIP

(scans from RE/Search #8-9)