The new Non-English domain names set for approval by internet board pose new hazards to us web savvy folk and non-savvy people we know like mom, pop and friends. Best to spread the word now.
The new characters can look exactly like those we know and trust in the standard english letters – however they can [...]
Living in London brings some challenge to pursuing amateur Astronomy, most notably due to the high light pollution that comes with being in the 19th largest city in the world. Because of this I was excited to go back to the more rural area of Ohio for Christmas as it provides a wonderful opportunity to [...]
Categories: , Astronomy
Tagged: Astrophotography, Dark Sky, Stargazing
Forty years ago Apollo 11 set off on a mission and accomplished what man had dream of since he looked to the heavens, exploring the heavens and landing on the moon. I wasn’t alive when this amazing feat of engineering, determination and sheer courage took place, but despite this I have a healthy respect for [...]
Categories: Astronomy
Tagged: Apollo 11, Command/Service Module, Lunar Lander, Saturn V rocket
First, I’d like to set the mood with this excellent trailer for the movie “The Comedian”.
What a lovely piss take on what has, in my mind, become an art form in and of itself. How many trailers have you seen that have just knocked your socks off, only to disappoint you when you see the [...]
Categories: Humor
Tagged: Don LaFontaine, The Comedian, Time Bandits, Trailers
This year, 400 years ago Galileo Galilei first demonstrated his telescope, discovering the moons of Jupiter, and 40 years ago in 1969 the American NASA Mission Apollo 11 landed on the moon. It is now 2009 and this year has been designated the International Year of Astronomy and it couldn’t come at a better time. [...]
Categories: Astronomy
Recently I’ve had a renewed interest in Processing. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, the summary from their site is :
Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community that since 2001 has promoted software literacy within the visual arts. Initially created to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach [...]
Categories: Development
Part of my job at unit9 involves estimating the time and cost for additional features on a site, or just judging how feasible something is. One of the things many clients ask for on their sites are Social Network Sharing Buttons such as “Digg this!” or “Add to Delicious”. This is usually a simple matter. [...]
Categories: Development
Tagged: Delicious, Digg, Social Network, useful
I’m settling down again after hosting my annual 4th of July party in London. I was quite pleased this year with the poster design by Anders Anderson of Helpful Strangers who turned my original design into something quite more epic….
This year, despite my copy on the poster, everything went quite smoothly. Fireworks were pointed in [...]
Categories: Personal
When I play a game on a console or computer, I expect it to help me to learn how to best play it. That’s why when I packed last night for my vacation I took the 3 new Nintendo DS games I’d bought but not played, tossed them in my luggage and left the instruction [...]
Categories: User Experience
It’s been a busy month for us at unit9. We’ve just completed work on this year’s Carphone Warehouse X Factor site. Like last year’s campaign, this year you can call in from a mobile and leave an audition singing one of eight songs. This year’s site has added a lot to that though, and the [...]
Categories: Professional