http://benjaminellis.co.uk The Home Page of Benjamin Ellis Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:13:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ah... I love visual things, and technology history, so these are just perfect and A big thank you to Pingdom for bring them to my attention (there are loads more here). http://benjaminellis.co.uk/2008/06/07/geek-posters/ Thank to Tim C for this one: The low cost of video creation and production is changing the world, just as affordable home recording equipment did in the 80's. It is going to change a d few things. http://benjaminellis.co.uk/2008/04/05/a-video-musician/ For some reason, a bit of a photography theme today... First these two pictures from my week in the US last week. The first seen by the roadside as I was driving along: Forget this wireless stuff - I want HI/FI Internet in my hotel room! Bigger pictures and better text, right? Next up, ... http://benjaminellis.co.uk/2008/03/28/this-week-in-pictures/ It seems that BBC Micro retrospectives are sweeping the web. The BBC ran a story: Beeb creators reunite at museum on the recent meeting at the science museum.  There is a great video embedded in the story, showing the BBC Micro loading programs from a cassette tape. Ah, those were the ... http://benjaminellis.co.uk/2008/03/24/the-bbc-micro-remembered/ Yesterday morning saw me working form the Tuttle club, AKA London Social Media Cafe, hosted by Lloyd Davis. There were a lot of people on site and the clatter of keyboards was slightly drowned out by the chatter of conversation. It was a very positive experience and set me off thinking ... http://benjaminellis.co.uk/2008/03/08/social-media-cafe/ A very nice evening yesterday, seeing Steve Lawson, Yolanda Charles and Todd Johnson in concert at Darbucka, which turns out to be a rather special little venue in NE London. Not great for photography, as it is very dark, but a nice atmosphere, great food and there was enough mobile ... http://benjaminellis.co.uk/2008/03/05/london-solo-bass-night/ So, you are wondering how to find the nearest hotspot? This one spotted via an article on The Register: Get yourself one of these, for a mere £20 or so: A Wi-Fi Detecting T-Shirt How could we have survived all this time without one? Of course, you could always put that money towards ... http://benjaminellis.co.uk/2008/02/08/t-shirt-with-built-in-wi-fi-detector/ Every so often I like to do something different for a change. Learning new skills and meeting new people keeps you young and flexible. With that in mind, I signed up to a meeting of London Flickr folks, to do an overnight photo walk in London. As a result, ... http://benjaminellis.co.uk/2008/01/10/going-all-visual-london-at-night/ Ah... the Nabaztag Rabbit. I'd forgotten how badly I needed one of these until I saw a post on Girly Geekdom that reminded me about them. The Nabaztag (Armenia for rabbit apparently) is a cute looking WiFi enabled smart device, which has recently been updated with lots of new capabilities. ... http://benjaminellis.co.uk/2007/12/16/nabaztag-rabbits-hopping-mad/ I've been a long-time fan of the Quiet PC folks, from the days when they were based down the road. However, I'm in a bad mood with them now, as they just emailed me details of the Zalman 2D/3D monitors. You need the appropriate 3D glass and nVidia card (and ... http://benjaminellis.co.uk/2007/12/10/just-when-i-thought-id-got-all-the-gadgets-i-needed-along-come-3d-monitors/ Two things that save me hours when I go to London: The Transport for London web site - brilliant design and v.useful. The National Rail site - design not so good, but it functions. Between the two I can usually work out which train to get into London, and when. http://benjaminellis.co.uk/2007/12/04/wondering-which-london-train/ I first found out about BugLabs via a post on Scoble's blog. They have a fantastic uber-gadget, which is essentially a submicrocomputer base with USB ports, ethernet and so on, running Linux, into which you can plug various modules. There are about 80 gadgets on their roadmap such as screens, ... http://benjaminellis.co.uk/2007/12/01/buglabs-uber-gadget/