Kidney – £6000
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<jonny> There was a old couple at the back of the pit. Like in their late 40s. There’s hope for you yet.
<iain> I still need to find my other half of a couple. When old couples go to gigs its cute and endearing. When an old single person goes its just sad and lonely
Dear lazyweb,where is my guitar slide?iainxoxo
Trains suck. Its not the quality of the train, in fact Great Western Rail trains are incredible. The problem is in terms of the people on the train and what they do on it. The value of trains is critical in society – it is trains that get people quickly from A to B, or B to C or even C to Y and back to A again. Take a trip from Bognor Regis to London. If you were to walk it, it would take weeks. If you take the train, you have a completely different experience. Clearly, places are important, and people need to be able to get them easily.
This week, I have been thinking of how to represent trains in KR. Before I started thinking of a design I first looked at the existing problems with trains. They are:
While thinking about these problems, drawing some sketches and applying some information flow, I have developed what I consider to be a fairly solid design:
When thinking of a proposed transport system, my first consideration was to have the seats facing in the way that the system is going. Many people (in forward thinking countries) think in this way. When the person wants to go somewhere, they jump in the above system and off they go. With the KR design thinking in terms of places and not people, it gives us a number of benefits that can be used in choosing the right people. In the above design I have made the assumption that the user is going to the shops and you can see the user sitting in the front.
To add a person, the user just asks the person if “they want a lift” and the person gets in the KR in the next available space.
Once I get this design solidified in my head, I’ll start building the first KR and if that is a success I’m sure you’ll see them all over the place soon. I’ll keep you posted.
“If you write anything about Newsnight, or about me, on a blog, I’ll probably find it via Technorati.”
Says Daniel Pearl – Deputy Editor of Newsnight…
Lets see how long it takes
Received this feedback in an innocent looking mail entitled “Feedback -” and it made a really boring day slightly less dull.
A blog is at worst a monologue, at best a newspaper editorial column.
When I write a blog entry, I am not faciliating discussion. There may be the ability to leave comments below an entry or there may not. People may make counter points elsewhere, but what are the chances of anyone else really seeing them without much hard work?
Some blog entries do not require any discussion. “Today I read my email, and fed my grandmother’s cat.” End of story, no futher additional comments needed. But in GNOME these days feel I am seeing more and more things written in blogs (and syndicated to pogo) that really should have been directed to a public forum more conducive to discussion, such as mailing lists.
Is there a danger that many ideas/thoughts/plans get overlooked because we attempt to use “the blog” for more than it is able?
Here’s a picture to take your mind off things:
After tracking a bug for about 2 weeks Marlin can finally load samples again. What was the bug? Well, I forgot to add #include “config.h” on one file. Which normally isn’t a problem, but in this case it meant that in that file off_t was being compiled 32bit whereas in the others it was being compiled as 64bit which made everything go wrong.
Opps
I got mugged.
Didn’t get anything though, kept them talking long enough for someone else to appear round the corner.
marlin$ ./test-sample ~/Desktop/audrey_i_p1.mp3 Information for /home/iain/Desktop/audrey_i_p1.mp3 -------------------- Number of samples: 5605632 Sample rate: 22050 Length: 254 seconds Channels: 2 marlin$
Marlin loads stuff again. Very slowly however.