Burst Attention Span

In case you wondered why I’ve been quiet lately… it’s because I forgot you existed. Sorry.

Oh, and I also got addicted to Facebook and posted all my random mutterings there instead. People actually make comments instead of trying to sell me penis extensions or addict me to gambling.

Maybe I’ll do a Facebook ‘dump’ and fill this site back up with crap from the last few months. Or I might develop a double-posting mechanism that will share on both platforms at once. I.just.don’t.know.yet.

Ciao for now.

Someone is spoofing my kodama.ch domain to send unsolicited commercial emails. If you are coming here to see who sent them… it wasn’t me, honest and if I had some spare \/1/\gr/\ I wouldn’t be selling it to you anyway.

Thanks for your understanding.

Try doing this with an letter: draw a vague map of the county your mate lives in and annotate with ‘Peter O’Leary, somewhere here’. Insert into bright red pillarbox. That’s what Welshman, Paul Bates did. The letter made it to the correct destination in 9 days!

For the first time since Richard Hammond crashed his dragster at Elvington airfield last year, the BBC has published images of the accident.

Hardcore. Waiting for the video… Top Gear, 28th January.

When I was a kid I really wanted a Space Marine suit and would sketch out my daydreams on paper and then build them in miniature. Beyond carving a pair of shoulder pads from polystyrene with my Dad’s soldering iron, I never got round to making the big one though (partly due to the soldering iron no longer working properly…)

Troy Hurtubise, long-time crazy inventor has made himself a real battlesuit and is willing to wear it while being shot with an elephant gun! The suit is well equipped apparently:

Its many features include compartments for emergency morphine and salt, a knife and emergency light. Built into the forearms are a small recording device, a pepper-spray gun and a detachable transponder that can be swallowed in case of trouble.

Dangling between the legs, that would be a clock.

I hope that’s not a spelling mistake. Whatever was he thinking?

Although apparently intent on piggybacking Senator Stevens’ illiterate characterisation of the internet as a ’series of tubes’, this product isn’t such a bad idea.

It appears to create a VPN replicating private network shares called ‘Tubes’ onto a group of subscribed machines. Each machine has its own copy of the files, but when a file changes in any one share, it will be copied to the others. Access rights can be defined so that only certain subscribers can change or remove files but I haven’t found any description of how versioning is controlled when, for example, two people change a file at the same time or if the owner of a file deletes it from his ‘Tube’.

Peer to peer connections are used within the Tubes network, similar to the way Skype uses your bandwidth even if you aren’t making a call. I haven’t found out if users will be host to p2p traffic from people outside their own buddy list though.

Having used community based peer to peer software since Adam Hinkley’s Hotline for the Mac through Soulseek and DC++, I am very interested to see how Tubes develops. If it’s as easy as setting up a Windows share and adding user rights, works through firewalls and with my mobile devices then it’ll be tubetastic.

***UPDATE***
Not such a good experience, I downloaded the installer but it completely failed to run.
Posted for help on the forum so we’ll see if they care.

For now though, I’m still looking for a decent workgroup file sharing system that doesn’t require all machines to be on the same network. Here’s what I’m investigating:

BeInSync – Professional and friendly looking
Unison – Free, open source, academic work. Handles changes to the same file in different locations.
FolderShare – Part of Windows Live, maybe better integrated than the others?

Anyone else got a recommendation?

Very nice! Every Englishman must have a hobby. Some like to collect the stamp, some like to make the jam, but Norman Foster, he build big tent over city for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan. Also keep gypsy outside.