Archive for July, 2008

Zazzle T-shirts FTW

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Suffer!…are very nicely printed indeed.

I wasn’t too sure if I was going to make a move from Printfection to Zazzle, but having just ordered a test tee, I’m glorying at the print quality, and will definitely be using Zazzle from now on to sell my T-shirts. The whole range will be posted there soon…

Huzzah!

Ghost Comics: And So It Begins

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Ghost Comics - And So It Begins

And so it begins: Introducing our heroes.

Ghost Comics

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Right, that does it.

In the further name of having One Comprehensive Site, I’m going to use this blog for publishing my ill-fated webcomic: the imaginitively-titled Ghost Comics.

I started it months ago, meaning to accelerate to a pace of being almost daily, but generally failed to gather enough enthusiasm and/or momentum. instead, blogging jokes, sketches, and assorted comic-like crunge here, then eventually getting a bit meta and giving them a site of their own will be their inglorious fate.

So, one comic every few days for a while from my tiny archive, then I’ll see about making some more.

iPod Touch pseudo-GPS

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Now that firmware 2.0 is out, and everyone’s blogging their faces off about the new features of and/or failure to acquire their new 3G iPhones, I noticed a little nugget that’ll please iPod Touch owners that nobody else seems to have noticed yet:

Everyone with Maps on their pod will have noticed that it can sometimes find your position when you’re connected to a wi-fi network, but most of the time, there’s no point in leaving wi-fi on when you’re on the move, so this has gone relatively unnoticed:

The “locate me” button in Maps  can now be toggled… and if you leave it lit  blue, and you’re walking or driving through a reasonably urban or residential area with wi-fi on, Maps will pick up your location using networks you don’t have a password for. In the car this week, in a journey of just 4 streets, the iPod picked up about 8 networks on the way home, tracking us fairly accurately, if only every hundred feet or so.

It’s not quite GPS, and you wouldn’t want to drive using it, but if you’ve got enough map tiles loaded for your town/city, you can pretty much entirely fail to get lost ever again.

We are the Amalgamation Nation

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Nobody likes looking at an empty blog, so to give this, my new Wordpress blog, (and hopefully the blogging platform I’ll stick with for some time) a start, I’ve amalgamated all the posts from my other blogs to pop here.

Content plus confusion!

What more could you ask for?