Blog of Hamlesh

My new moo.com cards arrived this morning, this makes me happy

The last time I ordered cards from moo.com, I didn’t really get the idea, this time around I spent the time, thought about it and put my own graphic together.  This is the avatar I use on most social network sites, twitter, forums and so on.  This gives some form of real world tie in with my “digital self”.  Additionally the moo cards are “for fun”, and general networking, I wouldn’t use them for conducting the business of PeritusVentures or NXEQ for example, those have their own full sized business cards and are all corporate

Moo.com have really improved the design tool since my last order, which was back in Feb 2009.  Its a lot slicker, and the font options for the text side of the card are much much nicer.  Interestingly, because I didn’t really “get it” last time, I didn’t really hand out many of my old cards – it had a list of websites on rather than any useful contact information!

With hindsight, I wish I had put my PGP key on the card instead of my skype name – ah well, next time!

If you’ve not ordered from Moo.com before, use this discount code when you checkout 2RB2CK for 15% off of your first order

One final product shot, show the love!

As always, comment and tweet people, comment and tweet!

Well I know its been a long time, and I don’t seem very active – I have been working on a few projects, and hopefully they’ll come to fruition soon and I can talk about them… well at least blog about them.

You can always keep up or engage with me on twitter

On another note, I’ve had a few blog comments complaining about some broken download links, so those have been fixed.

CISCO Lab Software – PacketTracer: now available for download again. Please post a comment, it helps with my page rank (shows activity and relevance), and takes about 2 seconds to do.

Photo Booth (for osx): my solution/fix to the common problem of photo booth not initializing the inbuilt camera is available once more for download.

Enjoys

Here is a quick mashup map of the motorcycle/motorbike parking bays in St.Albans, Hertfordshire.

View motorcycle parking in st.albans in a larger map

Source for data

Right, so one of the guys from the bank upstairs just called me, all excited; “Sainsbury’s have boxes of Lindt chocolate on sale for 99p”, excellent I thought, i’ll go pick up a few boxes. A few minutes later my phone rings, its the CEO of the same bank, “I hear you want to go to Sainsbury’s and pick up some of these chocolates then”, “lets take my car”.

About 10 mins later we are all back in the building, with lots of boxes of chocolates

It wasn’t a very eventful trip, Sainsbury’s was very busy, and we did get lots of weird looks, but seriously people… chocolate that sells for £6.09 a box usually, going for 99p. We cleared the shelving area that had them loose, and one of the guys spotted where they were still boxed up, so I grabbed one of those too

All in all I think we came away with around 51 boxes of chocolate between the 3 of us – ah well, that will keep us going a while then… well, you’d hope so!

Ocean explorer Robert Ballard takes us on a mind bending trip to hidden worlds underwater, where he and other researchers are finding unexpected life, resources, even new mountains. He makes a case for serious exploration and mapping. Google Ocean, anyone?

Some extracts from the talk that I really enjoyed and got me thinking;

“The mid-oceanic ridge covers almost 23% of the Earths total surface area.”

Robert poses an interesting series of question;

“Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonising the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonise our own planet and the technology is at hand.”

Another amazing presentation give at the TED conference in March 2008!

[flv]http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/RobertBallard_2008_high.flv[/flv]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6jhJhmw2u4[/youtube]

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So, as you’ve already noticed I’ve loaded up a new blog design, it felt like the right time, the old one had served me well for almost two years. I wanted something a little more “web2.0y” (web – 2 – point – oh – eee)

Its the “GlossyBlue” theme from  N Design Stuio – they also have a very sexy iTheme.

Let me know what you think