Up until now I’ve handled my payments for stolencamerafinder and OddPrints with Google Wallet. It’s not fantastic api (I’ve even had to fix it) but it’s pretty straight forward. There’s good documentation and the SDK saves you from writing all that boilerplate for talking to a web service. I’ve had quite a few requests for allowing PayPal so I’ve spent the last couple of days flicking through their documentation and was quickly shown that:...
Fancy a running challenge around Bristol that’ll test your legs and your navigation? All you have to do is touch both Cabot Tower and Troopers Hill Tower (er, chimney) and finish where you started. Troopers Hill Tower Cabot Tower The rules are pretty simple: You have to touch both Cabot Tower and Troopers Hill Tower. Any order. You must start and finish at the same place (of your choice). No pausing of your watch (for traffic etc....
Oh jeez, really? A blog post about doing something so easy? Well, yes because it took me about an hour of messing around and so if this helps save one person from the pain, then it’s worth writing. If you’re in a rush or already bored, jump to the short answer. If you use gmail, you may see the option in the Chat widget to “Call phone”: Great. Sounds fun, let’s try it:...
If you use the example ant script provided by Google you’ll face the following error: Your authentication credentials can't be found and may have expired. Please run appcfg directly from the command line to re-establish your credentials. Sure, you can run appcfg.sh from the console, and login and all will be fine next time. Well, for 24 hours before your credentials are booted from the cache. Here’s my ant target that does the same thing but takes the credentials interactively using the input task....
The final day of an amazing journey. Hop skipping and jumping back from the dream to reality. I’ll keep it short & sweet as I am writing in retrospect. Part of me doesn’t want to finish this because it’s acceptance that it’s over. But it has to be. And we have moved on and are back doing normal everyday things. And this will surely irritate anyone who reads this now because it is such a cliché but it is true....
Today is a sad day. It’s the penultimate day of our travels. Where has the time gone? Luckily we’re too exhausted to be that sad. Not that exhausted, however, to look around the huge camera store just across from Tokyo Bus Station. Matt had gone from one dream to another. We knew if we headed back to K’s House it would be too early to check in so decided to do some last minute sightseeing....
This is an appeal to anyone who may know a 21 year old Sarah (born April 6th, 1991) in Windsor, UK. Her camera and other precious items have been found and we want to get them back to her. Sarah a celebrated her 21st birthday on friday 6th april. she got picked up by a taxi in windsor on sat morning. a bag containing a pink floral photo album celebrating her life upto her 21st birthday, camera, scarf and other things were left....
Spoiler Alert – This will ruin the film if you haven’t seen it. F This film started great, a teacher tangled in red tape, falls into depression and alcohol etc etc. But then these supernatural hooded psychos spring into the film and start killing everyone. If that is all the film is then, well, let’s just say it’s not my kind of film. However, I didn’t think that was what the story was about....
Today I ran my first parkrun. If like me you’ve never heard of them: parkrun organise free, weekly, 5km timed runs around the world. They are open to everyone, free, and are safe and easy to take part in. Pretty simple really. You just register for free on the website for a personal barcode, print it out then turn up and race. You just register as a runner, not for individual races, it’s up to you which races you attend....
Want better photos? As I’ve mentioned before, I get asked what camera to buy a lot. I mean loads, it’s silly. Generally, I get asked by people who are fed up with the blurry, grainy photos they are currently taking and think a new camera will solve everything. If this sounds like you, then go read my previous post about whether or not an SLR is for you. Done? Still interested?...