Check out how bakers can tell their Twitter followers that goodies have just come out of the oven by using BakerTweet.
Would only work if you had a favorite local baker you visited all the time?

BakerTweet from POKE on Vimeo.

Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

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Some street photography of Thirsk market.

At least no one approached me to stopped taking pictures under "terror laws".

CrunchBang Linux is now built on the Debian sources, tried the alpha release and it feels snappier than the Ubuntu based release.

Looks a bit like a virus

I started learning Python last year to do some scripting at work for testing, I recently discovered the game libraries (pygame, pyglet, etc) so have started looking into writing a game.

This is something I’ve been wanting to do from an early age back when I got my first 8-bit computer and never had the time or the skills to achieve.

After just a week of using pyglet during my lunch hour at work and a couple of hours at night I’m well on my way to finishing my first game, a breakout/ arkanoid clone.

Enjoying every minute of it.



Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

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Sometime your jaw just drops 

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I’m in the process of scanning in some of my Dad’s old slides and I came across a selection he took from his visit to Le Mans in 1968, two years before I was born.

Here’s what I’ve scanned so far, can’t wait to see what else is in the slide box labeled “Le Mans Sept 1968”

The full set can be seen on Flickr

Installing the Windows Repton 1 under Wine running on Ubuntu 9.10 using XCFE window manager.

Good news that it works apart small issues with the responsiveness of the pointer in the menus.

Download and buy at http://www.superiorinteractive.com/repton/

You can run it full screen or in a window as shown below.


Even after 25 years away from the game I still remembered how to do the first level, scary or what.

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