Stompy.org http://www.stompy.org Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en 51.471-0.02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gifSome Rights ReservedThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. Bic Ballpoint Review http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Stompyorg/~3/405578393/ http://www.stompy.org/2008/09/28/bic-ballpoint-review/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:12:30 +0000 stompy http://www.stompy.org/?p=124 I found this review of a Bic ballpoint on amazon.co.uk. Dry humour isn’t dead.

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This is great news for us who find  WWDC or C4 too much of a commitment.

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Sunflowers - After Van Gogh

I did this over 20 years ago. Coloured pencil on textured paper.

Today - I’m staring at an Illustrator screen and I’m thinking “Where do I start?”

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]]> http://www.stompy.org/2008/09/07/notebook-reviews/feed/ http://www.stompy.org/2008/09/07/notebook-reviews/ Schmap for iPhone used my Brussels picture http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Stompyorg/~3/370957031/ http://www.stompy.org/2008/08/21/schmap-for-iphone-used-my-brussels-picture/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:05:28 +0000 stompy http://www.stompy.org/?p=105 Schmap for the iPhone used one of my Brussels pictures on their site.

Schmap for the iPhone.png

They got this of my Flickr page; where all my photos are available under a Creative Commons licence.

I mention it, because the picture was taken at night with a crummy phone camera - but I still managed to get a striking image.

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Update: Aug 23, 2008. Looks like it doesn’t work anymore. Sorry Zac.

]]> http://www.stompy.org/2008/08/21/iphone-copy-and-paste/feed/ http://www.stompy.org/2008/08/21/iphone-copy-and-paste/ The Food Tasting Meme http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Stompyorg/~3/369166778/ http://www.stompy.org/2008/08/19/the-food-tasting-meme/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:28:02 +0000 stompy http://www.stompy.org/?p=96 Meme found from Cygnoir.net

  1. Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
  2. Bold all the items you.ve eaten.
  3. Cross out any items that you would never consider eating (or eating again)
  4. Optional extra: Post a comment http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

To make the filling out of this form and generating the HTML for it a bit easier, [info]reddywhp has played around with some PHP. Go to http://reddywhip.org/lj/foods/ and fill it out there. After filling it out, you will be given the code to copy and paste into your blog.

Livejournal users, remember to use your LJ-Cuts!

  1. Venison
  2. Nettle tea
  3. Huevos rancheros
  4. Steak tartare
  5. Crocodile
  6. Black pudding
  7. Cheese fondue
  8. Carp
  9. Borscht
  10. Baba ghanoush
  11. Calamari
  12. Pho
  13. PB&J sandwich
  14. Aloo gobi
  15. Hot dog from a street cart
  16. Epoisses
  17. Black truffle
  18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
  19. Steamed pork buns
  20. Pistachio ice cream
  21. Heirloom tomatoes
  22. Fresh wild berries
  23. Foie gras
  24. Rice and beans
  25. Brawn, or head cheese
  26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
  27. Dulce de leche
  28. Oysters
  29. Baklava
  30. Bagna cauda
  31. Wasabi peas
  32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
  33. Salted lassi
  34. Sauerkraut
  35. Root beer float
  36. Cognac with a fat cigar
  37. Clotted cream tea
  38. Vodka jelly
  39. Gumbo
  40. Oxtail
  41. Curried goat
  42. Whole insects
  43. Phaal
  44. Goat’s milk
  45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more
  46. Fugu
  47. Chicken tikka masala
  48. Eel
  49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
  50. Sea urchin
  51. Prickly pear
  52. Umeboshi
  53. Abalone
  54. Paneer
  55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
  56. Spaetzle
  57. Dirty gin martini
  58. Beer above 8% ABV
  59. Poutine
  60. Carob chips
  61. S’mores
  62. Sweetbreads
  63. Kaolin
  64. Currywurst
  65. Durian
  66. Frog’s Legs
  67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
  68. Haggis
  69. Fried plantain
  70. Chitterlings or andouillette
  71. Gazpacho
  72. Caviar and blini
  73. Louche absinthe
  74. Gjetost or brunost
  75. Roadkill
  76. Baijiu
  77. Hostess Fruit Pie
  78. Snail
  79. Lapsang souchong
  80. Bellini
  81. Tom yum
  82. Eggs Benedict
  83. Pocky
  84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
  85. Kobe beef
  86. Hare
  87. Goulash
  88. Flowers
  89. Horse
  90. Criollo chocolate
  91. Spam
  92. Soft shell crab
  93. Rose harissa
  94. Catfish
  95. Mole poblano
  96. Bagel and lox
  97. Lobster Thermidor
  98. Polenta
  99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
  100. Snake
It seems I’ve eaten quite a bit of this, certainly all the Indian items. Insects are definitely out.
As for Durian - Supposed to taste great, but I can’t get past the smell. Other members of my family like it though.
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]]> http://www.stompy.org/2008/08/14/new-media-expo-2008/feed/ http://www.stompy.org/2008/08/14/new-media-expo-2008/ Xcode and git - Another build script http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Stompyorg/~3/364733460/ http://www.stompy.org/2008/08/14/xcode-and-git-another-build-script/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:15:00 +0000 stompy http://www.stompy.org/?p=84 Update: Got broke somehow - so I fixed it.

I’ve rewritten the script from Cocoa Is My Girlfriend in ruby to append the git commit hash into an application’s Info.plist file.

This way, it keeps the version string that is added in Xcode, so the default About panel looks like this:

Bonsoir.png

Here is the script

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Xcode auto-versioning script for Subversion by Axel Andersson
# Updated for git by Marcus S. Zarra and Matt Long
# Converted to ruby by Abizern
# Appends the git sha to the version number set in Xcode.

# These are the common places where git is installed.
# Change this if your path isn’t here
common_git_paths = %w[/usr/local/bin/git /usr/local/git/bin/git /opt/local/bin/git]
git_path = “” 

common_git_paths.each do |p|
  if File.exist?(p)
    git_path = p
    break
  end
end

if git_path == “”
  puts “Path to git not found”
  exit
end

command_line = git_path + ” rev-parse —-short HEAD”
sha = `#{command_line}`.chomp
puts sha

info_file = ENV['BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR'] + “/” + ENV['INFOPLIST_PATH']

f = File.open(info_file, “r”).read
re = /([\t ]+<key>CFBundleVersion<\/key>\n[\t ]+<string>)(.*?)(<\/string>)/
f =~ re

# Get the version info from the source Info.plist file
# If the script has already been run we need to remove the git sha
# from the bundle’s Info.plist.
open = $1
orig_version = $2
close = $3

# If the git has has not already been injected into the Info.plist, this will set version to nil
version = $2.sub!(/\s\(git sha [\w]+\)/, ”)
if (!version)
  version = orig_version
end

# Inject the git hash into the bundle’s Info.plist
sub = “#{open}#{version} (git sha #{sha})#{close}“
puts sub
f.gsub!(re, sub)
File.open(info_file, “w”) { |file| file.write(f) }

Make sure that the shell is set to /usr/bin/ruby

Shell_setting.png

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When this app is running, it uses Apple’s Bonjour service to find other running Bonsoir apps on the network and allows swapping of AddressBook cards. The idea is that it would be useful at get togethers such as BarCamp for people to swap contact details.

This code has been placed into the public domain but it doesn’t look like anybody is working on it. So I’ve put the code up on github and I’ll see if I can’t make this a more polished app.

Actually, this is prompted a little by guilt. I was looking through my iChat transcripts the other day and I said I’d do some work on it - and that was back in 2006.

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