http://mibly.com Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:36:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The world seems to be amazed with 3d films. Avatar has taken billions and people loved it. It didn't really float my boat, I kinda like the smaller, less block buster animation thats about at the moment. I also like it when you don't have to wear ... http://mibly.com/2010/02/08/animation/ Making software changes as you grow up. In the beginning its all about the thrill of making something work. Then its rushing around to find "the next big thing". Eventually though, you will think of the poor sap who is going to have to maintain the whirlwind ... http://mibly.com/2010/01/25/if-you-are-fallible-you-test/ I do like a good list and the top ten albums of the decade is a really interesting one. Here is mine, I can't bring myself to put them in a Top 10 style order, just take them all as equal. There is also a spotify playlist if ... http://mibly.com/2010/01/04/my-top-10-albums-2000-2009/ One week ago I was involved in a nasty car crash. Don't worry, all parties are alive and getting better.  As a result of this, unfortunate event,  I'm having to spend a bit of time at home to recover. Now, I'm not good with unexpected time off work, especially when ... http://mibly.com/2009/09/16/crash-bang-wallop/ Just a cool video I found the other night. http://mibly.com/2009/03/01/official-secrets-act-so-tomorrow/ Sometimes I get involved in some internet japes that are only there to make me giggle. The latest is the twitter bot, @robot_santa. So on twitter he's telling anybody that they are very naughty, to much amusement and bemusement. For those who don't know, he stared in an ... http://mibly.com/2008/12/13/robot-santa-is-making-a-list/ Using ruby to make a tiny twitter bot is so simple. So in 25 lines I used the twitter and hpricot gems to make a bot that pulls a random quote from the puerile b3ta.com/talk. # Rakefile require 'rake' require 'twitter' require 'hpricot' require 'open-uri' namespace :b3ta do desc 'find a random quote from ... http://mibly.com/2008/11/30/ruby-twitter-bot-in-25-lines/ I found this scanning around Vimeo HD. http://mibly.com/2008/11/29/london-harder-better-faster-stronger/ Bye bye mephisto and welcome back Wordpress. I used a little magic to get the old posts from mephisto to this new system as mephisto lacked an export feature. 1) Edit mephisto to give you all your post in one Atom document. Have a look in app/controller/feed/feed_controller.rb and change ... http://mibly.com/2008/11/29/mephisto-to-wordpress/ So here is the first thing I’ve managed to get out of Opencalais. Its not really that interesting but a few people seem to like it. So what you are looking at is all the programmes on iPlayer whose synopsis contains something that is of geographical importance. Now thanks ... http://mibly.com/2008/10/27/iplayerlist-map/