Scoville Units Unite » Links http://agraham.org/blog reviews, rants and random chilli ratings Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:39:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Lindsay Mathers Equestrian Art http://agraham.org/blog/2010/02/02/lindsay-mathers-equestrian-art/ http://agraham.org/blog/2010/02/02/lindsay-mathers-equestrian-art/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:40:36 +0000 Alan G http://agraham.org/blog/?p=593 Lindsay Mathers has launched a blog (and soon to come site) with some of her horsey paintings.

Looking forward to seeing more images up soon.

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Insurgents hack US drones

Iraqi insurgents are intercepting communications from pilot-less drones as they are not encrypting it before sending it to base.

The second will be of interest to anyone who has visited the Secret Bunker in Fife. A report of a tour round a nuclear missile silo in the US. Really fascinating.

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Details of the artists can be found at their blog. The artists are having profiles of them and their work added – Gennas is here.

WASPS Dundee

Saturday 28th November 11am – 5pm
Sunday 29th November 12pm – 5pm

There are also raffle tickets, £1 each or 5 for £4 with the prizes being several pieces of jewellery. The proceeds are being split between the Association for Contemporary Jewellery and Maggies Centre in Dundee.

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I added a thing to the blog which should integrate, testing it now.

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Beta just now, posting purely to show here pingbacks.

]]> http://agraham.org/blog/2009/08/02/genna-blog/feed/ 0 Tech Talk http://agraham.org/blog/2009/03/19/tech-talk/ http://agraham.org/blog/2009/03/19/tech-talk/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:25:38 +0000 Alan G http://agraham.org/blog/?p=302 On Wednesday I attended a meeting of Scottish Developers with a talk given by Michael Briggs on SEO.

It was quite interesting. Some of the information I knew already. Some I did not. The stuff I already knew I have put into place on blogs/sites etc. The stuff I learned I plan to prioritise and work into sites in the near future. He pointed out some of the things squirrelled away in Googles Webmaster Tools. I had previously used it for adding site to directory and adding a sitemap. Some of the stuff I hadn’t noticed is very cool though.

Over the past few days I had already been working on Gennas Jewellery site so was in the right frame of mind for taking it all in. I hadn’t noticed where all her links were coming from though. Her main site is her name GennaDelaney.com. We also registered GennaDesign.com as that is the name she trades under. I just had that pointing at the same directory but that is where a huge amount of the inbound links are coming from. Being on the same server and having the same content it probably makes her look like a linkfarm. One of the top priorities is to sort that into a proper redirect. I tried last night and it failed to work properly.

I also realised something about ping servers so added a load to the blog and am away to publish the first post to loads of them. Lets see what happens.

Disclaimer: one of the things he talked about were valid mark up and his site does not have this (probably his blog theme to be fair, something I have wrestled with).

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]]> http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/27/links-links-links/feed/ 0 A New Year http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/01/a-new-year/ http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/01/a-new-year/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:51:54 +0000 Alan G http://agraham.org/blog/?p=116 And it starts with the news that the Israeli military are bombing the shite out of Palestinians…again. Easy to see another election is looming.

96 years and 230+ wars (28 ongoing) after the war to end all wars.

Israel have been blockading medical supplies to Palestine for months and one of their ships rammed a vessel in international waters taking urgent medical supplies to help the injured.

Consider donating a small sum to Medical Aid for Palestine, one of the charities working to provide on the ground emergency medical aid.

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A really interesting site, especially if like me, you are a huge nerd.

There are all sorts of maps, from fantastical ones to real ones of countries that don’t exist and micro-nations which existed for a brief glimmer.

Some strange examples include:

Stalin’s proposed homeland for Russian Jews

Europe, If the Nazis Had Won

The World in (George Orwell’s) 1984

Elleore – occupies a special place among [Danish islands]: unpeopled for most of the year, and not part of Denmark when it is – that is, if you’re partial to the semi-jocular sovereignty claims of micronations.

Cannibal Map of the World

Prepare to lose a day or two learning obscure geography.

]]> http://agraham.org/blog/2008/12/11/link-strange-maps/feed/ 0 Link: spEak You’re bRanes http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/27/link-speak-you%e2%80%99re-branes/ http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/27/link-speak-you%e2%80%99re-branes/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:59:34 +0000 Alan G http://agraham.org/blog/?p=69 process->output diagram with Daily Mail as the input this is your best bet. My favourite has to be the EUrophobe [...]]]> spEak You’re bRanes is the excellent site which pokes fun at the paranoid, dangerous, delusional and the daft who inhabit the BBC Have your say comment section.

If ever you need to complete the input-> process->output diagram with Daily Mail as the input this is your best bet.

My favourite has to be the EUrophobe who rants about the metric temperature measures. The other excellent parody of this section is the From the message boards section in Private Eye

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We recently put the finishing touches to her new online jewellery shop too.

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Giving him two old game reviews I wrote and will copy any future ones to that site too.

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His most interesting post so far was assisted by me. Whoops, forgot I was filming and moved to take a portrait shot.

He likes obscure bands. I’m sure his blog won’t suck.

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