As an exercise in her art class, Sarah made some pictures by cutting out shapes in coloured paper:
Coincidentally, at about this time, I was thinking that I ought to screw a bit of wood to the wall in my workshop and hang tools from it to make them more accessible, and to store them more compactly than having them sitting on a shelf (which is the worst way of using a shelf EVER). So I was delighted when Sarah announced that she'd thought her pictures could be stuck to a piece of wood to make me a toolboard...
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Rather, the strap of the bag failed, dumping it onto the pavement.
Amazingly, it still works. Well done Apple!
However, there's another impressive dent, and the corner that hit the ground seems to have a small stone embedded in it:
Sarah and I went to TechAdventure in Bristol on Saturday.
It was fun! We'd both been rather sad about the fact that we'd not really gotten into the local geek scene. Almost all our nerdy friends are London-based. So we were keen to go to a local geek event...
So we swapped some EPROM programming and erasing gear for some books and a patch panel at the swapshop.
I was rigged for motion capture:
We have a video of me moving around with the rig on. It's rather dark, so you need to turn the brightness and contrast all the way up to see it properly...
We saw John Honniball and a tiny subset of his extensive collection of ancient computers.
We saw a guy who'd made a plotter from a turntable and a horizontal carriage from a printer.
And we saw and participated in a whole bunch of other stuff...
And we met loads of people. Which is great, since we want to meet more tecchie people from this neck of the woods!
We're back in our house! We just spent the first night back in it...
We've got upstairs cleaned out enough to move back in, but downstairs is still a pile of bags and boxes and furniture, waiting for us to put the furniture into place so we can unload all the stuff onto it.
I've somehow ended up organising a keysigning party in London on the 2nd of June.
See the page for directions to the venue (it's in South Kensington).
So if you have a PGP keypair (or take part in CACert.org or Thawte's web of trust), come along. If you don't, but are interested in being able to exchange military-grade encrypted or signed messages, then set up GNU Privacy Guard - see their manuals for more details - and create yourself a keypair (your own digital identity) - or several - and bring along your key IDs and fingerprints to have them vouched for and vouch for everyone else's.
I've made myself some MOO cards to hand out my key details on:
