Just been looking at the Netcraft site report for www.breadedcod.com this evening, and it seems we are now standing at number 587085
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in the ‘most visited’ ranks. The site directly above in the rankings, and quite deservedly so, is Eternal Sunset. I can’t even begin to bring myself to describe the site that is directly beneath breadedcod.com in the visit stake - it’s just too upsetting for words.
Anyway, back to Eternal Sunset …
Eternal Sunset endeavours to ensure you can enjoy the sunset live from any location, at any time. As the sunset moves westward, Eternal Sunset continuously tunes into different webcams, chasing the sunset around the globe. This service is currently provided through the use of 258 west-facing webcams across 44 countries.
Gone on, give it a whirl.
Oh dear. First (re)discovery from Last.fm usage over the past 48 hours is that I am firmly still in the shoegazer camp. Next thing you know I’ll be back in black 501s, DMs and wearing an oversized black jumper with holes in it. Sounds ideal.
Anyone reading this based in Manchester - you’re a lucky, lucky person. Enjoy it whilst it lasts.
Came across this photo when I was tidying up some directories today to make room for a load of new documentation for the current big project.The photo shows my home for over 48 hours, and is a water abstraction station below the terminus of the Gorner glacier above Zermatt, Switzerland.I was busily using a vacuum pump to filter (through dried, known-weight Millipore papers) the sediment from hourly samples of meltwater. Normally we’d be empting these samples on a daily basis, but I thought it would be more fun to stay awake and sample on the hour, every hour, for 48 hours. That way I could preserve - as far as possible - the solute load of the water (which we’d normally throw out) for further mass spectrometer analysis back in the labs.There are control panels on the left and right for the pumping station, and they are constantly buzzing with electricity. By the time it got around to the final morning of the sample period, I was convinced that the static was actually Wogan on Radio 2. Not a good state of mind to be in.
[gmap name='newmap' width='500' height='300' lat='45.986708' lng='7.735244' ='14' desc='Gorner Abstraction Station' mtype='k']There aren’t any roads here, so choose the satellite view to see the site.
Bill’s photos always cheer me up - and no, I haven’t sorted out the OpenKapow stuff yet 
You can check out more of Bill’s landscape shots at his website.
I’ve posted (very briefly) about Kapow Technologies before (specifically about Robosuite - which is now seemingly rolled-up and rebranded as part of the Mashup Server). Sadly, when we tried to run Robosuite as a demo, we had no end of problem with it running on the Sparc(s) that we had available at the time 
Anyway, an initiative that Kapow have released seems to be getting a fair bit of attention. OpenKapow is proving pretty popular at the moment, emulating the same sort of services offered by Dapper and to some extent by Yahoo Pipes - although discussion at work today has tended to be around how much ‘Pipes’ is aimed at your consumer blogger market than at anyone who knows has a terminal open on their desktop 24 hours a day.
On openkapow web developers can freely download and use our RoboMaker visual scripting tool, which allows for an easy point and click interface to mashup anything on the web that has a URL. RoboMaker creates robots that can be deployed, shared and run for free non-commercial use as REST, RSS, ATOM or HTML services on openkapow. Everyone that has ever tried RoboMaker has been amazed by its power.
Sadly, we’re talking Windows or Linux only here, which kind of puts a dampner on me being to download it at home and run it on anything sensible right now. That is, of course, unless I can have a muck about with the archive that’s distributed to see if the Java app will extract OK on an Intel Mac. Looking at the forums on the site, then folks have deployed on Mac, but with a ‘lot of work’. Bet it’s not *that* difficult (check the time of the next post to see how long it takes).