http://jamesholden.net the website of james holden, who ain't a dance music dj Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:08:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few weeks back, we went to a friends wedding. The band were excellent, and I took some pictures: http://jamesholden.net/2008/10/11/happy-guitarist/ This is our latest addition, born four and a half hours ago: http://jamesholden.net/2008/09/18/niall-william-holden-born-18th-september-2008/ There are some photos from the PHPNW meeting last night on my flickr stream. http://jamesholden.net/2008/09/03/photos-from-phpnw-meeting/ A guy called Robbie shot 3038 photos whilst going about his daily business over three days, set them to music, and used them to make a video showing a slice of his life. The result is awesome: 3038 Photos in Three Days http://jamesholden.net/2008/08/29/3038-photos-in-three-days/ The old Loud Truth webzine has been reactivated at http://www.loudtruth.org. Neil's done a sterling job of picking it up, dusting it down, and bringing it into the world wide web of 2008 complete with RSS feed. I'm sure interesting links will be gratefully accepted. http://jamesholden.net/2008/08/22/loud-truth-returns/ Well, I'm back off holiday - almost! I'm currently writing this from the runway at Manchester Airport. Yes, on the plane. The problem is that we landed over an hour ago after a bumpy landing due to landing gear failure. The wheels went down, but the steering was b0rked and we ... http://jamesholden.net/2008/05/29/landing-gear-failure-live-from-manchester-airport/ Some sad news had just come to my attention. The science fiction author and futurist, most well known for his 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey has passed away at the age of 90 in Sri Lanka after suffering breathing difficulties. As well as his writing and film making, he ... http://jamesholden.net/2008/03/18/arthur-c-clarke-dead-at-90/ As of a few minutes ago, the BBC has gone live with it's new homepage. The new site is an iGoogle type affair with re-positionable content blocks, location specific content and, rather quirkily, a flash rendition of the old BBC clock, which will only be recognisable to those over a certain ... http://jamesholden.net/2008/02/27/the-bbc-homepage-gets-a-makeover/ Apparently having two mobile phones now counts a suspicious behaviour, and people are being encouraged to report anyone they see with two phones to the police. A new counter-terrorism poster campaign operating in London, West Yorkshire and other areas of the UK urges the public to rat on their fellow citizens ... http://jamesholden.net/2008/02/27/got-two-mobiles-or-take-photos-youre-being-watched/ Having mis-spent a significant part of my youth tinkering with electronics, I was the 10 year old boy who wanted, and got an oscilloscope for my birthday. With the scope in X-Y mode and a couple of function generators, you could produce Lissajous figures by sending different waveforms to ... http://jamesholden.net/2008/02/15/amazing-oscilloscope-trickery/