Author Archives: SignpostMarv

Life On Mars/Ashes to Ashes: It’s over now

May 22nd, 2010 – 3:15am

I’ve just finished watching the final episode of Ashes to Ashes season 3. The ending didn’t come as a complete surprise, since two years ago I wrote up my thoughts on possible explanations for what was happening. Granted, I was wrong about what if Gene Hunt is an “angel”, but I was right about a [...]

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Dogbert: Viewer Advocate

May 4th, 2010 – 7:32pm

Original Strip Dilbert characters are by Scott Adams and ©2009, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Mashup created under the Collaborative Content License of The Official Dilbert Website terms, from where the above images originated.

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Updates to agni.sl.mapapi.net

April 14th, 2010 – 3:43pm

I’ve made quite a few changes to my pluggable version of slurl.com, most of which centred around replacing the hash-slurl.js plugin with hash-fu.js. Below is a summary of the changes made today.

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Second Life: Script-triggered Sounds and Viewer Audio Channels

February 10th, 2010 – 12:22am

Second Life allows objects to be scripted to trigger the playback of sounds. These can include anything including (but not limited to) birdsong, gunshots, clicks and sound bites. The viewer- or at least those intended to present the full audio-visual experience (there are text-only applications for accessing Second Life)- has an audio preferences panel, giving [...]

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Fixing a pet peeve with the display of many Twitter avatars on a single page

January 12th, 2010 – 10:04pm

So I sent Suzen Juel a tweet about Spotify, suggesting that if not for distributing her own music, she could use it to let her fans know what music she likes. Twitter being twitter and having the open API that it does, SpotiChart had a tweetbot that detected the presence of a link to Spotify [...]

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Observation: Police and Fuel Prices

January 12th, 2010 – 7:24pm

So it seems that fuel prices have reached the point where the local constabulary are being sent out on public transport instead of doing rounds in a patrol car.

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WebComic RSS

November 18th, 2009 – 4:48am

I had a poke around my public services (the stuff on services.signpostmarv.name), cleaned up a bunch of crap that was no-longer in use, then decided to poke around the code for my WebComic RSS service. There’s a mix of UHU4 and UHU5 code in there, so I thought it was time to start upgrading the [...]

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Quick SL Achievements web client demo

October 14th, 2009 – 1:10am

Since I’ve made some progress on the project, I decided to create this video demonstrating the web client for the SL Achievements API that I’m working on.

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I Took The Tateru Comic Challenge

October 1st, 2009 – 11:14am

Some say that creativity is a product of our freedoms. I’m more of the opinion that creativity is a product of our constraints, whether externally imposed or self-imposed. So, the self-imposed challenge: Take five images (already taken) from the digital camera’s memory-card and weave them into a one-page comic that tells a story. Tateru Nino

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Metaverse ID 0.14.2 released!

September 30th, 2009 – 11:31am

While tinkering away this morning with an upgrade to my WordPress plugin MV-ID, I thought I’d sneak in a new feature: shortcode support! What this means is that in addition to sidebar widgets, you can now embed the profiles inside blog posts like so: [mv-id mv=’agni SL’ id=’83b3987f-9520-4275-8efe-3ac13dd3f635′]. The plugin supports displaying individual profiles as [...]

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