Checking out Dev Tools for work and came across the Atlassian suite. Its big bags of deadly. I can’t begin to describe how much cooler it is than the stuff I have to work with.
Its clean, simple, cheap, powerful, fully integrated with all of its own products (SCM, issue tracking, code review, continuous integration, agile planning, collaboration and wiki) AND it can integrate with a Google Apps domain.
If I was running a company, particularly a startup on a budget, this would win hands down.
So. Very. Cool.
Check it out here: http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/studio/
This is well cool. The BFI (British Film Institute) have managed to restore and capture most of the oldest version of Alice in Wonderland ever made.
First shown in 1903 it currently stands at a whacking 107 years old! Sadly some of it was lost, leaving 8 of the original 12 minutes of footage still extant and watchable. Reading up on it it seems that the film was made some 8 years after the birth of cinema (which is pretty cool..) and because of the abnormal length of the reel in both time and physical dimensions (a grand total of 800 feet of film) it was regularly shown in parts rather than all together. Lots more info available at the BFI homepage
Imagine what they could have done if they’d had today’s monstrous 2-3 hour long efforts
And here she is in all her centenary glory!!
The brother in law has taken off on the first leg of his travels. We dropped him to the airport today, where he’s catching his first flight from Dublin to Madrid, and the Madrid to Santiago, Chile. It sounds like a really cool trip, cant wait to do something like that myself, though it’ll have to be after the wedding, when herself is finished in college. You can track him down to his latest wibblings at Blake’s Crazy Adventures. On the bright side I’m planning on going over to meet him along the way, sometime around April/May, definitely looking forward to that one. Week long session of beer and… beer!
An old college buddy is also tripping the light fantastic at the moment, though he’s coming towards the end of his wanderings rather than the start. Over the last few months I’ve been reading about his exploits over at Project X, and its made for some really interesting reading, particularly the stuff on Tibet, Asia, all of those places, will definitely be hitting some of them on our travels!
Until I can find some better way of tracking his movements this will have to do for a starting point…
Its a terrible thing. Why can’t we get our mucus glands removed? I ask you… in this day and age should I really have to sit on my couch smoothering with a head cold, completely unable to breathe?
A load of pox is what its. Bah and most definitely Humbug.
