Kalakzyans
I think the title referred to the beginning which reminded me of playing space invader style games.
Like this:
Today’s choice street art
Sighted on rue Cambronne today.
Rest
New old track of the week on SoundCloud, this one originally from 2001. Yes – over a decade ago!
Notice
I have been meaning to try out SoundCloud for some time, and I have been meaning to find a home for a good number of tunes I have lying around. So here we go then, at http://soundcloud.com/matthewneale, in no particular order, as and when I get the time to upload them, beginning with…
Like this:
Pulse
RE-Uses
Resighting is software as well as being a website running at resighting.com and the distinction between the two is important for understanding all the possibilities, as Matthew Neale explains below.
There is quite a lot to resighting.com, a lot more than at first meets the eye and I wanted to talk about a few uses that you may not have thought of.
Whatallo
Update, 20 February 2012: Though you probably won’t need to run your own whatallo, the code may serve as a Hello World for Google App Engine, therefore the code for the site is available here https://github.com/mdneale/whatallo.
We were just watching ‘Allo ‘Allo!, something we are prone to do and it reminded me of something I wrote last year, of which more in a moment. On the subject of ‘Allo ‘Allo, I still find it hilarious even after all this time. My favourite character is probably Monsieur LeClerc who arrives each episode disguised badly as some unlikely character or other in order to convey a message on behalf of the French resistance. He appears briefly at the end of this clip as an often-seen-in-wartime-France Christmas Pudding Seller.
The original Monsieur LeClerc actor Jack Haig had French mannerisms perfectly exaggerated. On the flip-side of that I could also have chosen Officer Crabtree, also featured in the clip, the English agent disguised as a French policeman poloceman whose French is probably something akin to mine.
Anyway, I’m skirting the point. If you watch it as much as we do (perhaps unlikely) then you need a simple way to randomly choose an episode to watch. Enter whatallo.com – it picks you a random episode and remembers what you have watched so that it doesn’t suggest the same episode twice.
It’s just a bit of fun, put together with Python, Django and jQuery running on Google App Engine, and I wholeheartedly recommend all of them.
