<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">¶ <a href="http://gilest.org/balloony.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:none">How to play balloony</a><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">It's a game we've been playing for a few years now.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><small style="margin:0px;padding:0px">posted at 18:21 on 8 Jan 2015</small></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">¶ <a href="http://youtu.be/KRMYr_Bw04g" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Infrastructure as code in government</a><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">An excellent talk by Anna - even if some of the details go over your head (as they do mine), it's well worth listening to if you want to understand why GDS writes code in the open.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><small style="margin:0px;padding:0px">posted at 17:39 on 8 Jan 2015</small></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">¶ <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01rx4bb" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Thotch - the music videos</a><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Really hope Brian and the boys will reform one day.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><small style="margin:0px;padding:0px">posted at 12:11 on 8 Jan 2015</small></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">¶ <a href="http://www.epub2mobi.com/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:none">epub to mobi</a><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Converts epub files into something (like a mobi file) you can read on a Kindle. I just used it to get <a href="http://qntm.org/ra" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Ra</a> on to mine.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><small style="margin:0px;padding:0px">posted at 12:03 on 8 Jan 2015</small></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">¶ <a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/article/announcing-the-morning-news-2015-tournament-of-books" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:none">The Morning News Tournament of Books 2015</a><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">The Rooster returns! I've not read any of these. I want to, though.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><small style="margin:0px;padding:0px">posted at 11:44 on 8 Jan 2015</small></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">¶ <a href="http://radionowhereuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/radionowheres-best-of-2014.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Radio Nowhere's best of 2014</a><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">I've been listening to Radio Nowhere off-and-on for years now. It's unique. An indie radio station producing a series of podcasts that play music you really don't hear anywhere else. Good music, too. Although Christopher Laird's voice and presenting style is an acquired taste, his choice of records in this round-up of last year's indie songs is excellent. I enjoyed listening to this show on the train home last night, sat back with my headphones on while First Great Western happened around me.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><small style="margin:0px;padding:0px">posted at 11:40 on 8 Jan 2015</small></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">¶ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foWAs3V_lkg#t=660" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Daido Moriyama in pictures</a><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">A short film (11 mins) about the Japanese photographer who walks the streets with a simple compact camera.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><small style="margin:0px;padding:0px">posted at 11:26 on 8 Jan 2015</small></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">¶ <a href="http://petapixel.com/2013/05/19/return-of-the-legend-hands-on-with-the-ricoh-gr/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Hands-on with a legend</a><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">A year after buying it, I'm still learning how to use my Ricoh GR camera. It's a tiny little marvel of a thing. This page has some tips and useful suggestions.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><small style="margin:0px;padding:0px">posted at 09:33 on 8 Jan 2015</small></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">¶ <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/p1501ay.jpg" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:none">The Eagle nebula photographed in 1995 and 2014</a><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2015/07jan_pillarsofcreation/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:none">This accompanying article</a> says there are visible differences between the two, but after some minutes of squinting I can't see them myself. Still: amazing images.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><small style="margin:0px;padding:0px">posted at 09:28 on 8 Jan 2015</small></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">¶ <a href="http://alicebartlett.co.uk/blog/yearnotes-2014" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Alice Bartlett's 2014 yearnote</a><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Alice did lots of interesting things last year.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><small style="margin:0px;padding:0px">posted at 15:31 on 7 Jan 2015</small></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">¶ <a href="http://gilest.org/internet-column-archive.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:none">The internet column archive</a><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">My archive of everything I wrote for my weekly syndicated column between 2000 and 2014.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><small style="margin:0px;padding:0px">posted at 23:59 on 6 Jan 2015</small></p></div>