#clog

Happy Easter

kronoc — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:00:27 +0000

Fáilte O’Bama

kronoc — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:37:56 +0000

It’s President Barack Obama!
And a green toilet plunger!
On Saint Patrick’s Day!

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Asshole.

kronoc — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:37:33 +0000

Yes, it’s a real picture.

Seasons Greetings

kronoc — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:30:38 +0000

Golden Maverick

kronoc — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:21:56 +0000

London tube delays rss feed meets hardware

kronoc — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:53:55 +0000

Tube delays light display

Tracy Tsang, an MA student at Middlesex University sent an email recently to let me know that she is using the my London Underground tube delays RSS feed to activate a piece of hardware, which she calls “The Tube”, to display line status information via LEDs in a plastic tube. This forms part of her MA thesis.

The Tube shows all the lines on the London Underground that are currently running with delays. The strip with corresponding colour is lit up using LEDs as the data is received from the TFL website.

Having checked site logs the other day, I realise that this RSS feed is actually the most popular thing on this site. Has anyone else done anything interesting with it? Answers on a postcard (or email) please.

World survives Big Bang

kronoc — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:21:34 +0000

World survives Big Bang, originally uploaded by kronoc.

I had better pay that credit card bill after all then.

Ryanair supremo proposes unusual business class service

kronoc — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:40:22 +0000

At one point his PR people think he’s really going to blow it this time.

[hat tip to Jazz Biscuit]

This is Birmingham calling

kronoc — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:22:57 +0000

Herself has recently been getting a lot of telephone messages for some midlands socialite named Mark. Neither of us know who he is, but the voicemail keeps coming. Spookily the phone doesn’t ring for him, ever, but still the messages appear. Thanks to the magic of the internet, using the audio player below, now you too can marvel at these random voice messages.

[Background sample courtesy of Real Rhodes Sounds, from The Freesound Project]

Hitler still tormenting east London

kronoc — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:50:53 +0000

It’s 2008 and still bombs from WWII are being found in the neighbourhood. Train and tube journeys have been disrupted as a result.

The Guardian reports:

A massive unexploded second world war-bomb began to tick as experts worked to defuse it, police said today.

The 1,000kg-device (2,200lb) was found in a river at Sugar House Lane, near Bromley-by-Bow tube station, in east London, on Monday.

Army disposal experts from the Royal Engineers were brought in to make the half-century-old weapon safe. Police said that at one point during the operation the bomb began to tick, but stopped again when it was doused with liquid.

A 200m exclusion zone has been put up around the scene, causing some delays to travellers in the area and forcing businesses to be evacuated.

Speaking at the scene today, Commander Simon O’Brien said the bomb had also leaked unknown substances.

He said: “This is the largest world war two bomb to be discovered in the past three decades.

“It measures approximately the size and length of a man, and weighs around 1,000kg.

“Royal engineers and partner agencies have been incredibly heroic and have worked extremely hard to defuse the bomb.

“We are all working to resolve this issue with minimum disruption to Londoners as soon as possible.”

Police said cordons would remain in place until tomorrow, as work on the bomb continues.

Transport for London said the District and Hammersmith & City tube lines would be suspended at Bromley-by-Bow from 9.30pm tonight until 10am tomorrow.

The train operator C2C said there will be no services from Fenchurch Street after 8.50pm tonight and limited services in the morning.