MT Blog

Started a new blog to document the build of my multi-touch table. http://mtblog.iamhigham.com

Free UK Postcode lookups

Recently figured out a way of getting addresses for a UK postcode from M$ Virtual Earth for free! Its not so bad! I basically reverse geo-code a postcode to a long/lat address and then sample a 100m square area around that point and request addresses from that area at regular intervals of about 10 meters.

http://ve.iamhigham.com

Singletrack love

The only bike riding I have been doing of late has been commuting on my road bike and as much as I love that thing I kind of miss mtb'ing. The reason I haven't done any is due to the lack of a decent mountain bike, thieving scum in Liverpool you know who you are. So anyway, I do have a piece of crap that I have been hiding in my mum and dad's garage, which I took back today!

So i decided to go for a dusk hack round my some of my old haunts in Woodbridge, it was ace! the piece de resistance was finding my way through Melton woods in the half light, there is some good singletrack round there which you can ride at speed I might add! Good to see that at 31 I still have what it takes to tear it up!

Nildram bandwidth police

Got busted by the Nildram bandwidth police this week. My DSL connection is now capped at 64k, funny thing is I have 6gb left for this month according to their site! Life in the slow lane sucks!

Revision

Trying to find the motivation for my impending examination on .net and struggling. I find myself sitting here considering other things, like how best to index my mp3 collection with Ruby and Ferret! Meh!

Free postcodes

My friend Lee linked this on his blog and I shall do the same as I think its a great idea. http://www.freethepostcode.org/ is a website aiming to build a database of postcodes / latlong co-ords purely from user submitted data, nice!

Datamapper 0.9

A new version of Datamapper was released shortly after RubyConf 2008, I am currently upgrading existing bits and pieces I have been working on now. It promises some really nice new features including the ability to reference more than one repository per environment which is really nice. Merb + Datamapper FTW!