Gavin Pearce » Internet tidbits http://www.gavinpearce.com A Web Developer and Technical Architect Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:53:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Find the Average Colour of a Photograph or Image http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/find-the-average-colour-of-a-photograph-or-image-288 http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/find-the-average-colour-of-a-photograph-or-image-288#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:00:02 +0000 Gavin Pearce http://www.gavinpearce.com/?p=288 Just a quick one – just seen this link on finding the average colour of a photograph or image. Very handy!

http://www.wisegeek.com/how-can-i-find-the-average-color-in-a-photograph.htm

]]> http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/find-the-average-colour-of-a-photograph-or-image-288/feed 0 Advanced search options on Twitter http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/advanced-search-options-on-twitter-271 http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/advanced-search-options-on-twitter-271#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:00:14 +0000 Gavin Pearce http://www.gavinpearce.com/?p=271 A quick reference guide on the advanced search options you can use on Twitter. Some of these even I didn’t know, may come in useful to someone!

 

Operator Finds tweets…
twitter search containing both “twitter” and “search”. This is the default operator.
“happy hour“ containing the exact phrase “happy hour”.
love OR hate containing either “love” or “hate” (or both).
beer -root containing “beer” but not “root”.
#haiku containing the hashtag “haiku”.
from:alexiskold sent from person “alexiskold”.
to:techcrunch sent to person “techcrunch”.
@mashable referencing person “mashable”.
“happy hour” near:“san francisco” containing the exact phrase “happy hour” and sent near “san francisco”.
near:NYC within:15mi sent within 15 miles of “NYC”.
superhero since:2009-10-22 containing “superhero” and sent since date “2009-10-22″ (year-month-day).
ftw until:2009-10-22 containing “ftw” and sent up to date “2009-10-22″.
movie -scary :) containing “movie”, but not “scary”, and with a positive attitude.
flight :( containing “flight” and with a negative attitude.
traffic ? containing “traffic” and asking a question.
hilarious filter:links containing “hilarious” and linking to URLs.
news source:twitterfeed containing “news” and entered via TwitterFeed
]]> http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/advanced-search-options-on-twitter-271/feed 1 Train driving down the road in Weymouth Harbour http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/train-driving-down-the-road-in-weymouth-harbour-166 http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/train-driving-down-the-road-in-weymouth-harbour-166#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:44:18 +0000 Gavin Pearce http://www.gavinpearce.com/?p=166 Having lived and worked in Weymouth, and visited more times than I care to count – I have of course driven over the old tram tracks running straight through the centre of Weymouth and down to the Harbour. I’m also guilty of parking on them once or twice – don’t think I’ll be doing that again though after seeing this video. I’d always assumed these tracks were fully shut down when the public road was built.

Very funny footage of police moving cars as a train driver decides he wants to send his train the awkward way, all the way down the now busy road to the harbour.

]]> http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/train-driving-down-the-road-in-weymouth-harbour-166/feed 0 The Times has the man for the job – Roger Boyes himself. http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/the-times-has-the-man-for-the-job-roger-boyes-himself-104 http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/the-times-has-the-man-for-the-job-roger-boyes-himself-104#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:59:25 +0000 Gavin Pearce http://www.gavinpearce.com/?p=104 Same old story in the Catholic Church – more sexual abuse scandals. Who better to report on the story than a certain Mr Roger Boyes himself:

The Times

The Register reports that poor Roger always seems to get these kind of stories …

Well … it made my day considerably more light humoured anyway!

]]> http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/the-times-has-the-man-for-the-job-roger-boyes-himself-104/feed 0 Fire at BT Paddington Exchange http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/fire-at-bt-paddington-exchange-101 http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/fire-at-bt-paddington-exchange-101#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:32:10 +0000 Gavin Pearce http://www.gavinpearce.com/?p=101 http://bit.ly/aNB7wf Affected Exchanges -> http://bit.ly/bedra6 Exchange information for reference -> http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/WEWNPN ]]> Quick update:
Fire at BT Paddington Exchange (WEWNPN) causing widespread landline, internet and mobile network problems and disruption. Many phone lines in London, Greater London, and wider area (including Windsor, Slough, Reading) completely down.

Full Story ->
http://bit.ly/aNB7wf

Affected Exchanges ->
http://bit.ly/bedra6

Exchange information for reference ->
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/WEWNPN

]]> http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/fire-at-bt-paddington-exchange-101/feed 0 Nokia – Rihanna live http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/nokia-rihanna-live-95 http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/nokia-rihanna-live-95#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:08:08 +0000 Gavin Pearce http://www.gavinpearce.com/?p=95 As part of a global push for the Nokia Music Store, I had the privilege of working on a campaign for Rihanna.

The final event was streamed live from the Brixton Academy to thousands of people across the world, with several surprise guests:

View the full playlist at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6E0BF7A44686EB04

]]> http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/nokia-rihanna-live-95/feed 0 David Bailey – Alive At Night http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/david-bailey-alive-at-night-92 http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/david-bailey-alive-at-night-92#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:01:12 +0000 Gavin Pearce http://www.gavinpearce.com/?p=92 Back in August 2009, I was the lead tech on a Web and Kiosk based data capture application, used at the launch of David Bailey’s Alive At Night exhibition, with pictures taken on the Nokia N86 8MP.

Just found some pictures online from the launch party:
http://rdujour.com/2009/08/27/david-baileys-alive-at-night/

]]> http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/david-bailey-alive-at-night-92/feed 0 The Fun Theory http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/the-fun-theory-25 http://www.gavinpearce.com/blog/the-fun-theory-25#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:27:19 +0000 Gavin Pearce http://www.gavinpearce.com/?p=25 Can making an everyday task more fun, easily change behaviour for the better? A clever campaign by the people at Volkswagen:

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