There are lots of things wrong with computers: they don't work half the time; they aren't remotely intuitive to most people; they never quite do what you want them to. But occasionally they can be useful, or at least fun.
BarCamp Sessions
Things I've been involved in include:
- ToReadLess, attempting to automatically select news items relevant to you from the river of RSS, using Graham-Bayes style classification and probabilistic document similarity. (Unlaunched.)
- DevFort, a retreat for techie types, which has built a couple of sites that, aggravatingly, we still haven't managed to launch.
- Xapian, a search engine library with a few applications built on it.
- I've written a few extensions to Django, which I'm gradually getting into shape and putting up.
- Tedium, a Twitter digest manager / web interface / spam filter / platform for growing and increasingly unrelated experiments
- Outlook Reaper, for pulling emails out of Outlook in mbox format
- flickbookr, a silly thing I built on top of flickr to turn photostreams into flick books (flip books, if you aren't British)
- evil presentations, which will generate random presentations for you from Flickr (but, you know, evil).
- atompub, an attempt to build a bigger RSS, which grew a reasonable publishing protocol as well
- Google/BBC weather map mashup, which did pretty much what it said on the tin until the BBC changed their feeds to stop containing any useful information
- Zap, a programmers' editor for RISC OS (work continues, but I don't have much to do with it any more)
