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The forgotten poetry of Michel Thomas
17 May 2008 - danbri's foaf stories
(excerpts) like that, that way it is like that it is not like that it is not possible for me that way it is not possible for me like that I'm sorry I'm sorry, but I'm sorry but it is not very comfortable for me that way I'm sorry but it ...
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Gnucash - an accountant writes
16 May 2008 - Bristol Wireless News
Malcolm, a friendly chartered accountant who helps with our books, recently emailed our treasurer his opinions on Gnucash, the personal and small-business financial-accounting software that runs on GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and that other unspoken OS from Redmond. His words are reproduced below: Couldn’t resist the lure of FREE* software, so downloaded it and [...]
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Re: Pervasive Weather (where’s Facebook gone?)
15 May 2008 - thoughtden.
I’ve been carrying out some very ‘in-depth’ studies into social network usage over our short-lived British Summer, and realised I’ve been using Facebook a lot less. Apparently my ‘phone-losing house-mate‘ hasn’t checked hers in a few days too and it raised the point relating to my pervasive weather post. We’re more likely to interact with our desktops [...]
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No news today
15 May 2008 - iainclaridge.net
The day there was no news..! Share/Bookmark This
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No news today
15 May 2008 - iainclaridge.net
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No news today
15 May 2008 - iainclaridge.net
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indian spiced cabbage [del.icio.us]
15 May 2008 - gilest
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Musicalia: had Rakhmaninov been a computer programmer…
15 May 2008 - dorkbot bristol
R3-b00t, R3-LAUNCH 27 May | 7pm - 10pm | Pervasive Media Studio Whether you are an artist, filmmaker, scientist, programmer, or you’re just interested in doing strange things with electricity…you are invited to the re-launch of Dorkbot Bristol, on 27th May 2008 at the Pervasive Media Studio, above Firehouse Rotisserie in Anchor Square. This month’s Dorkbot, ‘Musicalia: had [...]
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This Peanut Looks Like A Duck [del.icio.us]
15 May 2008 - gilest
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gwap.com - Home [del.icio.us]
15 May 2008 - gilest
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Cubescape
15 May 2008 - Stefan Goodchild
Amazing piece of H
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Native client cannot be found while installing SQL Server 64
14 May 2008 - Tim
We're having fun and games with the new internal dev server. We've got for Windows Server 2008 x64 for a laugh and today was a corker, while trying to install SQL Server 2005 x64 onto the box we repeatedly got an error along the lines of "native client cannot be found sqlncli_x64.msi". Searching around the install DVD/files didn't reveal anything useful, turns out (after a little Googeling) that Microsoft install the wrong version of the SQL Server Native client tools as part of the …
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Connecting Bristol says you can Work from Home
14 May 2008 - Connecting Bristol
Tomorrow (Thursday 15th May) is National Work from Home Day. Promoted by Workwise UK, national Work from Home Day marks the start of National Work at Home Week – a celebration and demonstration of the joys and benefits of flexible working. In a nutshell, the big idea is that home working = smarter working. [...]
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Eduserv Symposium 2008
14 May 2008 - tziteras
I came to attend this symposium out of the blue, having seen an email late one Wednesday afternoon, saying our assistant director was too ill to go, and after a quick look at the programme, I realised it was a follow-up to an event I'd seen on video a while back where an entire conference on Second Life had been trashed by a talk which had argued it was all pretty much useless hype. So if this year's presentations were going to be in that vein, it sounded like like a fun time. This being a web 2 …
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Ideas for a possible Ninjam front end
14 May 2008 - tziteras
In my nightly jams with Ninjam I've recently found out loads about how it can be improved. Firstly there's now a linux client (there's always been one but this one is gui based). It's called gninjam. Best of all is that in doing this, Tobias the author of this first derivative, separated display from core functionality creating libninjam and a front end which he wrote in Glade. Setar and Tabla improvisation on very cheap microphone I want to write a new front end for it then, using libninjam and …
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What is underscore?

Well... about 8 years ago the following was written on the old Underscore website, and has been dug up from the archives. It stands pretty well the test of time and still reflects what Underscore is about:

underscore_ is a collective of individuals working in New Media in and around Bristol. We are a thriving online community in the form of our mailing list and we also get together occasionally to meet, discuss, learn and play.
We are not another top down initiative run by a committee with little real understanding of the medium, but rather a grass roots gathering of people with a real passion for our industry. We feel that by sharing our experience and insights we can create a community that fosters a spirit of pride and innovation, and begin to put Bristol on the New Media map.

I bet there are not many mailing lists in-augerated by a poem, but this was launched Underscore:

we're doing the channel hop
the channel drop
sinking in the pool of number
the present state
primeval cake
the flour being milled
the batter being beat up
into a frenzy

to land on the net
get your node and project
your vibes underground
in light and sound
and touch now too
so you
can imbibe the image
consume the logo: the brand
my brand, your brand
his brand, her brand
their brand, them brand
all bran?
no fibre here but the optic
looking seeing
watching me being
whatever i'm being
my crime is good content

a main attraction
boxing, bearbaiting
cathartic satisfaction
go there martyn with police-camera-action
but it's good for security
so make it a surety
that you don't arouse the enmity
of the law as we state it
so let's not create it
so it ties a noose around our necks

Rob Mitchell