I’m really impressed with Flipboard, an app which really uses the capabilities of the iPad to deliver a novel and compelling reading experience. It manages to make your facebook and twitter feeds look like they were designed by a skilled magazine layout editor. I can see it being controversial as it also strips out all the adds. Makes me glad to be an “elitist” iPad owner.

We’ve started a board games group at the Studio where Katie works, and last night after a few pizzas, we played Jamaica. It’s a race game, but you don’t win just by crossing the line first, you also have to have sufficient gold. There are also cannons to collect and fire at opponents, and food to spend if you want to land on a square. Snakes and ladders on steroids.

I just scared the heebee-jeebees out of myself by innocently trying to use a shortcut in eclipse to copy a line into the clipboard. Instead, it turned my whole screen upside down! As a commenter on stackoverflow said:

Presumably flipping your screen upside down is not something you want to do often (unless you’re a vampire/bat).

Quite right.
In the end I found exactly what I was looking for in google code.

Rafi ready for a game.

On the edge of the Edinburgh cliff, we went to see the warm-up for Tom’s new show which he’s performing 23 times in the festival. He’s shortened it by a few minutes since I saw it last time, and it’s energy level is threatening to cross the red line. I don’t know how he’s going to manage the full month. I wish his audiences luck and enjoyment as they are trapped in the goldfish bowl of his dream for just over an hour.

Just got this from my friend. Makes me wish I was still in Brum.

South Birmingham Food Co-op, Loaf, Stirchley Happenings, and Birmingham Town Centre Partnerships are proud to bring you Stirchley’s (and Birmingham’s) first ever community market.

Stirchley Community Market, which launches on Tuesday the 27th July with it’s first market outside Stirchley United Working Mens Club on the Pershore Road from 4-8pm, will feature stalls selling wholefoods, bread, hot curry, wood-fired pizza, artisan preserves, cupcakes, local fruit and vegetables, and local arts and crafts, as well a stall doing bicycle maintenance. The market will give the local community, as well as commuters on their way home from work, an opportunity to find out what Stirchley has to offer, meet some excellent food producers and craft makers from within Birmingham, and pick up some tasty groceries for their weekly shop.

http://stirchleycommunitymarket.wordpress.com/

http://twitter.com/stirchleymarket

stirchleycommunitymarket@yahoo.co.uk

I’m going to miss Iceland Airwaves this year. Here’s a new video from one of the bands I fell in love with last year:

Retro Stefson from Inspired By Iceland on Vimeo.

Carnival in St Paul’s, Bristol yesterday.