Its been a while since I’ve posted here, I’ve been carried away with development on my exilecoffee.com blog and the challenges involved in theming wordpress properly. In the interim I’ve also discovered Yahoo Pipes; allowing me to aggregate my blogs, twitter and flickr feeds into one stream, enabled my sites for openid and created my own id on this domain using phpMyID. Not bad!
On Saturday I attended BarCamp Belfast, it was the first IT related meetup I’ve been to in a few years. In my experience conferences are full of suits and posers and meetups tended to be quite small affairs, it seemed as though the concept never took root fully in NI. Thankfully though BarCamp Belfast was nothing like this, it was extremely well organised by Andy McMillan (t), the venue at QUB was excellent and the topics where very engaging. I especially loved Emma Persky’s talk on Hand Gesture Recognition and Darragh Doyle and Grannymar’s conversational talk on blogging. I gave a talk myself on Speciality Coffee, but I was a nervous wreck and had rushed to get it finished after spending too long trying to get my server back online, I’ll be serialising it soon over on Exile
In hardware news and the reason for the title of this post, I’ve somewhat successfully transferred a broken MacBook Pro that I currently use as a media centre, into the case of a PowerMac G5, including wiring up power and front ports. I’m having one little problem (two actually, I nearly cut my thumb off on the sharp aluminium) how do I attach the underside of the laptop to the case, drill holes in the underneath of the old MBP or use some sort of epoxy? I’d rather do the second, but I know the first will work better. Any ideas?
Andrew