It seems my Half-Life on the iPod Nano video was one of the top stories on digg last week. I had no idea, but I’m quite glad the link was to the Google video rather than my blog – I’m not sure my little server would handle a full blown digging very well.

The only reason I noticed was because I saw myself on the Diggnation video podcast. Short clip here.

On a completely unrelated note, Jack Schofield from The Guardian interviewed me about my Google Maps hack yesterday.

I may be failing in my endless quest for Internet anonimity.

I’ve put another iPod Linux video on Google – “playing” Half Life on the Nano. You can see it here.

Remember, to do this, you’ll need to install iPod Linux. You’ll also need iDoom installed, and the Half Life .wad file. You can find a list of wads that work with iDoom here.

You can always tell when I’m bored because I start playing with Garagaband..

Here’s my latest creation:

http://media.dynamite.co.uk/confideinstan.mp3

(Previously I made this in a moment of boredom.. http://media.dynamite.co.uk/slimkylie.mp3

People keep telling me not to give up my day job.. but I don’t have a day job. And that’s the problem.

I finally got around to fixing my Google Maps hack to work with the API:

www.dynamite.co.uk/local

Put simply, this hack allows just about any geocoded data source to be overlayed on a Google Map. I’ve currently got BBC travel news, Weatherpixies, Flickr photos, UK points of interest, London web cams, GeoURL local web sites and UK Gatso speed cameras on there. Just select a data set from the drop down menu, and everything will automatically update.

Possible future improvements may include:

• More data sets
• Automatically remember your last map / location
• Link to any given map / location
• Use KML internally so my data can be used within Google Earth.

I’m sure there’s lots more I could do too. Suggestions welcome. 🙂

My Christmas present from Google arrived today. Yay!

It’s a nice leather case containing

Wireless mini-USB optical mouse
128Mb USB memory stick
USB laptop light
Mini USB hub (not shown in photo as I’m using it already!)
Headset with microphone

That’s $43.16 of USB goodness.

This is actually the best present I received this year (last year!). I’m wondering why it arrived so late though.. I don’t think I can blame the Post Office this time.