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Woo! I’ve just found out about the Tesco web API.

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/07/14/eggs-milk-bread-the-worlds-first-grocery-api/

I consider this to be pretty revolutionary.  For years I’ve been thinking up cool ways to order my groceries (generally involving barcode scanners on the bin/fridge) and now I can start putting them in to practice.

It looks like a RESTful API is still in the works, but I’m going to start playing with it and see what I can do.

Where is my Palm Pre and where is my ARM based netbook.

Damn it. I’m tired of waiting.

Can’t find it in the new web based config tool then?

In the user:

Message Configuration -> Default Configuration -> Email tab

et voilà.

Here’s the result of my custom paint job on my Acer Aspire One.  Thanks to Tommy @ http://www.losthoughts.com/ for the stencil.

I took the whole laptop to pieces and removed the lid from the screen so I was just left with the plastic.  Then I sanded it back to bare plastic with wet&dry then smoothed it off with finer grades of wet&dry.  Then when it was smooth I washed off all the plastic dust and let it dry before applying 3 coats of primer and about 4 coats of white paint, then one coat of black and about 4 coats of lacquer on top.  It took an entire weekend.  I also painted the bezel around the screen inside white.

So, me & Stu are making a film. It’s going to be along the same sort of lines as http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ The plan at the moment is to document how we came to be interested in all things Internet and computers in general, and then move on to document our momentous trip to http://www.har2009.nl

I’ve been using Spotify to research the sound track and it’s brilliant, shame there’s no Linux version but you can get it to run under Wine if you really want to. My advice is enjoy Spotify now, because as they get more and more popular their hosting costs are going to shoot up, requiring more money, requiring more advertising and/or the server speed will decrease. Enjoy it while it lasts folks.

Sainsbury’s Ginger Beer has more sneezes in it than Tesco’s. That can only be a good thing.