Basic method:

1. Export tweets
2. Process into words
3. Count word frequency
4. Upload to Wordle

Wordle accepts data input in the form:

word1:55
word2:23
...

First output was:

This was a little skewed towards the various travel and weather related feeds I follow (@SEtrafficnews, @nationalrailenq, @NRE_SEastern, @SEplaying, @KentWeatherObs) so I then excluded them…

And finally… a Wordle of my TwitteringsRamblings:

Actual method:

sqlite3 save.db "
  select text
  from tweets
  where substr(created_at, 27, 4) = '2011'
      and user_screen_name not in
         ('SEtrafficnews', 'nationalrailenq',
          'NRE_SEastern', 'SEplaying', 'KentWeatherObs')
" |
perl -e '
my %d;
while (<>) {
    chomp;
    s/http:\S+//g; # exclude links
    my  = split(/\W+/);
    for () {
        $d{ lc $_ }++;
    }
}
for ( sort { $d{$a} <=> $d{$b} } keys %d ) {
    print "$_:$d{$_}\n" if $d{$_} > 250 and $_ ne "";
}
'

• Red onion, diced
• A soft apple (Braeburn or alike), diced
• Carrots
• Pork steak
• Rosemary (fresh)
• Pork Stock
• New Potatoes

There are two options with cooking method, eat now (well, in a few hours) or eat later … for the former, I’d do the whole thing in a La Creuset-esque casserole dish and stick it in the oven but this time I’m doing it the night before to put in our slow cooker tomorrow morning so I’ve just used a deep, wide pan with a lid.

Fry the onion to get that going (5 minutes on medium heat) then add the rosemary, apple and carrots and fry for a few more minutes.

Place the steaks in the dish and cover with stock and top up with water so everything is (mostly) covered.

Cook for a few more minutes on the hob either transfer to the oven (at a guess, 180C for 60-90 minutes) or to the slow cooker for as long as you like

I plan to serve with new potatoes but it could go equally well with rice or plain cous-cous.

Will hopefully be able to update tomorrow with some idea of how it turned out……….

See xkcd for more time wastings

Went for a walk last night during the calm between downpours and got this set of pics of the Sunset… Autostitch is amazing

It’s here and automagically updates

made by marnanel
map reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data
by permission of the Ordnance Survey.
© Crown copyright 2001. ]]> http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2006/12/04/updated-where-have-i-been/feed/ 1 http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2006/10/23/camera-update/ http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2006/10/23/camera-update/#comments Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:04:11 +0000 foo http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/?p=17 Ok, so after much dribbling… they went and took away the decent 350D deal I was looking at (350D+18-55mm+55-200mm+grip). So, instead, I’ve gone and got myself a Canon 400D with standard 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 and dmc’s 75-300mm f4-5.6 to go with it… along with a rather swish looking backpack to keep it all in.

Oh, and “yay for Jessops” for price matching. Shame the only black 400d in Kent appears to have been in Maidstone… oh well, it’s in Whitstable now

Most of this time, I’ve had my eyes on a Canon 350D with some combination of lenses. [1]

What I’m after is a low-end, but extensible DSLR which I can experiment with, have fun with and, hopefully, take some nice pictures. I have borrowed a number of FD lenses from my dad which I’d like to be able to use (there are converters around), at least to start with.

I currently own a Fujifilm 2850Z which I’ve had for just over 4 years now and, although it’s a great camera, it’s showing its age [2]. I’m going to keep it, if anything, for Sarah

I suppose what I’m asking is: Any advice?

Footnotes

1. Probably either the kit Canon 18-55,55-200 lenses or the Sigma equivilant.
2. 3 cyan pixles, only 2 mega-pixels…

At the end of my first year at ukc, five of us moved into a house on an estate in Canterbury. As we were all CompSci students, we obviously needed a domain name for the house so it was dubbed the fivegeeks house (and was addressable fivegeeks.net). Over the following years, the house has known many occupents but, of the original five of us, only Adam and Mark remained to the end.

To celebrate this passing, an honorary BBQ was held on Sunday afternoon. Thanks to Mark and Adam for organising this — it was a great afternoon with some old friends who I’ve not seen for a long time!

[PS: Adam and Mark... you eaten all the left overs yet?]