Something New Every Day
Posts by Category
Something New Every Day
A record of doing a new thing every day in 2011
Posts by Category
Bing
My First Bing Garden Party (237/365)
Black country
Home of Metal (171/365)
Denmark
Posted Hotel Review on Expedia (216/365)
Home via CPH Airport (206/365)
Vegetarian Smörgåsbord (204/365)
Bad Day in Scandinavia (203/365)
Denmark! (202/365)
Edinburgh
Rosslyn Chapel (211/365)
Kays Bar (210/365)
Sheep Heid Skittles (209/365)
Badly named Nectar Ale (208/365)
Germany
Lunchtime Falafel (349/365)
Tollwood (348/365)
Bavarian Christmas Market (347/365)
Hofbräuhaus (346/365)
Munich (345/365)
India
Kaju Katli (305/365)
Newcastle
I was on Match Of The Day (351/365)
St James’s Park (295/365)
Turner Prize Finalists (294/365)
Standing Ovation? (260/365)
Handmade Burgers (212/365)
Crown Posada (207/365)
Poland
Lemon Iced Tea (252/365)
Same bar, different location (251/365)
Welcome to the Hotel Wroclaw (250/365)
Seattle
In Car Dining at Burgermaster (316/365)
Seagrams Ginger Beer (315/365)
Pumpkin Porridge (313/365)
Scape Goat Ale (312/365)
Seattle to home via Amsterdam on Delta (195/365)
Black Bottle Postern (194/365)
Lucky Charms (193/365)
Reeses Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake (192/365)
Saw a fencing exhibition (191/365)
Spain
New Year in Spain (365/365)
Walked on a Grand Prix track (364/365)
Air Europa (363/365)
Spicy Potato Cakes (176/365)
Spicy Nuts (162/365)
Churros and Hot Chocolate (141/365)
Fried Egg on Veggie Burger on Baked Potato (135/365)
Spanish Cup Final (134/365)
Russafa Culture (133/365)
New bar and beer in Valencia (132/365)
Spanish Evening (121/365)
Usa
Froot Loops (311/365)
Art
Turner Prize Finalists (294/365)
Geraldine Pilgrim exhibition in Hexham (197/365)
Baseball
MLBTV in HD (107/365)
It must be Spring... (65/365)
Beautiful
Checked out a brilliant online graphing calculator (175/365)
Beer
Tollwood (348/365)
Hofbräuhaus (346/365)
Saturday Football in The Phoenix (330/365)
Scape Goat Ale (312/365)
Duke Of York (298/365)
Boozing in Belgravia (236/365)
Kays Bar (210/365)
Sheep Heid Skittles (209/365)
Badly named Nectar Ale (208/365)
Crown Posada (207/365)
Black Bottle Postern (194/365)
Woodforde’s Wherry (179/365)
Stella Black (165/365)
Drinks in The Glassblower (159/365)
Allendale Swift (150/365)
Spanish Cup Final (134/365)
New bar and beer in Valencia (132/365)
Night out in Reading (109/365)
Day at the Rugby Club (99/365)
Lipsmacker Lemon Ale (92/365)
Went to my new local to watch the England game (40/365)
Lazy Boy Beer (24/365)
Betting
Opened a BetFair account (126/365)
Blog
Tagging up the site (112/365)
Analysed what you all like (42/365)
Something New Every Day: The Rules
Books
Kindling on the Tube (242/365)
Kindle Direct Publishing (233/365)
Back into the Banjo (88/365)
Installed Kindle for PC (14/365)
Read "59 Seconds" (13/365)
Wrote a book review on Amazon (5/365)
Calendar
Programming using the iCalendar data format (9/365)
Celebrity
Saw Prince Edward (326/365)
Paparazzi at lunchtime (111/365)
Celebrity Spot: Nick Moran (87/365)
Saw Ian McCaskill at Heathrow (36/365)
Saw Seahawks Star Signing in Bing Cafeteria (32/365)
Cinema
Went to Combined Vegetarian Restaurant and Cinema (106/365)
The King's Speech (71/365)
Wrote a review on Rotten Tomatoes (30/365)
Watched True Grit lying down in the cinema (26/365)
Coding
Silverlight in Style (362/365)
jQuery Mobile (331/365)
Silverlight Toolkit (329/365)
31 Days Of Mango (325/365)
Form Navigation (318/365)
Wrote Weight Tracker App using Facebook Open Graph (291/365)
Octave (286/365)
Python Tools for Visual Studio (279/365)
Flaws in the Application Bar (272/365)
Uploaded Mango App to Marketplace (235/365)
Fixed bug using App Hub stack traces (221/365)
Checked out Evernote integration possibilities (189/365)
Mango Tools (180/365)
Built power-friendly app (178/365)
Using Transport for London data API (173/365)
Hacking my phone (172/365)
Learnt about HTML5 Geolocation (167/365)
Learnt how to pad a table (164/365)
Online chat integration (161/365)
Joining the semantic web (154/365)
Wrote a Bing Translate Chrome Extension (149/365)
Setup a CodeGuard backup (146/365)
Wrote a Chrome extension (128/365)
Using application bar in phone app (120/365)
Light side of the moon (108/365)
Learning about XNA for making games (101/365)
Auto translation using Bing API (98/365)
Timezone fun (96/365)
Integrated Yahoo! PlaceFinder in my phone app (94/365)
Wasted 3 hours of my life on SimpleGeo (90/365)
Facebook Likes Josie (76/365)
Sunrise, sunset (73/365)
I am not a designer (64/365)
Putting the location in Brave Location (62/365)
Playing in F# (61/365)
A set of unnotable but new things (58/365)
Helping Facebook's world domination one site at a time (56/365)
Brave Location now has a Facebook page (51/365)
Hacked together a near realtime RSS->Twitter solution (50/365)
Declared my Windows Phone 7 app code complete (37/365)
Learnt how to make a transparent PNG file (27/365)
Got my own app running on my Windows Phone (17/365)
Programming using the iCalendar data format (9/365)
Learning more about geospatial queries (3/365)
Computing
MilkSync (335/365)
Life in a Day (310/365)
Using East Coast Wi-fi (307/365)
Joined Google Plus (300/365)
Multi-Monitor Windows Find (299/365)
NAS in the house (292/365)
DART (283/365)
A redesign using Bootstrap (282/365)
Machine Learning at Stanford - again (280/365)
Forced onto Chrome Beta (273/365)
Timeline (266/365)
Virtually Windows 8 (265/365)
Weather Woes (259/365)
If This Then That (257/365)
Country Singalong Playlist (255/365)
Learning about Paypal API (247/365)
Bought some audio books from iTunes (241/365)
Kindle Direct Publishing (233/365)
Video via MovieMaker 2011 (232/365)
Checked out Factual.com (231/365)
Installed SkyGo client (218/365)
Made my first screen capture video (174/365)
Evernote for WP7 (168/365)
Added Twitter Follow button to website (153/365)
Added Memolane to website (140/365)
Yeltz Forum Redux (118/365)
MLBTV in HD (107/365)
Electronic Census (86/365)
Home broadband speed improved x4 (84/365)
Checked out App Harbour for low cost web hosting (66/365)
Behind the times (63/365)
Removed an insidious computer virus (59/365)
I fought Google App Engine and the App Engine won (47/365)
Submitted my app to Windows Phone 7 Marketplace (41/365)
Finally cracked and got a Starbucks card for Wi-fi (39/365)
Wrote a review on Rotten Tomatoes (30/365)
Bought a Netbook (29/365)
Used docs.com to easily share a document with friends (23/365)
Registered 2 new domains (18/365)
Installed Kindle for PC (14/365)
Registered as an app developer on Windows Phone 7 Marketplace (11/365)
Paid for Pro subscription to Remember The Milk (7/365)
Wrote a book review on Amazon (5/365)
Cooking
Eton Mess (360/365)
Souffle Omelette (357/365)
Ramen (352/365)
Treacle Tart (344/365)
Trofie Pasta (324/365)
Homemade Jam Tarts (323/365)
Veggie Pigs in a Blanket (322/365)
Tempura Bananas (302/365)
Banana and Pickle Sandwich (301/365)
Hotpot (296/365)
Quorn Steak Strips (289/365)
Poached Pears (288/365)
Waffling (275/365)
Banana Tarte Tatin (267/365)
Jamie Oliver Bean Wrap (261/365)
Cooked some disappointing rostis (240/365)
Mustard on Baked Potato (224/365)
Made Toad in the Hole (219/365)
Wimbledon Barbecue (184/365)
Made my own whoopie pies (183/365)
Spicy Potato Cakes (176/365)
Spicy Nuts (162/365)
Chilli sandwiches (156/365)
Home made mini-scones (155/365)
Thai Fried Bananas (148/365)
Churros and Hot Chocolate (141/365)
Home-made Teriyaki Tofu Steaks (127/365)
Had my first famous Shepherds Pie and Champagne party (119/365)
Home made Vegetarian Sushi (117/365)
Easter cake bake-off (113/365)
Home Made Jammy Dodgers (78/365)
Spicy Dumplings (72/365)
I am the muffin man (57/365)
Tried making my own toffee, but was more like caramel (44/365)
Made a flat Swiss Roll (15/365)
Made my own veggie sausages (8/365)
Making US-style Pancakes (2/365)
Culture
Russafa Culture (133/365)
Cycling
Day at British Cycling Road Race Championships (177/365)
Diet
Half a Foot Long (234/365)
Fat Loss Spreadsheet (225/365)
Drinks
Bavarian Christmas Market (347/365)
Rose and Crown, Stoke Newington (342/365)
Windsor Castle Pub (340/365)
Seagrams Ginger Beer (315/365)
Same bar, different location (251/365)
Costa Skinny (229/365)
Iron Duke (222/365)
Browns in Cardinal Place (215/365)
Ice Bar (200/365)
Monday Cocktails (157/365)
Eating
Gums vs. Pastilles (361/365)
Noodle Noodle (356/365)
The Goring Hotel (355/365)
Lime Orange Korean Lunch (354/365)
Picante Mexican Grill (353/365)
Lunchtime Falafel (349/365)
Wahaca (343/365)
Pasta with Sausage (341/365)
Instant Porridge (339/365)
Eating in at M&S (333/365)
Macchiato (332/365)
Empanadas (328/365)
Crussh Healthpot (327/365)
Trofie Pasta (324/365)
Veggie Pigs in a Blanket (322/365)
Sea Salt Chocolate (319/365)
In Car Dining at Burgermaster (316/365)
Pumpkin Porridge (313/365)
Froot Loops (311/365)
Kaju Katli (305/365)
Pear Sandwich (304/365)
Banana and Pickle Sandwich (301/365)
HP Guinness Sauce (293/365)
Beans on Mustard (287/365)
Sensational Crisps (281/365)
Full Of Beans (278/365)
Chipotle Tacos (271/365)
Purple Milk (263/365)
Nandos Withdrawal Pot (262/365)
Working Beans (258/365)
A Real Ale Pickle (256/365)
Burger at The Breakfast Club (253/365)
Lemon Iced Tea (252/365)
Eat Dumpling Soup (249/365)
Treats in Berwick (246/365)
Wasabi lunch (244/365)
M&S Mushroom and Onion Pie (238/365)
Half a Foot Long (234/365)
Itsu is Sh**** (230/365)
Quorn Sliced Fillets (227/365)
Cuban Chocolate (220/365)
Posh Cheezy Peas (214/365)
Karnaphuli (213/365)
Handmade Burgers (212/365)
Vegetarian Smörgåsbord (204/365)
Gouda Stroopwafels (196/365)
Black Bottle Postern (194/365)
Lucky Charms (193/365)
Reeses Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake (192/365)
Lunch at the rudest pie shop in London (186/365)
Had my first whoopie pie (181/365)
Ryo Japanese Restaurant (166/365)
Dinner at Cafe Nerd (160/365)
Bodean BBQ Restaurant (152/365)
Lunch at Vitao (151/365)
Lunchtime at a Hawaiian Sandwich Grill (144/365)
Aldi Fake Mars Bar (142/365)
Food Secret for lunch (139/365)
Valenciano food from M&S (136/365)
Fried Egg on Veggie Burger on Baked Potato (135/365)
Wheat for lunch (131/365)
Innocent Food (129/365)
Ten Ten Tei for lunch (125/365)
Lunch at Boatside Inn in Warden (122/365)
Went to Combined Vegetarian Restaurant and Cinema (106/365)
Marmalade on toast (100/365)
Morning coffee at Fernandez and Wells (95/365)
Tuk Tuk for lunch (75/365)
Full English (69/365)
Piccadilly Stale Sandwich (68/365)
A set of unnotable but new things (58/365)
A teriyaki tofu bento box lunch (53/365)
Trying "No food on plane" anti jet-lag diet (35/365)
Went to a US Chipotle (31/365)
Lazy Boy Beer (24/365)
Switched Sides in the Sausage Sandwich Game (22/365)
Dinner at the Underground (20/365)
Had some gingko (12/365)
Tried a new sauce on my lunchtime noodles (10/365)
Facebook
Wrote Weight Tracker App using Facebook Open Graph (291/365)
Facebook Likes Josie (76/365)
Helping Facebook's world domination one site at a time (56/365)
Brave Location now has a Facebook page (51/365)
Film
I've stood near Brad Pitt (314/365)
Life in a Day (310/365)
Football
I was on Match Of The Day (351/365)
Saturday Football in The Phoenix (330/365)
St James’s Park (295/365)
Watched Arsenal in Champions League (228/365)
Spanish Cup Final (134/365)
Yeltz Forum Redux (118/365)
All By Myself (74/365)
Hexham
Corbridge Level Crossing (358/365)
Saturday Football in The Phoenix (330/365)
The Great Cement Pile Mystery (308/365)
Pruning (274/365)
Tynedale Rugby (239/365)
Geraldine Pilgrim exhibition in Hexham (197/365)
Wimbledon Barbecue (184/365)
Day at British Cycling Road Race Championships (177/365)
Got the car valet cleaned (169/365)
Walked up Causey Hill (163/365)
Holiday
Went to Combined Vegetarian Restaurant and Cinema (106/365)
Stayed at Vegetarian B&B in Lake District (105/365)
Home
NAS in the house (292/365)
Emergency Gas Callout (290/365)
Sensational Crisps (281/365)
Pruning (274/365)
Fully Smartphone Family (115/365)
Home broadband speed improved x4 (84/365)
A set of unnotable but new things (58/365)
Put up our fancy LED lamp (21/365)
Ideas
Next Year's Idea (297/365)
Interesting
Xmas Talking Dart Board (359/365)
Empanadas (328/365)
Sea Salt Chocolate (319/365)
The Great Cement Pile Mystery (308/365)
Breathe Easy (303/365)
Turner Prize Finalists (294/365)
Rosslyn Chapel (211/365)
Ice Bar (200/365)
Saw a fencing exhibition (191/365)
Went past opening of M&M World (187/365)
Checked out a brilliant online graphing calculator (175/365)
Offered Adult Services on Brewer Street (158/365)
Flying Scotsman (143/365)
Lexica (137/365)
Fencing (124/365)
Made my first contactless payment (123/365)
Walked through a film set - or weird alternative reality (102/365)
Lost my wallet for 15 minutes (97/365)
Helped Motorcycle Crash Victim Outside Our House (77/365)
Got some interesting spam (48/365)
I was Higher Than An Eagle (33/365)
Watched True Grit lying down in the cinema (26/365)
Spotted a colleague in a Windows Phone ad (25/365)
I walked past a real crime scene today (6/365)
Language
Online German (337/365)
Wrote a Bing Translate Chrome Extension (149/365)
Spanish Evening (121/365)
Learning
Octave (286/365)
DART (283/365)
Machine Learning at Stanford - again (280/365)
Machine Learning at Stanford (226/365)
Statistic refresher course (170/365)
Location
Timezone fun (96/365)
Integrated Yahoo! PlaceFinder in my phone app (94/365)
Wasted 3 hours of my life on SimpleGeo (90/365)
Sunrise, sunset (73/365)
Putting the location in Brave Location (62/365)
Learning more about geospatial queries (3/365)
London
Noodle Noodle (356/365)
The Goring Hotel (355/365)
Lime Orange Korean Lunch (354/365)
Picante Mexican Grill (353/365)
Wahaca (343/365)
Rose and Crown, Stoke Newington (342/365)
Windsor Castle Pub (340/365)
Eating in at M&S (333/365)
Crussh Healthpot (327/365)
Lazy Bus Home (320/365)
St James's Park, London version (306/365)
Duke Of York (298/365)
Polish Deli (285/365)
China Daily Weekly (284/365)
Victoria Alternative (269/365)
Working Beans (258/365)
A Real Ale Pickle (256/365)
East Over Land (254/365)
Burger at The Breakfast Club (253/365)
Wasabi lunch (244/365)
Picnic in Russell Square (243/365)
Kindling on the Tube (242/365)
My First Bing Garden Party (237/365)
Boozing in Belgravia (236/365)
Itsu is Sh**** (230/365)
Watched Arsenal in Champions League (228/365)
Quorn Sliced Fillets (227/365)
Iron Duke (222/365)
Applied for Wimbledon tickets (217/365)
Browns in Cardinal Place (215/365)
Posh Cheezy Peas (214/365)
Karnaphuli (213/365)
Bus through new bits of London (188/365)
Went past opening of M&M World (187/365)
Lunch at the rudest pie shop in London (186/365)
Working in Victoria (185/365)
Had my first whoopie pie (181/365)
Woodforde’s Wherry (179/365)
Using Transport for London data API (173/365)
Ryo Japanese Restaurant (166/365)
Stella Black (165/365)
Dinner at Cafe Nerd (160/365)
Drinks in The Glassblower (159/365)
Offered Adult Services on Brewer Street (158/365)
Monday Cocktails (157/365)
Bodean BBQ Restaurant (152/365)
Lunch at Vitao (151/365)
The Mountain Goats in Camden (145/365)
Lunchtime at a Hawaiian Sandwich Grill (144/365)
Flying Scotsman (143/365)
Food Secret for lunch (139/365)
Prison Bus (138/365)
Valenciano food from M&S (136/365)
Wheat for lunch (131/365)
My Trendy Soho Haircut (130/365)
Ten Ten Tei for lunch (125/365)
Fencing (124/365)
Paparazzi at lunchtime (111/365)
Bus home to avoid football crowds (110/365)
Found way home with least exercise (103/365)
Walked through a film set - or weird alternative reality (102/365)
Lost my wallet for 15 minutes (97/365)
Morning coffee at Fernandez and Wells (95/365)
Completed my Olympic tickets application (93/365)
Gave some money to busker (82/365)
Bought an urban dressing gown (81/365)
Came 2nd in pub/sculpture quiz (80/365)
All By Myself (74/365)
Piccadilly Stale Sandwich (68/365)
Mornington Crescent (67/365)
A teriyaki tofu bento box lunch (53/365)
Planned my Olympic ticket application (52/365)
Stamford Hill. Sainsburys. Sad but streak continues (46/365)
Pub Quiz in Stoke Newington. Cancelled for Love (45/365)
Went to my new local to watch the England game (40/365)
Finally cracked and got a Starbucks card for Wi-fi (39/365)
Moved into new flat in South Tottenham (38/365)
Moved out of Pimlico (19/365)
Microsoft
Saw Seahawks Star Signing in Bing Cafeteria (32/365)
Bought a Netbook (29/365)
A day full of meetings (28/365)
Spotted a colleague in a Windows Phone ad (25/365)
Music
Cinerama (336/365)
Jazz FM (276/365)
Metallica (270/365)
Wagner's Ring (264/365)
Country Singalong Playlist (255/365)
New Country Radio (245/365)
Home of Metal (171/365)
The Mountain Goats in Camden (145/365)
Back into the Banjo (88/365)
Behind the times (63/365)
Olympics
Completed my Olympic tickets application (93/365)
Planned my Olympic ticket application (52/365)
Phone
Silverlight in Style (362/365)
Cool Tools on a Cold Day (350/365)
jQuery Mobile (331/365)
Silverlight Toolkit (329/365)
31 Days Of Mango (325/365)
Form Navigation (318/365)
Flaws in the Application Bar (272/365)
Uploaded Mango App to Marketplace (235/365)
Fixed bug using App Hub stack traces (221/365)
Upgraded phone to Mango (182/365)
Mango Tools (180/365)
Built power-friendly app (178/365)
Hacking my phone (172/365)
Evernote for WP7 (168/365)
Installed WP7 7.1 Tools (147/365)
Using application bar in phone app (120/365)
Bedside Clock v2 uploaded to Marketplace (116/365)
Fully Smartphone Family (115/365)
Light side of the moon (108/365)
Addicted to Flowerz (104/365)
Learning about XNA for making games (101/365)
Timezone fun (96/365)
Integrated Yahoo! PlaceFinder in my phone app (94/365)
Dish On It (91/365)
Wasted 3 hours of my life on SimpleGeo (90/365)
Windows Phone 7 update of sorts (89/365)
Version 2 of Bedside Clock almost complete (83/365)
Sunrise, sunset (73/365)
WP7 Phone Apps Galore (70/365)
Unbelievable! 363 downloads of phone app in first 4 days (49/365)
My Bedside Clock App is available right now! (43/365)
Submitted my app to Windows Phone 7 Marketplace (41/365)
Declared my Windows Phone 7 app code complete (37/365)
Learnt how to make a transparent PNG file (27/365)
Spotted a colleague in a Windows Phone ad (25/365)
Got my own app running on my Windows Phone (17/365)
Registered as an app developer on Windows Phone 7 Marketplace (11/365)
Politics
Voted Yes to Change (114/365)
Shopping
Bought an urban dressing gown (81/365)
Bought a DAB radio. And it works. (54/365)
Sport
Walked on a Grand Prix track (364/365)
Tynedale Rugby (239/365)
Applied for Wimbledon tickets (217/365)
Saw a fencing exhibition (191/365)
Wimbledon Barbecue (184/365)
Day at British Cycling Road Race Championships (177/365)
Sweden
Boat Trip around Stockholm Archipelago (201/365)
Ice Bar (200/365)
Traipsing around Stockholm (199/365)
Sweden! (198/365)
Theatre
Standing Ovation? (260/365)
Training
Situational Leadership (334/365)
Travel
New Year in Spain (365/365)
Walked on a Grand Prix track (364/365)
Air Europa (363/365)
Lunchtime Falafel (349/365)
Tollwood (348/365)
Munich (345/365)
Discovered the brilliant planefinder.net (338/365)
First Class (321/365)
Lazy Bus Home (320/365)
The ePassport Line (317/365)
South BA Terminal 5 Lounge (309/365)
Using East Coast Wi-fi (307/365)
St James's Park, London version (306/365)
First Class for Free (277/365)
Victoria Alternative (269/365)
Voyageur Frequent (268/365)
East Over Land (254/365)
Same bar, different location (251/365)
Welcome to the Hotel Wroclaw (250/365)
Signalman overslept; missed connection (248/365)
Treats in Berwick (246/365)
Train Loyalty Points (223/365)
Home via CPH Airport (206/365)
Bad Day in Scandinavia (203/365)
Denmark! (202/365)
Boat Trip around Stockholm Archipelago (201/365)
Ice Bar (200/365)
Traipsing around Stockholm (199/365)
Sweden! (198/365)
Gouda Stroopwafels (196/365)
Seattle to home via Amsterdam on Delta (195/365)
Flew to Seattle via Paris with Air France (190/365)
Bus through new bits of London (188/365)
Flying Scotsman (143/365)
Prison Bus (138/365)
Russafa Culture (133/365)
New bar and beer in Valencia (132/365)
Bus home to avoid football crowds (110/365)
Night out in Reading (109/365)
Stayed at Vegetarian B&B in Lake District (105/365)
Found way home with least exercise (103/365)
Day at the Rugby Club (99/365)
Walked to Holy Island (85/365)
Booked summer holiday in Scandanavia (79/365)
All By Myself (74/365)
Piccadilly Stale Sandwich (68/365)
Mornington Crescent (67/365)
Pic and Vic (60/365)
Travel Woes == Bus Home (55/365)
Saw Ian McCaskill at Heathrow (36/365)
Trying "No food on plane" anti jet-lag diet (35/365)
Stuck in Seattle (34/365)
Dinner at the Underground (20/365)
Catching the Heathrow Express (4/365)
Tv
I was on Match Of The Day (351/365)
Saturday Football in The Phoenix (330/365)
Website
Discovered the brilliant planefinder.net (338/365)
Next Year's Idea (297/365)
A redesign using Bootstrap (282/365)
Posted Hotel Review on Expedia (216/365)
Checked out a brilliant online graphing calculator (175/365)
Work
Situational Leadership (334/365)