Death and The Kings Horseman

I saw a play by Wole Soyinka recently called Death and The King's Horseman. It's based on a real incident that took place in Nigeria during colonial rule when the ritual suicide of the horseman of an important chief was prevented by the intervention of the British authorities. It's on at the National Theatre and highly recommended as it's very thought-provoking!

Tags: play, theatre, death

Download Skype for iPhone

It's finally here! iPhone Skype is now available to download. It worked well earlier, although a couple of times there was no sound... There's no video conferencing yet and some other features are missing, but nevertheless it's good to have.

Related: iPhone, Skype

New Word Alive 2009

New Word Alive starts today in Wales. If you haven't heard of it, it's an event for evangelical Christians. More info here. Quite a few friends are going so hope they have a great time!

Robotic vacuum cleaner

This is probably one of the best gadgets ever invented. (My flatmate got his from here.)

Tags: vacuum, gadget

Facebook Connect comments widget

All blog post comments here at Nimisis.com are now being done through Facebook. It was actually very easy to set up - only a few lines of code. More info on how to do this on your own blog is available from the Facebook developers section.

Looking forward to your comments!

Related: Facebook, api, mashup, webmaster

Question Bank

Made a new mashup today called Question Bank. It uses the Yahoo Answers API to present the latest questions being asked there in an auto-updating feed. Some popular categories are sports, computers & internet and travel.

How to buy a car on eBay

A friend of mine bought a car (a Mercedes Z3 in fact) on the online auction site recently and got a really good deal. It's a great way to get a bargain, as long as you do some research.

There are lots of cars on eBay. Have a browse around eBay Motors. Or this car auction if you're based in UK.

Tags: car, auction, ebay, tip

Play chess and have a webcam?

ChessClock is software that functions as a digital chess clock and also takes pictures of the board after every move so that a time lapse video of the game can be made for analysis afterwards. The timer and webcam function could be useful for other two-player games like Scrabble, Go, etc.

Related: game, software, chess, timer

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