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Archive for August 1st, 2005


Posted on August 1, 2005 - by jono

My chin

Spent the last four days in a tent over at What The Hack in Holland. Had an awesome time, drunk a shitload of beer and got to hang out with a great bunch of chaps. Thanks must go Aq, Adam, Bill, Gudge, Matt and Graham for an awesome weekend. The trip basically consisted of waking up, scratching something unscratchable, eating some food, hacking all day and drinking until your eyes fall out at night. It was utter class, despite Adam and I getting monsooned as we wobbled back to the tent one night. Returning to a tent to discover soaking wet plug sockets is a little unnerving.

While at What The Hack, the continued beard related japery happened. When many of us were kids at school in England, there was a running joke that if someone told a lie, you would rub your ‘Jimmy Hill Chin’. This friends, is Jimmy Hill:

Large chin, as you can see. For some reason, we found the chin so very funny. As such, we all came up with a variety of ‘chinny’ gags. Before we go any further, I must introduce you to the mascot for our chin related tomfoolery, Chinny Raccoon; a beast I bodged in the GIMP:

After this, it was inevitable that other artistic delights would come. Bill produced a fine specimen:

The next natural step was the kids classic, Chinny Chinny Bang Bang which took me ages to do:

Aq went on to produce a piece of art – rare for such a challenged individual:

Finally, I created our good friends Chin Chin and Snowy:

In other non-chin related news, I compiled GStreamer 0.9 on my Powerbook while at What The Hack. While we were there Edward was hacking on the Python bindings, so they should be fixed now, and the nice chap also wrote a few examples for me and chucked them in the archive. This will make hacking on bits of GStreamer related code much easier. I can’t wait to see how the new seeking code will work.

Got back into work today and spent most of the day hacking some old PHP/MySQL code back to life. The code in question was the ancient Tobe project that I released in a fairly primitive state a few years back. Its ugly. Filled with nested tables and other barnacles, I think I may need to take a shower when I get in. The cleanup operation is going well though. :)