The Motion Picture Association of America are releasing shorts into cinemas to try and educate people about the ‘evils’ of piracy, in showing the impact such activity may have on the everyday people who work on such movies, instead of the multi-million pound earning studios. But r4nt.com is listing three spoofs of these, illustrating the […]
Uncertainty continues
Great. I’ve not had a job for the last few weeks, or rather, I should say, the whole company has been re-organising, it’s finally got to our section and since the middle of April everyone has been in limbo in that all roles are being opened up and you have to re-apply for your job. […]
Podshows revisited
I received a comment today regarding an older post I made about www.podshows.com. Now, this isn’t Adam Curry’s podshow.com, but a UK based site providing shows by well-known DJs for payment and for free. Phyllis commented about the commercialisation of ‘casting, whatever the flavour, especially when combined with the government’s agreement that the licence fee […]
Store Wars Geeks
Go take a look at Store Wars, from the Organic Trade Organisation. A short parody (or should that be piss-take) of Star Wars with all the characters played by puppet vegetables, so we have Obi Wan Cannoli, a cucumber as Cuke Skywalker, Lord Tader and, my personal favourite, Chewbroccoli. There does appear to be a […]
Anglosphere Blogger Bash
Last night I went to a Bloggers Bash run by Adriana and Perry, some of the people behind The Big Blog Company and Samizdata. A great night that went on well into the morning. There were lots of new people to meet for me, unfortunately many of whom I only got their first names and […]
Feed overload
It’s taken me a week to finally get through all the blog feeds that had built up from my holiday…but finally done. Hooray. All I have to do now is wait another 5 minutes and there’ll be more there.
Employee Blogging
With an ongoing rumbling about the sensibility of blogging about work, I wonder if this guy’s boss is aware of his blog. With some of the observations made, I’d be cautious.
20 Questions
Interactive learning:an online version of 20 Questions that provides hours of fun (or at least a few minutes over coffee)
Geotagging
More fun stuff with Flickrand GoogleMaps. Dan Catt on geobloggers is providing an interface place Flickr place images on Google maps, using appropriate tags, along with lattitude nad longitude. And to save the effort of trying to work out the lat/long and then adding the tags yourself to Flickr, Steeve has written a GreaseMonkey Script, […]
Buying kettles
Looks like I may have o go and buy me a new kettle. I may only need a new power cord, but not sure if I can but one on its own. Never having bought a kettle, I’m not sure what to look for. The one I own was a present when I left for […]
Airplane Announcements
On my recent plane trips, tbere were a couple of nice comments made by the stewards/hosts (or whatever I’m supposed to call them); one by accident, one on purpose. On the way out, the announcer made an unfortunate anatomical mixup. Instead of asking us to tighten our seatbelts over out hips, we were supposed to […]
Army of Zombies
What does this say about Telewest customers? The BBC are reporting that nearly 1 million Telewest addresses have been blacklisted as the many of their customer machines have been utilised by spammers. Telewest are reported to be helping the customers gain back control of their machines.
PSP2 – screen changes colour by date
I mentioned earlier about the PSP having a pink screen. Apparently that was only an April issue – the screen changes colour based on month. Dave Taylor is listing the following colours: May 2005: Dark Green June 2005: Purple July 2005: Aqua August 2005: Sky Blue September 2005: Violet October 2005: Gold November 2005: Light […]
Doc World
Spurred on by Doc Searl’s aerial photos over the last few months, I took some photos out of the plane window on the trip back. And now he mentioned this project over at Irish Eyes, so I’ve added some photos to the set on Flickr.
What’s a blog
See here for Doc Searl’s view
Geek Dinners
Whilst I was away, I missed one of the Geek Dinners; unfortunate, because it sounds interesting according to Ian. From Hugh, it appears there’s another organised in June (see here).
Holidays over
My week away is over. Spent a brilliant week in Barbados doing very little. It fulfilled the brief – diving, sleeping, eating, drinking. Little activity outside of the hotel. Which was probably a good idea since it rained every day except 2, and one of those was the day we came home. You can’t do […]