My brother-in-law has been hassling me about what I’ve been doing this past week (apart from hiding when the family all descends en masse to create havoc). Not too much at all, to be honest, just chilling out in the main. I’ve updated my geneology pages, been digging up records of a few more dead […]
Five Things You Don’t Know Meme
Round and round the meme goes. Five Things you don’t know about me. SoloSEO has done a good job of tracking the initial spread of this. And now Tom has tagged me. So let’s see. 1. I’ve been knocked out twice in life. The first time was playing rugby at school and I hit the […]
Pachelbel Canon in D Rant
from Mashuptown, comes a rant on Pachelbel and how he has ‘ruined’ all sorts of songs since.
Twitter Degrees of Separation
Twitter is still small enough to be fun – although that may change. Suw today asked if there was an optimum Twitter friend pool size. There probably is, which will vary by person and how much data you can browse. We’ll get the power users, with plenty of friends and far more followers. Others will […]
Cable connection and the BBC
I’ve just had two technicians round to connect up the cable system for TV and phone. Whilst here, we got to discussing the BBC. The whole concept of TV/radio without advertisements seemed to astound them and there were a lot of questions about how it worked, how you paid the licence fee, how did they […]
Online Tab Saver
With Firefox now allowing you to open the browser with the same tabs it closed down with by default, I’ve been looking for a way to synchronise open tabs across 2 or more PCs. So that where ever I am, i can have the same set of open tabs. There’s a number of ways to […]
Charitable Activity
This has been sitting in my tabs for a while, from Freakonomics. A group of Dallas call girls have got together and are running a charity raffle; for $50 a ticket the winner gets two hours with all 12 girls at the same time. In a form of micro-charity, the money is going direct to […]
Joined Twitter
I’ve gone and joined Twitter; it’s called peer pressure, all my friends are doing it so why shan’t I. And it’s strangely fascinating in an old school reality show way. That’s the old school like Castaway or the Edwardian house, not Survivor or Big Brother. Where it was more a challenge documentary rather than a […]
Slob Evolution
You have to have seen the Dove Evolution video, now see Slob Evolution, from the Campaign Against Real Life.
The Prague Files game results
I’ve spent the last 2 weeks playing The Prague Files, an ARGish like game being run by the Live Games Network. Over the last 2 weeks, we were presented with 7 tasks to complete, all going towards some pretty good prizes, the grand prize being a trip to Prague. This was a professionally run game, […]
Loïc’s answer
Loïc has finally worked his way through the multitude of feedback around ‘his’ conference last week (I know it’s not just his but he is the face of it) and responded with a comprehensive and well thought out answer. Reading through his thought process for why he altered things and where he wants to go, […]
Time Person of the Year
Is me. And you. And everyone who uses this wonderful piece of technology called the internet to share their opinions, life, creativity and just everyday stuff with the rest of the world. Even if you are just famous for 15 people and they are just family and friends you would see everyday, the medium and […]
Flickr Presents
Flickr have a wonderful easter egg this Christmas – adding notes to the photo gives you Xmas hats and Santa beards. See here for an example. Furthermore they have extended the upload limits for everyone. And it’s even better to give the gift of Flickr since now your recipients will get unlimited uploads — the […]
Connectors and adapters
I’m trying to find some way to plug the various entertainment bits and pieces I have together without spending a fortune on replacing everything. But so far no luck. I have a PC with a VGA output but a TV with a choice of HDMI, SVideo, combination or composite inputs. And I have a UK […]
Post 1000
After just over 2 years on this blog, I’ve reached post 1000, (a number with significance only if you count in base 10.) I’ve moved from the tentative steps of working out why I was blogging to a changed mindset where things I read and hear about are put through a mental filter of ‘can […]
LeWeb3 – conference feedback
If you have read any kind of technology blog, or peruse the top search terms on Technorati, you will have come across the blogstorm that was leWeb3. It’s still top of the search terms on that site. Last year, the same conference garnered some controversy after a key speaker reacted to comments on the IRC […]
Design a Snowflake
Time to be creative. Design a snowflake and trigger a donation to the salvation army. Let those creative juices flow.
Let’s see if this stays up
After a few weeks down (difficulties co-ordinating me, a phone, a PC and a network connection all at the same time), the site is back up. At least for now. We’ll see how long it stays up or if it is pulled again by the ISP.
World AIDS Day
The Viral Video Learning Centre
Nothing more to say. totally meta. From Consumerist via Ranae.