03.05.07
Stuck at werk
and its getting late and I’m fucked off. Fucking werk.
01.20.07
Ah ha!
My email just got read out on BBC Radio 4s Saturday Live (which I quietly like). Prince Micheal didn’t answer my question about coming to stay!
Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world
Just back from seeing the amazing Joanna Newsom at the Barbican. I has so much to say but the 50 minutes train journey from hell has stopped me thinking. Was good. Didn’t need the orchestra. encource of milk eyed mender could have made me cry.
01.19.07
PLAY-DOH aftershave?
I like the smell of Play-doh, but I really really wouldn’t buy it as an aftershave. However, for those of you who would….PLAY-DOH COLOGNE SPRAY.
01.18.07
Pimp my browser
Got firefox (of course) then why not install PimpZilla, the theme with bling and get a leopard skin, gold and diamond themed browser.
01.17.07
Security gone made
putative.com: FedEx refuses shipment of made-up stuff, empty cans. Read it and weep. Actually weep. This is nuts.
01.16.07
Technology changes afoot?
Hmm, I’m wondering about posting the whole blog (including live journal) across to wordpress. I’v installed it (dead easy), and it seems easy to make pretty, and it can import rss (so in theory I don’t have to come up with a funky cross-poster), but I do like the privacy of locked posts in livejournal, and whilst I could still do that on wordpress, people would have to join up at my site, and I’d have no way to monitor it.
So what should I do? Maybe I should make the main site wordpress and keep livejournal for the personal bits? randomcat.co.uk does that, but I like the current setup because I have a copy of everything on my disk.
Oh the choices.
01.13.07
Wake up world
Yes it would appear that the knuckle draggers are at it again. I can’t decide which is my favorite quote…”Condoms don’t belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He’s not a schoolteacher,” or the truely wonderful “The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn’t in the DVD”
Thats before we get round to the fact that this man’s name is…Frosty Hardison. Yes, Frosty. As in snowman. Normally I wouldn’t stoop to making fun of peoples names (well, I would but anyway), but when willpeople realise that just because they don’t like what they are hearing, doesn’y mean it’s not possibly true. Thats why the film is called “An Inconvenient Truth.”
01.12.07
When Dilbert is right, the world is wrong.
Yep. Did it again. Said it all in the subject line again. DWhen Dilbert is right, the world is wrong.
Wifi Camera
Not one that post by wifi, but that translates signal strengths to visual pictures. Yes it’s the Wifi camerageek
Dave Gorman - funny, clever and talented
Whilst looking for Papa Christmas, who I saw at Bookclub I ran across photos by Diamond Geyser, who coincidentally seems to have the same online monicer as diamond geezer who has my firend catbo as a reference, but also has Dave Gorman who turns out not only to be very funny, and very clever (he spotted the monster word on the giant boggle on stage at Bookclub) but is also an amazing photographer. I love the “cities by night” photos.
01.10.07
Family tattooing
There’s something very sweet about the story of ModBlog - Three matching hearts.
Juicy goodness
Tonights blender experiment - cucumber, pear and lime smoothy. Yes - just wedge a whole cucumber and a whole pear into the blend, with a splash of liquid to get it started (I used apple juice), blen until smooth, pass through a sive, add a squeeze of lime juice, and the job is.. well. actually veryu good!
Smells of lime and cucumber, tastes of pear and herbelness, can’t be anything but healthy.
01.09.07
NO NO NO NO NO YOU FUCKING MORONS
Having just read a wonderful blog entry by Tom Reynolds (Random Acts Of Reality) about the completely stupid pressure ambulance staff are put under and the reactions of the press and government I was totally dishearted to read that some daft cunt out there thinks NHS ‘must make surplus next year’. Now, for those of you who don’t speak management speak, “make a surplus” is basically a rewording of “make a profit”. You have a surplus, you re-invest, all is well.
The trouble is that if you have a surplus on a government budget, that budget cuts cut ( known as “performance related trimming”), and more worryingly, to “make a surplus” you have to cut things, because I hate to tell you this, but the NHS ain’t cheap and it’s maxed out at the moment completely.
Don’t get me wrong, there are lots and lots of silly things money is being spent on, and the introduction of some efficient practices in the NHS would make a huge change (and I understand ohw hard this is to do beleive me), but phrases like “make a surplus” make my blood run cold.
Wonderful links of goodness
Whilst lost on the wifes blog, I ran across some top quality interweb fodder. First up is the truely genius Silent Star Wars opn youtube, which is actually worth going to (unlike most of the shit on there), then there is the best cover used-on-a-tv-ad-for-pants-this-christmas (narrow catagory) with Marks and Spencer used Shirley Bassey and it turns out she (wife, not Bassey) has interviewd both Goldie Lookin Chain and DJ Scotch Egg. Good weather on the internet today then lads.
Moz for Eurovision!
I would certainly back Morrissey for Eurovision, lets stop sending total turd pop bands and get some talent up there! Moz, the Pippettes (ideal eurovision group), the challettes (*swoon*), The minataurs and Jenny and the Betts!
Aparently the other people who are being asked to apply are… Cliff Richard, Katrina and the Waves and Bucks-total fucking-fizz. For fucks sake.
Brilliant!
01.08.07
Essencial things for living life
It’s true - virtually everybody I know requires Basic Instructions. For example - who wouldn’t want a carton guide to…
- How to Avoid Startling Someone
- How to Plan a Vacation
- How to Travel Back in Time
- How to Show ‘em Who’s Boss
- How to Fight Against Conventional Wisdom
- How to Get Up the Nerve
- How to Avoid Sounding Condescending
- How to Greet People
01.07.07
Greyscapes
I’ve finally got round to posting a whole load of photos, including a batch of Greyscapes, which is a new word I am inventing for photos of dull landscapes.
Can’t sleep, will geek
I couldn’t sleep, so I finished my book, and then found that I could buy other books online from the publisher so logged on to see, then I added it to LibrarThing, and from there I got distracted by something, and that led me to last.fm where I rememebered that most of my songs don’t get published to there because I use a headless linux box as a jukebox so I went and googled a bit to find a commandline interface to last.fm so I could write my own which lead me to Audioscrobbler - The Music Technology Playground from Last.fm - Protocol and somehow form there to thinking I should really join the dorkbotlondon lists, and then I should sort out my rss capture thing I started writing, and then I wandered across the very cool Thinglink which reminds me of Makezine, which I’ve not yet checked today, and now I really should sleep but I want to find a cool job in nu-media (and then be attached with wet shoelaces for using that spelling) - Phew.
And maybe use some more punctuation?
01.05.07
Best TV ever
The the secret life of machines TV programs are all now in Google Video. If you’ve never seen Tim Hunkin’s amazing TV - go now. It’s amazing.
