http://www.coldclimate.co.uk previously known as [cold][wet][durham], [dirty][grimy][london],[busy][shiny][toon],[frantic][crowded][south] Thu, 08 May 2008 22:24:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en watching sopranos, no time to write, or read, so dumping links. Wuffle - the thing that drives companies with mojo Four words that drive Web2.0 companies (and I would argue, every great company) Four more words that drive great companies 7 keys to graphic design on the cheap, because if you've getting started, you ... http://www.coldclimate.co.uk/2008/05/08/link-dump/ ...by stopping thing annoy you. Learn to drink your coffee and black or white and cold or hot, and life gets a little bit less irritating.  Learning to drink your beer warm and flat is a step too far however. http://www.coldclimate.co.uk/2008/05/07/destress-you-life/ Well, I was goign to post about Seth Godin's interestin Signal V's Noise post (which is nothing to do with the excellent Signal V's Noise blog) but then realised that I had nothing more to add to it.  He's right, spam is drowning the world (and totally and completely ineffecive ... http://www.coldclimate.co.uk/2008/04/30/having-defined-connected-time/ Tonight I finally got all my favorite technologies talking to one another and now when i wave my wiiMote about in the air, little lights in my room get brighter or dimmer (and when I work out how to multiplex the serial signals you'll be able to change which lights ... http://www.coldclimate.co.uk/2008/04/28/wiimote-arduino-ibook-leds-yay/ Rest in Peace Humph, I shall miss you.  I never did get a chance to see you play at the Bulls Head, and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue won't ever be the same. http://www.coldclimate.co.uk/2008/04/26/rip-humph/ I hate this sofa.  I hate everything about it. It's a sleek, low grey number, topped with several black leather cushions.  Looks brilliant, doesn't bloody work. The it's so low, when you sit on it, your knees come up round your ears, and the depth of the seat front to back is ... http://www.coldclimate.co.uk/2008/04/21/form-over-function/ TV has lots of good stuff on it, but it has huge amounts of trash too.  Virtually everything comes down to the lowest common denominator, which given some of the truely horrific thing syou here people coming out with, is pretty low. Now, if I made TV, things would be very ... http://www.coldclimate.co.uk/2008/04/20/if-i-was-king-or-even-tv-controller/ I'm trying to get into a new routine in the morning.  I am traditionally a night owl and slug-a-bed, but I'm trying to affect a change.  Gone are the days (erm, nights) of staying up until 2 am buggering about with stuff followed by dragging my grumpy bum out of ... http://www.coldclimate.co.uk/2008/04/17/starting-the-day/ Put a bottle of cheap dark rum in the freezer.  The next day, mix 5 parts fiery ginger beer (not ale), 2 parts dark rum, and one part fresh lime juice.  Pour over ice.  Slip.  Shout Yaaarrrgh and stomp round in circles! http://www.coldclimate.co.uk/2008/04/14/pirate-juice-yaaarrrgh/ I am a bit of a data whore.  I want to know where I've been, what I've listened to (via last.fm), what I've read (via LibraryThing), and if I could record my thoughts (Twitter maybe?) so I could read then again later (especially when I was sober again), I would ... http://www.coldclimate.co.uk/2008/04/13/info-trackers/