Wednesday, 13 July, 2005

Camera

We have invested in a new digital camera, so hopefully a few more photos will be appearing on here and on my criminally underused Flickr page.

It looks like this:

Sony DSC-L1

Monday, 11 July, 2005

Rick G’s Blog

I think he has announced it over on Palimpsest now, so I can let everyone know here that Rick Green has started the first Palimpblog! His posts have already been pretty varied and thoughtful and it will be interesting to see where he takes it.

Rick’s blog.

Itunes Problem

Since upgrading to Itunes 4.9 I have been attached to the US store and not the UK one and am unable to buy any music. Anyone have this problem? What have I done wrong?!? 🙁

Wikipedia is not a Revolution

Interesting post over on the TwoWayWeb News:

I got a response from Jimmy Wales to a note about Wikipedia on Scripting News on a private mail list. He may if he wants, make his response public. Imho, it was unnecessarily personal. But he showed me something about Wikipedia that I hadn’t seen before. My first note wasn’t really a bug report to Jimmy Wales, or a request for an investigation of the change history of any single article on Wikipedia, but I certainly understand why he might have intererpeted it that way. But now that he has responded, I feel the issue has grown a little larger, if only temporarily.

Ill

Christ, I feel terrible. Off work again for the second time in three weeks. Think it must be Glandular fever – others have had it recently. Still, it gives me plenty of time to loll in bed and do nothing other than type for a few days, which is no bad thing given some of the things going on at the moment! More on that in another post.

Still, I’m lying in bed tapping away while the battery lasts on the laptop and listening to my IPod which is hooked up to my Logic3 speakers which I bought a couple of weeks back. Have set it to shuffle through the 960–odd songs I have on there and it is throwing up some great ones.

Just had Star by Primal Scream. And now The Only Living Boy in New Cross by Carter USM! Excellent!

Thursday, 7 July, 2005

Llanymynech

A small, and pretty poor, photo I took with my camera phone while yomping round Llanymynech a couple of weeks back.

Llanymynech photo

Driving Hell

Had a pretty good drive to work this morning – right up until I reached Henley. Between there and Warwick, I and about 30 others were trapped behind some numpty doing 40 in a 60 the whole way. Meant I missed out on one of the decent parking spaces and so I will be a fair bit later home from work today. Bastards. Why do they do it?

WHY???

Message off target

Interesting article in today’s Guardian Online supplement:

Just when the government badly needs to show its competence at running large IT-based projects, along comes another wave of bad news. On Tuesday, parliamentary questions revealed that the cost of running Inland Revenue tax credits has risen tenfold over four years. Also this week, an influential committee of MPs reported that many government bodies ignore one of the main measures introduced to prevent IT disasters.

Wednesday, 6 July, 2005

Wikkid!

John Self at Palimpsest has already got on the bandwagon for the latest Sean Wright opus, the superbly titled Wicked or What?

See his initial pre-publication posting here.

The notoriously sane Jesse Jameson blog also covers this exciting release.