November 2011
17 posts
Some Thoughts About Snowflake by Kate Bush (and 50...
Her son Bertie has the same lisp as Kate! I can’t remember what this lisp is called, it’s r’s into w’s ‘cweepy cwallies’. I thought it was once called a Devon Lisp but can’t find anything (help pls).
Kate Bush previously noted she was not able to hit the same notes as she once could (after the release of Director’s Cut, in rare, wonderful videoed...
tomewing:
“A story about an overworked Oxford student’s suicide currently tops the most shared and most viewed lists on the Independent’s website despite dating from 1997. ‘Sean, 12, is the youngest father’ (January 1998), and ‘Scotland’s ugliest woman honoured’ (May 1999) are another two that highlight the trend. (…) It’s most likely that the old stories were discovered by chance or a Google...
Follow Friday On Tumblr
You should all follow http://ovd.tumblr.com/ it’s a really brilliant photo blog. Makes me chuckle every time a new pic goes up.
http://ovd.tumblr.com/
I work with a majority of people younger than me
This is the first job i’ve worked in, where the majority of ppl are younger than me. Which is incredible for a few reasons: -They are all really nice. -They can drink and not get hangovers. Even the ones who think they have a hangover don’t even know what a hangover is. -They stay out partying till 4 ALL THE TIME. And then come into work feeling fine. -Even the ones i think are older...
Block Jimmy Wales' Face On Wikipedia
Growing frustrated with the tech communities slow reaction to blocking Jimmy Wales’ face on Wikipedia, i decided to try my hand at a bit of code. This plug in will work with Chrome or Firefox, and marks my 2nd foray into building browser plug-ins.
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Notes on possible return of Dizzy →
The happiest time of my life was playing Magicland Dizzy with various siblings on the Spectrum, at the age of ~8. I don’t think we ever completed it, what having 1 tv in the house, and that needing to be turned off when something exciting was on television. The only time open to completion of complex, non-sensical, electrifying games (“use Dozy’s fish-wand to summon the...
Someone has reviewed Kate Bush who doesn't like... →
“Like trudging through drifts, 50 Words can be a frustrating listen, where dour piano motifs have the edge over catharsis.”
Like trudging through a laboured simile based on the album title being about snow, this review is like walking through brown snow, 2 days after it stopped snowing, with all the snow melting and mixing with the brown crap mud. 2 days since it snowed, and...
The Xtra Factor is this year's Christmas Number 1...
Quick comment about this year’s X Factor:
The Sunday night shows aren’t working, possibly because of how rushed they are.
The total, hands-down greatest thing about the whole X Factor this season is The Xtra Factor:
The Xtra Factor
Previous hosts have been Ben Shepard, Fearne Cotton, Holly Willoughby and Konnie Huq. This year they’ve gone with Olly Murs and Caroline Flack!...
Blue Lines Revisited: A Google+ Mystery →
But more importantly, Google integrates Plus into its web-dominating search engine. With Google+ Direct Connect, searchers can insert a “+” before their query and jump directly to a business’s Google+ page. Type “+YouTube” into a Google search box, for instance, and Google will take you straight…”
“But why would you? The Direct Connect feature would really help if G+ was...
Three Types of People to Fire Immediately →
4. The PAGINATORS
What Happens When We Domesticate Energy...
News that Solar Panels will soon be cheaper than fossil fuels is very interesting indeed. Should be here by 2020! Incredible. What macro ramifications would there be, if energy became a per household responsibility and solution? COuld we talk about the rising DOMESTICICISATION of….everything? Back in the day (2000), when one was pretending to get a short-course GSCE in IT we were beaten over...
George Michael's Eastenders Summation
Eastenders. ARE THEY FUCKING KIDDING!George MichaelNovember 10, 2011 3:00:55 PM ESTReplyRetweetGay people deserve better than the BBC’s pathetic attempts to ‘represent’ us.George MichaelNovember 10, 2011 3:01:59 PM ESTReplyRetweetMessage to gay kids in Britain. The East end of London is one of the best places on earth to be a modern gay man or couple.George...
Locked Up Daughter: this person has got me a... →
iloveyoufrankiecocozza:
So scrolling through the Frankie tag, all happy with very sexy pictures of him and this bitch decides to tag hate for him in it. First of all, the tag is a place where people who like/support that person can track new images/videos etc of the select person, not where someone can bitch about them….
Nice KLOUT ATTAK →
Excellent, ranty article about Klout, via the indominitable ycombinator bot on twitter (built by my talented fried Rik). This sums up some of my feelings about Klout: of course it’s not a useful service! It’s a vanity service. How can you tell, other than sifitng through the T&Cs, and/or logging in and seeing how pointless it is: -It’s heavily VC-funded! It’s considered...
Updates on new job
My new boss is also called Hugh (albeit spelled Huw)
I sit next to a fellow Ipswich Town fan (based on the stats listed on this website from 2000, and a London population of 8m, that leaves the chance of this at 1:500)
Someone else in the office currently lives in Baldock, my gloriuos (sic) hometown.
