If you saw a link on a website that pointed to http://5z8.info/cats-being-dropped-into-the-sea_p6d8l_hot-older-goats.mov I bet you would think twice before following it – and then decide not to. If you received an email with a link to http://5z8.info/olive-loaf-penetration.gif_u0p8z_ninjastaroutlet it would probably get stopped by your mail filters and marked as spam or potential malware. But you [...]
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Facebook fail
February 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Technology
The recent Facebook redesign has not been popular. I’m quite sanguine about Facebook layout changes: I figure that if I don’t like it that is not a problem because it will change soon anyway, but a lot of people are still upset about. A few of them are even upset about a major change that [...]
Tags: Internet
Guess who
February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Technology
I am currently just a little obsessed with Akinator. I know how it is done and all that, but I’m still amazed how it still managed to get people like Harriet Harman, Carlos Santana, Daara O’Briain, Trevor Brooking, Geddy Lee, Tom Baker, Alan Sugar, Richard Dawkins, Jimmy Saville, even Andrew Collins in twenty questions. Caught [...]
Seeking new sounds
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Music
Last week I read a little sort of review of the website Spotiseek in the Guardian. It is a website where you put in the name of an artist you like and it generates a 16-track Spotify playlist, which it calls a mix tape, based on that artist. The idea is that the list features [...]
Viral Loop
January 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
I finished Viral Loop: the Power of Pass-it-on, a book about how companies grow virally in the internet age, a little while ago but only just got around to writing a review of it – yes it was another of those Amazon Vine books. They are starting to pile up a bit now. I have [...]
The trouble with free?
January 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Technology
I fired up the PC this evening and, as usual, the first thing I kicked off was Spotify. As it started I kept getting dialog boxes from my anti-virus software (AVG) warning me of a virus in Program Files\Spotify\Spotify.exe which it described as “Runtime packed themida” whatever the hell that means. I ticked the box [...]
Internet piracy: an artist’s perspective
September 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Technology
Well, maybe not an artist in the sense of performer, but certainly a programme maker, Graham Linehan (of Father Ted and the IT Crowd fame) has an interesting opinion on the topic of internet piracy and proposed rules to prevent it.
Tags: Internet
Sitting at home can be expensive
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
The internet has made it easy to get skint without leaving the comfort of your own home hasn’t it?  Got home from work this evening and finally got round to sposoring Eddie Izzard for his marathon of marathons. I have been following his progress on Twitter, getting increasingly impressed by the achievement, and intending to [...]
Jump to it
September 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Technology
I have known about tinyurl for a long time, noticed the inexorable rise of bit.ly – helped along by Twitter reaching some sort of tipping point. I finally got round to investigating these URL-shorteners and decided to go with tr.im and mere weeks later a new one has come along: j.mp. It is all a [...]
Tags: Internet
Council secrecy in Crawley
September 3rd, 2009 · 11 Comments · Politics
One of the local papers this week has a story that is not only interesting, but even displays an element of investigative journalism and even a surprise.   It would have been more impressive if it had been published six weeks ago when the council meeting and vote that it relates to actually occurred – I [...]
Tags: Crawley Council·Freemasons·Horsham Council·Internet·secret squirrel·WSCC
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