Category: Random

How cool is this – the second footman from ‘The Edwardian Country House’ only has his own website. I mean good god. All the behind the scenes gossip and stuff. But no pictures, unfortunately, of the lovely hall-boy. I should stop really. I’ll get a reputation. Update: And he’s not the only one! Kenny Skelton has one too! [Thanks to Alan Taylor for that one.]

And then the funniest thing happened. Dave Winer linked to Metalinker.

I can’t be the only person who has been watching The Edwardian Country House religiously. And I can’t be the only person for whom a great proportion of the attraction of the show has been Ken Skelton, the Hallboy.

Tonight’s episode was extraordinary and fascinating – collisions between staff and family – collisions between barely 20th and barely 21st Century life – collisions between the head of the household and the wonderful character of the astonishingly proficient, hard-working and idiosyncratic French cook. If this is a series that comes to the US, all Americans among our party should definitely invest the time…

Most wonderful piece of positive management arse I’ve heard in a long time: “Stop saying ‘but’, and start saying ‘and'”. And that’s a really dumb idea, surely? And moreover you may think it has some positive aspects and how on earth are you supposed to express when something’s a bad idea?

Other people talking about metalinker: one, two, three, four, five, six. It’s weirdly popular in Germany too.

One of the best comments (and most useful potential features) comes from Webvoice: “This script automates the “other linkers” links I manually add from time to time. However, Blogdex should be an API to make this application more compelling. The metalink wouldn’t appear if you’re the only one to have posted any given link (I hate links to emptiness,) and the number of other referrals to that link (e.g. [3]) would be more useful than just a link to the list of other links (ain’t it getting too meta to make sense?)”

Water found on Mars
So now it’s more than possible that there was once or is still some kind of limited life on the planet, it’s more than possible that human beings will visit the planet. It’s more than possible that some kind of semi-permanent presence could be made on the planet too. It’s all overwhelmingly exciting.

Moving house is exhausting beyond measure. Won’t someone remind me never to do it again. Last night after work I decamped back around to my old place to help clean with my flatmates. Eight o’clock came and went. As did nine. Then ten and eleven. And finally midnight rolled around. I eventually left the building at 1am and fell into bed sweaty and exhausted. This evening I have to go back again to take final meter readings and hand the keys over. And my new flat looks like someone at a crap factory overloaded the crap storage device and crap went everywhere. I’ve still not even connected my computer to the net. Mind-destroying. Never again.

There’s another metalinker user over at lifeofsmallbeer.co.uk. And it’s been linked over at Nick Denton’s site who e-mailed me and suggested that perhaps Movable Type could integrate it into their next release, which is an interesting idea…

Today is big giant moving day. And so updates will necessarily be sporadic at best…

And the first site (other than me) to start using metalinker is Bottle Rocket Science. Are you trying it out? If so, mail me!