In case you’re wondering why I posted so little yesterday, the main reason was getting the TCN Quiz up and running. I spent ages making sure the questions were suitable ridiculous enough – so if you really want to know who’s been brushing their teeth in restaurants recently because they’re obsessed by their bad breath… Well, you know where to go…
And lo from the moistened orifice of ThinkBlank.com did spring fully-formed – Secret Santa!
And lo, in the course of conversation, did J Ko say, “you could call it secret holiday gift-giving robot“…
You know, pretty much everything’s picking up at the moment. I’ve slept properly, had some money, found everything extremely easy to deal with, and – apart from living in a pig-sty – basically I’m pretty content. A year ago, in pretty much the same situation, I would probably have been pretty miserable. It just goes to show how perspectives change with circumstances. All I can do now is hope that I’ll have a job when my stint at TCN comes to an end.
If anyone knows where I can get my hands on an MP3 of The Church’s “Under The Milky Way”, then could they make themselves known. I need to know whether or not it is the right track before I fork out any hard-earned credit for it…
I went to see Donnie Darko today at the London Film Festival. Kate and I weren’t expecting much. But I was blown away.
What’s it called when you have a stabbing pain behind your eye – like someone has slid a sharp silver cold thick blade into your socket and like it’s clunked right into the bone, and there’s a kind of squishy, prickly feeling – but you’re slightly scared to put your hand up to see if everything’s ok? And what’s the name of the equivalent sensation, only – you know – up your butt?
One of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in months – the view from Skynet. And there are many other satellites you can view, showing every angle of the Earth at fourmilab.ch.
Because of this thread on Barbelith, I’ve suddenly become extremely politicised on the whole “Smart Tags” debate. There’s more information over at Glassdog and you’ll notice that I’ve added a button to the right hand side of the page to stir up trouble with.
For any of you that are unclear about Smart Tags – basically the new Windows XP operating system and IE6 include this feature so that Microsoft and it’s friends can insert links into every webpage that you visit if you use their browser. Every instance of ‘bookstore’ will link through to some grubby little money-making e-commerce site which is prepared to give Microsoft a sizeable amount of cash. This is a completely invasive practice. To start off with – does a link represent a tacit endorsement? At the moment, certainly. I control who I link to on plasticbag.org and the day that you can’t tell my recommendations from those of the corporate overmind is the day that I shut the site down. But it’s also not good for consumers or users or visitors – because their choice of destination is immediately limited by a huge skewing of the playing field. In fact the only beneficiary from such an action with be Microsoft itself – and frankly they have more than enough money already. Fight this one, people.