2007-12-14 (Friday)
Comments I've posted on other sites
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Stone Cold Pimpin’: Louis Menand (and myself) on Diary Keeping
Interesting, I look forward to reading the article (I’ll get round to the paper version…
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Vandalism, Shoreditch on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
They’re by Eine: www.einesigns.co.uk/ Here’s an interview with him:…
Links
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Video - The Best Ever Death Metal Band out of Denton
(A reluctant) Eddie Argos out of Art Brut singing along with the Mountain Goats at the Union Chapel a week ago. Made me very happy.
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Russell davies: conference advice
Bookmarked in the hope some more obscure conferences are recommended.
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Interview: ‘Eine’ and the letters he paints on east London shop shutters | I Shot the Deputy
I’ve been meaning to look up the story behind the letters I cycle past every day, and a photo by Alice prompted me to do so.
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Facebook | My Privacy
The page for opting out of Facebook’s Beacon “feature” that tells people what you’ve been buying on other sites.
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Wired 14.11: The Church of the Non-Believers
Dawkins, Dennett, Sam Harris. (via The Same River Twice)
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Perl on Rails - Why the BBC Fails at the Internet | I Am Seb
The only surprising thing about this was that so many people were surprised. A lot of BBC employees’ energies are spent trying to circumvent Siemens, from desktop support to website hosting.
Tweets
Feeling old: Avoiding end of term party in Shoreditch because it will be loud and drunken and past my bed time.
Home, email and websites working again. Some email from last night lost forever. Grr.
Heading west to end of term Secret Santa and party. Still no bloody email. Narked with TextDrive/Joyent.
Server's been down for twelve hours now. Really wanting my email back. "RAID is beyond a short repair ... restoring ... from the backup".
Looking forward to catching up on 24 hours of email, only to find the mail and web server has been down all morning. TextDrive minions busy.