2010-07-14 (Wednesday)
Links
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Django Advent
Finally finished reading this. Are there other sites that have this kind of writing about Django regularly?
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Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog » Jeffrey’s “Export to Flickr” Lightroom Plugin
A bit clunky, interface-wise, but much more configurable and better than the standard Lightroom 3 Flickr plugin. (via @tomtaylor)
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3 bedroom house for sale in St Pauls, St Pauls, EC1A
Finally, I didn’t know that Christopher Wren church tower on Newgate Street, near St Paul’s, was a house. Only £4.5 million to you!
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4 bedroom house for sale in 41 Cloth Fair, London, EC1A, EC1A
I’m also fascinated by this huge £5.5 million house on Cloth Fair, just south of Smithfield Market. So big! So expensive!
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Commercial property for sale in 141-157 Whitecross Street, London, EC1Y 8JL, EC1Y
Those derelict shops on Whitecross Street are up for auction, which sounds good. “Only” £3 million…
Tweets
@shiftrunstop You're also invisible in Tweetie on the Mac. Maybe you should wrap yourselves in bandages so we can see you?
"Unfortunately the butterflies turn into fast-food discount coupons" could be the epitaph for so many pointless gizmos. http://bit.ly/cnldHc
@macintosh ARG!
Twitter is the "Sixth Form Argument Machine".
@quinnnorton Phew, finally, thanks! I can get some work done now!
@mik3yb I don't think the quality of the ad and the "worthwhileness" of advertising are related tbh.
Twitter's really great for reducing an argument to black and white. Which is a shame when arguments are usually beautiful rainbows.
@moleitau HAYLP! I'm like one of those people playing simultaneous chess matches with many opponents. While not knowing how to play chess.
@ianbetteridge Yes, I know. Almost everything I do is inessential. But I hope it has a more worthwhile motive than selling nonsense.
@Zoonie I'm sure many people who work in advertising is lovely. Doesn't make me think advertising is lovely.
@ianbetteridge So? Doesn't make me think ads are "good". Maybe the content is worth the price of having advertising. Maybe not. Mostly not.
@Zoonie No, not the same thing, you're making things way to simple. But then we both only have 140 characters.
@ianbetteridge I know. Doesn't make me think the money and effort spent on advertising is good, or that advertising is good for society.
@mik3yb I didn't say we shouldn't pay for products/services. BBC is designed to make people want to pay for its content. Fair enough.
@dracos It's not the nature of the content, it's the purpose behind it.
@Zoonie Worst argument in favour of advertising ever.
@schulze Adverts are the vacuous fetid bilge that ruins anything good. (OK, and fund some good things. Damn.)
@mildlydiverting But (a) you can buy it on DVD without ads and (b) was Linehan writing it with the aim of selling products?
@dracos I have less problem with straight entertainment than I do with money and effort and "genius" being devoted to advertising :)
@moleitau Yeah, I was hoping farting around on the Internet would help save humanity, but I may have been deluding myself. Who knew!?
@moleitau Feel grumpy for agreeing but, yes, if advertising geniuses put as much effort into saving humanity as they do selling deodorant...
@tedmills Glad you liked Luther! Yes, occasionally silly, but also yes, Idris Elba very good and Ruth Wilson's mouth hypnotising.
Liked tweets
Set out for home, the sun going down, and we with much pleasure home, talking and pleasing ourselves with the pleasure of this day's work.