March 2010
Thursday 2010-03-11
1:36AM
Another reason why we need the EU - the UK govt appears to be too weak to do this http://awe.sm/52O4612:05AM
My Mum just said: "Yes, it's always better for cats if there are two of them... Fredrico is on his own now.. although he does have Nicholas"Wednesday 2010-03-10
3:26PM
'When?' said the moon to the stars in the sky http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=ySdw_m9PK3810:25AM
Someone invents micro direction-finding sound sensor capable of analyzing individual molecules http://tr.im/Rieh Instantly sell it as weapon10:16AM
Battery Charger Trojans your computer http://tr.im/RibR If you were a... non-corporation, and you did this, you'd go to prison.7:11AM
That's not People Power - that's some cunt going whining to the copyright police http://tr.im/RhkB fucking pathetic.3:50AM
Arsebiscuits. Burnt finger solder. One of my main fingers as well. The ALT finger in CTRL-ALT-DEL1:55AM
iPhone hell-bent on creating an entire ecosystem of killer-apps for Android. http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/apple-widens-ap.php1:34AM
Art Bin LOL : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/03/art-bin-lol/Tuesday 2010-03-09
11:18PM
@lorddrayson The Labour Party may get science, but it absolutely does not get the internet -> the catastrophic/idiotic #DEBill1:44PM
@robertpopper The caf at the top of The National Portrait Gallery is my fav. In a funny sort of way. I saw Jon Snow there once.1:21PM
@TedHope Really? What's that then?12:55PM
@corcoran [absolution]12:49PM
@amandatreeuk I'd kindof go for carrot cake by default I think - but Sacha made me some sort of christmas cake thing.11:41AM
@paulsilver Personas. I think that's mainly a porn thing. Like cross-dressing your browser, or dressing it as one of those furry things.10:33AM
I think an important design-philosophy for prosthetics is that they hugely surpass what they're replacing, rather than just looking like it9:21AM
@dirktherabbit Yea, that would be my experience as well. A corporate blog is like a fake identity. Very hard to maintain the (self) interest2:36AM
@CaseyContrarian Yea - Claire Danes was in U-Turn, and for that, all sins, past, present and future, are forgiven. She was great.12:44AM
@rtgarden A cat would hate you forever. In fact the cat already hated you before you brought home the puppy. It knew what you were thinking12:20AM
@johnkeypm because what I'm hearing is that the US considers generic drugs to be "counterfeit". Is that why #ACTA is so secret?12:18AM
@johnkeypm That's cool. On another note, is it true that #ACTA is going to cost NZers billions in Americanised medicine costs?12:16AM
Just got a Racket-Master 4000 distortion pedal - the industrial model that's normally used to strip paint from the hulls of ships.Monday 2010-03-08
11:54PM
@gapingvoid Yea - David Bowie might have as well. And Rolf Harris. He was in good company my Granddad.11:42PM
@gapingvoid That's cool. My Grandfather used to play a stylophone http://tr.im/R7C4 seriously - in an actual band and everything10:44PM
I like this one as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7pSHMZji-c10:14PM
@josephflaherty Goats are the DRM bypassers. These are my people http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/4558204.jpg
9:57PM
Sheep and Goats.9:56PM
The killer-app of the iPad is reduced-learning-curve. The K.A. of the iPad-Killer is the ability to bypass DRM. Humanity becomes two species12:41PM
A single slip of the key could have rendered the "buffering..." message as "buggering...". Things might been so different.12:27PM
I once thought maybe this is how I'd turn out http://tr.im/R3qp - not a millon miles away tbh. Only that's the guy who wrote Withnail11:51AM
I'm one of the four http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8548190.stm with bells on.10:34AM
Working on my movie - have decided, Fuck it - I can't be arse with a character-arc. It's just going to be a series loosely connected cockups8:17AM
In the future, intelligence enhancing drugs will be less popular than those that allow you to temporarily revert back to being a 3 yr old.8:15AM
In the future you'll be able to get (Sony/WMG) selective amnesia, brain-wipers, so you can watch Firefly, The Wire etc over and over again.7:42AM
@freitasm I'm seeing chronic memory leaks with all browesers... coming from flash. I'm not sure that Firefox is to blame really.7:40AM
Breaking Bad is on. It's a new generation of TV program - where you really need to watch the DVD rather than some ad-raddled variant.6:31AM
Everything for tea this evening came out of the garden - apart from the chicken, which came out of someone else's garden.2:34AM
The Oscars. Bah. Not even nominated again. Will spend day sitting in a cardboard box in the basement, playing harmonica mournfully to self2:21AM
@JosephHurtado Robert Downey Jr is excellent - he's what I wish I was like when I probably think I'm being funny.12:25AM
Semi-detached @davestone #1wordemotions distrait, parallaxed. That point where the stack-overflow meets the heap coming the other way.12:15AM
Oh FFS http://tr.im/R0ln UK Torture case could be held in secret < Why? What are you going to do? Waterboard the suspects?12:11AM
Listening to @bruces I know I take the piss, but he's like the I-Ching vs Tarot. He's head/hat and shoulders above all our other soothsayers12:07AM
Catsby's a good cat. He hates being left out of conversations so you have to lift him up and sit him on your shoulder so he can join in12:02AM
@joshr Yup - I'm jacked into the matrix more or less permanently not.12:00AM
I wish I hadn't drunk that Listerine now. It didn't get me drunk, and now my coffee tastes weird.Sunday 2010-03-07
11:36PM
@joshr Write name in lime green Century Gothic, Copy, flip copy vertically and place under original. Gradient the copy dark to light. Done10:33PM
@rinkjustice It doesn't have cockweasel10:31PM
Child-Killing and "Radiation Volunteers" http://tr.im/QZRJ The Nuke Industry in England - 20 years later11:44AM
A back-lit keyboard is not enough. You also need luminous fingers.11:36AM
According to the hadrian's collider dude, if you hold 5p up, 75 ft away, it'll blot out 10,000 galaxies. This is 1 galaxy http://tr.im/QVWr11:32AM
Eating cake. Ramming it into my gaping maw with a sink plunger.You can never have too much cake.10:53AM
@IsakGerson PS - I once traveled from the UK to Lund, just to see Logh play. Which may explain a thing or two. Or maybe not.10:40AM
@yezzer the ones that used to question me when I was going through my fucking idiot phase were amazingly professional and good-humoured10:39AM
@yezzer I think British police are actually pretty good - but the politics behind them is fucked.10:24AM
@IsakGerson Prozac vs Loxamine.6:34AM
Iceland votes not to repay debt: http://bit.ly/aHXEEr < Good on them. The fucking banks should pay it - failing that, the bank shareholders4:57AM
@bruces Future spambots will be indistinguishable from wankers. Closing The Turing Gap will be a grudging compromise rather than a triumph3:34AM
Windows, Solar-Power and George Monbiot : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/03/windows-solar-power-and-george-monbiot/Saturday 2010-03-06
10:57PM
Just found out that the medicine I'm currently on - costing .50 US a month, will cost US a month, if #ACTA goes through4:54AM
#ACTA talk in NZ http://tr.im/QNuo Said it once, I'll say it again: The people responsible for this should face treason charges4:12AM
@inkblotsart Man, I'm constantly falling asleep LIVING my life's story.1:53AM
Smart People : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/03/smart-people/ There. I've said it.Friday 2010-03-05
1:57PM
@alexfarran The NZ version of Ebay is trademe.co.nz - something of a national treasure.8:33AM
I feel weird. Do I feel weird? (Checks self) Yes, I definitely feel weird. What's brought that on? Maybe I should go outside.4:58AM
Video made doubly hilarious by Google's attempt to "translate" it http://tr.im/QGrr2:53AM
Link Latte #11 http://www.genomicon.com/2010/03/link-latte-11/ bits and pieces. Flotsam and Jetsam.Thursday 2010-03-04
7:53AM
cool watch http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/this-must-be-th.php It must be getting close to the 10th year that I've been watchless.7:18AM
Screenplays http://tr.im/Qzq86:54AM
Oooh "Brain-Computer Interface Posts Message on Twitter" http://tr.im/Qzkh And all this time I've been trying the brain-free approach6:27AM
My take on ACTA as sent to the NZ Govt http://tr.im/Qze4 #ACTA @nzacta :: (NZ govt asking for submissions etc http://tr.im/Qzex )12:40AM
@hrheingold I think the Greek Fire recipe was lost to history as well... although I've tried, god knows, I've tried.12:36AM
Ok... as a programmer... having read a bit of the bible now, I must say it does read like really badly written legacy code.Wednesday 2010-03-03
11:41PM
@hrheingold Who was the greek guy who invented the focused mirror thing? Archimedes? He dabbled I think.1:39AM
@rapella They would love that.1:31AM
My people come back tonight. They've been on a bicycling holiday for a whole month. They'll be all full of themselves and talkative.Tuesday 2010-03-02
12:25PM
@cshirky "all journalism is wrong" sounds like a branch of "News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising"12:07PM
@AIannucci Oooh! Lambing Live!10:38AM
@aegirthor What, The Lords? Behind every great fortune is a great crime. The Lords protecting a Lord ought not come as a surprise7:31AM
Off down the Pizza place. If it's shut already I'm going to hurl myself into the sea.5:05AM
@gapingvoid I don't think there was anything on the scale of the potato famine was there? That was harsh.4:57AM
@gapingvoid re: The Scottish Diaspora vs Irish. Wee bit different I think. The drivers were less harsh, and Scots tended not to be 2nd class4:56AM
@gapingvoid but my parents tend to get on with people. I used to hang about with the Creation Records lot in London - mixed results there4:55AM
@gapingvoid We come and go. I was born in Scotland - but I'm 6th gen NZ. My parents love the Scots - friendliest people in the world.4:53AM
@gapingvoid re: London/Texas - don't think you can compare. NZ suffers from having Aus next door. London is where you go to get things done4:51AM
@gapingvoid there's less SMEs than England... but there's less money in Scotland. Like my town in NZ. Anyone with any get up and go, leaves4:49AM
@gapingvoid Aye well, you probably know what you're talking about then - ignoring the Scottish tradition for self-hatred.4:42AM
@gapingvoid When was the last time you were there? I was there 2006. The main vibe of any UK town is a function of its distance from London4:20AM
@gapingvoid I think you're mistaking a lack of entrepreneurialism for a good old-fashioned brain-drain. So um... bullshit back at you.4:00AM
@gapingvoid the Scots I know are all fairly entrepreneurial - they're just not in Scotland - because Scotland is (still) an English province3:59AM
@gapingvoid You know this how? The first computer I ever saw was owned by a Scottish entrepreneur.3:55AM
The end of the Roman Empire http://tr.im/QjYL3:37AM
@gapingvoid What? An anecdote about attitudes from the 1940s? Ever been to Scotland? Scotland's biggest problem is that it's a province3:32AM
Obliging ISPs to spy on their customers will damage the internet more than it benefits the (fucking) entertainment industry #ACTA3:31AM
@nzacta The difference between rights-holders and stake-holders maybe.3:17AM
@inkblotsart Yea, 3rd Person self-descriptions are crap. It's like wearing a shirt with the coat-hanger still in it.3:13AM
On Generative Art etc. Incisive, insightful http://tr.im/QjPg2:12AM
RT @gnat NZ MED asks for specific #ACTA advice: http:// bit.ly/9UZ64z < Unleash hell, my pretties. It may be messy, but it's OUR internet2:02AM
Acronyms, LOL12:13AM
Interesting thing about The Greek / EU crisis http://tr.im/QiZK - with relevance to all I think12:02AM
I'll tell you exactly what #ACTA is - it's a corporate attempt to use corrupt US politics to impose colonialism on the rest of usMonday 2010-03-01
11:58PM
New #ACTA leak http://tr.im/QiVb it pisses me off that our sovereignty is being circumvented to enforce IP law - that's shite to start with4:38AM
Moon: Walking backwards through a mirror into the future http://tr.im/QcQ91:54AM
25 degrees today. The wind is blowing through the house. Bamboo wind-chimes clink-clonking. 2 days before the family returns.12:59AM
Anyway - I've just woken up. I once set up some before/after mental acuity tests. Lack of caffeine gives me about a 20% IQ deficit12:58AM
That might have been too subtle. Rest-assured Brethren, I am South-East of Gandhi - who's name I can... spell. After a few tries.12:53AM
@NickKristof @samharrisorg Well as a staunch conservative, I'd just have to say that helping the poor makes them week.February 2010
Sunday 2010-02-28
10:57PM
@serafinowicz Yea, but it also sounds like notomotopoeia. Coincidence? Hard to say.11:54AM
@johnprescott So what do you say to this John? http://tr.im/Q7wm because I think it's pretty urgent that we get rid of any govt enacting it7:52AM
(scene: Heavenly Gates) GOD: "what did you do with your life? NICKWIT: "I tweeted the entire Bible". GOD: "LOL. Fail. Next"7:50AM
Does anyone know how many Heavenly Credits you'd get if you like... tweeted the entire Bible? It'd better be a lot. It'd take forever.7:48AM
@oneluvgurl Go and take a look at myself in the mirror. For a long time. A long time.7:43AM
Now he's sleeping in the bath with the dog. I haven't seen this movie before. I am Legend.7:42AM
Will Smith is washing the dog. That's not a euphemism. He is actually washing the dog. I'm glad it's not a euphemism. That'd be weird6:44AM
@xenijardin #tweetdemic6:42AM
@oneluvgurl It'd better not be about me.6:41AM
TV has just shown the most incredibly gory thing they've ever had the guts to show. They used spooky music to heighten the effect.5:35AM
@kalena That only looks scary because it uses scary colours :)4:49AM
@kalena Oh well, bang goes that theory1:48AM
Just so I know what I'm talking about, I am actually reading The Bible at the moment. It's ok - The DaVinci Code was easier to get into.12:15AM
@josephflaherty Yea - sorry. I've just woken up and haven't had coffee yet so my thinking-compartment isn't really going properly.12:10AM
@josephflaherty Still - enough of this banter - I follow your blog etc. I like what you have to say.12:09AM
@josephflaherty And that's why when you accuse someone else of intellectual dishonesty, your own "intellectual" position, is pretty weak.12:07AM
@josephflaherty I think you have an emotional attachment to gun ownership - regardless of whether you own them yourself.12:07AM
Your ad hominem was saying that I depended on ad hominem - but I stand by that. I think you have an emotional attachment to the subject.12:06AM
@josephflaherty People are anti-gun in the US, because proportionately so many more people in the US are killed than other countriesSaturday 2010-02-27
11:57PM
@josephflaherty Ah - so you do think gun ownership is sacrosanct then?11:56PM
@josephflaherty The guy in the bank wasn't crazy/dangerous/racist - but that situation is, by normal western standards, insane.11:55PM
@josephflaherty Ad hominem? Like you are doing now you mean?11:54PM
@josephflaherty a "100x disparity" might look good written down - but it doesn't preclude talking about other problems11:51PM
@josephflaherty It didn't though did it? It interviewed people with guns - including those from other countries etc, who were quite sane11:44PM
@BrianLimond LOL11:38PM
@josephflaherty Out of curiosity, what do you think were the conclusions drawn from Bowling for Columbine?11:35PM
@josephflaherty And varying child-mortality causes was the best you could come up with? What about MMs own stats? Find issue with those?11:32PM
@josephflaherty just because one part of the population dies more from cancer than diabetes, doesn't make it dishonest to discuss diabetes11:31PM
@josephflaherty Let me guess: You feel gun ownership is sacrosanct so you felt indignant then went looking for "evidence" as backup?11:03PM
@doctorow People mainly criticise MM because they have this blurry (moral) feeling that he's "not on their side", or criticising the sacred11:02PM
@josephflaherty @doctorow I think your cherry-pick of child-swimming-pool deaths as a reason not to question guns might be... more dishonest10:42AM
@kalena New Zealand's coast isn't generally conducive to tsunamis. It sits in deep water. Tsunamis like gradual inclines.8:58AM
@yezzer Lying about what dude? Most things I say are trueish.7:28AM
@serafinowicz And I'm looking back up at you. I'm not mooning mind. If that's what you were thinking.7:26AM
Grand Designs is on. A pre-recession couple have sculpted an Islington-furniture-shop-window-display terrarium for themselves to live in7:19AM
The last two people I've followed are Sam Harris @samharrisorg and The Dalai Lama @DalaiLama Coincidence moves in mysterious ways7:14AM
Monster Earthquake in Chile http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8540289.stm - about 1/2 an hour ago.6:51AM
Nick 1 : Binbag 0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5VD6Uy2R6Q6:06AM
Watched The Top 10 - first time in years: Bland inconsequential shite. Is this really what they're choking OUR Internet to prop up?5:17AM
The good thing about saveloys, is no matter how badly you cock it up, they're still basically edible. It's very hard to destroy a saveloy.5:07AM
Nick Taylor's house-keeping tips: If it's not that windy, you don't really need clothes-pegs.4:37AM
@samfarrow "general dissatisfaction"? I have more of a shoe-throwing, pudding-spitting, apoplectic rage about the content of TVNZ news3:47AM
Vague random stuff partly to do with doll's houses http://www.genomicon.com/2010/02/hidden-3d-image-there-it-is/Friday 2010-02-26
1:04PM
New Bruce Sterling talk http://tr.im/PTes I love this guy. He's like the most complaining uber-geek in the universe, crossed with Benny Hill10:05AM
@mat_walker I shot Bobby Gillespie with a fire extinguisher once.9:52AM
Does anyone know of an app that will run in the background and read out your friend's tweets in the voices of chipmunks? or daleks?8:55AM
Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet's on again - funny as fuck.7:59AM
@Documentally Everybody wants it dude... everybody wants it... from you.7:38AM
@Documentally Maybe it's not spam dude. Maybe those people ARE actually sending you those messages. Maybe they mean it. Really7:37AM
Ah at last. Cameron Diaz. She's got the same birthday as me, so reminds me of me a bit. That's probably what I'm like. If I shaved.7:36AM
God Dragons Den is on. I can't even bear to have it on with the sound off. Other channel, thick shiney people singing... other channel...5:25AM
According to the TVNZ weather guy, it's a "cracker evening"4:38AM
Things that would be cool, no matter what they are http://tr.im/PQzq3:34AM
Ah that's fucking genius - it's like a ministerial version of Grand Theft Auto http://tr.im/PQh53:32AM
@AIannucci You might like this one actually - Taiwan news station simulates Gordon Brown abuse allegations : http://tr.im/PQh53:13AM
@timoreilly well at a wild, wild guess I'd say it's because #ACTA is an attempt by US govt/lobbyists to bypass democracy in other countries2:49AM
The word for world is city http://tr.im/PQ3t2:39AM
Holy Crap http://tr.im/PPZN < How much news comes from NYT? That doesn't look terribly resilient to me (RT @cshirky )2:31AM
Ah - Microsoft's copyright as censorship incident reaches the inevitable phase where the banned site returns http://tr.im/PPXm2:26AM
The Lords. Bless : http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/feb/26/lords-sketch-hoggart2:16AM
I bought some lettuce plants - against my will etc. My entire being feels like a bum note in a heavenly chord.2:15AM
It's been an odd sort of day. Some friends dropped round earlier, which was quite disorientating, because I don't usually have friends.2:12AM
Car's broken down. It's making that noise that cars always make when they break down. Total silence. Fortunately I have a backup.1:19AM
Another reason to destroy the entire Intellectual Property legal system http://mashable.com/2010/02/25/facebook-news-feed-patent/Thursday 2010-02-25
11:02PM
@gleonhard Sellaband's model was fairly ill-concieved. They were still trying to be a record company - the 50k thing was crap as well.11:00PM
@robshepherd "At the end of the day" does mean something : "When all you waffle-gobs shut the fuck up and we see what actually happens"10:50PM
@BrianLimond They're often the funniest people though - on the internet it's a waste of time. In real life... Material!2:20PM
Loads of little coloured moving block things http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/02/24/curious-displays-flyfire-without-the-fly/11:01AM
@stilgherrian Especially as Hephaestus was technically a bloke - so those would be fairly major issues.10:59AM
Alberta Cross / atx are on TV. Sort of band that makes me feel like playing again. Slidey guitar innit. Got to learn to walk again first tho9:30AM
@stilgherrian That'd be Hephaesteous or someone. Greek bird. Had issues.9:15AM
"Cops" is on - a program about people who's main problem is that they're poor, being arrested by cops, who are also poor. Entertainment etc9:11AM
Corn Chips are always slightly too big to fit in your mouth. By "your", I mean "my". Your mouth would probably be fine.7:48AM
@freitasm LOL - strange times we live in.7:20AM
@dahowlett If you stripped out everything completely you could reduce it by 100%7:15AM
@freitasm Senator Conroy in Aus - if you go to his site, and view source, there's a JS hack to hide "ISP Filtering" http://tr.im/PI5F7:09AM
Seriously - if he's so ashamed of "ISP Filtering" that he needs to stop people talking about it, why the fuck is he trying to do it?7:08AM
Crafty Aussie Politician - Senator "censorship" Conroy censors own site http://tr.im/PI5F view source, find "ISP Filtering"6:53AM
Meep. Power-cut. I wonder if it's just me, or everyone in the whole world.4:12AM
@samharrisorg In the nosy-sphere that is the internet, censorship is actually a powerful memetic multiplier.4:11AM
@samharrisorg The NZ Atheist Bus was censored by Christians yesterday, causing the message instead to appear on prime-time national TV :)3:29AM
Just had coffee with Parsnips. We like Parsnips. Her brother threw up in his girlfriend's handbag, and Parsnips told Gus and everyone.1:29AM
Using copyright as censorship http://tr.im/PGgR was actually the original purpose of copy-monopoly - by Mary Queen of Scots back in the day1:11AM
God I feel so crap it's almost entertaining.12:41AM
@johnkeypm I don't get how negotiating away basic democratic rights in secret trade deals for the benefit of foreign corporations is legal12:40AM
@johnkeypm personally I think the Phil Heatley thing was a storm in a teacup. #ACTA on the other hand is borderline treason.Wednesday 2010-02-24
12:37PM
Beery Jesus, LOL http://tr.im/PAIg - actually, back in the day beer was often the um... staple fluid, because water was iffy.11:35AM
@joshr I don't know about Apple's policy, but in most... "civilised" countries, gaming is very heavily regulated.10:23AM
@davidschneider That'll be the yacht guy.7:08AM
Just managed to do some primitive cooking. Cooking's not really my area of expertise. I'm more about hunting mammoths and tigers and such.3:34AM
Ah a Copyright Czar http://tr.im/PxIN and already the lies have begun. Closer creepeth my dire warning etc etc http://tr.im/Oei52:47AM
@plish The shame is that they're attempting to choke the future via IP-law so as to maintain their now-defunct position as gatekeepers2:42AM
Niece and bicycle wheel http://tr.im/PxrI2:29AM
@plish Welcome to the modern Blockbuster. Hollywood isn't in the business of surprising people. It's in the business of selling genre.2:10AM
RT @techdirt [for US people] Administration Asks For Public Input On Intellectual Property Enforcement http://dlvr.it/2YRH1:57AM
Dusty old laptop to the rescue. Things that might come in handy one day, every once in a while do.1:45AM
Oh great. Yahoo have made Flickr's password retrieval process so fucking arcane that there's no way of getting to my account.Tuesday 2010-02-23
11:45PM
@rapella @ikostar I don't think they only work as a placebo - certainly not with me. It's just that the tendency for placebo effect is high11:29PM
@LeifKendall @rapella but what the results really say is tht depression is particularly susceptible to the placebo effect. Which it would be11:27PM
@LeifKendall @rapella I think anti-depressants suffer from bad reporting - we keep getting these stories that they don't work...10:18AM
No, out on the balcony, looking at the stars.9:08AM
Then after a while he whispered "did it not go the way you thought it would?"... and then... "I suppose not. But then, it never does"5:57AM
Well personally I'd have said that the biggest threat to Australia was the Australian government http://tr.im/PpPK5:55AM
.@NZAtheistBus I just wrote a polite but firm email to info@nzbus.co(.)nz protesting this http://tr.im/PpPf5:39AM
http://www.musichype.com/ was just on the news - going on about the new Mint Chicks record which is only available via USB4:53AM
So has anyone in NZ managed to use Chatroulette? My connection speeds are about 1/3 the global average. Would it work?3:58AM
Hi @clarecurranmp - who do I need to write to to protest this http://tr.im/Ppdp ? ISPs should not have to do copyright-cartel dirty work.3:24AM
TPM cracked with electron microscope + micro-needles http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/17/infineon_tpm_crack/3:16AM
"You could stage a revolution with about 10 people" quoth I. God I feel smug. I think I might need to go have a lie down.3:14AM
Al Jazeera's research on the Iranian Twitter revolution http://tr.im/Pp0s < see? Crazy Old Nick wasn't so crazy after all http://tr.im/Pp0m3:09AM
@DalaiLama say something interesting dude... like what did you have for breakfast? Simple humanity is what makes twitter what it is.3:06AM
Flagrant ignorance and stupidity http://tr.im/PoY2 a hierarchical response to a distributed problem just fucks the system for everyone.12:32AM
@marie_clair Yus. Today is my 6th day of quitting forever. I don't have hangovers any more, I have mental breakdowns.12:06AM
@marie_clair Oh dear... were you... you know... drunk?Monday 2010-02-22
1:23PM
Charlie Brooker being brilliant again http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/22/charlie-brooker-terry-kay-woods-adultery8:30AM
Just attempted to buy Pizza and Petrol. No one knew what I was talking about. The girl kept saying "91", "91", "91" etc. WTF?6:56AM
Ok, if this long-shot/miracle of code-wizardry works, I'm definitely having pizza for tea.5:42AM
@freitasm Oh really? It wasn't just that telecom cockup was it? I think they talked about that briefly5:39AM
@freitasm Nope, nothing about internet filtering - why, should there have been?5:38AM
Hmm... the TVNZ News is filled with stories about violence against police, just when Tasers are needing a PR push. Coincidence? Is it fuck.5:22AM
I do love the way the NZ TV News people have managed to sneak the phrase "Doing a Donut" into The Queen's English.12:54AM
Accident prone nuke/toxic-waste ships http://infondoalmar.info/Sunday 2010-02-21
11:52AM
@paulcarr She'll be a lot more scared of you, than you are of her :)11:49AM
@paulcarr There, there Paul (puts blanket over shoulders, gives cup of tea) it's all over now. All over. Your safe now. All over.10:35AM
@oneluvgurl My attention span is now so short that I actually blog things before I've read/seen them to the end. I am Captain Zeitgeist.10:32AM
@oneluvgurl I get irritated by the news quoting twitter Every Single Time. The purpose of the news is fact-checking, not opinion-sampling.10:25AM
@oneluvgurl So they're um... news looking for a story. So when a story turns up, weak though it is... it's reported.10:25AM
@oneluvgurl Gravity. Facebook has a bigger population than the US, and twitter is a new mirror. Both are news without stories.10:11AM
@nikz Nah, Entropy man. It's coming after you. It's speeding up. It's got your number.10:01AM
@bruces Intellectuals... Bah. What do they know?7:28AM
There are some idiots on TV - doing what idiots do best. Which is be idiots.7:06AM
@stilgherrian Mmmm.... Mead...7:05AM
@MMM "Do only what you can't avoid; Be whatever you can get away with" --Hal Hartley3:54AM
Anyway. Made Paella earlier. Never made it before - I think it went ok... though I did have to finish it off with a hair-dryer.2:58AM
All in the Game : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/02/all-in-the-game/Saturday 2010-02-20
2:39PM
@robertpopper Looks like a shred video http://tr.im/P2Ok there are loads of them. Utter genius. http://tr.im/P2P412:23PM
Hmm... might need to have a vacuum tomorrow. The whole house seems to be covered in the furry stuff that Catsby's made out of.8:20AM
American Gangster is on. Not a bad film as they go. Russell Crowe is in it... I quite like Old Russell, though obviously I call him Steve.7:09AM
@stilgherrian At least some of the ideas for that were pinched from mine http://www.tangerineworks.com7:07AM
At one point I was considering a career in giving motivational seminars etc... but like... nah... fuck it.7:05AM
Made rice. It can be quite a tricky one rice - a bit like toast. Turn your back for 2 seconds and there's smoke and fire alarms etc3:32AM
This is kindof where I was brought up http://tr.im/OZ0F which may explain a thing or two.3:04AM
Not for arachnophobiacs http://tr.im/OYSx probably an evolutionary colder-sac.2:53AM
RT @tomcoates Oh I'm totally doing this: http://bit.ly/9H8dRK < that's cool. Nice pictures as well. Proper art innit.2:46AM
@dweinberger Because they didn't, and someone got hurt, they'd get sued.2:39AM
Flyfire : Microcopter Holography : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/02/flyfire-microcopter-holography/12:02AM
I don't know why, but this fills me with a deep sense of unease http://www.edge.org/documents/dinner2010/index0.htmlFriday 2010-02-19
11:05PM
Berlimey. Dork Rock etc http://www.robertpopper.com/2010/02/19/2838/ I could probably do that. RT @robertpopper10:43PM
Ok, that I did not expect http://babieswithlasereyes.com/10:40PM
Wakes up. A shipwreck inside a shipwreck inside a shipwreck. Like broken Russian dolls. Light shining through the windows. Shower time.10:33AM
The Internet's so aspirational. Everything was better 20 yrs ago when people smoked dope all the time and didn't give a rats about anything10:31AM
@yezzer Lathes are great.9:53AM
@BrianLimond Tell you what dude, it was well weird watching you do the dishes the other day - knowing 180 other people were also watching9:03AM
Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet is on TV. Kiwi Humour http://tr.im/ORIU8:34AM
Dragons Den is on - with the sound off. The whole program is like Groundhog-Day-esque morality play about why our society is so fucked up.7:05AM
See - http://www.weirdsky.com/miscImages/sunflowers.jpg on a trip to Cirrus Minor etc.
6:30AM
It's all gone golden and leafy outside. It's all long shadows and cars in the distance. Birds and dust on the windows. I've missed the news.3:15AM
I keep experiencing this vague, nagging sense that it might actually be quite a nice day.2:16AM
Printing body parts http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15543683 An extra ball and another set of fingers?1:54AM
Retrieves car, gets mail from mailbox, picks up pieces etc. Comfort food for lunch. Salmon for Catsby, saveloys for me.12:21AM
@freitasm Maybe people simply don't believe the ads.Thursday 2010-02-18
11:24PM
chromakey http://dvice.com/archives/2010/02/chromakey-world.php10:46PM
@EduVulture Just visited I think - the delivery was... someone else.1:09PM
@TedHope Yea - I think Kickstarter is a great idea. Just wish it was international12:42PM
Space Station Window http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1594.html12:34PM
Bionic Hand http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/02/18/new-bionic-hands-look-promising-creepy/11:12AM
RT @nzlemming IT news: 'Rob me' site reveals empty homes http://bit.ly/dwCxbg < I really don't get the appeal of geo-sharing11:07AM
Watching Peep Show on the youtubes. Genius.6:32AM
... and last night I went insane and attacked the garden with it. Weirdly, the garden didn't suffer in the slightest, but I'm a wreck6:30AM
Yea so um... there's this sword - belonged to Aragorn off LOTR - they made loads of blunt ones, and one real one...5:40AM
LOL Michael Howard visited by aliens http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/18/michael-howard-ufos-folkestone4:41AM
Sick. Dying. It's over, it's just beginning. Bye for now etc.1:23AM
@umairh clever people fuck themselves up in clever ways. If yr "solution" isn't understandable by stupid people like me. it's not a solution1:21AM
@umairh "Smart People"? LOL. Much as I like you dude, I don't have the same faith in smart people that you do.Wednesday 2010-02-17
4:45PM
@andybudd sorry dude... from noun... to verb... to adjective... in one easy mudslide. If nothing else, I'm... educated. LOL4:42PM
@andybudd Oah kay... modesty drunk.... But... I'm sortof authentic... BUT NOT AS AUTHentic as the guys ... funny dude... Urr Urr urr.4:40PM
@andybudd I've always sortof love you. I'm not drunk4:39PM
@andybudd Yep4:36PM
Bleak Viking Rock. Better than ABBA http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=gXPpAhL6dro4:15PM
East of the valley... if you need me, you know where to find me.4:14PM
At some point, we're going to identify, personalise.... who is doing all this damage... and we're going to kill them. Don't you reckon tho?4:10PM
Jesus http://aidwatchers.com/2010/02/four-ways-brain-drain/ Personally, I think we should just start killing people.4:03PM
@AIannucci Yea whatever. We feel weirdly proud of you.3:57PM
@timoreilly America today is a series of islands.3:56PM
@timoreilly America as a concept is finished. Have you seen them? have you tried to link what you see to any kind of "pioneering spirit"?3:28PM
@umairh I went to a hardware conference recently. You should see these people. There's a revolution being driven by people who no one likes3:26PM
@umairh You've got a fundamental clash between anal, and attentive economies. 15 minutes of fame is... everything and nothing3:24PM
@umairh All of your b-models are vague bollocks . Face it dude, you're pretty much only good at criticsing the obvious3:02PM
@BrianLimond BAMN2:25PM
@Martin_Carr sorry dude - you don't know me, you do know me. I'm Richard Gordon's mate. A stray.2:23PM
@Martin_Carr Sorry - I read the low-dom after the hair thing. Fuck being low (FFS) ring up Charlotte Church's people and say Hi.2:21PM
@Martin_Carr Your hair looks like a circus. What are you talking about. Be reasonable.2:18PM
I just talked to Susan on the telephone http://www.ikostar.com/2008/01/02/living-in-the-future-a-retrospective-3/ My main friend1:58PM
New #ACTA leaks http://bit.ly/cNiiVu I don't know what it says/what it means. We should just arrest all those involved on treason charges1:14PM
I quite like this. Starlians http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=HsrzvACqeVE1:07PM
@davidschneider Did you actually like The Brits? I mean any of the music... did you like any of it? At all? Any of it?1:05PM
@johnprescott Never mind about 5Live - I'd like you to articulate something worth voting for in 140 chrs... and you know what? I could do it1:03PM
@nukereaction Nuke (as an energy source) doesn't work (and noone will do it) without an advance bailout.1:01PM
Anyway, incredibly drunk right now. I managed to persuade my people to be in my movie. This is going to be as funny as fuck. I can't wait.12:58PM
@AIannucci I know we've never met etc, but you feel like... one of us. The Guy with the Purple Tie. Marvelous. Dead proud.12:56PM
@AIannucci You know that photo with the oscar people? the look like arseholes... and (to coin a phrase) I feel weirdly proud of you.12:54PM
bumfish3:43AM
Link Latte #9 http://www.genomicon.com/2010/02/link-latte-9/2:06AM
@freitasm Far out, that's cool - isn't that reflection the outside of the building? How do they do that then?2:01AM
@lordtrilink Dour is the only place Robin Hood has left to go. All the other angles have been covered.1:54AM
I mean really, is this the industry that you're attempting to castrate the internet over? It's pathetic. Go away and die with some dignity1:53AM
Having belatedly taken a look at the #brit awards winners... I have to say... you people are finished.1:21AM
The law as terror weapon http://awe.sm/51TLx I've got a better idea. Lets get rid of the copyright cartels.12:06AM
@joshr Happy Birthday :)Tuesday 2010-02-16
2:23PM
A couple of minutes ago, there was 9 - now I'm one of about 70 people watching BrianLimond do the dishes in his kitchen in Scotland1:42PM
Oh great. I left the downstairs door open, and now every moth in the universe has come in.1:39PM
Cool - we cut one of our records here http://tr.im/OqsE which went on to sell... ooh... dozens of copies.1:35PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIzD1yMmIrw - yea. I remember the UK in the 80s. Weird, cold, insincere, unfriendly sort of place.1:12PM
Beautifully shot woolen Japanese things, playing surf-music http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=Q-VWdPGGTT810:05AM
Flaming Lips Bathroom http://design-milk.com/the-real-flaming-lips-bathroom/9:45AM
@johnkeypm Hi John - I think the mining "scandal" is a storm in a teacup. #ACTA on the other hand isn't. I'd advise aborting it, now.9:26AM
Guard Labour : Guarding the Garden http://www.genomicon.com/2010/02/guard-labour/7:39AM
We saw that Pandorum last night - great concept... quite a good ending, but a curiously unnecessary middle bit involving zombies.2:04AM
If you're unclear about Net Neutrality - this is what the web looks like without it http://culturekitchen.com/files/netneut_01.jpg
1:55AM
@johnprescott Hi John, how's it going? In case you're interested, I'll only vote Labour now if you break up the banks http://tr.im/OmD11:31AM
Yea, well. People who patent life-saving technologies don't deserve to live http://tr.im/OmtT1:07AM
See? Hitler Cat from next door sitting next to an apple http://www.genomicon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/hitlercat.jpg
1:00AM
I breezily suggested he get another, but I don't think he heard me. I quite liked that cat. It was a hitler cat.12:59AM
Shame. Mr Tait from next door just came over to say that his cat's died. It fell over a cliff and was eaten by alligators etc.12:31AM
@BrianLimond OMG, I can't believe you said "Menshies"12:30AM
@Documentally Depends on how short the short range is I guess - I have a feeling it will still be easier to crack WEP than sniff them.12:26AM
@clarecurranmp The Lessig thing was a look at why "Intellectual Property" is a deeply flawed concept, not something to build new laws upon.12:25AM
@clarecurranmp What? The Iceland thing or the Lessig thing? Iceland was about doing for information freedom what NZ did for nuclear-freeMonday 2010-02-15
2:17PM
Fast Sci-Fi looking lego rubiks cube robot http://tr.im/Oi2r12:20PM
@olleolleolle I find Iceland's data haven thing incredibly interesting. It's like Judo.12:18PM
I'd never heard of @onealfredplace until now. What is it? A hang-out for aspiring Dragon's Den contestants? Ooh. I can feel the "Me me me"10:29AM
@freitasm Because they're cheap. Market forces rather than unwritten social contract etc. It makes Mars Bars smaller as well.9:11AM
TV tonight: Breaking Bad (a teacher turned into a speed-dealer) followed by Hung (teacher turned prostitute). The bottoms falling out of it.6:50AM
A terrabyte on a postage stamp http://tr.im/Ofw7 almost enough for the entire history of music, and small enough to be dropped like confetti4:54AM
God I hope this works.3:33AM
Copyright is a theft of our common culture.2:20AM
@clarecurranmp right now the conversation has already jumped to a number of conclusions, which are... wrong. Quite badly wrong.2:19AM
@clarecurranmp On the subject of ACTA - this http://tr.im/Oeja (if you've got 10 mins) is where the conversation needs to start.2:10AM
Catsby's defragging again. God I wish I had a camera. He looks like a smal furry Louis XIV with one leg stuck up in the air.1:55AM
RT @NASA The on-orbit crew is relocating the cupola on the Tranquility node. The robotic operation (etc) < I want to say stuff like that1:53AM
@stilgherrian Because they're touchy feely. They want to feel the trust etc. They're insecure. Losers. Sack them. I would.1:20AM
EMI isn't a record company, it's a financial abstraction http://tr.im/Oe1g soon to be controlled by Citigroup? really, who cares? It's over1:02AM
Monday descends, with an avalanche of hassles.Sunday 2010-02-14
9:32AM
Tiny Solar Sensor http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=75209:30AM
Censorship? (Denials of) Corruption? Secrecy? http://tr.im/O8yO All together in one wonderful package.8:59AM
Jaws 2 is on TV. It's the one where people get killed by a shark. And then they kill the shark. Or do they? Find out in Jaws 38:35AM
Gets Nasty? Get down to business http://tr.im/O8na I'll never go for a walk without a machine gun again8:01AM
Cool - the entire California coastline http://tr.im/O8dr7:15AM
Throught the Weave of the Dream http://www.genomicon.com/2010/02/through-the-weave-of-the-dream/4:51AM
But how much did it cost? A billion quid? I bet more UK people died from money misdirected from health etc than "enemies" actually killed4:50AM
21st C war is weird http://tr.im/O7gb - a "huge push" resulting in fewer causalities than those from UK car-accidents in the same period4:34AM
@billmaher (post funeral) Widow:"thanks so much for the suit". Coroner:"no probs, someone came in wanting blue, so I swapped the heads, LOL"4:33AM
@billmaher Grieving Widow: "he wanted to be buried in a black suit - but only had blue". Coroner: "Don't worry, I'll arrange something"4:13AM
When I was in town earlier, I accidentally hit my head on a hanging pot-plant, and was temporarily disorientated. No one noticed though3:24AM
Mega-cool dragon-cat thing http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8505000/8505785.stm3:21AM
Oh right - it's Valentines etc - Happy Birthday Wassername.Saturday 2010-02-13
10:34PM
@josephflaherty Emerson Lake and Palmer and YES etc were all super-accomplished as well, but it's all about worshiping someone up on a stage10:21PM
I'm harbouring the suspicion that #TED is the Emerson Lake and Palmer of public speaking. An elitist bubble.10:13PM
@yezzer I used to hang out there... on occasion. The Bear (5 mins away) is cool as well. It's the one with the ties.12:07PM
@rapella It's a fine-line between semantics and hair-splitting.11:57AM
@j4ngis Well... that's the thing about The Evil... their work-ethic.10:48AM
It's getting to the point where any "solution" that involves the likes of the MPAA, RIAA etc surviving, is morally untenable.10:47AM
Yea yea, http://tr.im/O1ve copyright is an artificial and damaging construct. Companies who exploit it have no god-given right to exist2:17AM
Women. Know your place : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/13/be-silent-sevenoaks-vicar-tells-women2:13AM
@NZAtheistBus That would rock. You could have inter-denominational inflatable bible fights.2:12AM
@NZAtheistBus Actually I had toyed with making large plastic inflatable bibles for smiting small children / heathens / orcs etc1:34AM
first iBad delivered to Steve Jobs http://www.defectivebydesign.org/apple-ipad-drm-petition-mailedFriday 2010-02-12
1:29PM
In the next 5 years, this will become an entire genre of youtube videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NvPcphRbec12:43PM
Personally, I don't thing Google is the new [insert old company name] - I think Google is the new Henry VIII http://tr.im/NTCo12:32PM
@KaiserKuo Yea, and it is a good art form... when it's good, and you're there, it gets the adrenalin going etc, but as... code... it's done12:28PM
It's heavy metal night on TV in NZ. Metal is such a craft now. It's thoroughly explored territory.12:18PM
@oneluvgurl Don't worry. You can't sell your soul - that whole concept was medieval political marketing-speak.12:14PM
@oneluvgurl Yea but your twitter value is like your... soul value. Once you've sold it, it's gone and you can't buy it back.11:34AM
But the bogans... like ACDC (their main band) or the price of speed, haven't really changed since the 70s.11:33AM
Speaking of ecology - I was away from NZ for 20 years - a lot of the insects have changed. Different mosquitoes, mantids, spiders etc.11:31AM
Cool. Glow in the dark bath http://tr.im/NT9Z like a cross between lapis-lazuli and kryptonite.11:26AM
tried this out on Catsby earlier http://tr.im/NT7C he just looked up at me with an expression saying "omg, you're such a wanker"11:00AM
@kalena A mate of mine topped himself recently - he had to take a leap of faith... that we would understand, and you know... we did.10:58AM
@kalena Yea, but who's to know? If there's like a suicide ring, and no one's affected except the suicidees... then maybe it's a good thing10:52AM
@leashless but I think the fell prey to a force even more destructive than hurricanes - vacancy. Niue is empyting.10:49AM
@leashless I know this probably won't help - but I used to live on an island that had "hurricane houses" - solid concrete blocks basically.10:47AM
@paulsilver The easiest way to find things on most sites (including (ahem) my own) is to google it. Native search is almost always shite.10:46AM
FFS Are you shitting on me? http://tr.im/NSUc9:57AM
As a general rule of thumb, the richer the area in London, the creepier the people. Everyone's a prostitute of some sort.9:56AM
Far out, I actually recognise Lee McQueen's street on the TV. Close to work, but who the fuck would want to live there? Mayfair's Depressing9:44AM
Jesus does the TV NZ news ever interview anyone who doesn't wind up fucking crying? What is it with these people? The editors I mean?7:12AM
Fuck knows what's on TV. Seems to be loads of people made out of plastic, crying. Damn I wish I could be like those people.6:00AM
If you're the sort of person who thinks this is cool, this is cool : http://www.tombom.co.uk/blog/?p=1245:56AM
Woo - bypass bypass bypass. The telcos are a major threat to Internet resilience http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/google-isp3:30AM
@kalena What if they all suicide?1:23AM
Vagina Mice http://dvice.com/archives/2010/02/nsfw-g-point-mo.php Go on, you know you want to.1:14AM
Oh really? Well I think a massive Fuck You is in order http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8509787.stm12:36AM
@tomcoates become an arsonist Tom. The hell with steam. Steam is for teapots.12:36AM
@tomcoates No smoke without fire; no steam without fire and water. And smoke. I'd say it's god's way of telling you to get drunk. And smoke12:33AM
I think that's the reason there's such a high depression/suicide rate in NZ - download speeds are about 1/3 the global average.Thursday 2010-02-11
11:59PM
So Kiwi peeps... is your download speed as crap as mine? http://www.youtube.com/my_speed - I get about 77611:18PM
Goldman Sachs attempts to rig poll http://tr.im/NOW3 < would the world really be worse off if we just "got rid" of Goldman Sachs?11:07PM
Youtube Speed Tests... my ISP is about 1/3 the global average http://www.youtube.com/my_speed11:37AM
Actually, I think I might try to outwit my future self by sleeping up the other way this evening. That'll fuck me up. Mwah hah hah hah etc11:07AM
Well that's hallucinatory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmWljCI_4Ok10:54AM
@stilgherrian Go do Landmark Forum - it's an EST spinoff - keep grounded (ie: don't get involved) - It'll give you a grounding in what to do10:52AM
Catsby and I have eaten like kings today. I got him proper mozzarella - instead of the Fool's Mozzarella the folks tried to fob him off with7:02AM
@gubatron Euphemism has become a military technology. Has been for a while "Executive Outcomes", LOL http://tr.im/NIa92:26AM
ACTA : The Monster Beneath The Ice http://www.genomicon.com/2010/02/acta-the-monster-beneath-the-ice/12:29AM
@KaiserKuo "the left" is a label that reality-agnostic US right-nationalists use to attack the middle... which is still right-wing12:26AM
@KaiserKuo Yea, but anyone who uses the term "the left" is instantly either a deluded or lying fuckwit.12:13AM
And if you can't be arsed, this is it http://tr.im/NFYS some mad sick inter-species sex mistake. I've seen horror movies start like this.12:12AM
If you google 'cute' then look at the images... the first one is actually pretty fucking scary if you ask me.12:08AM
4 days after the folks have gone on holiday and the fabric of society has begun to break down. Like Lord of The Flies, for one.Wednesday 2010-02-10
11:43PM
So anyway. Thursday - Chair-throwing-day. I'm a bit busy at the mo though. A million loose ends to tidy up.11:38PM
@SadekHM Nah - the worst thing is driving with no license, dressed as a giant bee. With no bee trousers. Being chased by other bees. On acid10:09AM
@adactio Yea. Snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow etc.9:36AM
Oh that's weird. Malcolm Tucker is some other program, pretending to be someone else.9:26AM
@rapella Jessica needs to get out more. Pretty much everyone I see is outside somewhere.9:24AM
@yezzer It would be cool to have a self-propelled one... which just kept going until it started a volcano or struck oil or whatever8:57AM
Have fallen in with some music playing peeps. Could be an ideal for Deliverance Now... ie: movies etc. My fingers are fucked now though.1:55AM
Morgue Masturbation Allows Staff To Make Ends Meet http://tr.im/Nxnb also, bullet-proof vests, stolen baby corpses etc.1:51AM
Permaculture in Haiti http://tr.im/Nxmd I'm really interested in this stuff, but fuck me that's a waffly article. Just give me pictures FFS1:32AM
The garden is producing tomatoes faster than any reasonable person could eat them. Gardens connect you with your neighbours.1:04AM
Americans - you have 6 days to comment on #ACTA http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/289112:30AM
Robin Hood Tax http://tr.im/NwTi < so why are the rest of us paying tax at all?Tuesday 2010-02-09
12:35PM
@johnprescott and the tragic thing is, I/we're on your side. And we still want blood. How about 100k for Labour to go back to being Labour?12:34PM
@johnprescott how about 100k making drug laws sane, 100k sacking everyone negotiating ACTA, 100k charging Blair with war crimes?12:31PM
Oh that's fucked... bollocks, that's not what I wanted at all http://tr.im/NrZY9:41AM
OOOH!!! TVNZ news item featuring a big picture of a home-made bomb, and a story about... well... an Aussie guy... not having a bomb8:17AM
RT @rooreynolds Hang on... Bambi was a boy deer? Not a girl, you say? I honestly had no idea. < OMG. Why do I find that a turn on?4:48AM
Don't mind me. I'm a cross between Malcom Tucker, Hunter S Thompson, Neil off the young ones and a plastic bag stuck up in a tree.4:39AM
Daryl Hannah : http://tr.im/Np6x see what she says the biggest threat to the film industry is? Suck on that you slimy fucking MPAA cunts4:35AM
Yea - I think the best way to tackle stagnant social mobility is to get the poor to cut each other's throats for money http://tr.im/Np5O3:13AM
Snowy Microplanet http://imgur.com/rjDCL1:37AM
They single (or is that quadruple?) handedly support an entire industry of people lying about them. A moving paper fantasy etc.1:35AM
Branjolina really should go look at gas-station magazine racks sometime. There's an entire parallel universe of bollocks written about them1:34AM
Oh that's a relief - Branjolina isn't splitting up afterall http://tr.im/Noa3 But are suing instead. I guess they must need the money.1:24AM
What am I doing today? Consults todo list. No. No. Not doing that. No. Not doing that either. No. No. Later. No. EXCELLENT!!! Day Free!1:23AM
Have worn out fingertips playing guitar.Monday 2010-02-08
11:47AM
Apple is The New Microsoft http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/micro-sim-business/11:44AM
Reprintable paper http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/02/08/toner-ink-and-paperless-printer-video/11:40AM
@AndyPPUK Copyright was originally intended to stop protestant publishing... the history of Copyright has been one long twist.11:27AM
Which I imagine is a bit like shadow boxing... or driving round in circles the middle of nowhere. Like Waiting for Godot, but with guns.11:26AM
RT @guardiannews Liam Fox: UK must retain military capability to fight alone http://bit.ly/9LU1vv < in case no one else want to fight us10:35AM
@AIannucci but I did feel a bit sorry for that other guy... erm... Malcolm someone.10:34AM
@AIannucci A) Nope. If it was all just words, spin and icing under his tenure then maybe... but it wasn't. People got killed. Other people.8:12AM
@gleonhard @umairh the problem isn't "earning pennies" the problem is needing to earn fucking 00s to just break even.8:10AM
Eating sweetcorn (creamed) straight out of the pot on account of actually being quite hardcore.4:24AM
Guard Labour http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/05/santa-fe-institute-e.htmlSunday 2010-02-07
10:55PM
Monday morning. Managed to get most of coffee in mouth. I might have a bit of a tidy later.8:38AM
LOL Genius http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=aiXR9ggRdFI8:25AM
LOL - this is the funniest thing I've seen in ages http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=ipy58SaIRhs via http://tr.im/N9SA6:37AM
Arduino Powered Bee photography rig http://tr.im/N9pa for all your bee-photography needs.6:33AM
That Nicole Kidman is on TV. According to this facial analysis software, that's who I look most like. I thought I was more like Cameron Diaz1:18AM
@CaseyContrarian All of The Thick of It seasons are on youtube. Utter genius. Probably best comedy ever made.12:45AM
Ooh - that's good news http://bit.ly/9EIqs9 UKers able to feed energy back into the grid and get paid for it, tax free12:18AM
Catsby's come to see me. He's a good cat. He doesn't get all rowdy and pissed and sing moon river at 4am. Hang on. I think actually he does.12:12AM
Well there's a thing. Visualising major West-London streets seems to be a good way of dealing with crippling paranoia.Saturday 2010-02-06
10:12PM
But anyway, once again I'm never doing what ever it was I did before, again.10:11PM
My mate had a load of moonshine. That's what went wrong. Moonshine FFS. It's like being in the Dukes of Hazaard.9:23PM
RT @make 130,000 Arduinos sold to date < there's actually quite a lot of hardware hackers out there.6:26PM
A four hour aberration, fading in and out of temporal existence... covering tracks. To sleep etc...4:15PM
It's basically just chords and notes and such. Lyrics and whatnot. Easy http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=sKbfq_cs8CA3:59PM
@PragueBob Well... you know... once you start, it's hard to stop :)3:49PM
@PragueBob You're chirpier than you know dude, chirpier than you know.3:22PM
@davestone So what has? I liked the mushroom guy. And the patent-headed genomical biotech guy. What's happened?2:32PM
Art Rock - possibly the best backing vocals in a chorus ever http://youtu.be/VF-QuXEumsg2:28PM
@davestone Out of idle curiosity dude, have any of the inspiring thing you saw on TED last year, actually amounted to anything this year?2:06PM
You can only be reasonable for so long1:49PM
@BrianLimond I think it's time for a designer drug called exposé.12:57AM
Little baby storm-trooperlet http://i.imgur.com/uQYCM.jpg
Friday 2010-02-05
11:19PM
@pperrin But anyway - 2009 was the year I stopped trying to talk to right-wing american conspiracy theorists. Add a british one to that11:17PM
@pperrin and speaking of admitting mistakes... "the Iraq war"? Had any dampening effect on your confidence in your political acuity?11:13PM
@pperrin and the USSR is a cliche, that has fuck all to do with anything - to the extent that it's become a species of Godwin's Law.11:12PM
@pperrin No, you don't worm your way out of it like that, Labour actually DID betray its socialist principles - almost immediately.11:10PM
The evil that religion does is greater than the good it does http://awe.sm/50nK210:57PM
ISPs not responsible for users copyright infringement http://bit.ly/bP5Cs2 < sanity prevails. This is really quite important @clarecurranmp10:52PM
The folks have gone off on a MONTH-LONG bicycle trip - leaving me and Catsby to potter about the house, breaking things.10:50PM
@changeist Because we watched a lot of sci-fi in our formative years... which (weirdly enough) is partly true.10:06AM
@mat_walker Go hang out in Maplins. That's what I'd do. I like hanging out in Maplins9:16AM
@pperrin What? Your tax rate has doubled since 97? And Labour consitsently outflanked the tories on the right. They're not "lefty"9:11AM
@pperrin Misquoted Marxist slogans have no relevance whatsoever on what is happening today. What you have today is Corporatism.9:08AM
@pperrin No Paul, the lefties are imaginary. You're not being repressed by a liberal elite. You've just been conned into thinking you are.8:28AM
Sandra Bullock is on TV. The thing about Sandra Bullock is that she was once a computer nerd... which her absolves her of everything.5:41AM
Can detect input from more than just fingers http://dvice.com/archives/2010/02/is-amazon-plann.php mmm... handy.5:39AM
One of my noses hurts5:35AM
@pperrin But you (good sir) want to de-impose representative democracy on others because you have imaginary lefties on your back?3:20AM
It's so hot that Catsby is sleeping in the gap between the sofa and the wall.3:16AM
Bloke standing next to oily patch http://i.imgur.com/dBYk8.jpg
2:59AM
iBad http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipadThursday 2010-02-04
3:51PM
@pperrin to wit: you have imaginary lefties on your back.3:50PM
@pperrin Yus... I think you'll find that that's a baseless assertion driven by your own agenda, which is based on a ludicrous misconception3:23PM
@pperrin Well no, not "Fewer the Better", "The Better the Better". And #ACTA and its ilk are a little more treasonous than anything previous3:14PM
@pperrin Doesn't matter who they work for. If they're attempting to subvert our democracy on behalf of a foreign power, it's treason #ACTA3:04PM
Does anyone know of a clickable world map that shows what govt/corporate attacks on internet freedom are taking place, and by who?2:46PM
IMHO Officials colluding with corporations to bypass the democratic process shouldn't just be sacked, but should be tried for treason. #ACTA1:17PM
@yezzer I think there needs to be an organised map of which MPs need targeting. Which actual individuals are pushing this crap.12:38PM
@BrianLimond re: Christianity/Judaism/Islam - yea, we do... but the Pope is a bit like the mystery UFO in space invaders. Hard to resist8:52AM
Mind you, I will say that the spaghetti western music in that last Pirates of the Caribbean rocks.4:49AM
Why is The News cause for foreboding and trepidation? Because Other People are stupid mindless greedy ignorant cunts. Not you, the others4:48AM
Time for The News. In the future, we'll look forward to The News with excitement - rather than foreboding and trepidation2:24AM
Nachos for lunch. I like nachos - you can instinctively feel that they've got a good balance of the basic food-groups - salt, fat, sugar etc12:59AM
@yezzer hmm... nice shoes. By the looks. Still... I could probably have done that. If I'd thought of it etc.12:54AM
Is it because I is white? http://www.genomicon.com/2010/02/is-it-because-i-is-white/12:23AM
@yezzer Ermm... pics? 5ft is a bit short for a statue IMHO. Depending on what it's a statue of of course.12:22AM
@skap5 @josephflaherty Pagans, Wiccans, & Druids may have low HP, but they have high Intelligence/Wisdom and can do spells etc12:18AM
@yezzer How big is it? Mind you... it's still a lot. At 21st Century prices you could buy about 2 million slaves for that. Seriously.12:07AM
@leashless LOL - I didn't say it made sense, I said I it was excellent. As a story it has less mythic resonance than A Room with a ViewWednesday 2010-02-03
11:34PM
@alexqgb I thought The 9th Gate was excellent.11:31PM
My (70yr old) dad has found this plant that allowed Aztec warriors to fight for 2 days... and now he's distilling the seeds in the kitchen11:12PM
@LeifKendall Took me ages to get on google's FP as "nick taylor"... but... the more you talk about yourself, the more famous you become :)10:56AM
Incredibly interesting (and disturbing) information if aggregated en-masse I bet. A marketers, and a burglars dream.10:54AM
Am I losing my marbles, or is this a website for voluntarily itemising your crap http://www.thingd.com ?8:41AM
I watch you in your sleep http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brown_wood_owl_arp.jpg
8:21AM
@mat_walker I know a song about that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI5XpYWZHPY Good song as it happens.7:31AM
The Triffids is on. Everyone goes blind then gets eaten by walking carnivorous plants.7:15AM
I've got one week to learn how to play guitar.Tuesday 2010-02-02
11:33PM
More evil http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32290.html#ixzz0eIFPhHBh12:44PM
We saw that Avatar earlier. First time I've seen a 3D movie. Really impressive... though possibly in the same way YES were in 197711:42AM
Free Culture : an oldy but a goody http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html5:34AM
Link Latte #8 http://www.genomicon.com/2010/02/link-latte-8/ Random randomnity.4:35AM
Palin buys ,000 worth of her own books http://bit.ly/a1hkLE "Which do you read?". "Oh all of them" she enthuses3:54AM
Got my laptop back from the laptop fixing shop. 0 to replace a 1$ part + for the carpark The price of miracle technology is so mundane1:52AM
Yea? Well on behalf of Henry VIII and QE1 I'd just like to condemn this papal-equality intrusion http://bit.ly/a22mmb1:27AM
@pperrin And here's a little bit about the oil industry / GW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8db2sue0Q Enjoy. These are your people1:25AM
@pperrin you're doing exactly what you're accusing the fuckup makers of... but worse. You're failing logic 101 and saying it's ALL fucked up1:24AM
@pperrin You're not commenting on the science of climate change, you're ignoring it... and focusing only on the odd fuckup.Monday 2010-02-01
10:31AM
@pperrin As I say, you've come down on the side of the idiots... not "free thinkers" or maverics... actual good old fashioned stupid people10:28AM
@pperrin while the oil industry and their PR co, who previously represented the tobacco industry are telling the truth?10:27AM
@pperrin and you think that The Pentagon, Nasa and every credible scientific institution on earth are involved in a giant conspiracy9:58AM
@pperrin So (2nd time I've asked), are you honestly saying, in public, that there's no evidence for climate change?6:16AM
Mouseweed lived round the back of the Cuttlestokes. Nobody knew what she was talking about.6:03AM
@oneluvgurl I haven't the foggiest who she is, but I think Taylor Swift is a nice name. Well, the first bit. The 2nd bit is a bit airy fairy5:48AM
The trouble with information is that the fuckers are making it a lot faster than you can learn it. You're falling further and further behind5:42AM
Pentagon "global warming is security threat" http://bit.ly/bK3B9R that'll baffle the wingnuts - well those with enough neurons to be baffled3:16AM
Just went into a guitar shop and said "Hi.. um... a set of elecric strings, heavy heavy, light light". Fuck me it felt weird2:33AM
bereft of my main machine, typing by hand on a little baby laptoplet. Nothing to do but make lists of things to do. TomorrowJanuary 2010
Sunday 2010-01-31
1:44PM
Holy crap http://tr.im/Mgt8 Obama has just soared in my estimation. That's the least bullshitty politics that I've heard in a long long time1:10PM
Norwegian nano-horse http://i.imgur.com/hkuEr.jpg
12:33PM
Thinking maybe Reputational Capital is so important in geek-driven fields because geeks were so often deprived of it at school.12:25PM
Well that January officially over in NZ. I didn't get drunk once the whole time. See? I told you I was a reformed character.12:11PM
@kalena Nah, mine works. Have you tried switching your computer off, then switching it back on again?12:10PM
Working deep into the night - writing database migration scripts like a database migration script-writing ninja.9:31AM
Talking repraps with my Brother. He's a genius etc. If I won the lottery I'd skip the ferrari - give the $ to Dom and say "make stuff"Saturday 2010-01-30
11:25AM
He absolutely fucking got it, and everything he said is bang on the money for today. It's beyond clever. It's a weird tuning in thing.11:23AM
Watching mid-sixties interviews with Pete Townsend on the Youtubes. The guy had a genius grasp on pop-culture, even as a kid.11:05AM
@buildmaster I was about to mention that - Bogans have been the same since the 70s... and never did twig just how camp Queen really were11:00AM
@buildmaster LOL. Yea. A bogan concert.10:53AM
I once had the chance to buy a Hitler... painting. In my opinion, this is worse : http://tr.im/M7lE yours for a song.10:45AM
Just rang up Thompson. She's my friend. Hassling me like fuck to move back to England.9:33AM
@phowardcom There are these things in NZ called "moreporks" http://tr.im/M6Ya I expect it's to do with that. They say "morepork" etc9:01AM
In the top 5 best gigs I ever saw actually - http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=sbmhoMpoTac K for cool8:59AM
@nzlemming Arc. That reminds me - this lot were my mates at one point http://tr.im/M6Nx Art-rock is louder than metal. Bassist was a kiwi8:42AM
@nzlemming erm... it's hard to say. Part of a circle. What was I talking about?8:36AM
@davestone Really? What are you doing there then? I used to live in Oxford. It rocks.7:43AM
@realrossnoble If you had a choice between "how", "why", "which" and "when", which would you choose and why? In what order. How?7:37AM
In my experience hilarity-asphyxiation on drugs is a LOT better than sex on drugs. Unfortunately you can't combine all three.7:35AM
There are transvestites on TV. One of the happiest nights of my life was in Revenge in Brighton, on e, persuading trannies to inhale helium7:25AM
@robertpopper That's you isn't it? In this http://tr.im/M6ma Funny, I always pictured you as a little old lady. I mean that in a nice way.7:21AM
Anyone who buys domains just to extort $ from people who actually want them deserves to have a fuck-off pie rammed into their face7:17AM
I mean what is that site actually for? It's basically a link-farm that doesn't link to anything. All the links are internal.7:15AM
Maybe the problem isn't IP scarcity, but that every last intelligible syllable is wasted by cunts, on shite like this http://www.money.co.nz7:01AM
My brother once described the movie biz to me: A shredder sitting on top of a toilet, which you feed $$$ into, faster than you possibly can6:54AM
Just caught a fleeting snatch of Ace of Spades by Motorhead - first time in at least 10 years. Fantastic. God I miss life.6:44AM
Raiders of Lost Arc 3 is on. Too much orchestra. You could make a completely different (and better) movie simply by having less notes in it6:37AM
@tomcoates At least with vox pops there's a chance I might get ambushed in the street and go into a massive, wild rant about something else.5:19AM
@tomcoates He's completely right about twitter not being a substitute for proper reporting though. It's embarrassing.Friday 2010-01-29
10:41PM
Dink dink donk, de dinkdy dink donk etc. Marvelous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWhV2l9QPxw10:30PM
@leashless re: India/Salvation of the Earth: I think this is why the auto industry is fucked. If it doesn't work for India, it doesn't work9:13PM
URL Typo of the day http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/29/small-rublisher-reca.html9:05PM
@CrowleysGhost Holy crap, no. Not the one I would have picked I don't think. The last note's good though :)12:22PM
Bad ISPs http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_ISPs10:37AM
Tony Blair's on live TV. I can't concentrate on anything he says, because the guy behind him looks like he's got a cool retro red-LED watch10:35AM
@robshepherd It's in case he says the 'F' word... and manages to drag it out for a whole minute10:34AM
I've got nightmarishly strong powers of anthropomorphism. It would be funny if it wasn't such a pain in the arse.10:33AM
This is how I feel about almost every inanimate object that surrounds me http://xkcd.com/695/ - why I have to keep chugging antidepressants10:24AM
@robshepherd Yea right. The Calculus of Risk vs The Binary of Belief.10:21AM
@AIannucci So in case no one else mentions it, I thought David Haig was an utter genius in TTOI3. Terrifying. I watch his bits over and over9:15AM
@yezzer actual punters are being given eye-candy or easy-ins for people still scared of computers. It's a passive market for BMV producers9:14AM
@yezzer came across BMV yesterday - Books Music Video. Apple's is moving into creating killer apps for old-economy producers8:34AM
iPads are so 28 Jan 2010. Next.3:34AM
Christ on a bike, this code isn't just badly written, it's stupidly written.12:24AM
Leaning against a tree, on a hill overlooking the lake. There are lotuses and swans and such. I'm on the internet. I have coffee. I am here.Thursday 2010-01-28
11:48PM
Hmmm... Chrome's Stealth-Mode is still highly trackable https://panopticlick.eff.org/11:21PM
Google's ipad thought to be "even bigger than Apple's" http://i.imgur.com/PtGZT.jpg
10:40PM
How to report the news http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR410:05AM
@LeifKendall LOL. It's a slippery slope my friend. Be careful. Shower caps are the worst. God those things fuck me up.10:04AM
@LeifKendall Yea, ACDC are one of those bands that manage to release the same record for the last 30 years, and get away with it.9:50AM
possibly worth bearing in mind that the makerbots http://www.makerbot.com/ are grossing over 0,000 a month.9:48AM
,000 prize for reprap with VERY demanding specs http://www.foresight.org/gadaprize.php9:45AM
ACDC played tonight in Wellington? Frightening old rock granddads. I absolutely cannot believe how many records those guys have sold.9:43AM
@pperrin fuck me, was I ever a fish out of water in that one. Not well-suited to the job I don't think. Not terribly well turned out.9:40AM
@pperrin Psion Organisers? My first job in the UK was training people in the NHS to use them back in about 878:35AM
@j4ngis Or maybe there is no past, only multiple possible heisenbergian futures collapsing into the present... and these are running out.8:33AM
@pperrin Don't you have to keep propping them up? Or do you have them flat on a table or something?6:56AM
@OpenActa Yea... the idea with viral stuff is other people repeat it... if you repeat it over and over then it kindof turns into spam.6:15AM
Pirates of the Caribbean is on later. I'll miss an hour of it, but it's ok because you can start anywhere and it makes about as much sense6:12AM
Negotiating someone else's battily over-engineered code. I promise you Proprietary Developers, you don't need a whole class to render images4:31AM
The escape of the lego virus : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/the-escape-of-the-lego-virus/2:54AM
@pperrin but we do often need to organise at this level. We need to connect bureaucrats with those they work for, not to scrap the whole org2:50AM
@pperrin Every large organisation I've ever worked in was a mess of struggling fiefdoms, insulated from the effects of their decisions.2:48AM
@pperrin re: bidding for taxpayer money: Yes, absolutely - and I'm sure the corruption is deeper and more insidious than that.1:56AM
Takes laptop apart. Puts it back together. Still goes. Still needs fixing - although I did manage to fix the coffee-on-mousepad problemWednesday 2010-01-27
11:52PM
@joshr Normal people are idiots11:05PM
@umairh Nah, the biggest meh is that it's a tethered app. It's the facebook/AOL of tablets.11:01PM
RT @EFF "The Case Against The iPad" http://eff.org/r.f93 < Yup, that is what I was saying yesterday. http://tr.im/LOTK10:47PM
Wakes up. Checks out what iPad etc. Oooh! An ergonomically catastrophic laptop only usable with one hand because the other's holding it up10:38PM
Banks : http://tr.im/LOKe it's not rocket science now is it.11:52AM
@pperrin The Big 6? 5? 4? accountancy firms rotate the same staff between them. Work 2 years an E&Y and you'll know people at KPMG etc11:49AM
@pperrin re: people of the same trade... Yea I know. I used to work on the market stalls. I used to work at E&Y. Game theory doesn't work.11:04AM
Hey I've got a better idea than just limiting the size of the banks! How about we start putting bankers in prison? http://tr.im/LKsf10:05AM
Holy crap ACDC are playing later... and 1/36 NZers have already bought tickets.9:42AM
@pperrin Idiocy isn't a matter of opinion. It's predictably, repeatedly flawed thinking that leads to predictably damaging results.9:38AM
@pperrin No it doesn't. Teabaggers are idiots. People who believe climate change is a conspiracy are idiots. Pro Iraq-war people were idiots9:27AM
@pperrin As I asked earlier, don't you think it's a bit odd that you that you come down on the side of morons, pretty much every time?9:26AM
@pperrin Deceived? What? Like with the Iraq war? Or the Exxon-funded science denial? Or the imaginary lefties on your back?8:05AM
@mrjudkins Really? Who are they?7:57AM
@mrjudkins They obviously feel guilty about something.7:51AM
Against The White Cliffs of NeoPalladium : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/against-the-white-cliffs-of-neopalladium/5:59AM
I think the Apple tablet should dispense with a screen - just be a shiny white oblong shape. The fanboys would still buy it.5:58AM
Advert people on TV. I don't know what they're doing but in real life, people just don't do that. Not even the fucked up ones3:24AM
@tomcoates Is the kraken wearing a dress?3:17AM
The only voices that matter in slave-states, are those of the slaves. Everyone else can fucking fuck the fuck off.3:16AM
The reprehensible debating the fucking repugnant http://tr.im/LIHq These people should not even be in the conversationTuesday 2010-01-26
11:09PM
Well regardless of what new product Apple is announcing tomorrow, I have my scathing review already written.10:11PM
Pope whipping self increases chances of sainthood http://tr.im/LHpH -actually he just got stuck in some sort of turning-the-other-cheek loop10:01PM
Relieved for some reason to see that Avatar has knocked Titanic off the top-spot. Even though I haven't seen either.10:07AM
@pperrin much as I might like you as a human being, politically you're a circus of fuckups.10:06AM
@pperrin "Evidence"? LOL - you're a (formerly) pro Iraq-war, climate change denier who wants to recreate US tea-bagging in the UK6:17AM
Tangling with Joomla at the mo. The whole thing seems to be based on patterns etc that I stopped using about 4 years ago.6:12AM
Deja Vu's on TV again. After Coronation Street, which is also on again.2:04AM
Mesh Wars : How to make Skynet : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/mesh-wars-how-to-make-skynet/12:12AM
@robshepherd Yea - Edge of Darkness was excellent - it's the reason I (still) say "Me? I'm on the side of the angels. Always have been"12:11AM
@pperrin mind you the previous Bn Ukip bod was about 1000 years old and kept going off on weird, irrelevant tangents so maybe you'd fit in.12:09AM
@pperrin @yezzer and another. Sad to say old boy, but you are the most politically inept person I've talked to outside America.12:05AM
Earn money by arresting Blair for war crimes http://www.arrestblair.org/Monday 2010-01-25
10:07PM
NZ school uses open-source. Instead of needing 48 servers, it uses 4 http://tr.im/LAt48:07AM
A big talk about ACTA http://tr.im/LvZ4 why it's wrong, and what to do about it. #ACTA3:53AM
MS Windows Tips: When booting up, I find it helps to have a book to read while you're waiting. Or use Linux2:43AM
Every Toshiba laptop costs about 0 more than the advertised price because of deliberately poor power-supply design.2:41AM
My ( Toshiba ) laptop now needs a massive lump of blutak on the back because for the 2nd time, the power plug has broken off the motherboardSunday 2010-01-24
10:23PM
LOL "Silver Tsunami" http://tr.im/LtvM9:49PM
@rapella Single Children more or less worshiped, like capricious, tyrannical little demi-gods.12:18AM
Possum crap all over the driveway. Like all the possums decided to have a "LOL lets all crap on Nick's driveway" party. Idiots.Saturday 2010-01-23
11:12PM
A tablet is basically a laptop that you can only use with one hand, because you need the other hand to hold it upright. Forever.11:09PM
Off to a baby's 1st birthday party today. Paying homage to the royal offspring. A gathering of tribes and elders.11:07PM
mysql counter http://www.barattalo.it/2010/01/21/mysql-add-counter-in-a-query/10:46PM
DRM droppage doubles sales http://tr.im/Ln5V10:43PM
Android meets Arduino http://www.amarino-toolkit.net - important open-source hardware building block.10:42PM
Ooh! Police use of spy drones announced http://tr.im/Ln3O concurrent to an evidence-free increase in the terror level http://tr.im/Ln3W11:14AM
RT???????????????10:44AM
Ahhh.. bless. I do find this incredibly funny for some reason http://tr.im/LjsW10:34AM
@j4ngis Wait until you're 60 before you decide on the value of your teenage poetry.10:32AM
@gleonhard Well... it took 10 years to go from the Summer of Love to the Sex Pistols. We're probably due for some Anti-Social Media.7:37AM
It was in a bar in Soho - Page 3 Stunna Linda Lusardi was there and kept trying to eye me up afterwards, which was a bit unsettling.7:34AM
The only time I've ever fallen off a barstool was face-forward... on top of someone else's barstool and we both went down.5:58AM
The Future. Backtracking http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/the-future-backtracking/2:15AM
This ACTA thing is looking more and more like a global, corporate coup d'état. http://tr.im/LhBC #ACTA @DavidLammyMP1:00AM
A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/a-tool-to-deceive-and-slaughter/ @alexfarran12:04AM
Laser destroying bombs http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/video-laser-hummer-blasts-50-bombs/12:02AM
File-Sharers are best customers - by a long way : http://tr.im/Lh9MFriday 2010-01-22
11:56PM
I want a donut but I can't be arsed getting out of bed. I'm so fucked.11:30PM
Well, you've got to hand it to oil sheiks. They do have colossally bad taste http://tr.im/Lh25 Look on my works, ye Mighty,1:44PM
@jemimakiss Before the earthquake you could buy child slaves in Haiti for about a go. Adoption is... well, who knows. Nothing new.1:43PM
Just had a very odd and disorientating phone conversation.12:38PM
@alexfarran in fact I think it's more than good... I think it's great. Although I wouldn't actually participate myself I don't think.12:31PM
@alexfarran Oh I don't know - I think that's pretty cool actually. It's really expensive performance art.9:10AM
Flowers in the Garden of the Teapot Cars http://bit.ly/8ok47H8:38AM
Nanotech robot arms http://bit.ly/4z4FWi8:36AM
How to make stuff out of polymorph. It's harder than it looks http://letsmakerobots.com/node/40706:51AM
Free Market fundamentalists on copright/patent reform. http://mises.org/daily/40186:22AM
Analogue Facebook http://nfgraphics.com/jjjolll/5:09AM
This accidentally answers to the deeply misguided nutjobs who think "The Market" is a substitute for democracy http://bit.ly/5I5xFG4:36AM
Looking at https://www.superfluid.biz - and alternative currency site.4:30AM
I went upstairs earlier, but forgot what I went there for. So I came back down again. So that's my excitement for the day2:42AM
A common reaction to seeing a porshe better than yours is hiding under a duvet in the foetal position for several days, refusing to come out2:40AM
The trouble with having a porshe is that you start to notice other porshes... and if they're better than your one, it really fucks you up.1:55AM
The American Pirate Party http://awe.sm/40PVx An opening shot at a manifesto. Not difficult is it.12:48AM
The paddle steamer just blew its whistle. Holy crap that thing's loud. No wonder old people are all a bit deaf. That and rock music etc.12:32AM
Down by the river, working on a deck-chair under a tree. Too hot to sit in the car these days... but the wind is interfering with my haircut12:13AM
Gay Black and White Minstrels on Acid http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jan/21/winterolympics2010-russiaThursday 2010-01-21
11:44PM
RIP Air America http://airamerica.com ironically their advertising was a microcosm of US fuckedupness, and to and outsider, mind boggling10:18PM
Led Zeppelin's management company website http://www.trinifold.co.uk/11:10AM
@pperrin enough. I'm through with this.11:10AM
@pperrin "drafted into a people's collective". Is that really real to you? Mind you,you supported the iraq war & are a climate change denier11:08AM
@pperrin No Paul, because your grip on reality is too embarrassingly tabloidesque.10:49AM
@pperrin LOL. "You've got lefties on your back". Sorry, this conversation and all similar others might be over.10:34AM
@pperrin were you also in favour of the Iraq war? I don't recall.10:32AM
@pperrin You might want to go away and find out what teabaggers, climate-change deniers, Ukip etc are actually like.10:24AM
IPredator anonymiser http://www.ipredator.se9:34AM
@pperrin Doesn't it bother you that you always come down on the side of the morons?6:09AM
@evgenymorozov It's slavery-lite by way of an array of "billable events", and a system too emasculated to perform its proper democratic role6:00AM
Holy crap - Amazon offering authors 70% royalties on kindle http://awe.sm/40DXI5:00AM
Got that fecking bee-bonnet song stuck in my head again.3:58AM
Smart-arse little birds playing guitar http://awe.sm/40CWC but they're not very good. I could probably play better than that. If I practiced3:55AM
url matcher \b(([\w-]+://?|www[.])[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/)))2:59AM
What is it? Thursday already? Chair-throwing day. All I can think about is coffee. I've given it up. Coffee coffee coffee.1:18AM
@pperrin What ultra-right-wing, racist, nationalist, undereducated fuckwits? I think you'll find that's the BNP Paul12:35AM
Killer Appy Flappy Things http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/killer-appy-flappy-things/ Go on, you know you want one.Wednesday 2010-01-20
10:40PM
Future City that looks like it was designed by Mussolini http://i.imgur.com/fMAts.jpg
9:40PM
The RIAA burns another student at the stake http://tr.im/L2Hp The law as terror weapon. It's not justice, it's theatre9:36PM
Avatar inspires the usual hate-filled fuckwits to hate even more http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/movies/20avatar.html9:20PM
The perils of Ownership-of-the-Root http://tr.im/L2BH - this is why phones as web devices HAVE to be open-source.10:54AM
And for those of you that miss that lovable Bush Jnr smirk... it's shock-doctrine time again. This time in Haiti http://tr.im/KZ0v7:21AM
Star Wars Fan : http://www.geekologie.com/2010/01/tie_fighter_helmet_with_free_p.php6:45AM
Extra ordinary girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQOvs08JWVc6:01AM
@rww the Chinese Premier's Internet-of-Things has (to me at least) this unsettling vibe of insane control freakery.5:56AM
@librarykris I get that occasionally - well... 3 times in my life. It's quite commonTuesday 2010-01-19
11:24PM
This haircut has the weight of the world on its shoulders.11:23PM
Mum has got me some new shampoo. Garnier Fructus... for lifeless, drab, depressed and slightly paranoid hair.11:46AM
@pperrin but the EU (so far) makes better decisions because it's not beholden to The Mail/Murdoch... which is why they're anti-EU.11:44AM
@pperrin I don't have any more choice under either the EU or UK govts - as far as I'm concerned both are vaguely unaccountable.10:00AM
@andybudd Sometimes. I went back to work at a university 10 years after I graduated, and the BSc Comp-Sci curriculum was basically the same9:58AM
Home again. All the solar fairy lights awaiting. The last bit of my fish&chip fish for Catsby. All is well.Monday 2010-01-18
9:38PM
Woo hoo! Just sold another one of my calipers. I really must get my act together and be a bit more salesy etc.10:37AM
@leashless Yea, really we shouldn't be sending Haiti aid, we should be sending reparations.10:22AM
At least these days they match the cushions10:21AM
Kajagoogoo today http://www.backstage.eu/presse_files/54/kajagoogoo1.jpg
10:17AM
@euzie @yezzer (on the quiet) think I know just the geezers you're looking for http://bit.ly/6v5nr510:05AM
Crowd-sourced art selection http://www.redbubble.com/art/popular9:46AM
@pperrin LOL - yea. It's simply too dangerous to even let staff into an airport these days.9:13AM
This was the whole of 2009 http://i.imgur.com/D1N9m.png If I do anything this year, it's got to be... something else.
9:07AM
Obama http://tr.im/KK8M yea, that would be about right - apart from terrorism. You can't nutterproof the world.8:18AM
Absofuckinglootely ridiculous http://tr.im/KJWD Due-Process as punishment, for what? Police frustration? Theatre? Internal politics?8:05AM
Chiphacker http://chiphacker.com/8:04AM
Sacha tells me that in real life he's lovely.8:03AM
Andy Serkis is on TV. Weird raw talent. The guy's a god. A small scary, maniacal god.12:22AM
@RaOsolage if we cling to our current set of desires/expectations - which were (btw) leaving about 1/3 of us with clinical depression anyway12:06AM
Anyway, we saw our first actual working reprap before, as made by Vic Oliver, who is one of the god's of reprap.Sunday 2010-01-17
11:58PM
In the clear now though. Down the caf. Everyone here is about 4 out of 10 on the annoyingness scale11:57PM
On top of that, there's been a fuckup-spiral - that usually happen as a perfect storm of maxed cards and hardware failure.11:56PM
At a conference of some sort. The organisers had no record of my registration or existence,so I've had to lie and cheat my way to legitimacy10:35AM
The mad thing about this http://tr.im/KE1J is that the time between this photo, and punk, was only about 20 years.6:54AM
@pperrin ie: it's typical Telegraph/Daily Mail level spin. Deliberately misleading.6:51AM
@pperrin It's tosh cause a) you're trying to pin a worldwide trend on the EU and b) you're ignoring fact that improved safety might be good5:47AM
Not the flashy-haired chicks, the other ones. I quite liked the flashy-haired chicks. They had flashy hair.5:44AM
Still, they're not as irritating as the people back in the burger place, Jesus H Christ on a bike. Imagine being stuck in a car with them!?!5:42AM
Sitting in the car, in a carpark. The tide is out, and out on the mudflats, seagulls are standing about like bozos. No idea. No idea at all.5:11AM
In a gourmet hamburger place somewhere in NZ. There are chewing-gum chewing chicks with suntans and flashy hair.Saturday 2010-01-16
10:58PM
ATM skimmers http://twitpic.com/4pkmj http://twitpic.com/4pkmn http://twitpic.com/4pkn3 http://twitpic.com/4pknu http://twitpic.com/4pko110:44PM
"Don't use Internet Explorer" : German Government http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8463516.stm10:13PM
@josephflaherty Good to have you back :)10:10PM
@CaseyContrarian Do you do vinyl? Not that I have a turntable mind :) I just happen to like vinyl.12:48PM
Log cabin http://www.homeqn.com/entry/amazing-tree-trunk-garden-house/12:48PM
Spirally Pictures http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/most-amazing-mindbending11:43AM
4 minuter senare http://tr.im/Kz3g why is it with "prank" humour, there's always some guy with an insincere sounding high-pitched laugh?10:16AM
@CaseyContrarian Erm... if you like - I haven't done discs in a while though. You on last.fm?10:14AM
@pperrin More desperate anti-EU tosh. I think you'll find that cars globally, are heavier due to improved safety standards, and fashion10:08AM
@davidschneider I imagine it's either dandruff or cocaine. Or both. Cocaine cut with dandruff. I hear some people prefer it that way.3:40AM
Fictional Objects : Tin Cats, Politics and Story http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/fictional-objects/2:18AM
Yes, well I thought so too http://grimreviews.blogspot.com/2010/01/casey-rae-hunters-eldritch-musicks.html @CaseyContrarian2:17AM
Space Navigator : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/space-navigator/Friday 2010-01-15
12:47AM
Loads of smoke coming out the chimney of the paddle steamer today. Loads of old duffers everywhere. And ducks. Ducks and old duffers.Thursday 2010-01-14
11:43PM
Catsby's a good cat. He's like a small furry alarm clock that tells you when to get out of bed - generally around noon.11:47AM
@BrianLimond Scarves are one of the greatest heat-conserving inventions ever invented.11:24AM
Billion Quidogram http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-billion-pound-o-gram/10:46AM
Gary McKinnon extradition unlawful http://tr.im/KmzR not to mention pathetically weak and cowardly.8:56AM
Ooh neato! - that one with Tom Hanks where he goes mad and talks to a coconut is on.6:35AM
It's been bugging me for a while... "Haiti was already a disaster" http://awe.sm/37EKJ Sorry, did the earthquake wake you up?6:27AM
Carved Baseball bats and pencils and so on http://thejailbreak.com/2010/01/12/carved-bats-and-pencils-by-artist-peter-schuyff/5:50AM
Link Latte etc. The State of The World http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/link-latte-7/Wednesday 2010-01-13
11:46PM
Sitting in the car by the river. Illegally parked etc - I always have lived the life of a rebel.11:00PM
I think these are closer to the truth than gushing predictions about "products" http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/trends-20108:56PM
@LeifKendall Good luck with Ubuntu. Works like a dream for me, ie: about 5 things are still not quite right, but it's better than XP/Vista12:15PM
@pperrin and besides, the last time I looked it was Mandleson - who wasn't actually voted for by anyone.12:13PM
@pperrin The people within the EU, yes. Trying to spin that into dismantling the whole EU would be kowtowing to some crackpot Ukip fantasy11:11AM
@MaryJaneAnsell Well yea... obviously both codeine and caffeine are gateway drugs... but I'm going out through the in door, so that's ok.10:44AM
More on ACTA http://bit.ly/58x637 - regardless of what it says, we need to get rid of the people who'd do secret treaties behind our backs10:30AM
I think I've found the perfect solution for caffeine withdrawal : CODEINE!! Brilliant! Is there any problem that science can't solve?8:04AM
Cold-Turkeying off caffeine gives me a) bad headaches, b) the overwhelming desire to eat nachos, pretty much all the time. Weird.1:43AM
Mars : http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007962_263512:24AM
@pperrin presumably your belief that the EU is undemocratic is tempered slightly by your trying to run as an MEP? Or was that someone else?12:22AM
@pperrin What? You're honestly saying, in public, that there's no evidence for climate change?Tuesday 2010-01-12
11:34PM
Holy crap. The Chinese SS? or someone? Attacks Google. Google responds by de-censoring its results http://tr.im/KdK711:25PM
Why don't monkeys evolve into people any more? Hmm? Further proof that evolution doesn't exist.11:10PM
@andybudd I thought it was an English tradition to sneak out at night and leave your tree outside your neighbour's place?11:01PM
Day 1 of caffeine withdrawal. Back here again. I feel utterly horrendous. 3 days of headaches and terribility to go.11:33AM
Anopticon : http://www.tramaci.org/anopticon/ - Italians hitting back at surveillance11:30AM
This is what bugs me about Euro-skepticsm: how often the EU protects us from our own govt http://tr.im/K9sW10:19AM
Tiny Terrariums etc : http://tr.im/K9d39:40AM
Australians are on TV because it's 37 degrees at midnight in Melbourne. Holy crap.9:14AM
@pperrin "skeptic" means climbing over a mountain of evidence to find a pea of highly dubious opinion on the other side.5:44AM
There's a bowls row going on in NZ at the mo. Rumours. Accusations. What they don't seem to understand is NOBODY GIVES A FLYING FUCK2:35AM
Link Latte : random randomnity from randomland : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/link-latte-6/1:27AM
@pperrin You're a climate change denier aren't you Paul.Monday 2010-01-11
11:33PM
Neighbour just brought some pizza over. Small town New Zealand. Marvelous.11:25PM
Drinking my last coffee again. This stuff is seriously messing me about. 3 days of bed-riddenness loom. Joy.11:14PM
@corcoran LOL11:08PM
@corcoran Yea - new "social" technologies are always fair-game for light-hearted-romantic-comedies or horror movies.11:06PM
I'm the tiredest person in the whole house, apart from the cat, who's asleep - so that doesn't really count.1:22PM
@imogenheap It would be even more unnerving if he was laughing with a drill in his mouth. Brrr...10:30AM
@robshepherd Not sure - I think there's a chain called Heisenburgers up in Estonia though. Will check next time I'm up there.9:53AM
@robshepherd One of my fave concepts: Heisenburgers - hamburgers where you don't know what's in them until you've tried them.9:49AM
@robshepherd I just made that up then. Rather good etc :)9:45AM
@robshepherd As in Knock Knock... Who's there? Either Schrodinger or Heisenberg etc5:10AM
The NZ TV News craftily managing (again) to slip in a sports story, in the "news" part of the news... before getting on to the Sports part4:32AM
Had to go rushing out to stop dad from pruning the tree. Everything is happy the way it is. Just leave well alone etc.4:22AM
While I remember, Clare Curran is the NZ patron saint of The Internet http://bit.ly/8fzqzE12:19AM
@Swiggs On the Net. I'm sitting in the car, next to the Wanganui River, drinking coffee and procrastinating/contemplating the infinite.12:16AM
@marie_clair Mine charges bugger-all... and we sit around and chatter about things etc. Totally unlike England where you get ~30 seconds12:13AM
@Swiggs That's what I did last year. Not sure what I'm doing this year... something to do with Not. Spending. All. Day. On. The. InternetSunday 2010-01-10
10:27PM
@BrianLimond B' b' b' but... w' w' what about the instant gratification?10:25PM
Objectification of Women http://bit.ly/778SE2 Christ on a bike - photo number 3 is going to give me nightmares forever.10:17PM
@marie_clair You need to get a proper small-town/country doctor. Find one out near where the aeroplane lives.10:13PM
@BrianLimond So how are you going to get your shows out to your non-UK peeps then? The World is waiting etc.10:12PM
Woke up in the morning this morning. Turning over a new leaf innit.5:21AM
Talking to cleverbot http://www.cleverbot.com/3:44AM
Cat Bowl : http://i.imgur.com/jWqTN.jpg
2:28AM
@Swiggs What? and you wound up back where you started?2:26AM
I wrote a thing about DIY sex-toys a while back : http://www.genomicon.com/2009/08/home-made-sex-toys/ @ davestone2:18AM
@librarykris Shit Birds. They're the worst kind. I get those.2:10AM
@pperrin and this should be applied retrospectively to all laws. This would focus us on evidence and results rather than dubious morality2:09AM
@pperrin I think all laws should have a measurable set of goals, and a TTL - if they don't achieve the goals by the TTL, they're scrapped2:08AM
Nice bit of CGI http://gammasquad.uproxx.com/2010/01/this-is-cgi-all-of-this No explosions or spaceships thoughSaturday 2010-01-09
10:12PM
@stilgherrian Check out movies by decade http://awe.sm/35KXW - hollywood has basically become a fan-fic machine.12:31PM
The key to a long and happy life is to leave surprise hoards of mellowpuffs about the place, forget they were there, then find them again10:21AM
@imogenheap Hello Imogen9:42AM
@davidschneider Yea, but nobody was as cool as this guy http://awe.sm/35GCQ This guy had class coming out of his ass
8:47AM
My niece Lupita, learning to crawl etc http://www.weirdsky.com/miscImages/lupita4.jpg
8:27AM
@yezzer I still can't quite get whether or not the producers knew it was a satire. It treads a really fine line.8:25AM
Yea? my prediction is that the auto-industry will be sidelined by people not stuck with auto-industry thinking http://awe.sm/35FPR8:17AM
Starship Troopers is on. Is that a good film? Hard to say... but this is at least the 4th time I've seen it.8:14AM
@robyngallagher Oh no, they were real.7:41AM
So tired I can hardly believe it. I've spent the last 2 days with tiny peeps climbing all over me, reading me stories about fairies and such7:39AM
Der Blackbord broke der soilance, and she whistled it so sweet...6:58AM
Back home. To shattered to work though. Tomorrow. Tomorrow.Friday 2010-01-08
10:57PM
@SimonHume I think I'd tend to go for something like this : http://www.made-in-china.com/image/2f0j00bvNEFszLbQuVM/Gramophone-FG-318-.jpg
10:51PM
@BrianLimond LOL... HELP!!! I NEED SOME ONE!!! HELP!! NOT JUST ANYONE!!!!10:48PM
@BrianLimond Once I was afraid... I was petrified...10:38PM
I think I'd rather have a cavity scan than be violated by trembling Alien digits that light up in the dark etc. http://awe.sm/35CHD10:35PM
Still in Taradale, sitting out on the veranda with my traditional 2 large lattes, which is what it takes to get me going. WD40 for the soul9:49PM
@yezzer Does it have a mouse and a keyboard? It might not be a TV.9:39AM
He broke a glass earlier. I like Owen.9:39AM
My mate Owen was just telling me how he got a kite stuck up in a tree.4:20AM
What is that? 600 years old now? http://awe.sm/34UPU I would have thought by now it would be public domain. Sheesh. Copyright wingnuts eh?3:22AM
@amandatreeuk My... so it is. I really ought to get my act together and CC all of our stuff. Been meaning to for ages.12:30AM
In Taradale at the mo. You chaps in England won't have heard of Taradale. It's near Napier.Thursday 2010-01-07
12:24AM
@ardrone So what is its range? ie: how far away can you be to control it?Wednesday 2010-01-06
2:07PM
fuckup-free booze http://awe.sm/34BUG almost on a par with curing cancer or something.2:00PM
Cat video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm3dm5J5r0A what the internet is for etc.1:57PM
@pperrin I found it quite interesting - it's more to do with resilience than accountancy though :)1:24PM
@pperrin Ermm... what are you talking about?1:20PM
@alexfarran Wow - nice view. There was a big battle near there once wasn't there?1:18PM
"of little practical use" LOL - pi calculated to 2.7 trillion digits http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/06/very_long_pi/1:15PM
@pperrin after you've read that, you should read this : http://awe.sm/34BNN If you fancy a change from ukippery etc10:35AM
Someone had to say it - it was a bit of graffiti on the side of Finsbury Park Cinema... for like, 30 years.10:33AM
Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead.9:44AM
Androidal Drongolianism : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/androidal-drongolianism/8:58AM
@yezzer apparently the gulf stream stopped completely for 12 days a couple of years back. Fairly scary TBH8:48AM
It's made out of special paper which allows it to flap etc http://bit.ly/4AFSmW8:47AM
A giant picture of some sort of wizard, who has made a tiny little bird http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/+2009/ziaie-ferro.jpg
4:47AM
@BrookeAlley And a very happy Blah Blah Blah to you, Good Sir. A very happy Blah Blah Blah to you.4:46AM
Back in windows-land. I don't come here often any more. 2009 was the year I moved to Linux.2:47AM
The Dawn of the Microcopters : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/the-dawn-of-the-microcopters/ @ardrone1:12AM
Coffee's gone cold. Day ruined. Bah.1:07AM
@SimonHume Open systems open the door for killer apps like... um... Skype? Kazaa? + using the phone as a brain for other machines12:27AM
@SimonHume Or Mac vs PC. The main difference is Platform vs Control-System though - and iPhone is a control system. It's AOL.12:02AM
@gnutel0 the 360 thing is someone experimenting with really low-cost 360 filmTuesday 2010-01-05
2:44PM
@alexqgb The wow part is that he shot it with this http://hackaday.com/2010/01/04/360-degree-video-for-next-to-nothing/2:28PM
Yea well, whatever, never mind : http://mashable.com/2010/01/04/nirvana-lady-gaga-epic-mashup-video/12:07PM
@zenbullets With the best hats.10:51AM
360 degree video - you can drag it about etc http://www.luislopeznavarro.es/donut1500_1500mbps/index.html10:16AM
@OneLuvGurl Probably not too far from the truth - but instead of disappearing into nothing, it's actually disappearing into everything.9:50AM
@stilgherrian For every new thing you discover, you forget something without realising it.9:38AM
tr.im appears to be getting worse... about one click in 59:35AM
LOL http://tr.im/JtOY I'm so going constantly apply with my huge supply of photies of me looking like this http://tr.im/JtP19:24AM
@olleolleolle My local intermediate (11-12 yr olds) school has robotics classes. When I was there we were forced to do ballroom dancing.8:26AM
Oh great - it's that one where Tom Cruise shouts at his kids for two hours, and in the background, aliens attack the earth.6:23AM
The folks have gone off to a party. They're always going to parties. I never go to parties. No on invites me. BASTARDS!!!5:18AM
@kalena Isaac Newton invented the catflap2:54AM
Lego Worries : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/lego-worries/1:31AM
@Schnicker copyright notices are so 20091:30AM
@svs I don't get tablets at all. You'd have to be constantly propping them up against things... using them flat on a table is a neck-killer12:22AM
Actually, that's quite disturbing : http://shechive.com/2009/11/18/what-if-japanese-cartoons/Monday 2010-01-04
2:08PM
In my most humble of opinions, all power is illegitimate and must justify itself; any power that censors immediately voids any justification2:00PM
6 ways people will bypass 3 strikes http://tr.im/Jpdt but the point is the 'moral right' of govts/corporations to control information.1:43PM
@BrianLimond 6 - 4 laptop LEDs, 2 solar-garden LEDs. The solar lights go all night, oddly enough. Sleep during the day. Sigh.1:36PM
@davidschneider two flaccid carrots at the bottom of the fridge?1:15PM
@leashless That is fairly surprising actually. Are there any pigeons frozen in mid-flight visible beneath the surface?12:36PM
Furry Freak Brothers : http://www.aintitcool.com/pics/fffbb.jpg
12:11PM
Does anyone know whether parrots that swear a lot are worth more than the ones that constantly prattle on about crackers and such?11:42AM
Another govt with zero moral legitimacy : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34633201/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/11:16AM
http://petition.stopsoftwarepatents.eu/ < It's totally farcical IP hassles that are holding up HTML510:04AM
@olleolleolle - and if you see it, check out the violin sound in the explosion bit... far feckin out. I wish I could do that.10:02AM
@olleolleolle Dawn of a franchise I'd say. It's like a Victorian James Bond crossed with Withnail and I. Robert Downey Jr is perfect for it10:00AM
Ok - tomorrow. The New Year officially starts tomorrow. Tomorrow it is then.9:57AM
We just saw that Sherlock Holmes. Excellent :)3:37AM
Stupid Cunt : http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010/01/03/bono-internet.html12:21AM
Hiding downstairs because there are people etc. They're nice people, but I'm still hiding. So is Catsby. It's safe down here.Sunday 2010-01-03
9:01AM
The Future? Bollocks : http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/the-future-bollocks/5:58AM
@robyngallagher couldn't you just use a non-commercial CC licence? That way you could at least complain if they're advert-bait sites.5:36AM
@robyngallagher Really? I wonder if anyone's used any of mine. I shouldn't have thought so.5:35AM
Dom and Sacha and co have arrived. They're baby-feeding the baby with baby-food, and it's quite noisy so I'm hiding downstairs.4:34AM
@robyngallagher You probably just need to take more photos of tramps and drug-addicts and such.4:33AM
@robyngallagher So what sort of photos do they use? Happy healthy people dressed in white shorts, playing on a beach with a dog?4:10AM
@robyngallagher How do you know they're being used on awful blogs? Do they tell you?2:58AM
@robyngallagher I never stopped. I'm basically wearing the same clothes now that I was 15 years ago. Only the molecules have changed.2:49AM
@robyngallagher I'm not sure that I'd even recognise 90s nostalgia - or that I'm not basically exactly the same now as I was then.2:47AM
@inkblotsart Could you email me with details / site locations etc? Contact details here : http://www.tangerineworks.com/2:43AM
@inkblotsart Yea, wassup?2:38AM
And really really sick of all the tumbling, gushing, breathless enthusiasm that always seems to wind up with "registering for something"2:33AM
But then I'm sick of Connecting!, sick of Engaging! sick of your fucking "Brand!", sick of "the market!", sick of fucking exclamation marks.2:28AM
I found 2010's "hottest contenders" to be a bit boring TBH http://bit.ly/5ePAWE1:32AM
Catsby is having a day of rest, on account of it being Sunday etc.12:39AM
@joshr re: China and Minerals - I touched on that in my confused 201n predictions http://tr.im/JgZL China is playing The Long Game12:27AM
@paulsilver Ah - the nature of hospitals: Eventually the illness that keeps you there gets displaced by how insane the place makes you feelSaturday 2010-01-02
6:57AM
Joanna Lumley's on TV. Her actual personality seems more "put on" than her Absolutely Fabulous character.6:51AM
A-Mazing Paper Art http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/100-extraordinary-examples-of-paper-art/6:46AM
@paulcarr You need a 'to' between 'pretend' and 'give'6:23AM
The Best of Country Calender is on TV. Only Kiwis will know what that means... and weirdly, will go all misty-eyed and nostalgic etc.5:01AM
Top conversation about Michael Jackson going on over here : http://twitter.com/LaurensDress4:55AM
@paulcarr Yea, me too. I'm probably creating quite a lot of "success metrics" for friendfeed without actually participating.3:27AM
Mmm... Apricots from the farmer's market. They don't look 100%... but they're the best tasting apricots ever.2:54AM
This is what the internet is for LOL http://i.imgur.com/G2Kcm.jpg
2:33AM
Wearing my Christmas shirt. And my Christmas underpants as it happens, not that that's any business of yours. Origins of trousers unknown.1:13AM
@corcoran Yer mixing yer classical allusions there mate.1:12AM
@amandatreeuk Happy New Year. All is well in Kiwi land, although it is 2pm and I haven't got up yet.1:12AM
@josephflaherty Looks like some sort of floral octopus with an elvis wig.Friday 2010-01-01
2:24PM
@rapella Well Tony Blair used to play guitar - maybe they could form some sort of folk duo. http://icnhz.com/musick2:02PM
Lopsided glasses are funny in any language : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5iKrrhgIs01:52PM
Hmm... that's odd. I appear to have just read "The Stranger" by mistake. God I wish I was an art student.1:48PM
@nickwilsdon Wow! Congrats!12:14PM
@eisokant Happy New Year :)12:09PM
1am... that can only mean one thing. Jam sandwiches.11:55AM
Well in addition to all the other wrong predictions I'm inclined to make, I'd say it's also time for a fairly serious social media backlash.10:03AM
Blimey, these Kinder Egg surprises are well weird.7:47AM
#in2010 I'm going to turn my life around, 360 degrees.5:36AM
Marijuana Economics : http://fora.tv/2009/07/30/Marijuana_Economics3:49AM
@samfarrow With guile and deceit.3:49AM
The trouble with salad is that it's chaotic and confusing. There's too much information in it. I have to separate it out, which is a hassle3:31AM
@Shadowfoot Really? To me Firefly's like The Wire... whenever I see one of the actors somewhere else, they seem like they're... acting3:09AM
@Shadowfoot Firefly rocks. If Joss wanted to make another series, the fans would raise the money, up front, in a matter of hours.2:56AM
@lisarein @JPBarlow the cautionary history you ought to be looking at isn't the 00s, but the 10s from the last century.2:34AM
Although you could still make 2010 glasses with the 1 being where your nose is... like a Greek helmet etc.2:21AM
@rapella Niet Problemo.1:43AM
@rapella Merci Bien :)12:41AM
@LeifKendall Happy New Year - no worries. I've had a wildly divergent mixture of feedback from others. But remain steadfastly unpublished :)12:39AM
#10yearsago I was partying like it was 1999 - escaping by the skin of my teeth from a HOARD of street cocaine dealers in Madrid at 3am.12:32AM
RT @larspind Headline of the Year > Cops: Man Kills Dog, Streaks, Pours Coffee on Head http://bit.ly/8Fek1L12:29AM
Sunny and windy in NZ again. My folks got up at 5am to walk on the beach as the sun comes up. I stayed in bed to avoid that sort of thing12:28AM
Happy New Year everyone. It must have happened everywhere by now.12:26AM
My only prediction for 2010 http://tr.im/J6QF - and my main resolution is to fight this tooth and nail.December 2009
Thursday 2009-12-31
1:16PM
@RaOsolage Cheers - you too. It's been good so far :)1:11PM
RT OneLuvGurl Dramatic Chipmunk Breaks Out (Video) http://awe.sm/32FRV LOL1:08PM
@jon_hirsch Happy New Year Mr H.1:07PM
@RaOsolage Yup - has been for a couple of hours. Really bright moon at the moment as well.12:08PM
@davidschneider It's quite dark. Mind you, it was dark at a similar hour yesterday so maybe it's ok. It'll be crap if it stays like this tho11:57AM
@davidschneider Too late Mate. If it was going to fail, it would have failed here in NZ already... this being 2010 now. Everything's fine.11:33AM
@robsog Of course in my day we had to make our own poetic license chips... which we would crumble up and smoke.11:15AM
@robsog I have a poetic license expansion chip.11:11AM
@robsog Only if you're some sort of droid etc. I'm jacked into a more human set of matrices.11:10AM
Woohoo!!! MELLOWPUFFS!!!! that's the best thing to happen to me all year.11:00AM
Happy New Year People.11:00AM
Thus endeth the first decade of...9:30AM
Gladiator's on. Russel Crowe looks quite a lot like my brother as it happens. A bit fightier maybe.8:59AM
A load of vague predictions etc : http://www.genomicon.com/2009/12/2010-predictions-and-such/6:38AM
This is the last year that you'll be able to make sunglasses out of the year for like, 990 years.4:47AM
Oh right - that homemade UAV does have its own weapons http://hackaday.com/2009/12/30/uav-reigns-down-vengeance-upon-thee1:18AM
Today is New Year's Eve in NZ, and I am going to remain icily sober, clear-of-eye and steady-of-hand. That's me. Reformed character.1:16AM
Ooh! Hollow Spy Coins! http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/b308/Wednesday 2009-12-30
12:35PM
Interesting thing about Blackwater : http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12150269011:44AM
@OneLuvGurl Nope. Cup of tea etc.11:39AM
@OneLuvGurl Just because there's nothing on TV doesn't mean you go ramming all and sundry up your arse. What is it with you people?11:31AM
@OneLuvGurl Yea well. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.11:26AM
@OneLuvGurl I can't believe you said that. Anyway, I don't have time for all that sort of thing and I'd rather have cup of tea.11:22AM
@OneLuvGurl Nothing much on TV etc.11:21AM
@OneLuvGurl boredom11:13AM
@robyngallagher s'orrible. I feel physically sick.11:10AM
I know you probably weren't... but if you were... thinking of sticking vaseline up your nose, don't. It makes you feel like crap. Instantly.9:10AM
Inside Man is on. The music is a bit like the music from The 9th Gate. Which is excellent.6:33AM
Feel a bit weird at the mo. A sudden urge to hit the highway like a battering-ram on a silver Black-Phantom bike.4:35AM
@davidschneider Isn't that from a Clockwork Orange "dooby doo... bedwards is bestwards for now" etc. Something like that. If memory serves.4:31AM
Pandemonium at the Taylor household. Mum mistook a beetroot for a rat... which is reasonable enough I suppose.4:13AM
@josephflaherty Sure - but it's not the same as Israel / Gaza. The chain of cause and effect is too thin for any moral bearing.2:44AM
@josephflaherty Yea, except this is the 21st Century, not the 19th, so that isn't the context that Shaikh or the Chinese were operating in2:17AM
Ludicrous amount of fannying about to do today. Loo di criss.12:53AM
@robyngallagher something to do with reprints I suspect. Not that I know mind.12:41AM
Move your money : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icqrx0OimSs12:24AM
@yezzer What's the matter? You're not drunk are you?Tuesday 2009-12-29
11:47AM
That last message was using oauth, which I've now figured out etc. Another string to my bow. Time to get a new bow though.11:08AM
Flying Rabbit, Hidden Turkey is on. Baffling8:06AM
@KaiserKuo Yus - need to be careful with dichotomies though. And the establishment of "moral authority", however reasonable it may seem.7:43AM
Haven't seen Avatar yet - the 2D and a 3D version on - I'm waiting for the 1D version. Just a dot on the screen, like old TVs used to have6:38AM
@KaiserKuo Because the presumption that "the state" has the authority to make that decision on people's behalf is dangerous and repugnant?4:28AM
@josephflaherty I think we need to stop killing people before more people die.4:23AM
@josephflaherty Mind you, that said, I've never met an Egyptian who didn't have a brilliant sense of humour either :)4:21AM
@josephflaherty and it's quite hard to hate people who have a brilliant sense of humour, are good musicians, like a drink etc.4:19AM
@josephflaherty But the Irish in the England were a very integrated population, and had been for a long time. The IRA were kindof seperate4:17AM
@josephflaherty My experience was late 80s onwards... my Irish friends were treated no differently to anyone else as far as I'm aware.4:09AM
@josephflaherty Maggie Thatcher's response to actually being blown up was "crime is crime is crime" - she refused to dignify them etc.4:09AM
@josephflaherty I was there in London when IRA bombs were going off and we were (like) "Oh really? Wow", then we'd just go on as usual3:59AM
Holy crap, I'm shaking so badly I can only drink coffee left-handed. And I'm not a left-handed coffee-drinker.1:27AM
@borelcorp Owls are great.12:32AM
Ooh a Man-Band http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sgdwE6diDQ12:19AM
@fdousek We also need some sort of set up where things are de-centralised at a physical level - to bypass the telcos.12:18AM
@fdousek At the moment it's centralised - twitter is centralised, and we badly need it not to be. We need a napster style p2p version of it.Monday 2009-12-28
2:17PM
@robertpopper Is that you? Yes it is. That's you. That's you wearing a disguise and being weird in the mirror.1:39PM
Apparently http://www.tunecore.com gets 200-300 new tracks a day. That's more per month than all the old-media majors + indies per year12:18PM
As a disgraced former musician, I'd just like to say fuck the music industry. It doesn't have a god given right to exist http://tr.im/IOjj11:18AM
Once upon a time, there were 3 bears. Bear #1, Bear #2 and Bear #3. And they lived happily ever after. The End.9:51AM
Arse. Left bedroom door open and now about 10 million flying insectoids have come in.9:36AM
American Psycho is on. Dad walks past and says "ooh, that's good music".8:22AM
Good Morning @SadekHM5:55AM
@KaiserKuo China is uptight about porn because it provides a moral excuse for top-down control, which is otherwise... immoral2:29AM
That's the thing about The Evil - their work-ethic. - Glenn Cullen2:18AM
@rapella The trouble with being a saint is that it often involves martyrdom... and like, fuck that.2:12AM
@rapella I expect I'll be a monk forever now. It's my calling. I am actually related to a saint funnily enough. Sounds like a hassle though1:54AM
Bloody hot in NZ at the mo.1:44AM
@lordtrilink easy tiger1:29AM
Slightly gobsmacked at the rate that @billmaher 's Panic Nation message is being retweeted at - like 2 a second.1:24AM
Fungible. Not my favourite word. Syphilis probably is. Or Sisyphean.12:52AM
@MichaelPhipps but if you want to make money out of it, it might be better to create little "tourist drones" flyable over the web12:50AM
@MichaelPhipps It's basically a 1st person shooter escaping from its xbox.12:48AM
@MichaelPhipps I think live amo would be fine - other than stray bullets flying about. Basically 1st person airbourne robot-wars.12:44AM
@MichaelPhipps because people really love war, but they hate death and suffering. Give them a proxy and they'll pay to do it for fun.12:43AM
@MichaelPhipps How long until they (aka we) start hiring out little planes so everyone can fly their own. AND SHOOT AT EACH OTHER.12:42AM
@j4ngis re: pics - I'm gradually deteriorating. It's incredibly rare now for a photo to be taken where I don't look sick or insane.12:33AM
1st person POV RC planes. WITH FIREWORKS. This is so cool I can hardly stand it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh10v52DBLMSunday 2009-12-27
2:17PM
Einstein said that The Universe and Stupidity are both infinite - which is (in my experience) bollocks - stupidity is basically a loop12:12PM
@redeye for making catches for little cases for my Golden Mean Calipers - something a bit posh so I can flog them to shops etc.12:10PM
While I remember - David Haig in The Thick Of It Season 3, is utterly fucking brilliant. A great nemesis/match for Malcolm Tucker10:58AM
New Year's Resolutions: do some coding; go to shops; write that thing; just sort of do stuff generally; buy some magnets off ebay etc10:27AM
Kabul mid 60s / now : http://tr.im/IJoi - what decades of war and religious nutterdom will do for you. Mostly war though.9:32AM
Raining like a monsoon right now. Doesn't look as pretty as snow... but sounds prettier.9:18AM
@OneLuvGurl Going Nuts With CSS Transitions < That's Natbat. She gave me some asprins once and saved me from dying. In Denmark9:05AM
Confetti is on. It's like a supergroup of Bafta winning UK comedians.8:23AM
I feel like inventing something. But what? Fire? done. Wheels? done. Pointed sticks/wooden clubs etc done. Bah. Everything's been invented.6:16AM
The folks are upstairs watching Oliver Twist. I'm downstairs, not watching Oliver Twist. A bit Dickensian for my tastes etc.3:21AM
@rands It must remain distinct from the dream. Art I mean. If it's to wake us up. According to @rushkoff anyway, and I'm inclined to agree2:04AM
Link Latte etc - http://www.genomicon.com/2009/12/link-latte-5/ it's about stuff.12:07AM
Sitting here with a paper clip on nose again. It passes the time.Saturday 2009-12-26
11:35PM
As far as I can see, terrorist attacks instantly turn into an excuse for govts to collectively punish their own populations.10:37PM
@amandatreeuk Merry Chrimble - been ok. Got a bit trousered several days before so the whole period is dogged by paranoia and weirdness.1:58PM
@alexqgb Brilliant film. Another finger-loss film though. I find those distressing. U-Turn was good as well.12:42PM
@j4ngis Careful what you wish for :)12:29PM
@j4ngis and to be honest, there's a lot of natural momentum on our side. This is the way things are going etc.12:28PM
@j4ngis You and me. Nothing else has any meaning. It's got to be us. We're still figuring it out... but the will is there - and that's a lot12:21PM
@j4ngis only suggest radical restructuring of the way debt is handled,and land-reform. Alternative value-exchange mechs will prob happen tho12:19PM
@j4ngis I mean currency / labour / resource-management systems. I can't think of a value (rather than debt) based system... so I can <snip>12:17PM
@j4ngis In the end, everything is going to be solar, with biomass (prob gen-eng algae) as backup. It just makes sense to go to the source12:16PM
@j4ngis In terms of energy, a plethora of low-scale, localised sources like CHP, solar etc is a LOT less politically dangerous than nuke12:14PM
@j4ngis an economic structure should be an API for innovation/value-creation - not a system for a handful of people to maintain power.12:12PM
@j4ngis That's one way of looking at it - but I would tend to aim for maximising diversity (with attendant stability) first.12:08PM
Opera/Linux has a habit of randomly copying the clipboard into the address-bar. Google's search profile of me is going to be well weird11:59AM
@rinkjustice orrite, how's it going? Chrimbo with Mum and Dad etc - I'm old enough now for that to be wonderful.11:53AM
Watching documentaries about WW1. Total fuckup.10:49AM
@j4ngis Well yea, to be able to organise locally is pretty crucial - but not to the extent that the stakeholders don't get a say.9:59AM
@j4ngis In fact centralisation is the Big Evil - monoculture basically. Good for the dominant "thing" but dangerous for the system overall9:43AM
@j4ngis I'm developing this theory that whatever we do, it needs to be decentralised. Centralisation compounds other problems8:59AM
Knowledge Is Porridge8:21AM
@paulcarr Yea well, at least it wasn't serious enough to provoke the US/UK into invading Zanzibar or Peru or whatever.7:56AM
I know I'm a paranoid recluse etc, but I really don't get why you'd want to publish your location all the time http://tr.im/IE6s7:40AM
My Friends Are Electric... ie: my remaining friends are electric. Appliances etc. Ok, 'an' appliance - the toaster... well... we 'nod' etc.7:38AM
Just signed up for the world's first Arduino miniconf http://tr.im/IE3G because that's the kind of guy I am.7:20AM
Armageddon is on, with Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler - it's a bit like the corner bit of xmas cake - more icing/cherries than cake6:12AM
You wake up one day, off to apply for a new job, then Bruce Willis runs over you riding an SUV on the pavement trying to save his family6:11AM
What bothers me about action movies is all the lost narratives - other stories becoming collateral damage to unrelated, out of control plots6:04AM
Bruce Willis movie on TV - it's either the one where he saves the whole world, or destroys the whole world to save his daughter5:23AM
Oh. Did they get lost then? http://tr.im/IDKp I was under the impression that they were deliberately sent somewhere where they'd be killed.2:36AM
Kucinich : This is the guy who should have been president : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8t3SJlR2wM2:06AM
It goes Xmas -> Ymas (pron why-mass) -> Zmas (as in CTRL-Z mass) then... about 4 days later Amas again, which is when people join the gym.1:58AM
Vitamins. I need vitamins.1:54AM
@robyngallagher LOL12:19AM
@BrianLimond The Royle Family is great. I bought the entire boxed set for my family... it turns the TV into a weird sort of mirror.12:16AM
Haven't got out of bed yet. Maybe I won't. Maybe 2010 was the year I didn't bother-like Florence Nightingale. She stayed in bed for 40 yearsFriday 2009-12-25
1:36PM
@OneLuvGurl There's been quite a lot of that sort of thing recently - shoe-throwing, souvenir-statue-hurling etc. Symbolic assassinations1:20PM
@OneLuvGurl Yea - she did it last year as well apparently. It's a bit like holy cow-tipping.12:23PM
Thinking about blogging about a top-10 list of all the things I can't remember from the last decade... but finding it a struggle12:20PM
@yezzer The wrapping's good, the ETA is probably more like 11 days... still... it's not nothing etc.12:16PM
@yezzer It never really works that... you kindof need something symbolic. I can send you some Golden Mean Calipers if you want :)12:12PM
Yes - merry Xmas Britishers... or catcher-uppers generally. Here in NZ it's all over. Ymas... but only just.12:09PM
I think 2009 was the year that I finally turned into the cartoon version of myself. Been on the cards for a while mind.11:29AM
@JohnCleese love to, but the thing is @stephenfry came out punching on behalf of Internet Freedom etc in 2009, so has become a sort of saint9:58AM
Best in Show is on... actually quite a good movie in a funny sort of way.9:43AM
The Japanese invented Sushi, using nothing but fish. Sushi is basically an excuse to eat Wasabi - same as Turkey in an excuse to drink gravy9:41AM
Eating Chocolate Coated Crips from Japan. You can get anything in Japan.7:43AM
@rapella Safe and sound on the sundial, Dude. Back at the family seat, where I can be properly looked after and supervised.7:34AM
leaving your's truly torn and bleeding at the side of the road. He's not a good traveler that cat. Not good at all.7:33AM
Gets there... Cat turned into a whirling furry ball of razor-sharp claws. Shouting... chaos... goes tearing up the neighbour's driveway2:48AM
That pesky cat has done a runner so I'm trapped on my own at my Brother's place and there's nothing to eat except pot-noodles.1:00AM
Far out. Someone's attacked the pope. I wouldn't have thought God would allow that sort of thing. How come she didn't get thunderbolted?12:34AM
He's a reluctant (and quite noisy) traveler is Tosca. He likes sitting on your knee so you can't see out the front. He's that big.12:32AM
Makes self coffee, and awaits the appearance of the small (actually quite big) furry creature so I can drive him 250 miles up the coast.12:09AM
If anyone's interested, season 3 of The Thick Of It is up on youtube. Utter genius.12:06AM
Merry Christmas to every one. It must be that time again all over the planet by now.Thursday 2009-12-24
2:36PM
@gubatron There's also Lombats. Loads of Money, Bloody Awful Taste2:33PM
@paulsilver Yea... I've become a cat-taxi-driver and it all hinges on me being able to catch him tomorrow. If I can't, then I'm stuck here12:46PM
@rapella Nope. Reformed character now. On straight and narrow.12:33PM
Well... it's just (give or take an hour) turned Christmas in NZ. A pot-noodle to celebrate I think.10:19AM
@MaryJaneAnsell It was the mix of wines, rather than the quality, or amount.10:17AM
@yezzer Yea well... being a web-designing Oliver Reed isn't actually as great as you're probably imagining it to be.9:57AM
@pperrin Yea - but that would mean having to come out from under the bed, and that, I'm not prepared to do.9:23AM
@pperrin Oddly enough, that had crossed my mind. Crashing in Burning In Public as Public Service.8:26AM
@pperrin If I could just manage a vow of silence, an awful lot of my problems would evaporate.7:43AM
Far out! Wanganui is actually mentioned in Douglas Coupland's Generation A. Kindof.7:03AM
Well that's the xmas shopping out of the way. 10 minutes to closing time on the 24th. Commando style.5:49AM
That's my favourite ever website http://thisisphotobomb.com I look at it and think "yes, everything is going to be alright"5:11AM
@stilgherrian I once saw a fat bloke with a ginger beard wearing a Little Miss Naughty t-shirt. Quite cool in a funny sort of way.4:43AM
Dying etc. I should be in a proper rehab clinic. Instead I'm going to check into a motel and hide under the bed and refuse to come out.2:01AM
this is a proper vomiting hangover. Lying in foetal position... forehead absorbing coolness from bathroom floor. Bleaeurgh1:43AM
I think I might become a farmer actually. Wear a checked shirt. Do normal stuff. A simple life. Definitely never drinking again. Disaster.1:37AM
@yezzer @ikostar sorry. Frightfully pissed. Lesson learned etc. Now reformed character. Christian etc. Monk. Saint.1:29AM
Ok - I was frightfully drunk last night, so now to teach myself a lesson, I'm not going to go on the internet for a whole year.Wednesday 2009-12-23
5:25PM
@yezzer jesus dude, i've got the fuckin hicups... you want to get into this. I'm nickt taylor.I. nice/4:59PM
@robshepherd - i'm in NZ - I'm so drunk I can only see through one eye.4:53PM
@paulsilver Have you h.... I love youe. I4:53PM
@robshepherd Yes.4:45PM
@yezzer you interested in getting in to this?4:45PM
@yezzer you want to run for something? I'd support you, and I'm as clever as fuck4:43PM
@yezzer I'm a litte bit coutry.... a little bit... rock and roll...4:28PM
MaryJaneAnsell I olve you.4:25PM
@yezzer Yezzer... you are a (terrible) bombasitic welsh cunt... but if you want to do this.... I will fuckin do it. Properly. Properly. l4:18PM
Ai. Fuckin. Rock : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2cs8z_foxy-get-off_music4:11PM
@andybudd I've broken into my faminlye's cristmas prewssmtsxz/ AMed Or'not ecnev prptteornnppW??? ARSE!!!!4:03PM
@yezzer because my last sentence was shite, and I know it.4:02PM
@yezzer what do you want?4:01PM
@yezzer I have known you as a young guy, and then as a man.. for the best part of a decade. I can't think of a better MP...3:58PM
@yezzer I'm in NZ now... I would come to the UK - to campaign for you.3:57PM
@yezzer Seriously... you want to do something... because I would fucking love to. I'I'm good at this shit.3:55PM
@yezzer You want to make a political party? with your charsma? and my rat-like cunnigng We'll ... rule3:43PM
@BrianLimond ai am yor fren... this is cool : http://tr.im/IqRm you can get off and such. It.s 70s people AMAZING foxy. This MP3 is gr83:28PM
@BrianLimond you dont' drink do you? (fae NZetc)3:24PM
@BrianLimond I'm a goodie dude. a... that business with the dog... the "sausage" dog. I thought was guardedly amusing.3:12PM
@BrianLimond sorry about that dude... I live you. And such.3:11PM
@BrianLimond but thing is.. fuckin "limmy" it's a hell o a compelling story... and in the "heeds" of your listeners. He's realer than you r.3:07PM
@BrianLimond I'm actualy quite frightened.3:01PM
@davestone what the fuck are you talinaag eg geabe-= baeojes fded;???? d dadece3:00PM
You want to know what? Kurt et al... weren't the best band in the 90s... these were : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSZKlAAUfR82:44PM
@gleonhard What's the difference between "illegal downloads" and "payola" in terms of getting your name out? Numerically? Empirically?2:30PM
@robshepherd Yea... ok. to be fair... 140 chrs isn't a single sentence.2:28PM
@robshepherd but therein lies the future. Everyone is... objectionable. Arrests ble. Aminal. Vegetable. Minerable.2:26PM
@robshepherd actually... that sounded a bit weird. I don't have any surfer buddies... and do be fair, I wouldn't know who to kill.2:25PM
@robshepherd I'm so "interested" in evidence, if anyone tries to make a case without it, Me + my surfer buddies, will go round and kill them2:23PM
@robshepherd "external reality" is a side-show-literary device. Evidence. Is. The.Thing. I am interested in Evidence.2:20PM
@robshepherd the money/interest should stay in the fucking village. YOU/WANT A FUCKING DIAGRAM? no. You don't. It's obvious though.2:19PM
@robshepherd You Sir, are a buffoon. Fuck postcodes. Everytime someone borrows money to buy a house in your village...2:13PM
@oxfordslacker pleeeez be my fren - or not. I've been yor fren for 2 yrs now.I lu v u. plezzz b my fren. reeed my poasts. I'm luvly.2:10PM
@oxfordslacker when I was a rock star, norfolk (norwich actually) was the only place that my record probably charted. TOP 10! etc.2:08PM
@mat_walker OK NOW I'VE GOT YOU!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH PETER CARR (FROM AUSTRILA)????2:03PM
@mat_walker turn your computer off, then on again.2:03PM
@davestone actually - that could have been mistaken for being a bit rude, and obviously I didn't.. wouldn't... you know. I'm charming. me.2:01PM
@yezzer Jesus @yezzer Always there with the socialist agenda, just before the greatest socialist festival of the year.1:59PM
@davestone "Why am I deal with morons?". Dunno dude, Why is you deal with morons? They your people. Innit. At least they IT.1:57PM
@robshepherd Thing is dude, I'm still getting my head together. External reality becomes a sounding board. I'm serious though.1:43PM
@leashless Christ that's cynical. You know what I mean though. "hope"enhagen. Jesus, please.1:41PM
@leashless so is there a difference between Pre-Copenhagen-failure and the post Copenhagen-failure?1:39PM
He wasn't the best... maybe... But if I had to vote for anyone, all things considered, that's who I'd vote for.1:38PM
One day... when everyone's dead or fucked "they" are going to vote for the best bands in the 20thC. I want to vote for Neil Young.1:36PM
@MuPhi It's been said before dude. Write a proper progress-bar. It's a software problem.1:28PM
@forskningsavd Sur le pont d'Avignon / L'on y danse, l'on y danse Sur le pont d'Avignon L'on y danse tous en rond1:25PM
@robshepherd And I've become a historian, in a really really superficial sort of way. Biomass is the Bass-line. Seriously.1:23PM
@robshepherd You know what I mean though. I don't mean it in a derisory sort of way... it's the memetic medium. It's where we live1:21PM
@davefromlondon Hi Dave. This is Nick fae NZ. Me and a couple of my crusty mates from BN1 are going to form a political party. Any advice?1:16PM
@BrianLimond be what you care about dude. Take your passion, and make it happen. Be the Bamn guy. Be the Bamn guy. He was cool1:15PM
@BrianLimond my fav one is the BAMN guy. Genius. Do him. Be him. Fuck being Limmy. Where's the mileage in that? Be Bamn guy.1:13PM
@BrianLimond Dude... you should like... 'become' one of your characters. Because... they seem kind of 'realer' than you. You know?12:56PM
@corcoran Dude, today is the first day of the rest of your life.12:55PM
@joshr It's not a Win Win situation exactly... more of a Draw Draw situation... but that's.... ok... ok?12:54PM
@joshr give everyone a bunch of (moo) Get Out Of Christmas Free cards - where if they get one,they don't have to give you anything next year12:52PM
@robshepherd The press/attention you're likely to get from having an "illegal" name is worth more than the hassle of changing the rule.12:51PM
@robshepherd Well to paraphrase Spinal Tap, "biomass talks, bullshit walks". If you're going to do it, do it now. The biomass is waiting12:48PM
@MaryJaneAnsell 2nd to last missive... missed a couple of words. It's been a very difficult day.12:47PM
@MaryJaneAnsell aliens are weird man. They look at you... ALL THE TIME. So who's the pervert? On balance, it's probably not me.12:47PM
@MaryJaneAnsell to be honest I was quite relieved... they didn't zoom into my flat - which is a mess, or wanking myself to death or whatever12:38PM
@pperrin it's about top-down control I think. Where we agree I mean.12:35PM
@pperrin you and I disagree on almost everything except the things we agree on - and we really, really, really agree on those.12:34PM
@robshepherd given that we understand the terrain now, and they don't it's almost worth calling it "none of the above" for the sake of it.12:31PM
@robshepherd "illegal"? What are they going to do? Give you a parking ticket? If you've got biomass you can do what the fuck you want.12:22PM
@robshepherd Well let's do that then - I'll be your speech-writer, puppetmaster-of-propaganda and general dogsbody.12:14PM
@robshepherd You're kidding - a) it is legal and b) there's so much more to run on than "none of the above"12:11PM
@pperrin @robshepherd as Frank Zappa said "as soon as you're old enough, run for something" (not you Paul) LOL. Just kidding etc :)11:53AM
@robshepherd Because They're Not Tories dude. All that's left is this hollow tribal loyalty.11:47AM
This explains almost everything about English food, on a number of different levels : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgwJfbeCeU11:43AM
@robshepherd BTNT (that's an acronym)(and really, that's all that's left, and even that's pushing it)11:18AM
@MaryJaneAnsell Yea... the weird thing about the Speed of Light is that it's uselessly, show-stoppingly slow.11:08AM
The trouble with long echoes is if you play a bum note, you're stuck with it for ages. You can't jazz your way out of that one.11:08AM
Tm Petty gone Gandalfy http://tr.im/IpFE brave guitar bit at the end.10:56AM
@robshepherd Would anyone vote for him? Why the fuck is he there then?10:55AM
@robshepherd My thinking exactly (Mandelson). Who the fuck is this person? I didn't vote for him. Did anyone vote for him?10:25AM
@stilgherrian not as poetic as yours. Yours was really rather good.9:58AM
Coach class, middle seat / elbows pinned like chicken wings / A lard-arse sandwich #haiku @stilgherrian9:11AM
Mind you - I wouldn't mind being that guy... just for a couple of days - just to get really fucking drunk and scare the crap out of everyone9:10AM
Wanna know what's worse than googling yourself? Youtubing yourself. Jesus. This is me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GbDUtN-FSc8:57AM
Microsoft Bitten on Arse by Software Patents: http://awe.sm/29HWl Needs 290 Million Stitches. > RT @OneLuvGurl8:43AM
And he's a fishing cat, so he picks them up and eats them with one paw. Damn these Wellingtonians are weird.8:42AM
God, that daft cat is ignoring his proper food and has broken into a pizza box and is eating 2 day old pizza crusts instead.8:34AM
@leashless I'd say control is the problem - because freedom's definitions are highly subjective. Control on the other hand is control.8:15AM
Junk food for tea. Marvelous. King-sized junk with extra food on it.7:23AM
Thinking about turning into some sort of cartoon goth so I can form a band called nerdSpider.7:18AM
Regrettably the indicators for "hidden handgun" are not dissimilar to "struggling to conceal inappropriate hard-on" http://tr.im/IoMB4:15AM
I always sing Moon River which everyone hates except me cos I think it's funny - the sea of dismayed faces etc. Time stretching to infinity4:13AM
Waiting in the car outside The Fringe Bar... which is the venue for some of my most embarrassing experiences. Karaoke et. Trannys and so on.3:48AM
It's what Jesus would have wanted - it's a well known fact that Jesus was actually quite frightened of tinsel.3:46AM
Christmas presents this year have mainly been chosen from things lying round the house. I've just wrapped them up, and passed them on.2:31AM
In the pizza place in cuba st. A girl is standing outside with blue hair and a smile that's bigger than her face. A bit ropey looking tho1:09AM
I think I need a stroke of genius. Not sure what about yet... but I think it would probably be a good thing. Yes. Exactly.Tuesday 2009-12-22
1:20PM
@robshepherd Well yea, all power should be devolved to a level where the only people making decisions are immediate stakeholders.12:25PM
This is the original Nigel Tuffnel, but fuck me, he can play : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE79nmitkz0&NR=111:48AM
@umairh I can't read that Brooks thing without imagining some sort of 1950s infomercial voice. Didn't see anything about your BM though.10:53AM
Open-Source Flying Spaghetti Monster files, courtesy of Y.T. http://tr.im/IjTf10:50AM
@rapella That's a relief. I had a nagging feeling there might be some sort of "romantic" thing to do with dressing up as squirrels going on10:47AM
@BrianLimond it's a holy thing, and it's christmas - so all that holiness just comes-a-bubblin to the surface.10:40AM
@BrianLimond It's called 'speaking in tongues' darling. Get used to it.10:28AM
@rapella Did you nod sagely?10:22AM
Toby Maguire is on TV. Was he one of the hobbits? I think he was wasn't he? I've definitely seen him somewhere before.10:20AM
@yezzer You never see chocolate lira do you. Shame in a way. You'd get about a million of them. Mind you, they'd probably be awful.10:08AM
Mind you, String was just on as well, described by the News Presenter as "a man with a very silly beard and hat combo"10:06AM
Gareth Thomas was just on TV in NZ - good on ya mate. Merry Xmas and everything8:56AM
BMI - holy crap : http://www.physorg.com/news180620740.html8:22AM
Arse. I've accidentally gone on holiday and only packed those long-toed socks that people normally wear on their hands.8:12AM
@felixvoirol Bide your time young Felix, bide your time. Opportunities for revenge never remain strangers for long.6:23AM
This guy rocks : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTb7mp-Njxc5:57AM
Mine's Nick Cave http://tr.im/IiXv which means I always say "yea, I was into their early stuff before they became famous" about any band5:29AM
Reading different variations of Jeremiah 10 2-4 http://tr.im/IiSs insidious biblical reinterpretations, as Christian literacy deteriorates2:44AM
In a shopping mall. Shopping Peasants everywhere. I'm at a table in the sushi place, eating sushi, eyeing the world narrowly.1:33AM
How to hack predator drones etc : http://tr.im/Iidd Don't blame me, I found it on Boing Boing.12:58AM
Anyway, I've got that Fleet Foxes song stuck in my head at the mo. The one about going on holiday in Greece. I did that once.12:55AM
The last one I bought I haven't even listened to. Terrible really.12:54AM
A guy just came past hawking CDs for his band - sold me one. You get quite a lot of that in NZ. FWIW I'm buying the story, not the music12:51AM
Down the caf in petone. Someone's laughing unnecessarily. I hate that sort of thing. Everyone should STFU12:48AM
@andybudd Don't worry about energy etc. That will come. What you need to do is invent a currency that's based on what people produce.Monday 2009-12-21
11:09AM
@paulsilver I've found that a good way of managing ice on pavements is to pour petrol everywhere and set it alight. Kills germs as well.10:15AM
@paulsilver @joshr Forums are bastards to get started. Google groups has the push advantage of mail with the archiving advantage of... fora.9:42AM
@leashless Minor missing of point, but there you go :)9:39AM
@leashless Search is kindof 2D - there's speed vs trust. Not mutually exclusive, but down the trust end old media or communities work better9:34AM
@leashless Yea - if you look at google's top searches, people are actually using it as navigation rather than search.8:16AM
That one who was in ET is on TV. Not the green one, the other one. Takes loads of drugs and goes overboard etc. Marvelous.8:08AM
How to build a successful web app http://tr.im/Idzl Bullshit. Here's my advice (based on observation) a) be successful already b) be lucky7:49AM
Wonder what Rebecca Farlowe's up to these days. She could probably have been my girlfriend if... well, if she'd agreed to go out with me etc5:37AM
Sitting in the carpark of the hell's pizza place. It's evening, and (weirdly) bloody freezing outside3:54AM
In Bulls, getting coffee. Bulls in a town in NZ, named after these massive cow-like things you get here. They go moo etc. Mooooo.12:05AM
My mum's going off to some sort of choir thing, dressed like a blue version of Black Adder's religious relations in the Elizabethan period12:00AM
The human face of artificial intelligence : http://i.imgur.com/AK0mT.png
Sunday 2009-12-20
11:50PM
Anyway, I'm off down the Wellington today. I have a number of things to do first though. Yes, a number. Which number? Don't know.11:43PM
Brittany was like, one of us man. She was the prototype for every second girl I ever fell in love with. Well... in that emo movie, anyway.11:18PM
@lordtrilink No dude - time stopping is bad. Once it stops, it's a real fucker to get going again.11:14PM
I quite liked Brittany Murphy as it happens. I thought she was good in The Prophecy II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1AmQov7qzI12:27PM
Watching that Hardwired. Val Kilmer's hair has become... unsound.10:59AM
In apprehension how like a God, LOL. This is what we do for fun: http://bit.ly/4ACruY RT @extraordinaire10:08AM
Broom Sculptures : http://www.ignant.de/2009/12/18/michael-delucia/9:39AM
UFOs etc. Marvelous : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGsUnC9hXmI&feature=player_embedded9:18AM
@OneLuvGurl A classical allusion, the origins of which are lost in the mists of time.8:58AM
Billy Bob Thornton's character in Bad Santa is great. I hope they don't turn him into a "nice person" like that one in Groundhog day.8:57AM
@OneLuvGurl that 'to' should have been a 'you'. I was quoting String.8:56AM
@OneLuvGurl There's probably a non-intrusive way of doing it. A kind of "every step to take, every breath you make" personal event-logger8:47AM
Bad Santa is on TV. I can't believe this is happening to me.8:41AM
In the future, when we have RC 1st-person POV robots the size of match-heads, we'll be able to go on safari, hunting these http://tr.im/I8tH8:37AM
@OneLuvGurl Wouldn't or Couldn't?8:29AM
RT @corcoran British Libel Laws http://tr.im/I8s7 < IMHO to change the law is not enough. The execs of this company should go to prison.8:22AM
@OneLuvGurl Your son isn't two is he?6:46AM
@voirol Did you see that picture I posted of Henry Wriothsley's cat? Possibly related to @felixvoirol6:44AM
While not necessarily complete, this is spot-on : http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/the-best-and-the-worst-tech-of.html6:40AM
trying to telepathically induce Catsby into going down the video shop. Not really working (sighs to self, on autopilot, getting Catsby nosh)6:31AM
RT @mtchl Kyle McDonald's @keytweeter is a keylogger that tweets everything he types. < Cool. And shite, at the same time. Genius6:17AM
Mega-rant : http://tr.im/I86M On The 2nd Gutenberg Shift, the copying of books and the Venetian Inquisition.5:10AM
@jimboot I ranted on about this briefly here http://www.genomicon.com/2009/12/the-battle-for-the-root/5:06AM
@jimboot not to get distracted by the details... and to focus on the core issue - which is about govt's "right" to unaccountable censorship5:04AM
Got that feckin bee-bonnet song stuck in my head again. "When I was a child, I didn't have a Beeee Bonnet" it goes. Pain in the arse.3:24AM
It's actually quite rowdily windy at the mo. Sunny day, but it's all a bit fighty and rough.2:56AM
Balmer Bing etc : http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/12/19/bing-bing-bing-bing-youre-fired/2:27AM
A gold-mine of horror : http://craftastrophe.net/1:41AM
Michael Jackson as a baby etc : http://www.flickr.com/photos/dietrich/147862418/12:34AM
Is it me or is tr.im going wrong all over the place? You need to click each link about 5 times.12:33AM
@jordanclaire http://tr.im/I7cB Henry Wriothsley in prison.. his wife brought him his cat (Trixie) to keep him company :) http://tr.im/I7dd12:09AM
@neilhimself If you took all the pagan stuff out of Easter and Christmas, you'd wind up with a fairly anemic looking death cult.12:06AM
See http://www.weirdsky.com/miscImages/breakfast.jpg - that's what comes of having holy parents.
12:06AM
The folks have just come back from church. I like it when they do that - they come back all guilty and holy etc and make me breakfastSaturday 2009-12-19
11:25PM
Sends email to Danish Embassy requesting comment etc.11:19PM
Watching Danish Cops beat up girls : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3SG2jt07rU fucking pathetic cowards.10:56PM
A disqus commenting system fails again. Nice idea (which will be swamped by Wave) which hardly every works. Pain in the arse.1:01PM
@j4ngis jgiuejrgie! LOL fiherf fhhfheir94nl fff.11:56AM
I can type about 300 WPM - but most of the words aren't actually recognisable as such, and it's not always easy to work out what I'm saying.11:39AM
I mean that name was a joke 30 years ago : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSINO6MKtco11:38AM
File-Sharing not down : http://tr.im/I473 so why the fuck should anyone listen to a lobby group for the "phonographic" industry?11:35AM
@rapella Mick Fleetwood Rocks.11:10AM
@five15design I wrote a thing about him (in a shambolic sort of way) here : http://tr.im/I40N the start of that last video is hilarious.6:23AM
Youtube doubler with goat etc LOL : http://tr.im/I3a2 I love people sometimes.5:40AM
Laser following wall cars : http://tr.im/I32u5:35AM
Mick Fleetwood was just on TV. The man's a god.5:22AM
Arse. My caffeine/blood level got so low that I lost consciousness for the afternoon.2:41AM
Prague from the TV tower - fantastic : http://www.360cities.net/prague-18-gigapixels12:57AM
Ok - not p2p value exchange... but the sort of exchange that has a type of "peer review" attached. Village scale stuff.12:43AM
Gary Vaynerchuk http://tr.im/I20G Baker's Dozen - one of my fav concepts. It's symptomatic of.. p2p value exchange, rather than "the market"12:29AM
@robertpopper LOL.Friday 2009-12-18
11:47PM
Ok, so that's my laptop cable soldered together again. If I've done it once, I've done it 1000 times.11:51AM
You want to know what? That Saffron Burroughs is the most irritating person on the whole DVD. She's off the Helena-Bonam-Carter Scale.11:40AM
@joshr That's not how you spell "see" dude. If you're going to make a Freudian Slip, try to be at least a little Freudian about it.11:38AM
@adactio First they came for the dragons, and I said nothing. Then the came for the unicorns, and I said nothing. Then they came for me...11:09AM
No. No he wouldn't. And neither would I. A bit later I think to myself "what would Keith Richards do when he ran out of petrol?"11:08AM
Rather than "playing it safe" I often think to myself "what would Keith Richards do if he was almost out of petrol? Would he stress out? no"11:01AM
God I hate that person on the TV. I don't even know who he is. But he's there. He's being paid to be there. On TV. In my living room. Bah.10:43AM
This is so much funnier than what's on tv : http://www.funnyzee.com/guard-dog-fail/10:38AM
@hjortur apparently (back in the day) "floppy discs" used to be called "stiffies" in South Africa. Odd people.10:34AM
@hjortur although you could still download (or upload) quite a lot of youtube clips in a single... erm... effort.10:32AM
@hjortur per second dude. The per-day figures aren't so flattering.10:23AM
@j4ngis This is my brother's cat http://www.weirdsky.com/miscImages/catsbySimpsons.jpg genius
10:16AM
So anyway - lying back now in a tv-watching-chair in NZ, in a house bedecked with Nth European/Scandinavian pagan symbolism. Tis Chrimble.10:14AM
@j4ngis touching wood, he's been into his 3rd season of 9 lives. Not himself right now though. The vet was a bit of a trauma etc.9:58AM
@leashless Will email... weird how that almost seems like sending something through the post now. Tempus fugit etc9:42AM
@leashless So I was wondering if there was something you could suggest... or do I need a personal trainer... or... what?9:40AM
@paulsilver I should never have left (sob)9:31AM
Anyway, when we rang the vets earlier, they were all in surgery... because they'd tried to stick a thermometer up Catsby's arse again.9:29AM
@paulsilver Yea well - I've got a 4 bedroom place with a library etc... and it is too far from Brighton. I miss the shit out of it.9:20AM
@leashless but these days my life is so misappropriated by The Digital... I really need some deliberate way of making space. So curiosity.9:19AM
@leashless I'm curious because I did some classes once that were so middle-class they made me go straight down the pub etc...9:17AM
@leashless a while back you said something about only getting your shit together with a spot of "formal meditation"9:14AM
@paulsilver So have you all moved to Lancing then?9:10AM
@davidschneider Terry Wogan is an oddity - in that he is (in spite of... everything) quite often genuinely funny. And I hate everything.9:09AM
@leashless So when you say "formal meditation"... what's that then?8:18AM
@dahowlett Well look at you, all business and shit.7:56AM
@yezzer Have you moved to the... err... what is that?... is that Russia?7:54AM
Absolutely against my better judgment, this movie with Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston does actually seem to be quite funny.7:52AM
The twitter / Iran downage is either... what it is, or what (in the following, minutes, hours) will be a really successful viral scam7:32AM
A beautiful summer evening... something in the light, in the breeze... is telling me a drunken orgy of destruction might be in order.7:16AM
My television is... gradually, with infinite patience, little by little... secretly working away at project - to bore me to death.7:08AM
Twitter was a bit fucked before as well. We badly need to P2P this system. It's... infrastructure now.4:42AM
Robot playing with lego : http://tr.im/HXcL - but not alas, making a working lego copy of itself.4:41AM
@stilgherrian I once went to a party where one skinhead cut another skinhead's ear off because he said something bad about his fav record4:22AM
From where I'm sitting, the whole of youtube is down.3:42AM
Tony Blair's Money Laundering Operation : http://tr.im/HX0l - well, a species of money laundering. Similar to layering by the looks.2:55AM
iPhonification : http://www.genomicon.com/2009/12/iphonification/1:41AM
Anyway - he's moved into his Summer Palace. The yellow guest-rooms at the front of the house.1:39AM
Oddly enough, I know just how he feels.1:38AM
Shame. Catsby's just come back from the cat doctors - he's crossly wobbling about the place, all befuddled by drugs and such.12:38AM
@adactio Well there's a scene - almost King Wensleslas-esque.12:34AM
@shanegold something more recent - Brother Where Art Though - possibly trumping any of the Tarantino ones #bestthemes12:32AM
@shanegold but the grand prize of course goes to Paris Texas - not just a theme but the entire soundtrack #bestthemes12:31AM
@shanegold Apocalypse Now would take a bit of beating #besthemes That Led-Zep/Rap one in Bad Lieutenant was pretty fierce as well.Thursday 2009-12-17
12:41PM
@robshepherd Not unless you're talking about "English Warming"9:40AM
@robsog I thought it was just me.9:29AM
A row has kicked off in NZ between protestants and catholics http://tr.im/HRW5 #LOLChristians8:59AM
I have never knowingly knocked myself out with a champagne cork.8:29AM
@nobledesign I think that's really cool - like cave people painting pictures of the animals they wanted to hunt. If that's what they did.8:12AM
Boris has all these onion-skin layers of bumbling teddybearness and rat-like cunning. Possibly by accident, he's actually very clever.8:10AM
George vs Boris http://tr.im/HRGK The trouble with Boris, is he's possibly even a better bullshit artist than Tony Blair.7:45AM
That Gwyneth Paltrow's on TV. I think it's the one where she marries the most boring rock star in the world and settles in Notting Hill5:27AM
A bit more about robots : http://www.genomicon.com/2009/12/robot-roundup-2/2:55AM
New Perpetual Motion Machine Webcam : http://www.genomicon.com/2009/12/the-mirrored-halls-of-the-neo-alchemists/2:52AM
On his chart it says "Wild Cat". He's not - but if you stick things up his arse, you get what's coming to you. Dismemberment.2:52AM
Anyway, Catsby went down the cat doctors before and the vet stuck a thermometer up his arse so he tore the vet's arm off at the shoulder.2:50AM
Jam Tarts for lunch. The food of the gods.2:19AM
If you can't afford mosquito netting... http://tr.im/HQA51:27AM
The first bland to play in space http://tr.im/HQnF The future of music, through the lens of $$$. It's one big airport duty-free area12:51AM
An old folk van has just rolled up, and someone's unloading a load of zimmer-frames out the back. They're going to have a zimmer-frame race12:44AM
It'd be a duck fuckup.12:43AM
There's a bloke sitting on a park bench... I'm quite tempted to go over and sprinkle duck bread all around him. That'd fuck him up.12:41AM
Down by the river again... a veneer of normality over everything. Even the ducks seem normal today... yes, even the ducks.12:17AM
RT 3 Strikes law reintroduced in NZ http://tr.im/HM9Z Snuck in minutes before going off on holiday.Wednesday 2009-12-16
12:16PM
@OneLuvGurl Something needs to be done. They're trying to break OUR internet. Unfortunately, it's serious.12:07PM
I think we need to do more than protest - I think we need to find out which politicians are behind this, then (somehow) go after them.12:05PM
3 Strikes law reintroduced in NZ http://tr.im/HM9Z Snuck in minutes before going off on holiday.10:39AM
@zenbullets There's a special (and endearing) type of Turing Test where something is smart enough to knowingly talk to an inanimate object8:51AM
The folks are back. They've been to see a play. They're so much more bohemian than I am.8:44AM
@leashless The best talent of my generation... even the ones who got signed, never had a chance, because of this bottleneck. Disgraceful8:43AM
@leashless My mate managed bands - every time a record was released, he'd sit around shitting himself, hoping Radio1 would playlist it8:10AM
Saveloys for tea. You know where you are with a saveloy. You're round at your Grandma's place in the 1970s.8:07AM
Personally I think that "piracy" is acting as the radio that we could never get on because "industry" had it tied up.8:04AM
Annoying : someone on TV saying "band has had good sales in spite of piracy". As opposed to "because people were participating in the buzz"7:32AM
Catsby isn't well. The trouble with Catsby is that in cat years, he's about 120 years old. Which is old for a cat.7:29AM
Beautiful evening in NZ. Bit bored.4:08AM
@Schnicker @TerrenceWing re: GenY - I think that's a misunderstanding of evolution. It isn't directional. It doesn't "total".3:05AM
@stilgherrian govts all over the world are assuming "right to control" based on child-porn/terrorism - echoes of witchcraft/heresy.3:02AM
@stilgherrian re: censorship - discussion of finer points acts as a smokescreen hiding the lack of discussion over "moral right" to censor12:46AM
@CaseyContrarian Peat's a sort of dirt isn't it?12:19AM
@freecloud it is however the conclusion drawn by industry shills specifically paid to "create doubt" and dupe people like you.12:18AM
@freecloud That is not the way the evidence is pointing. That is not the conclusion drawn from the evidence by peer-reviewed scientists12:06AM
@freecloud WTF are you talking about? There's a huge amount of evidence, and everything new points to things being worse than expected.Tuesday 2009-12-15
11:34PM
@freecloud What? You honestly can't tell the difference between the evidence for climate change now, and what happened in the 70s?1:46PM
@rtgarden I'm (now) inclined to see the hippie wave and the punk wave as being different parts of the same wave1:18PM
css parallax http://www.romancortes.com/blog/tag/css/11:57AM
If you want proof that the big auto manufacturers are finished... then you need look no further than this: http://tr.im/HFT911:52AM
To be followed by a "for girls" version,"Nerd Invaders" http://tr.im/HFRK in which you shoot down wave after wave of spotty suitors11:18AM
Yea, this is kindof how I felt as well... as the Star Wars series progressed http://tr.im/HFID10:49AM
@Cennydd I'd posit that if something takes more than 140 chrs, then it's memetically emasculated, but beyond that there are no rules.10:06AM
Peter O'Toole's on TV. Brilliant. He's exactly what I would be like, if I was Peter O'Toole10:02AM
@nukereaction The nuke industry is all about centralised/private control of something that will need to be underwritten with public money.6:54AM
Oh excellent. The improbably cast "Troy" is on later. It would have been so much better with Vincent Gallo and Christina Ricci6:19AM
Growth Rendering Device http://www.dwbowen.com/growth.html #genomicon3:44AM
Jam sandwiches for lunch. Marvelous. The people who invented jam really knew what they were doing.2:07AM
Change Blindness : http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/14/change-blindness-exp.html2:00AM
@envirotainment For me free wifi is everything - and Parnell has a lot of it, so that'll be where I head next.1:50AM
Everyone who visits Buckingham Palace steals an ashtray.1:47AM
@umairh but people get better results from personal recommendation - ie: social apps. I can see search losing ground to recommendation.1:46AM
@umairh search can be split into "looking for stuff to buy" or "not". Search-driven ads work by associating themselves with the former1:31AM
@envirotainment I usually stay at The Duxton - ask for a room as high up as possible. These days I'm heading to Parnell though - free wifi1:29AM
Caffeine. Holy crap I'm addicted. First of the day - and I'm a mess without it. I actually feel physically weird until I'm caffeinated.Monday 2009-12-14
2:13PM
@leashless Not sure I agree about failure of Govt - both the NZ and UK health systems have saved my life - without health insurance.2:06PM
@davefromlondon Mmmm... Bananalance sheet. Om nom nom12:06PM
If I'd written Google I'd have had a button saying "I'm feeling unlucky" and if you click it, a bird craps on you.12:04PM
@Prycie Oh I don't know. "Big Biro is watching you". It has a ring to it, even though it's possibly a whisker on the paranoid side.11:52AM
@Prycie Big Biro? Oh.... Big Bro... I get it.8:54AM
Thinking maybe I ought to be making more of an effort to thwart "this sort of thing" http://tr.im/HyzB5:43AM
Landmine finding rats: http://socyberty.com/issues/unexploded-landmines-call-for-the-herorats/4:20AM
Ok. Shaved. Missed a bit on my chin - which is a worry. That's how Hitler started.2:26AM
Oh damn. I accidentally got the corner bit of cake which is almost completely icing etc. Om nom nom1:37AM
Mum's sitting, reading out the junk mail to me. I'm on the computer pretending not to hear. Catsby and dad are in the kitchen, where food is1:27AM
It's Monday Today / The day after tomorrow is Wednesday / Then Thursday / The weeks' nearly gone. #notaHaiku1:07AM
God I need a shave / But I just can't be arsed / It's a dilemma. #haikuSunday 2009-12-13
1:36AM
@rapella Well if Christians would actually do what Jesus told them to (as opposed to the opposite) the world would be a much better place12:51AM
@rapella Personally I think it's sad seeing Christmas ads associated with Christianity.12:18AM
The folks are back - which means I can get proper coffee again. My dad and his brothers have this unspoken "best barista" thing going on.12:02AM
@stephenfry You're going to Prague? I want to go to Prague. Arse. Everyone's going to Prague except me.Saturday 2009-12-12
11:24PM
So why are our democratically elected governments now so piss scared of peaceful protest? Because they're weak, wrong, and illegitimate?11:41AM
@corcoran Still alive, still playing - one of my best mates is his guitar tech.11:32AM
Theoretically, if all your unit tests set up, an infinite number of monkeys could then write the code - though probably not very efficiently8:41AM
@lisarein It's a scary spider.8:41AM
Excellent. My mum's just given me one of the chocolates I gave her for her birthday. Breathes sigh of relief etc.7:59AM
Mixed feelings http://tr.im/Ho6C UK police are the best in the world. I was "detained" by NZ police - the arrestor was a total prick7:45AM
He married that what'/ sername didn't he. Katie / Holmes. A bit of a worry #haiku7:41AM
That Tom Cruise is on / TV again. Jumpy bloke / A bit ferrety #haiku6:17AM
I want to live in a UFO etc. http://www.genomicon.com/2009/12/i-want-to-live-in-a-ufo/2:26AM
Bus Slogan Generator : http://tr.im/HnkE2:19AM
And the other advantage is that the whole thing is a ready-made airbag so you could fly them drunk http://tr.im/HnjG2:16AM
Oh that's cool - you can download the gagged Tiger Woods gagging order from Tonga : http://tr.im/Hnjb2:13AM
I think if my name was Eldrick Tont, I'd call myself Tiger as well http://tr.im/Hnic - or some other fierce animal. Raaarrggh etc. Raaarrgh2:07AM
Web Dev bods will find this interesting : http://www.axiis.org/examples/BrowserMarketShare.html1:52AM
I really don't think that being able to put spaces in filenames has made the world a better place.1:30AM
Catsby is asleep on my first girlfriend's shirt - that I still wear, 25 years later. It's the one in yesterday's photie http://tr.im/HhAc1:25AM
@leashless I was never into the "set and setting thing" - more into taking really powerful drugs then heading for really weird situations1:24AM
@leashless The Soho rock scene was hilarious. We used to do LSD then go to Glam Rock night at the Astoria... "we" being the normal ones etc12:54AM
@leashless The Intrepid Fox - holy crap, I used to go there in the 80s to get weirded out by oafy punks getting drunk and falling over.12:51AM
Slices : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6j1CGSbhQkFriday 2009-12-11
1:44PM
Holy crap - really fast mouse : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu2vX886Oj81:07PM
@pperrin LOL - yea, gwamophones etc.11:46AM
Does any other UK bod find it somewhat strange how The Lords often actually represent us better than the people we elect? http://tr.im/HjmG11:45AM
YES!!! This guy should get a knighthood : http://tr.im/HjmG10:26AM
The new slogan for the NZ Anti-Burning-Your-House-Down campaign is "Keep looking when you're cooking".9:07AM
The NZ version of Have I Got News For You is on. They look like trendy Auckland bar patrons, trying way too hard to be funny.8:21AM
@j4ngis Same thing with sci-fi... everything in any Sci Fi movie will one day be made... more often than not, out of lego.8:19AM
@j4ngis Trying to legitimize Christ by making him make prophecies come true, even tho the original prophecies came from beardy wizards.8:18AM
@j4ngis Yea - any good prophecy becomes self-fulfilling. That's pretty much what the New Testament is.6:05AM
If I'd known how powerful the hose is, I'd have watered the garden more often I think. Excellent.5:50AM
If TV was a sort of life-support system... feeding me stuff to keep my brain alive... well, I'd be fairly fucked I think.5:36AM
What ever they are, I haven't succeeded. Everything is the same or slightly worse than it was this time last year.5:35AM
Hmm... nearly time to look at New Year's resolutions again. I can't even remember what the last ones are. "Stop being such a cunt" I imagine4:28AM
@joshr From the look of it (FB) they've just offered a bunch of options to... optionally weaken your privacy.4:27AM
I didn't think NZ had that big a problem with religion http://www.nogod.org.nz/ apart from that creepy Brethren lot. And the Destiny Church4:05AM
NZ is too hot again. It's got that "just before a thunderstorm" feel. Hot, muggy, scratchy. Morons everywhere.2:50AM
Printable People Parts and whatnot : http://tr.im/HhAc2:12AM
Bah - the lottery winners notification letter failed to turn up today - and instead were loads of time-wasting christmas cards etc.1:54AM
@andybudd Hmm... you look... something seems different. Have you had a haircut or grown a beard or something?1:32AM
Spent the morning happily sleuthing a hack on one of my sites. Why do I find this stuff so interesting? An entomological thing I supposeThursday 2009-12-10
1:55PM
We just saw that Sugar House. Andy Serkis absolutely PISSES all over any Hollywood gangster, ever. Scary as fuck.12:00PM
@Martin_Carr matterfact - if you could persuade her to do that Wake up Boo one, you'd probably sell a million illion willion copies11:38AM
@Martin_Carr You could always drop her a line - say "hi. you want me to write you some songs?". You know she does.10:45AM
@paulcarr I expect they're probably just waiting for Godot.10:44AM
A thing for former Wild Poppy, Ian : http://www.axford.org/Home/tabid/475/EntryId/103/Tribute-to-Ian-David-Hopkins.aspx2:43AM
Battle for the Root : http://www.genomicon.com/2009/12/the-battle-for-the-root/12:57AM
Yea, yea. whatever. whatever. Clicking the Whatever Button... whatever. whatever. whatever.12:34AM
Anyway. I'm awake now. Up and about as it were. New Zealand is becoming hot... too hot for my tastes. I'm Northern. Kindof.12:24AM
@zenbullets Did you know that lot then? The Faith Healers I mean?Wednesday 2009-12-09
10:56AM
@yezzer Dude, you're talking in acronyms. You sound like R2D2.10:29AM
Something's going on on TV that's quite deep and emotional. I have no idea what it's about. It's all violinny. They all look like dickheads10:01AM
Oh... ok.... stop press. Youtube doesn't work with Chrome under Linux, and nothing I can find will make it work. All bets off.9:35AM
@redeye that'd be an indication of something a little less spiritual... but who's to say there's not an overlap? God? No. He never said that9:31AM
We just saw that "Watchmen". I never really "got" super-heroes. There's always some odd Freudian shit going on that I don't connect to.9:13AM
@redeye Was there any... "discharge"?9:12AM
@yezzer LOL it is. Every time you miss a train, there will be someone "in your way" to blame. The answer is... do everything remotely.8:53AM
In fact... the next computer I buy for my folks is going to be Linux. Which is to say... I'm forced to buy windows, but I'll dual-boot it.8:35AM
Well that's Chrome working in Linux. There are still about 8 things outstanding that ain't going... but... slowly they fall away etc.8:27AM
@corcoran In my experience, it's very rare for tramps to allow you to do that. Even when you turn on the charm. They're quite... particular.8:02AM
a bit like Battleship Galactica in that respect. A universe where Aliens are not only human, but also American. It's about self-destruction8:01AM
That "V" is on again. I have no idea what's going on. I think it's an allegory for The American Empire eating itself alive with paranoia5:45AM
Oh cool - the volume slider on the BBC media player goes up to 11 : http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalrevolution/rushes.shtml5:41AM
@Shadowfoot sorry - obscure English joke.5:40AM
@Shadowfoot A Pair?4:26AM
@MattRector @rinkjustice Really? I thought that Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison? Still... "The Truth" LOL. Who cares about that etc :)2:41AM
"M" as in Millionth, "I" as in Illionth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFbuqM7AVBk LOL2:17AM
Just got my first rejection letter from a publisher. So that's my writing career over then. Arse.Tuesday 2009-12-08
11:48PM
Genius - this puts all other prank-calls to shame http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQsFy08TXI411:43AM
Musical Karmic Blowback : http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4596/135/8:18AM
Enemy of The State is on - it's the bit where the burgulars spray-paint the dog. That's my favourite part. That's what I would have done etc6:58AM
The day flyeth south.1:20AM
Haiku of the day: The lardarse opposite... is eating cake. Om nom nom... om nom nom nom nom12:01AM
@tomhimpe LOL - Loser-Generated-Content. Not to be confused with Clown-SourcingMonday 2009-12-07
10:30AM
LOL - here's a documentary about my Mother's side of my family http://tr.im/GTaN (click the thing in the middle to "skip" the ad)10:14AM
@NOTCOT actually if "drunk and disorderly at home" means "on the internet", then you're probably better off on the subway.10:12AM
Looks like it might be kicking-off in Iran again #iranelection Best of luck people... and by "people" I mean people - not top-down control8:38AM
@OneLuvGurl but in #in2020 you'll look back in amazement at how young you were in #in2010. Make the most of it.1:15AM
It sometimes does my head in how short the time period between Woodstock and Punk was... but not always.1:13AM
This is the 321st greatest song invented in the 1970s http://tr.im/GRe71:11AM
@rapella You can rent goats in Melbourne. I wonder if that would do.12:42AM
@bergin hello bergin12:40AM
This time they've simply written in big letters, the word "MILK". What's that supposed to mean? "Milk" I suppose. But why? I'm baffled.12:39AM
My folks have gone off on holiday again... normally they leave lengthy sets of written instructions as to how to feed/wash self etcSunday 2009-12-06
10:29AM
Currently reading "Craze - Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason", which is right up my alley, so to speak.10:26AM
@joshr Yea - it's a software problem. A zen thing I'd imagine. Meditation and such - or just not leaving the house.10:19AM
@joshr although technically, the annoyingness of other people is a software problem10:18AM
@joshr Exactly - when genetic engineering gets underway properly, everyone will get ear-lids. And nostril-lids.9:22AM
Milla Jovovich is on TV. She once did a gig on the same stage that I did - her only claim to fame before she became a movie star etc9:02AM
Far out - you can get laser-cutters for £3k : http://tr.im/GMUJ that's less than I make in a month... if I like... you know... work.8:51AM
Anyway, we just saw that latest Harry Potter. Quite dark isn't it? Difficult to see what was going on.8:50AM
Oh Jesus, Catsby's gone to sleep in the fish and chip paper.6:02AM
Fish and Chips for tea. Catsby loves fish and chips more than mozzarella or bacon itself.3:25AM
Ok - not a scene... but a certain "tension" will hang in the air until the matter is resolved etc.3:24AM
My Mum's Birthday today. I got her the greatest chocolates in the whole universe. If she doesn't give me any there will be a scene2:00AM
LOL - how to brush you teeth like a Spartan : http://tr.im/GLDySaturday 2009-12-05
11:30AM
@doctorow To disconnect an individual is cruel and unusual... and focusing on "the punishment", rather than whether the crime exists at all9:54AM
RT @Documentally Johnson defends extradition of Pentagon hacker http://bit.ly/7pGJsm << fucking spineless9:04AM
Harrison Ford is so famous that he does actually have a little orchestra following him about, playing themes from his movies.9:03AM
Air Force 1 is on TV. That Harrison Ford is in it... and Raiders of the Lost Ark music keeps leaking across.8:46AM
Androidal Xenophobia and Augmented Reality and whatnot : http://tr.im/GHiF5:45AM
Nice evening innit. Does my nose hurt? Yes it does. Are the two related? I wouldn't have thought so.4:36AM
@plasticbagUK I don't think the people's expectations of Obama were that ridiculous. Close Guantanamo, stop warring, stop spying etc etc12:40AM
I gave Amnesty loads of money and now they keep sending me letters. I don't want to hear more about torture, I want to hear lessFriday 2009-12-04
11:58PM
The 7th one down looks like a cross between EVERYONE from Napoleon Dynamite http://www.oddee.com/item_96890.aspx11:17PM
RT @pperrin Restricting peoples use of knowledge is a crime against humanity << I feel incredibly strongly about this.11:14PM
Excellent. My Flying Spaghetti Monster shirts have arrived.10:42PM
RT @gubatron Ancient Pompeii Ruins Now on Google Street View http://bit.ly/8EvaOc#mb I went there when I was a kid once. Lots of lizards.10:36PM
@paulsilver If you start to see "novelty" straws, and those little paper umbrellas, it's probably time to leave. Quietly etc.5:50AM
RT @eddankatz Ambassador Kirk : People would be ?walking away from the table? if the ACTA text is made public http://tr.im/GAGJ12:30AM
@pperrin What on earth makes you think this is a lefty government? They've consistently outflanked the tories on the right.Thursday 2009-12-03
10:57PM
@pperrin Government should be providing services rather than running businesses. The failure comes in trying to conflate the two3:40AM
I don't get what the big deal over Tiger Woods crashing into a tree is. I crash into trees all the time. Or rubbish bins/trash cans etc.1:37AM
Down by the river again, feeling fairly shot-away.Wednesday 2009-12-02
11:39PM
@MaryJaneAnsell Comedy?!! Me?!?! Are you mad? People would laugh at me!1:11PM
@lorddrayson Pls ask Mr Mandelson what evidence he has that file sharing hurts sales. Actual, real, scientific evidence.9:31AM
Just saw that V. I wonder how we'd feel if we visited another planet, and the aliens made it into a TV program... that was all about them6:31AM
A guy I went to school with was just on TV talking to Matt Damon.6:30AM
@j4ngis Yea - I did look up how to do on the internet afterwards. I think I got it right - though I was possibly squeezing too high up2:18AM
.... and here it is. Monsoon level rain. The sort of rain that floods the driveway.2:06AM
It's thundering outside - pre-rain thunder. A mixture of warning, and relief. Nothing to do now but wait.12:27AM
@olleolleolle And yodeling.12:26AM
@olleolleolle I didn't think the Swiss had a problem with bells? I thought their main worry was those massive trumpets?12:22AM
@j4ngis Terrifying- I'd only seen people do it on TV. He was making these terrible strangling noises. He's ok now. I however am quite shaken12:07AM
@joshr Those toilets make me feel unbelievably paranoid. There's always people hanging about, watching your every move.12:02AM
Tedious observation of the day : http://tr.im/Gmgf Google's most popular searches aren't about search, they're about navigationTuesday 2009-12-01
10:07AM
All misty outside at the mo. It's all gone Jack The Rippery. Catsby doesn't give a rats. He wants mozerella, and he wants it now.9:27AM
LOL (comments etc) http://tr.im/GhAg Why are you people even pretending to be a country any more? You hate each other. FFS, get a divorce8:14AM
My dad just about choked etc. I had to do the Heimlich manoeuvre and everything. I've never done that before.5:00AM
@mrjudkins Not wanting to get into a "how wide is my backpack" competition - but I think this wins http://tr.im/GgG8November 2009
Monday 2009-11-30
2:27AM
Fritefully hungover. Went to a party. One of the neighbours brought their moonshine over. Holy Mother of Moses.Saturday 2009-11-28
8:52AM
Far fucking out : http://tr.im/G0fA Anyone ever consider that this might be the reason record sales might be falling?8:34AM
I wonder if anyone's ever eaten a pie-chart.3:18AM
Today I have mainly been researching smart drugsFriday 2009-11-27
11:43PM
RT @stephenfry LOL > possibly the best newspaper headline and subheading. Evah. http://twitpic.com/pv51t11:21AM
@alexfarran Yea - I found the Oceans 11/12/13 movies to be indistinguishable from big-brand airport advertising.10:20AM
The new Toyota advert has nothing to do with Toyota. The bigger the company, the less their advertising is about what they actually sell.10:02AM
But like, only chronologically.10:02AM
The folks have come back. They're both pissing themselves with laughter at my attempts to hang the washing up. Undignified. I'm 45.7:58AM
Well that was a write-off. Sat down to learn about a new CMS... wake up and it's dark outside.1:35AM
It was the least I could do. Now I'm twittering about it. That's even less. Throwing shoes is great.1:34AM
Saw Angels and Demons last night. When the bloke in the red dress said "be gentle", handing over Galileo's work I threw a shoe at the screen1:30AM
Down my old caf. First time I've been here since I got drunk and was too embarrassed to leave the house for 4 months.1:25AM
PDF=fail : http://tr.im/FTOvThursday 2009-11-26
3:11PM
@davestone Nah - the most annoying thing about spotify is its geographical IP-Apartheid2:17PM
@markirby Nick Cave used to shop at my Sainsburys. Go over and give him a chorus of Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport. He loves it when you do that1:00PM
@gubatron Yea, or you could just stop the 33% of global finance that goes into tax havens. The Fat are probably already struggling as it is11:38AM
@tomnixon http://it.gen.nz/2009/11/26/dont-sign-away-our-rights-in-secret/ - but mainly because there's a podcast so I don't have to read11:33AM
Which is probably a good thing... you only get so many chances to sell your soul afterall... and previous decades were fairly destructive.11:31AM
Ah... the soundtrack of the decade where I finally stopped caring about music : http://tinyurl.com/y89dvjb11:15AM
@yezzer Yea - the press is in danger of becoming little more than the fact-checking department of the web.10:30AM
Yo Kiwis... podcast on the ACTA slimeballitude here : http://it.gen.nz/2009/11/26/dont-sign-away-our-rights-in-secret/3:17AM
Catsby is sitting, paused... with one leg stuck up in the air. Cats do that sometimes - defragging. It doesn't take long. Minimal disk-space2:50AM
I'm sitting in the car. Some ducks are loitering outside thinking I'm going to feed them. They're quite pretty. They have excellent feathers2:45AM
I think I might write a todo list - for old time's sake. So when I'm old, I can live in a tent made of lists of all the things I never did1:14AM
@paulcarr Which may or may not link to the 0 a day booze habit. I'm not lecturing mind, I'm easily capable of that.Wednesday 2009-11-25
10:03PM
@munki It's probably an omen of some sort. The bird I mean. Did it say anything? Chirp probably. They always say that.10:48AM
... eventually it starts making this noise... and when it stops, your washing is done! Amazing what science can do etc. Amazing.10:47AM
Today's main triumph was getting the washing machine to go. There are all these buttons and lights etc... if you push them randomly...10:26AM
@zenbullets I'm not sure that it's quite as simple as that... publishers/film-studios etc - I think the "crisis" goes way deeper.10:22AM
Aljazeera is the best news service on the planet.9:16AM
ie: a load of creepy religious bullshit?9:14AM
Oh right... I wasn't really paying attention, but was "The Last Templar" an attempt to be the Anti-Da Vinci Code?7:49AM
Mira Sorvino is on TV. I've got a soft-spot for old Mira. She's my kind of lady. A movie-star basically. That's like... you know.. "my type"6:13AM
Oh great! "Dude, Where's My Car?" is on later. I haven't seen it before.4:47AM
Well, my monthly spreadshirt sale just happened. http://tr.im/FJ4p In another 40,000 years I'll be able to retire.4:44AM
@serial_consign Cool - did they play "Just the girl you want"? That's my fav coming home drunk and waking the neighbours song.2:36AM
Wooo hooo... got my dongle thing working with linux.1:07AM
I like this guy : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TqyKsnQD38Tuesday 2009-11-24
2:22PM
The more I watch this, the scarier it gets : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DEoOdcYKbc2:07PM
Vanquishes a heisenbug7:56AM
A little more twinkle in the eye than you necessarily wanted to see.7:56AM
Mish-Imposs 3, with top-gun action-ferret, Tom Cruise. He does get into some scrapes that lad, but always comes out laughing HA HA HA etc7:18AM
Beautiful evening in New Zealand - photons everywhere. But like... soft photons you know? Breezy-Leaves. Chirpy-birds.12:23AM
Today is The Monday that Never Was, although technically it's now Tuesday. Day after tomorrow is Thursday. The week's nearly over.Monday 2009-11-23
11:27PM
Palin Supporters http://tr.im/FCkP It'd be tempting to give these people a country of their own... if they weren't so in love with guns.11:15PM
Rum Truffles for lunch. You can't have too many rum truffles. Can you? No. I wouldn't have thought so.9:01AM
@anucreative Yea - people misunderestimate just how fast bikes really are - particularly in towns/cities etc.8:06AM
@OneLuvGurl and a more imaginative selection of plugins.7:52AM
But... every time I saw the coffin I'd think "Jesus dude, what did you do that for?". Been thinking little else for days. Unreality.7:49AM
Back from the funeral. I was too happy to see everyone again than was (perhaps) appropriate under the circs. And a bit detached maybe.7:30AM
Why don't eggs have feathers then? Mmm? Mmm? If eggs had feathers, birds wouldn't have to sit on them. That proves evolution doesn't exist.Sunday 2009-11-22
9:09PM
RT @yezzer http://bit.ly/5jBi6b Ok good... can we prosecute now please. Who is responsible for this?9:02PM
@j4ngis Yea. My old drummer - a kind, gentle but fairly wayward soul. I still can't quite believe it's not some sort of mistake.8:40PM
But this one did. So I have to get all dressed up and so on.8:38PM
Going to a funeral today. I don't usually go to funerals - people don't usually die. Not on purpose anyway.10:31AM
RT @stephenfry: Dear Mandy, splendid fellow, but he is SO WRONG about copyright. Please sign and RT http://is.gd/50gQK #webwar #threestrikes4:38AM
There's a load of jazzers on the radio. Doodely deep doop de diddely bop they go. It's the only English they know.12:48AM
In the Pizza place in Wellington. They knew what sort of coffee I needed (quite badly) without asking. It's written all over my face etc.Saturday 2009-11-21
11:02AM
Oh great. A terrible wet cat.2:00AM
@joshr Who's BMG dude? Is she... you know... "A Lady"?1:58AM
Jeepers Creepers, where'd you get those peepers? No really, where did you get them? They look like my ones that I lost last week.1:35AM
@Balut Nope.1:30AM
@HowardLovecraft Sorry dude - that was probably me. I'm back home again now. No worries etc.1:20AM
Down the caf. Some people have come in who look "a bit odd", but they're like... my sort of people.1:02AM
Thank you for the music - the songs I'm singing. Thanks for all... the joy I'm bringing.12:27AM
@gubatron It's becoming sentient dude.12:17AM
The Devil's Venn Diagrams : http://www.genomicon.com/2009/11/the-devils-venn-diagrams/Friday 2009-11-20
11:00PM
@phowardcom That's why I think U-Turn is such a good film - though with such a concentration of talent that it's almost parody.9:36PM
@phowardcom re: 2001 - because it was about experiment rather than polish.5:18AM
At my Brother's place. He's baby-feeding the baby... who has just learned to laugh... and point. So she's pointing at me and laughing4:06AM
Sitting in one of the carparks next to Whitby Harbour, eating pizza. Out on the mudflats is a heron, walking stabbily. Looking for treasure.Thursday 2009-11-19
11:31PM
Off to Wellington today, to attempt to digitize all my old band's records etc.2:38PM
Hmmm... one of these looks a bit like Brighton's West Pier : http://www.flylyf.com/jim-kazanjian?s-aberrations-exhibition/ one fateful day1:53PM
@amandatreeuk Orrite - I remember the name... not sure about the music - some sort of Dunedin thing?7:17AM
We just saw that 2012. So that was a disaster.2:00AM
@snookca Maybe something to do with a replacement for flash? Or at least a visible-sourced variant. Visible-source is what the web is about12:59AM
Catsby is sleeping beside me - a small furry ball - like one of those Russian hats, only he would tear your ears off if you tried it.12:57AM
@Shadowfoot All variations? That's a lot of variations. Can you put things like "Nicholas Picolas Taylory Waylory"?Wednesday 2009-11-18
11:14PM
Search and Rescue-Bots 2 : http://www.genomicon.com/2009/11/search-and-rescue-bots-2/12:25PM
@alexqgb it was more of a snide dig at the idea that "falling CD sales are due to piracy", when it might also be due to quality of product12:22PM
@alexqgb That's not quite what I meant dude...3:17AM
@andybudd Digg sank below the astroturfing idiocracy about a year ago. Reddit's culture fucked up about 5 months ago - for different reasons2:25AM
@shanegold To make milkshakes with dude.1:59AM
This being the non wide-screen version : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSAXEVXvNz8 reminds me of the Bank of America one-love song1:58AM
I want the opposite of whatever they're drinking : http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=TSAXEVXvNz8Tuesday 2009-11-17
11:26PM
Ian Hopkins, former Wild Poppy has gone.12:21PM
http://tr.im/F8pt I thought Led-Zep 4 was good. And Rumours. And The Wall... but that was the 70s. Before the file-sharing killed sales11:51AM
@rapella I meant alliteration as well. Music-Monday, Follow-Friday. Chair-Throwing-Thursday11:41AM
@davestone of course what my spell-checker meant by that was alliteration.11:40AM
@davestone alteration.2:23AM
@serial_consign We're entering this phase where dozens of exponential trends are going from basically horizontal to basically vertical.2:22AM
@serial_consign LOL - I think you'd have to be a total fantasist not to think that another crash isn't on its way.12:38AM
@CaseyContrarian With a little side-order of peat tappas to nibble on.Monday 2009-11-16
10:50PM
Those fecking birds have eaten all my strawberries. It's not easy being a farmer.10:20PM
@serial_consign Free as in free beer. Douglas Rushkoff reckons it's this that caused the 2001, and the current crash. They're the same crash10:13PM
I'd say that the amount of "free" labour that goes into the internet is staggering - probably trillions. And it ought not be the exception.10:07PM
To be more like a lawyer, I've written a punch-clock... to see where my time goes. I spend about 2 hours a day just helping people out.2:08PM
attention-complianceware? http://tr.im/F4gA that's a coincidence. I was just about to patent go-fuck-yourself-up-the-chufferware2:04PM
@turnfront Well one thing it means, is that they are no longer fit for purpose.1:47PM
Edward Woodward.8:32AM
@makethingstalk I though Jarhead was um... not like that actually. And it's got Peter Saarsgard in it etc, so it's automatically great.Sunday 2009-11-15
10:18AM
@rushkoff have you seen this? http://tr.im/EZAF - re: "musicians not making money from music if it's free"10:01AM
And it struck me that what they had that really gave them the edge, wasn't the vision or the will, but the ability to organise at that level10:01AM
There was a documentary recently about a Danish island that supplied all it's own energy with wind and CHP - community projects.1:30AM
@g2support the nuke/coal thing is a fake dichotomy promoted by nuke shills... for the gullible, who now think that nuke is somehow clean.1:23AM
@g2support Yea, that would be a marvelous concept if it didn't take 10 years to build a nuke station. Personally, I'd go for CHP1:20AM
Jesus, that guy's got the fakest laugh in the world. A fake-laugh is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Poor guy. Still, what a cunt.1:14AM
Ravel's Bolero was inspired, in part, by an Italian dish - Ravel's Bolognese... which was made with incredibly long strands of spaghetti12:50AM
There's a string-quartet, playing a crowd-pleasing medley of themes from Hollywood movies featuring Italian criminals.12:48AM
Down the Italian. They've put me behind the biscuit shelves. I feel honoured. Trusted - not to be found later, passed-out, covered in crumbsSaturday 2009-11-14
10:59PM
Where the Poppies grow, etc : http://bit.ly/2ynFJi6:44PM
Classic symptom of toxic corporate DNA : http://twitpic.com/nzkws10:41AM
Whole, Hole... you know what I mean... http://konarka.com and http://nanosolar.com are ramping up production of printed solar right now.10:35AM
It's going to take longer just to dig the whole to bury the waste, than it is to develop solar to the point where nukes aren't needed.10:34AM
100,000 years? http://tr.im/EW9B That's... ooh... 95,000 yrs older than the pyramids. Nice one Gordon. Nice one Mandy. Stupid fucks.10:25AM
@leashless Well who are great leaders? The ones that I can think of became the "lead role" in a story that was already primed to happen10:19AM
Ok - how's this for geek-credibility http://tr.im/EW7W My mate Lee (with machine gun) in a plane he built. Off-the-scale clever.10:10AM
@leashless I think leadership might be something to do with the ability to tell a story that everyone is waiting to hear.Friday 2009-11-13
10:33PM
@joshr That's why I can't be dealing marijuana. I'm strongly anti-prohibition, but for me it's like hiding under a rug. Introversion? Bah.10:03PM
That's how you became a pilot in the 30s. You just needed to stand about being useful. He could play the violin as well.10:01PM
He was a car mechanic... at the airport one day, they said "have you ever fixed on of these?" then later "have you ever flown one of these?9:59PM
Anyway, I'm off to the Airshow today. My grandfather was a pilot - used to fly Tiger Moths. It was New Zealand.... in the 30s etc.9:57PM
They're bigger than I thought they were, Llamas. I always thought of them as being a type of Perivian Tree Sheep. They're more cowey9:55PM
Down the Caf in Petone. There are some Llamas outside - Llama Awareness Day... and I am as aware of Llamas as it's humanly possible to be.1:28PM
@gubatron "Catastrophe" also comes from the Greek : Bad Cat. Apparently.1:27PM
@LeifKendall it's almost like some species of synesthesia. Pain in the arse to be honest. Anthropomorphism gone mad.1:24PM
@LeifKendall I've always felt sorry for shower caps... ever since I was a kid. Never have figured it out.12:53PM
There's a great big patch at the side of the house that I feel particularly sorry for. Don't know why.12:52PM
Mind you, I do feel guilty about absolutely everything that it's possible to feel guilty about. And I feel sorry for clover. Some of it.12:48PM
@zenbullets I met Johnny Marr once and was so star-struck I didn't notice Noel G, who was also there. Still feel guilty about it.9:24AM
@redeye Ain't that the truth. I argued with some of them over the ID thing. It's all about departmental empire building. Utterly Disgraceful7:21AM
The worst thing in the whole world is on TV. I have no idea what it is, or what's going on. It has cheerleaders and dorks and things7:01AM
At my brother's place. Women of Ninja Warriors is on. The little blonde one won... she was the only one to get over the big spongy things.6:42AM
So anyway, I'm all tetnus-shotted up... I can now hurt myself with impunity. EXCELLENT!!! Ah Smithers, I feel so alive.Thursday 2009-11-12
12:36PM
Does anyone know of any semi-organised efforts to mobilise against #ACTA - I think we need to Name and Shame... those behind it.12:24PM
I still find this fairly funny http://bit.ly/X29Jf11:46AM
@extraordinaire Don't ever try to drink yourself under the table. The more you win, the more you lose.11:46AM
@extraordinaire If I had a clone, I'd get drunk with it - realise what I cunt I really am, and hate myself even more than I already do :)11:44AM
@SimonHume Well it's certainly all there - depends on how much they like flowery wallpaper really.10:47AM
@SimonHume Someone mentioned a theme that looked like posterous yesterday. Not a bad place to start.10:46AM
@tomnixon HB2U HB2UUUUU HBDTTTTTT HBBBB22222UUUUUUU6:43AM
@j4ngis I think the key word is "ecosystem". Big IT is like trying to run something like a tiger as a single cell organism4:20AM
@stilgherrian Depends who's laughing at you dude, depends who's laughing at you.4:17AM
RT @cshirky @Caterina http://blog.hunch.com/?p=8794 < Oh god no. I eat like a conservative. I'm not... I'm.. I'm... a slob. That's ok right?3:07AM
Back in the waiting room - post tetnus shot. Arrf Arrrf. Apparently I'm not allowed to walk or drive for a bit, in case I faint etc.2:57AM
anoraxic : The excessive and inappropriate wearing of raincoats in response to dysfunctional body self-image2:50AM
In the doctor's waiting room, waiting. For a tetnus shot. Arggh. I thought they only gave those to dogs etc.12:00AM
<?php get_sidebar(); ?> #inmyclipboardrightnowWednesday 2009-11-11
11:59PM
I hope google doesn't profile me on my searches... because opera/ubuntu keeps C&P random shit into the googlebar. They'll think I'm weird.11:56PM
@paulcarr two helpings of both then. Overeasy.10:44PM
Ooh Minister of Information http://tr.im/EM3D That sounds familiar. Is that the one where he sits there lying to us every week?10:40PM
ACTA http://tr.im/EM2B This needs not only to be thrown out, but the people who operate in this way should be put out of business.1:24PM
The advantage with electric is that everything is so much closer to becoming a software problem - which mean barriers to entry go to zero.1:23PM
I think the holy grail is solar->direct to->electrical storage though. "burning stuff" is so cro-magnon.1:21PM
If this is true, it's like... Holy Crap! http://tr.im/EJOA - similar to what Craig Venter said he was doing at TED quite some ago.9:34AM
@leashless You know... Lord of the Flies for people who live in Tunbridge Wells.9:34AM
@leashless Maybe it would be an easier sell creating a reality game show where (groups of) people are put into collapsonomic scenarios.9:29AM
@paulcarr Quite. Not wanting to belong to any club that would have me as a member, has been extended to at least one the wouldn't.4:49AM
Sitting here with 2 laptops. I like having lots of screens. If I had my way I'd have loads of them- like wing-mirrors on a quadrophenia bike4:47AM
@inkblotsart 'half' is one of those badly spelled words isn't it. Like 'does' - but not as bad as 'yacht' which is just random. Just a noise3:01AM
The shirts I'm wearing don't match. No one can see me,not even I can see me, but I can imagine me. Sitting here, not matching. I'm not happy1:41AM
@envirotainment geo-engineering is a political "solution" promoted to let corporations off the hook. We need to deal with them first.1:03AM
The internet is so much bigger than the pyramids... or any of the ancient wonders, but everything I wrote 5 years ago is kindof crap now.1:00AM
The thing with web-devvery - we're building the greatest "thing" that ever will (or can) be created, but the bits are really ephemeral12:55AM
@leashless I'm more Timothy Leary on acid. A thinking man's Einstein though more knowledge-agnostic, and almost entirely achievement-free12:49AM
RT @NukePeoplePower Anti-Politicians-Selling-Us-Out-To-The-Nuke-Industry strategy weekend 21-22 Nov, London http://bit.ly/850Kb12:43AM
@leashless NOW WITH 80% LESS CHEESE!!! erm... sorry. A... err... as you say... cultural thing.Tuesday 2009-11-10
2:02PM
@Prycie M.P I mean. Sorry - I think I may be on the upswing of a spot of bipolarity. It's only 3am as well.2:01PM
@Prycie This one : http://bit.ly/QZwdX I can't find a clip of M.C from Gabriel. He's cool though.1:58PM
@Prycie Piccalilli. Piccirilli. Same thing innit. One's an Australian actor, the other is his name as pronounced by Kim Jung Ill.1:54PM
@Prycie Have you seen that Gabriel? Michael Piccirilli was in it. Similar sort of thing. He was really good actually. A Sexy/Creepy demon1:50PM
Kubrickesque spookybot http://bit.ly/1mUzpw12:42PM
@davestone I used to be a market-stall tycoon. Pretty much the only thing that matters sales-wise is the amount of foot-traffic you get.7:54AM
Which is kindof obvious - being subject to market rather than peer forces.7:52AM
In my experience, "paid for" software is generally less likely to be written by people who knew what they were doing.4:33AM
At some point during the night... unattended, my (linux) laptop somehow taught itself how to unencrypt DVDs4:28AM
If spider webs are so flammable, why don't you get more web-fires? I'll tell you why: Spiders don't smoke. Not any more.4:00AM
Hope. We get to hear a lot about "Hope" these days - mainly to do with politicians doing their fucking jobs rather than just selling us out3:55AM
Can anyone recommend me some sort of Sci-Fi writers group where people can tell me what I ought not to be doing etc?2:51AM
Had a blood test earlier. In my arm. 2009 was the year that I had all the blood tests.Monday 2009-11-09
1:19PM
@joshr I agree... isn't it a bit like publicly RFID-chipping yourself? It's a surveillance statist's dream.1:09PM
@gubatron Now he's trying to do the same digitally? Good. I hope none of his "news" outlets ever get cited again.1:08PM
@gubatron The world would have been a much better place if Murdoch had just hidden under an upturned bathtub in his backyard, 30 years ago.9:46AM
Opera / Ubuntu does this really irritating thing: if you lightly brush the keypad, it tries to redirect to whatever was last C&P'd9:42AM
Various etc : http://bit.ly/23Pra28:48AM
Anyway, we saw the shorts for that "Christmas Carol" earlier. Fuck me, Jim Carrey's looking old.6:49AM
@iceMagic I generally use the one that comes as default with jQuery UI.6:48AM
Macaroni Cheese for tea. Macaroni cheese is probably Catsby's favourite cheese and pasta-based dish, especially if it has bacon in it.2:50AM
Maybe my it's my inner state that's wrong. I think I need to become a lot more superficial.2:49AM
When I hear myself on the phone... I'm so normal and articulate and friendly and capable... so utterly at odds with my normal inner state.1:46AM
@GreenpeaceAustP re: what can we do to counter? http://bit.ly/6Vu8H have a competition of youtube parody adverts. Winner gets a solar thing.Sunday 2009-11-08
11:50PM
So starteth the week. I have absolutely GOT to get my circadian rhythm (stupid word, can't possibly spell it) back to normal.12:17PM
Looking at parrot videos on the internets: http://bit.ly/16I0uk11:17AM
@LeifKendall Everything you say comes true in real life.10:54AM
Hmmm... "Nick" is a trending topic. So like... what are you guys talking about?. Better not be me.7:52AM
@kaiserkuo January's the middle of winter isn't it?1:46AM
@BrianLimond You think you've got problems... I hate (and I mean really, really hate) people who say "wow, just wow". Cunts.12:59AM
A small boy from across the road appeared, and she yelled "You touch that gate I'll kick your fucking arse you little cunt"12:58AM
Climbed out of a dusty 1960s Holden. We'd moved to the country. Across the fields (out of the sun) rode a long-haired girl on a white horseSaturday 2009-11-07
1:57PM
RT @CaseyContrarian http://bit.ly/vwo8C LOL It's like Wings of Desire, but everyone's a moran.1:34PM
@j4ngis basically, yea. The worms make shell-lined burrows in the coral... the coral wears away, leaving these razor-sharp tubes.1:10PM
@j4ngis the worst things aren't monster crabs, it's the exposed shells of tube-worms out on the reef. Quite nasty.1:08PM
@j4ngis yea - Niue doesn't have normal rock - it's all fossilized coral... your feet get to be pretty tough.12:45PM
@j4ngis Yea - they get big. In the old days, the Niueans would hunt them in the bush at night... by sound alone. Now that is scary.12:43PM
Girls from my school. I was totally in love with one of the ones at the back http://tr.im/EqCJ I was 812:30PM
@j4ngis I think we probably ate it sadly. Not sad at the time, but looking back, I wish we hadn't. One of the locals would've given it to us12:17PM
Me, my Brother and a crab. In the back yard, in the 70s. http://www.weirdsky.com/miscImages/crab.jpg
11:37AM
@j4ngis Yea, I used to have a newly hatched baby chicken once. Used to sit on my head, making chirping sounds. You got used to it.11:32AM
Oh wow. IT'S ONLY GOT E WAR WOO WOO IN IT!!! They should have made the whole thing about him. Proper thesp innit.11:30AM
@gubatron It's actually not that unusual to have really seriously talented people busking. Well... not in London anyway.11:28AM
@gubatron Guys in one of my old bands used to busk the tubes in London - would double their income by playing "losing my religion" by REM.11:00AM
@iceMagic Isn't dropbox a centrally controlled/owned thing? Top-down control is the biggest threat to and weakness of... um... everything.10:30AM
@iceMagic Personally I'd like to see (and think we need) an open version of Opera's unite for p2p image/vid/content siloing.10:26AM
@iceMagic I really don't think they get memetic tectonics. Neither do I, but I don't not get it as badly as they do. Or don't. Whatever.10:21AM
I don't get how American Indies do empathy so incredibly (and I really do mean incredibly) well, but low-budget TV fails at it so badly.10:20AM
Watching a new (for me) sci-fi mini-series... 10 minutes in and I already hate everyone in it.4:12AM
I think segmented, socialised POS product reviews could quite big for AR- potential politicised angles as well. eg "Monsanto Inside" labels4:09AM
re: The future of the web. http://tr.im/EoQu I don't agree with most of these... apart possibly from the augmented reality one.4:05AM
Tonight's dinner will hopefully be the pizza I missed out on last night... which is to say, another similar pizza.3:48AM
My town has a paddle steamer which sometimes goes "whooooooooooooot", and just now was one of those times "whoooooooot" it went.1:54AM
Amazing Mars Pics : http://bit.ly/bXqHO12:41AM
@Martin_Carr Probably beatles-esque Crimean-War type military stuff. It was all petticoats and moustaches in those days. Before my time mind12:37AM
Saturday. Nachos for lunch. It's rowdy and sunny and windy outside. I think I'll have coffee as well.Friday 2009-11-06
6:19PM
Scruffy McNickwit rides again.12:34PM
One of the problems with Hollywood sci fi robots, is that no real robot would ever land a bullet more than a molecule out of place, ever.12:23PM
Ctrl-Z? nah. Give me Ctrl-omega... for when to return is as tedious as to go o'er, and you just want to... well, take it all back to alpha.10:55AM
@MichaelPhipps Because it was on my machine first... and I've been using windows variants for 10 years. Everything works in Windows.10:52AM
A minor (ok major) problem I have with politics is that it's all "local local local". I'm not local. I come from the whole planet at once.10:42AM
Ok, Didn't get as far as a pizza. Went and got drunk with the local townspeople etc. Back now.4:26AM
Yea, so anyway. Pizza for tea tonight. Fighting the system from within.4:01AM
But then again, there's Firefox not loading the web dev toolbar because it won't shut down properly. 50% CPU, and no window showing.3:47AM
RT @digg_sciences Scientists find butterflies splitting into 2 species http://tr.im/Eiiw < moths and caterpillars as any fule no3:45AM
Back to XP etc. Hate to say it, but in certain respects XP is faster than Ubuntu. In other respects it's not. No clear winner then.2:15AM
I expect that you chaps in England didn't believe me when I said my dad rolling-pins bread to get it in the toaster http://tr.im/EhYq1:31AM
The Durie Hill tower is tipped by a domed steel cage to stop people committing suicide. People climb up the inside of it, trying to escape1:26AM
Gob-Smackingly beautiful day. High-tide on the river. Girls with suntanned arms, sitting in cars, smoking. Distant lawnmowers. Sparrows.1:22AM
@BubbleUp I once heard Color Me Badd described as "The Frog Footmen at the Ugly Bugly Ball"Thursday 2009-11-05
3:44PM
@stephenfry Of course in my day we had to make our own muzac. By humming to selves.1:48PM
@olleolleolle Yea... trouble is, IE6 is currently the web's most widely used browser. Only IE7 users are migrating to IE8. Way to go yet.1:46PM
@evangineer This friend of mine used to say "I feel sorry for my Mum and Dad. They've never had acid, so they don't know what they're like"1:45PM
@evangineer I think LSD (etc) acts similarly to ECT but without the trauma, and with an additional mega-dose of perspective1:41PM
@olleolleolle Does that mean we can stop using tables now then :)1:39PM
Skyrockets outside. "Guy Fawkes" was the Stuart 9/11... now the king is gone and hardly anyone remembers his name.1:28PM
It's 2.30am, I haven't started. I haven't finished. Tomorrow is Friday, yesterday was Monday.1:25PM
And work... is like running a marathon, then having to get up off the floor and do the dishes. Then getting up again to hang up the teatowel1:24PM
The information overload is now so bad, that I have a binary reaction to any stimuli: "whatever" and "interesting, must come back to"10:34AM
I think I might have a vacuum tomorrow. The house I mean. Not me... although...8:38AM
Yea, but it's patented, which means it's worthless http://tr.im/Ectu the people who need it, can't afford it. Fuck "life-saving" patents.6:41AM
Back in Wanganui now. I might go down the video shop. Be found, curled up, sleeping on the floor in the Drama section.4:35AM
In Palmerston North for some reason. Idly toying with getting really drunk and sleeping in the car... like I used back when I was... "a man"1:09AM
@leashless The fact that this was at the Royal Albert Hall made it even cooler. Also the best harmonica player I've ever heard in my life1:07AM
@leashless I saw Arthur Lee once. His band came on, he appeared wearing shades, jacket over shouder. Took 1/2 an hour to walk up to the mikeWednesday 2009-11-04
11:42AM
@CrowleysGhost But Tony, you fear jazz.11:09AM
@leashless Well I thought they were. Kiva I mean.9:04AM
Wanna know what my home town is like? I just went to the movies - 4 people there. Came out at 9.30pm, all the pubs are shut. No customers9:00AM
Anyway, we just saw that "Surrogates". Bruce Willis is in it. They airbrushed his face.6:41AM
So Mr Mayor? Now that you're no longer the lowly MP for H on T, how about putting your money where your mouth was? Mmm? How about it?6:40AM
As much as I disagree with the guy, Boris does rock http://tr.im/E5sS I read is autobiog once - he said all drugs should be legalised.6:25AM
So that's my thought for the day. I'm off my medication so something as innocuous as a falling leaf feels like a declaration of war.6:19AM
"scared" is the 20th century trying to hold back the 21st. You can all fuck off and die. Fucking fat, slow, stupid corporate media wankers.6:18AM
And starting a piece "Another fear is that...". Know what? I'm sick of people who are scared all the fucking time. Scared is boring.6:17AM
Do they sound like that when they're just sitting round the house? You can't believe anything they say. It sounds really manipulative.6:15AM
Watching an American documentary about genomics. American documentaries voice-overs are weird. Like the deep-voiced Hollywood Trailer Guy.5:45AM
re: Our salvation lying in extremes - I have taken "needing to get a life" so far I have almost broken through to the other side.4:25AM
Goes for a walk round the block... out into External Reality etc. A bit boring tbh, but the graphics are great!2:38AM
@paulcarr As far as I could gather, Dante's Inferno was a shopping list of things he'd like to do to people he hated2:05AM
Attempts to cut banana in half with a khukri. Remarkably effective but now I can't find the other half of the banana.Tuesday 2009-11-03
11:09PM
I think we need some specific list of people/organisations/companies to go after - and some forum for discussing tactics/strategies.11:08PM
I know we're in a cold-war against the corporation/state, but this is too much http://tr.im/E48g we need to mobilise against these people10:50PM
Wakes up, feels quite good. An early night... who'da thunk it? Going to sleep at 5am every night makes you feel like crap!10:17AM
Floss : http://bit.ly/4x02A58:51AM
Shot to bits at the moment. Can't concentrate on anything.6:31AM
Elaine Page is on the TV. Looks like a shiny version of Eddie Izzard.12:47AM
@gleonhard re: disloyalty to creators: Major Label MO pre-web was to buy indie labels to get one band (eg: Blur), then quietly drop the rest12:43AM
Get up. Get outa bed. Draga spoon across mt h... no. Hang on... Draga fork acr... no. Arse. WTF? (goes back to bed)Monday 2009-11-02
9:23AM
Or punchup even. The amount of javascript on the web has basically taken us back to 1980s 'tap-and-wait' telnetesque keyboard speeds.9:22AM
I know I watch movies so my brain can escape from the tedium of having to constantly think etc... but I'm so over Resolution-by-Puchup9:19AM
Just saw that State of Play with that fighty Aussie bloke in it. Good movie I think. Quite stealthy and stalky. Helen Mirrim was in it too.6:02AM
@stephenfry Excellent!!! Good to have you back Sir :) We were a bit worried for a while there.4:20AM
So that'll be the honeymoon period over then. It would be ok if it didn't take XP about 10 fucking minutes to boot up.4:19AM
The other thing... I haven't got a single plug and play thing to work yet. Bluetooth, hand-held-phone, vodaphone dongle and 12 hours, gone.4:17AM
Christ, all I want to do is convert 5 jpgs to gifs. How hard can that possible be? It's taken about an hour so far.4:16AM
First place where linux is falling down badly - lack of Fireworks. Wine/fireworks doesn't work. Gimp is too photoshoppy, Xara is being weird3:48AM
Just had second half of haircut. A leaf fell on me while I was drinking coffee... the highlight of the day so far.Sunday 2009-11-01
3:52PM
The Orb of Evil: http://bit.ly/4fPX6Q3:45PM
I won't be the least bit surprised if this becomes the defacto comment-engine for like, everything http://tr.im/DOk63:24PM
I used to work in a place like this : http://tr.im/DOe02:53PM
Analogue Link-Rot : http://bit.ly/2gusNu1:13PM
@gubatron Apparently the biggest selling Sun/Daily Mail issue was the one featuring the Fergie-toe-sucking incident. People are weird.10:57AM
The Australasian Greater Mulleted Beach Bogan has the amazing ability to smoke underwater, and can swim fully dressed.10:51AM
There were bogans at the beach. Beach-bogans - doing what beach-bogans do best, which is sit around drinking and talking about cars.10:50AM
Today was almost a computer-free day, but not quite, by miles. Still. I did get to go to the beach for a bit. To look for fossils etcOctober 2009
Saturday 2009-10-31
4:02PM
@stephenfry You've bypassed the traditional banalification filters - and you did help get the law changed in NZ as well.4:00PM
@stephenfry You'd really go back to having to rely on journalists and editors to talk to everyone? What you have is fantastic.11:17AM
Still. Om nom nom.11:17AM
Mum bought sweets for trick-or-treating kids... and no one came. Christ, that's even more depressing than the US-ification of NZ culture10:40AM
Writing a wordpress theme to encapsulate a little MVC core... because it's Saturday night, and that's what I do on Saturday night now.9:06AM
In a lot of ways, the 70s was the pinnacle of 20th century popular art - the magical point just before shear capability became mere polish.9:03AM
The Shining is on. How to make films 101. Utter genius... it would be so easy to take the same story board and for it to be crap.8:30AM
@kalena Kids don't react to the blood, the react to the reactions of their parents.6:38AM
Anyway, I'm in an amazingly bad mood.6:33AM
@munki idiots.6:33AM
@munki I go that a while back. Suddenly the eyebrows that had held themselves in check for 35 yrs said "fuck it, let's get rowdy and pissed"1:00AM
@RaOsolage Which Aristocracy? No aristocracy ever shuns anything that makes money. This is interesting: http://tr.im/DEdi12:05AM
The more dangerous a drug is, the more important it is, that its quality-control, and "finance-packages" aren't controlled by mafia scum.12:02AM
@RaOsolage If you want to radically reduce the harm + violence caused by drugs and gut mafia(s) finances. Legalise everything.Friday 2009-10-30
9:17AM
Still engaged in the great migration. Leading my apps and data from slavery to ubuntuland4:05AM
So to run it, you have to go into the task manager to delete the zombie process... which generally runs to over 100mb4:05AM
My. Well the new version of Firefox is for me at least, completely fucked. It only allows one instance to be running, and won't shut down.2:51AM
LOL. The Mayor of my town has said that the best way to fight child abuse is to sterilise welfare beneficiaries.2:45AM
This seriously pisses me off http://tr.im/DxaS Why the fuck aren't Blair, Bush and all those other scum being prosecuted?Thursday 2009-10-29
12:42PM
Peter Mandelson aims to lower piracy 70% in 2 yrs http://tr.im/Dsmf hopefully won't clash with my aim to lower his govt role by 100% in 1yr4:14AM
@alexfarran Yea - I was a physics major at one point. That whole bicycle wheel on a broomstick thing really intrigued me.4:06AM
I must say, Ubuntu is fucking gorgeous compared to Windows. I feel sorry for Windows now. It hasn't half dicked me about though.3:01AM
The flipside of this, is that it eventually becomes part of the problem. A daily reminder of a type of victimhood, and helplessness2:58AM
I think reports of "prozac not working" are bad journalism. What's actually being shown is depression's susceptibility to the placebo effect2:37AM
Just had my haircut... which means being tied to a chair for hours, forced to face the fact that I do now look exactly like James May.Wednesday 2009-10-28
11:55AM
Sitting here, trying to use a little baby netbooklet, while my main machine defrags/chkdsks. Fuck me it's slow11:53AM
"Seemingly", if you get a gyroscope "barbell" with the two ends spinning in opposite directions, then rotate the whole thing, it should fly.11:46AM
@MaryJaneAnsell still, bizarre thing (for me) to watch - because his 20 year progression took me about 10 minutes. Possibly claptrap though11:44AM
@MaryJaneAnsell nope. Know nothing about macs. Very low quality file as well.10:33AM
I invented this in my mind when I was 19. Never did try it out http://www.gyros.biz/lecture/heretic.wmv10:16AM
Today has been one of those days where you spend all of it, just trying to get your computer to go.2:26AM
Sushi for lunch, shared with Catsby, who loves salmon with a passion he finds quite impossible to contain.1:58AM
@marie_clair I'm in the Golden Mean Caliper game these days. Someone else bought one today.1:56AM
Anyway, I'm cold-turkeying of prozac at the moment. I've decided to fight it with my bare hands and teeth etc. Can not be fucked with it.1:55AM
Beautiful day in NZ. Seagulls wheeling, flags flapping, sunshine shining. It's green and bright and blue. I wonder how I can monetize it.Tuesday 2009-10-27
1:46PM
My laptop is running so hot that it's threatening to destroy the entire universe.11:49AM
Anyway, today was fucked. I'm being run ragged at the moment.11:42AM
I think this is really good, in a bonkers sort of way : http://bit.ly/vU6bC8:47AM
The Island is on, with like... Alec Guinness when he was younger. It's a better than I remembered actually.4:28AM
Yea, well. Yesterday I was so enraged that I punted 0 to Amnesty.3:01AM
Heres' a challenge. See if you can break all of @guykawasaki 's tweet rules in a single tweet. Go on.You know you want to http://tr.im/DaOP2:54AM
@wind4me and nuke vs coal is an entirely false dichotomy encouraged by nuke shills. Please. Don't embarrass yourself.2:53AM
@wind4me Bullshit. Ever been to Chernobyl? Dealing with existing nuke waste costs the UK taxpayer a billion a year. Forever.2:49AM
A seagull outside has found a treasure-trove - a discarded packet of McDonalds. It's raining, disconsolate and indifferent. Dirty rain.Monday 2009-10-26
4:45PM
One of the most irritating things about freelancing... is people who want you to work for free, trying to trivialise what you do.1:54PM
Oooh: Twitter costs business £1.4bn http://tr.im/D62p In other news, 1/3 of all finance globally, goes via tax-havens, costing us trillions1:51PM
In my own mind, behind my own laptop screen... I'm seriously going to war against these people. Fuck them. They don't deserve to exist.1:49PM
Unless I'm much mistook, that'll be our democratically elected representatives putting big business before due-process http://tr.im/D60L1:06PM
GeoCities, the West Pier of web-apps, sinketh below the waves. See... see why we should p2p all our user-contributed data silos asap?11:11AM
@leashless Yus! that's the one. Certain subjects are impossible to google for on account of so many people shouting at once.11:00AM
@leashless Yea, I think so. You were wondering if it worked? A way for people to sell other people's goods - like p2p distribution.10:30AM
@paulcarr Was there a U2 thing?6:04AM
@josephflaherty it has a little "how this works" video... which goes on about selling art-supplies.5:57AM
@josephflaherty Nope - it's a site where you can retail other people's products, get them to retail yours. It's not to do with fabbing.5:02AM
More thoughts on data immortality : http://bit.ly/3K1hfe4:02AM
Trying to find a new web app that facilitates social/p2p distribution of physical products. @leashless found it a while back. Now lost etc.3:27AM
@EivindJ re: windows 7 / vista. You should try putting Ubuntu on a usb stick and booting off that. It's fast. It's a... different world.3:05AM
This is a direct consequence of centralised energy : http://tr.im/D3m42:58AM
This is what the internet is for : http://tr.im/D3m4 This should be public, and in the face of every world leader... everyone.2:34AM
Backing up my whole laptop - a good decade's worth. It appears "losing something" is less of a problem than "forgetting you had it"Sunday 2009-10-25
2:47PM
I don't get it. They've got all the resources, and quite a lot of the talent to make a really good movie.. and they use a biolerplate script2:29PM
Watching Sand Serpents. Nicely lit - reminds me of Terrence Malick... But you've got "a group of people" and a monster. No plot required.2:19PM
I woke up on Preston Platform by mistake once : http://bit.ly/3ycJt1:30PM
@leashless To be honest I'd not really thought about it that way. Dee's mate was a bit suspect... and the source of a lot of his output.1:25PM
@leashless You think there's merit to it?1:23PM
@leashless exactly that - hosts of archetypes. But in the end, the best they can ever be is a mirror. We're not seeing beyond ourselves1:21PM
@leashless I think John Dee may have been on a similar thing actually - trying to impose meaning on the patterns... creating more patterns1:19PM
I hope Morrissey doesn't die. Leaving the stage before Thatcher would kill him.1:16PM
@leashless I mean hallucinations as patterns springing from the mind rather than something provoked by drugs, though I've heard they help :)1:12PM
@leashless the only thing resembling a universal truth lies in the opposite direction, away from meaning completely. I'm out of my depth tho1:10PM
@leashless I get this vibe of "scrying meaning from hallucinations"... it's interesting, but it's not the route to any universal truth.1:04PM
@leashless Mind you... "Tantric Space Paganism". Genius. What could possibly go wrong?1:03PM
@leashless I think people should read Crowley's diaries first. Whatever he was taking, it clearly wasn't good for him.12:50PM
@leashless LOL, Christ, you've got to make a movie out of that.12:48PM
@leashless So you reckon Thelema ought to have been a species of Zen? (I'm getting really out of my depth here)12:46PM
@leashless it's an interesting intellectual exercise, but really it's just these fractaline, self-generating patterns that go on forever12:43PM
@leashless I think Crowley was a genius, but was barking up the wrong tree. Like a metaphysical version of square-roots of negative numbers12:41PM
@leashless makes me think of The Diceman - starts out as an approach to freedom, winds up as an excuse to do all sorts of 70s shit12:35PM
@wind4me Nuclear energy/Climate: bullshit. All that is, is a heavily funded nuke lobby pretending they're green... or $ viable without taxes12:31PM
@rapella writing is frozen talking.12:30PM
@leashless Good to see Thelema entering the popular lexicon. Mind you, have you seen it? Looks like a bit of a shit-hole to me.8:05AM
NZ (AKL) Arduino Users Group : http://bit.ly/N4eUj6:13AM
http://tweetpsych.com "you are an embittered and cynical individual, like a cross between Kevin S off Swimming with Sharks and Shane McGowan5:35AM
@stilgherrian Yea, but I haven't actually grown up... well... maybe but only in a tactical rather than strategic sense.5:33AM
On TV tonight there's a clash between "The Tudors" and "How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days". Look, listen and learn.5:24AM
Spent a new year's out of my mind on shrooms with one of this lot once: http://tr.im/CXuM my mate spent the whole night clinging to a pole5:17AM
Morrissey collapses on stage after one song. Well... maybe he didn't like it? Not everyone's a Smiths fan. Still... overreaction maybe.5:15AM
Apropos of this : http://tr.im/CXrX5:08AM
The only credible thing the Bush junta did was fail to find WMD in Iraq. I really thought they would have lied about that.3:16AM
@inkblotsart LOL2:59AM
Anyway, Life's a journey, not a destination... Circular. Or a spiral... consisting mainly of valleys and troughs (Mmm... troughs om non nom)2:56AM
@joshr Jesus, I wish. Been a funny year - I think I'll be in Aus before 2010 though. But I need a passport, and that means getting a haircut2:43AM
@stilgherrian I roam a LOT further as an adult than I ever did as a child. I think things are improving.2:30AM
Is Tony Blair the right man to be president of Europe? http://tr.im/CWWq No, because he's a lying cunt who got us into a war for nothing2:06AM
@Noetical I find it really difficult maintaining multiple twitter accounts. "Identity-Multitasking". I always get cross-identity-leakage1:56AM
@joshr LOL - I'm back where I was 30 years ago.Saturday 2009-10-24
4:02PM
@leashless http://bit.ly/p5EMY <- Yea, but the real problem is the fucking big hole where the labour party used to be.2:07PM
My dad asked my cousin... a NZ champion Superbike racer what he thought about when he was racing - he said just: "go deeper"12:35PM
Twitter's trending topics is a little... erm... wrong - Nick Griffin is being kept alive by spam.12:25PM
Have now moved to Linux. Windows is just too slow.9:59AM
The Shiting #oneletteroffmovies9:56AM
So forgive my luke-warm enthusiasm for things getting back to normal.9:54AM
Whatever. The "housing boom" was a party to which a lot of us weren't invited. We've been in recession since ~2000 http://tr.im/CSj18:38AM
"The following movie contains language that may offend, and scenes that may disturb some people" YEEESSS!!!!8:09AM
My haircut (or comparative lack thereof) has gone from Sonic Youth, to King Charles Spaniel in the space of a day.7:53AM
Anyway, can't talk - there's a Bruce Willis movie on. It's the one where he blows shit up.7:22AM
Net Neutrality etc. What it is and so on: http://bit.ly/3IMq156:55AM
So they're all "ok, we won't destroy the earth etc" but then they see this movie and are like "WTF!!! THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE US?!? CUNTS!!!"6:53AM
It's one where eco-aliens decide to destroy the earth to stop humanity from destroying the earth. Unless (one man) can persuade them not to.6:52AM
We just saw that "The Day The Earth Stopped" which is a remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still". Aliens. Again. Always with the Aliens.1:47AM
Al Franken beats the shit out of some posh bint: http://tr.im/CQuG If all politicians were like this, the world wouldn't be fucked.Friday 2009-10-23
1:53PM
@TreeHugger re fewer children. Birth-rate correlates to infant mortality rate. It IS somewhat like saying commit suicide.1:39PM
@joshr I had a great aunt Nesta once... she was the multi-millionairess that left it all to the cat's home. It does happen.10:24AM
ACDC are on TV. I'm not quite sure how they've pulled it off... but they've somehow managed to turn into their own tribute band.10:14AM
@MaryJaneAnsell Actcherly, my mate Timon has a thing in London http://tr.im/CL4Q £5 tho. Say "Do you know who I am?" they'll let you in free8:29AM
@OneLuvGurl Decentralised infrastructure generally is a matter of national (& global) security. This is The Age of the Anti-Babel. Hopefully8:23AM
It also has "bandit" and "queen". What if you're both? Hmm? What if you're a bandit-queen? What then? Usability-Fail. I shall tell @andybudd8:21AM
Signing up for www.artbash.co.nz it has a dropdown of professions, which actually has Prostitute on it. And Astronaut. What if you're both?7:00AM
@Documentally Yea - know what you mean. Welcome to the 21st Century where "taking it easy" means "catching up on work". I'm so there.6:59AM
I wonder what's on TV tonight. Oh. Ooh no, that's that's awful. Oh god no. No that really is terrible. OMG etc. I think I need a lie down.6:37AM
There's a Rolls Royce for sale at my local garage, and nobody wants it. I feel so sorry for it. Less than £7k as well. Shame.4:19AM
Search and Rescue bots : http://bit.ly/1pslPj2:12AM
So in NZ, is it illegal to wear a disguise at night? http://tr.im/CJbx What about goths and things. What if a goth goes out not as a goth?1:57AM
Yea, well. It's quite a good trailer: http://bit.ly/NzwS01:46AM
@nikz Not being able to find his keys. I know how he feels.1:22AM
Oh No. Chuck Fruit has died. A year ago, admittedly, and I never actually knew him. Still... he was the coke boss and did have a great name1:18AM
Ten minutes in the Baribifier. She'll be fine : http://bit.ly/1978zV12:23AM
Catsby is all irate because the folks have gone off on holiday again. Retirement? WTF? It's like one big holiday.12:14AM
It would all be so easy... if our democratically elected representatives would just stop betraying us on behalf of corporate power12:12AM
Every western democracy has a MAJOR problem: the whole thing is a charade, looking after the rich at the expense of everyone else.12:09AM
Looks like I missed the Nick Griffin show. Anyway people, the BNP aren't the problem. The Labour party turning into Tory is the problemThursday 2009-10-22
3:22PM
Been attempting to sleep with a paper clip over my nose for over a week now. Does it help? Hard to say. What was it there for again?2:52PM
@leashless 15% of global trade is organised crime. Drugs are already controlled by large organisations. It's better that they're above board2:48PM
@leashless re: drug legalisation- literally sue to death, any corporation that misrepresents the addictiveness of a drug, including nicotine11:21AM
This code wasn't written.. it was woven. By moonlight. By wide-eyed druids peering through long blades of grass, in search of mushrooms10:04AM
@rapella Eating the cookbook.10:02AM
@mat_walker You work in the museums?10:01AM
In the last 3 days I've consumed nothing but coke, cake and buns... and now I weight 100 times more than the coke cake and buns combined.6:21AM
@voirol Well... that's all my own work as it happens. A little movie I wrote once loosely based on the Rhyme of The Ancient Mariner.4:04AM
@voirol This was the one I had in mind http://tr.im/CC81 but the floating castle with an open cesspit in the middle would do as well.3:48AM
@voirol he is kindof right re: Canberra, but rather parliament being in a city, it should be movable, on a boat like the one off Waterworld2:50AM
My latte habit costs about 00 a year. Most expensive night on booze last year... probably around 00. It was a bad one.2:48AM
My caffeine addiction has returned. I now buy lattes 2 at a time. Still... only been drunk 6 times this year so far.1:27AM
I can't believe they designed this poster with rainbows and unicorns n'shit : http://tr.im/CBuDWednesday 2009-10-21
10:35PM
@timoreilly although I think I'd nuance that with Chomsky's "All power is inherently illegitimate - and has a burden of proof to satisfy"10:32PM
RT @timoreilly (RT: NYT's Martin Nisenholtz) has his head on straight: "No business has the right to exist"3:00PM
Cats sharing steak : http://bit.ly/1a0Nu12:36PM
Spider Art : http://bit.ly/Wltnq1:39PM
And I didn't know that "British Energy" was actually a French company... More money being sucked out of the country.1:34PM
With a decentralised system you can ditch the whole "armed mercenary" subsystem http://tr.im/CxnP who's target is the domestic population12:59PM
Voting machine source-code leak shows election-rigging subroutines? :: http://studysequoia.wikispaces.com/10:11AM
@alexfarran Mind you, I once roadied a gig at one of the Oxford Colleges... on they hypnotist's stage. Catatonic toffs. Fuckin weird man.10:10AM
@alexfarran You ever been hypnotised then? I've been to several but was never convinced.8:07AM
Being struck by lightening is God's way of telling you to stop doing whatever it is you were doing. It's common sense really.7:57AM
Natasha Henstridge is on TV. She was the alien in Species and can therefore do no wrong. Though god knows, she does try.6:15AM
@JosephHurtado There needs to be some sort of cut-off point I think. There should be different laws for companies of over a given size.3:09AM
Just figured out that the best way to make brushed stainless-steel is to use an... um... what do you call it... um... a brush!2:17AM
@JosephHurtado Govt regulation is the only way we have of imposing democratically mandated control on the aristocracy.1:00AM
Know God: if history has taught us anything, it's that religious piety ought to automatically disqualify anyone from running for office12:58AM
Know God. Yeah, right. Noticed how the piety of a leader correlates to the level of torture and war under his (and it's always a he) watch?12:49AM
Using WP to hide content from the unregistered http://tr.im/CtTw In the future no one will do this. In the present people keep asking for it12:01AM
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3615/reagantalibankf6.jpg Ronald Reagan meets The Taliban.
Tuesday 2009-10-20
3:53PM
Freelancing means I get to have office-parties for one. Standing about with a styrofoam cup of chardonnay. Exchanging pleasantries with self3:38PM
21st C Snake-Oil Salesmen don't sell snake-oil per se, They give it free to create attention for advertisers, ie: 20th C snake-oil salesmen3:10PM
Well actually, I'd say very little has changed. Before : http://tr.im/Cqkj after : http://tr.im/Cqkh3:06PM
Little robot puzzle game thing : http://machinarium.net/demo/1:59PM
Cos I'm a Wild-Hearted Woman, another child, with, the stars in my eyes: http://tr.im/CpOc Oh. Hang on. No. Wait, that was someone else.1:40PM
@rapella Yea - twitter is kindof loose as far as deletes go as well... If you delete a tweet, it still turns up in twitter's search.11:57AM
@joshr Exactly. In my day we used to talk by shouting at each other.7:24AM
@terrasolar re: "5 technologies that could change everything". Bollocks. Those are 5 technologies that would allow things to stay the same1:19AM
Mr Tate from next door has his whitebait nets out on the lawn. He's not going to catch any there. Maybe I should tell him? Nah. He's happy.12:31AM
@stephenfry re: 5th Estate, You don't have to be a politician, just be yourself, as complicated as that might be. It's why people like you12:12AM
@CaseyContrarian Pre-Roman Britons had a variant as well. It's something that's evolved... and experiencing growing-pains right now.Monday 2009-10-19
2:49PM
@future_of_music @CaseyContrarian Hey, but don't feel bad. Am NZer flew a heavier than air plane before the Wright Brothers as well :)12:31PM
Our new frontier is the ruins of the unsustainable : http://bit.ly/CBtUf12:09PM
On immortal technology : http://bit.ly/38LVvz10:24AM
Fuck fines. Criminal corporations should be shut down. http://tr.im/Chxl7:56AM
Nuke tax http://tinyurl.com/yjbnxcm our "elected representatives" are really starting to piss me off. What are they fucking for again?6:18AM
@davestone re: books: they're yours dude - but as I also drunkenly promised the same ones to Nathan... maybe he might like them.5:51AM
... no. You can't.5:51AM
I wonder if you can cure a cold by sticking neodymium magnets up your nose...5:42AM
NZ 6pm News is on... which means 2 or 3 crime stories (preferably involving children) and sports... which is basically fighting1:34AM
Beautiful day in NZ today. It's almost hot.Years slip by like weeks but winters seem to go on forever.Sunday 2009-10-18
4:44PM
This is the sort of thing that Bush, Blair, Cheney et al should be facing for war crimes : http://tr.im/CdQH2:08PM
Just saw "Cypher". That same bloke was in it who was so mean to Sandra that time all her credit cards went weird. I knew I didn't trust him11:56AM
Rocking out in the back yard in the 70s http://tr.im/CcBJ11:35AM
@voirol http://fantasticcontraption.com/ is excellent - some of the things that other people have made are incredible9:56AM
@paulcarr Paul, your genius.9:22AM
The Tudors is on - friteful bodice-ripper, though Natalie Dormer is appealing, in a unnerving sort of way.6:37AM
Yea. A defining characteristic of every nation on earth, is that they all think they're uniquely innovative: http://tr.im/CboI4:44AM
LOL @stilgherrian http://tr.im/Cb2V < yea, if you tried that with a cat it would find a way of clawing your face off.2:19AM
THE fire I mean. There's a big difference between lighting A fire and lighting THE fire. That's my Thought for The Day.2:18AM
Anyway, Catsby is asleep with is paw over his eyes. I might have to light a fire later. After lunch.2:14AM
The 21st Century: If it's not a drought, it's a flood. Scuba-Diving isn't about water, it's about air. Climate change is mainly about water2:12AM
Cogito Ergo Summer... that's latin for "I think it's summer". Ok. Ok, it's not... but then I don't think it's summer either. Pissing down.Saturday 2009-10-17
1:11PM
@davestone HB2U. HB2U. HBDD. HB2U.11:58AM
@Prycie sounds pretentious, but I find that champagne and oysters the next day can take the edge off the psychological... "issues".11:45AM
@Prycie Vodka is the least hangover-provoking type of booze... physically at least. With a few precautions you can get away with a lot.11:41AM
@rapella Isn't there only about 2 months left of this decade? You'd better be quick10:42AM
I've had to skillfully craft a paper clip into a nostril-holding-closed device. That's how much this cold is fucking me up.4:59AM
Watching Mutant Chronicles again. It is actually very well done... just a pity they used such a boiler-plate plot structure.3:29AM
There is actually a war going on isn't there? : http://tr.im/C4GT we're having to fight these fuckers, in every country, for every inch3:00AM
Can't see me doing that again in a hurry though. I wind up being completely spherical. And spotty.2:58AM
last night I consumed pizza x1, cans of coke x2, mellopuffs x12, water x 2L and for the first time in weeks, woke up NOT feeling like shite2:34AM
@kalena I think the fact that he got on with alcohol and acid really rather well possibly explains a little more.1:43AM
@kalena Jim Morrison apparently didn't get on with weed. Made him paranoid.1:40AM
The internet's a bit fucked at the mo. Can get through to some sites but not others... including downforeveryoneorjustme.com12:57AM
ie: 1) commando team 2) mission to save world/blow up enemy HQ.3) Ultimate fight with swords/fists/vertigo. 4) Bad guy impaled. All cliches12:51AM
We saw that "Mutant Chronicles" last night. Quite good in a funny sort of way... although with a story structure I've seen a million times.12:46AM
Today's Guardian FP is dominated by the 21st C meeting the 20th: Trafigura, Gately, condemnation of secrecy, and state-spying on Muslims12:36AM
Solar payback times : http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/35489.pdfFriday 2009-10-16
4:35PM
Looking suspiciously like bitly is fucked. The pressures of providing vital internet infrastructure eh?4:34PM
Twitter : Saints, and Eye of Sauron : http://bit.ly/3u3egd3:28PM
Once a typo, always a typo.11:58AM
It's basically a military technology... similar to fly-agaric, propaganda or bagpipes. It makes people fight harder.11:56AM
Religious wars are always about politics divided along religious lines - because faith grants immunity from rationality and compassion.11:43AM
@BrianLimond If Men are male women, women are male men, who's going to deliver the post? Eh? Eh?10:52AM
Is it me, or is following other people's disasters on twitter getting a little samey? Not that I want one of my own of course.10:33AM
@andybudd I'd vote for you on the strength of the talks your guys did at that thing last year... but... erm... voting closed?9:06AM
@evangineer Dude, the point of weapons isn't to deploy them, it's to sell them to people who can't afford them, then control the debt.7:43AM
@terrencewood Really? Icehouse were one of the greatest 80s bands in the whole 80s.6:42AM
I forgot to give Dom the baby toys - they keep playing tunes,set off by the car's moving. Sounds like I've got a lunatic asylum in the trunk5:29AM
To be? Or not to be? That is the question. Or is it two questions?4:27AM
Everything will be ok in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end... it's the beginning of the end. Face it dude, your glass is 1/2 empty4:03AM
You had me until you pronounced "herbicide" as "urbicide": http://bit.ly/Iqr5E3:56AM
Mind you. They do call it "defence" when all they seem to do is attack essentially powerless people who live thousands of miles away3:52AM
The Invention is not as amazing as the total, blind acceptance of the idea that the military using it means "saving lives" http://tr.im/BXoU3:18AM
@firstsearch I don't think in the past you paid for just the paper... you paid for everything that it took to make the whole system work.3:13AM
Yea, so I spent all my hair-cut money on mellow-puffs. Cos I'm mad, bad and dangerous to know etc.2:16AM
The line "I'm glad you got away" is what I feel now, every time I see a photo of someone I used to love, or hate. It's gone.2:14AM
This is my favourite most depressing song in the world : http://tr.im/BWZH Complaint-Rock Rocks.1:31AM
Cool. Now can we please break Monsanto up, and put its execs in prison?1:28AM
RT @GreenpeaceAustP France's highest court: Monsanto guilty of not telling truth re safety claims of its weedkiller http://bit.ly/10jy3VThursday 2009-10-15
10:51PM
It won't go away though: http://tr.im/BVYq although I'd rather see this effort put into prosecuting Bush, Cheny et al for war crimes.10:36PM
LOL. The folks have gone off on holiday and left me some money to "get a haircut"3:12PM
I had the 1987 one : http://bit.ly/hrPfq that's how cool I used to be. Once.2:45PM
A dialogue between faith and science? http://tr.im/BSOt When you had power, you censored and tortured. Now you're weak, you want to talk?1:44PM
@davestone Put them in a box and leave them at your folk's place.1:42PM
@joshr I find It's always prudent to keep an eye on '/sucks'1:40PM
@borelcorp Partridge in pear tree under separate cover.5:30AM
Anyway, I was talking to the DIY-Gazilla-Store bloke - apparently they're having a "Ladies Night". 700 people. Holy Crap. They sell tools.4:47AM
The most difficult thing about making these: http://tr.im/BPOf is getting the printer to print labels.1:36AM
@umairh Maybe the Trafigura fiasco doesn't reflect a wider trend. Just something the web is good at- going all "I'm Spartacus" on censorshipWednesday 2009-10-14
1:59PM
Kiss Fan : http://bit.ly/OeIsO1:05PM
LOL : RT @charltonbrooker David Cameron driving home from the Tory conference: http://bit.ly/XUJg21:02PM
@hjortur I was in hospital earlier... 7 days nil-by-mouth. Then they gave me "hospital fish pie". The most wonderful thing I've ever tasted12:31PM
@Prycie In a perfect world, you'd be able to cancel your phone contract by hitting your phone with a hammer.12:30PM
@joshr to the extent that by the time all the bugs are ironed out, the thing's probably obsolete.12:29PM
@joshr re: "future tech 'just working'" a) LOL, b) I'm not sure that's in the nature of the beast. Fastest doesn't need to be best.10:41AM
Although the video does give the impression that you'd get the same degree of control over the bug by shouting at it http://tr.im/BK9P10:06AM
because although 4 different people have offered to translate... no one donates. People will give time so much more easily than money.10:05AM
A little gem of info for yer social-media types: I've just got rid of the "donate" button on this http://www.free-the-web.com ...7:42AM
Been making Golden Mean Calipers today. Five of them. I'm a skilled artisan etc... although this has been my first batch, so still learning.2:15AM
Just went and showed the camera-shop people the stabilizer I made out of the canister they gave me. Warm fuzzies all round12:49AM
@kalena If someone said my industry was snake-oil I'd have said "yeah, partly"12:48AM
@kalena Over-reaction... people tend to over-defend if they kindof know their attackers are at least partly right.Tuesday 2009-10-13
2:35PM
@evangineer I think the potential of wave is to do with embeddable, distributed/centralised conversations rather than a chat/IM replacement11:33AM
I think the #trafigura fiasco is utterly hilarious. The Blue Spaghetti Monster rides again : http://tr.im/BDjp11:29AM
@joshr I think wave possibly has more potential as a blog-comment replacer than an email replacer... and I avoid IM for a reason.10:06AM
@hjortur Holy crap dude, how does that happen?7:14AM
Take your passion and make it happen. That's my advice.5:09AM
My next laptop is definitely going to have a "hurry the fuck up" button. And a "stop fucking doing that" button. And a "whatever" button.3:02AM
Hmm... Youtube advertising has gotten bigger, uping the mental-wackamole stakes - where I instantly blot-out all advertising I'm exposed to1:03AM
If I saw this, I think I'd quietly turn round and drive quite fast in the opposite direction : http://tr.im/BAK712:43AM
@paulcarr Oh heavens above man. Take some asprins.12:38AM
"find prisoners"? http://tr.im/BAvQ The Land of the Free needs a serious reboot.Monday 2009-10-12
11:52PM
Wakes up. Holy crap I'm a wreck. AND I've got that White-Stripes song about going to school stuck in my head. Hello Tuesday, old friend.12:35PM
I guess this is probably one of those "compensate for small cock" cars : http://tr.im/BwDF11:18AM
I bought a gun here, 30 years ago : http://tr.im/Bwii10:53AM
@umairh Yeah, well obviously we should outsource our surveillance ... to um... China or somewhere.10:37AM
Carnivorous Plants : http://bit.ly/qUOXs1:33AM
And it won't live up to the hype: http://tr.im/Bu3Y ... because otherwise it wouldn't need the hype1:29AM
Good times are a-comin, everybody knows... Good times are a-comin, everybody knows... Good times are a-comin... but they sure comin slow1:25AM
My it's windy out in reality-land today. We're not used to it etc. If fucks with our barnets.12:06AM
Chairs from Hell: http://bit.ly/4seYUSSunday 2009-10-11
12:02PM
@Documentally Yea, I know it was someone else's tweet. That's why I said "original quote". Not exactly firing on all cylinders are we?11:11AM
@Documentally Yea, but the original quote was "The" tweeting world, not "My" tweeting world. A lot less grand sounding, granted.11:05AM
Attempting to watch Lost in Space - one of those films with the soundtrack equivalent of canned laughter: Hollywood Orchestra-Scribble.10:13AM
@Documentally The tweeting world isn't really Urban Anglo-Saxon. Right now on the public timeline about ~3/20 fit that description3:43AM
@Noetical That article about "U.S. Health Care Debate Feeds Anti-Americanism in Europe" is pathetic right-wing bullshit.2:13AM
Just swore at a pot-plant. It was trying to fuck me up. I might just go home actually.2:05AM
Anyway, down the caf in Petone. The waitress has never smiled in her life, so I'm thinking I should tell her a joke. But which joke?2:04AM
Fucked. My brother informs me I have flu - but I don't normally get flu. All my energy has been drained away. Maybe I should take an E.12:55AM
Space Flights : http://bit.ly/u6d4iSaturday 2009-10-10
1:41PM
Anyway, We saw that Stop Loss last night. I thought Abbie Cornish was good. Cool accent. I wouldn't have picked her as being Australian.9:46AM
Errr... yea. I think it would be less hassle just to send a letter : http://tr.im/BiSX Email is broken.9:28AM
Part of the potential of Android/iPhone - a stepping stone to web 2.0-ification of hardware interface - we'll use it as a universal remote.9:23AM
He's right though: http://tr.im/BiNe hardware design is fucking shocking compared with web design.5:03AM
Woo... Earthquake. About a 4 or a 5.1:06AM
@stilgherrian I think Chekov said that any good story could be improved by cutting the beginning and the end.1:03AM
It's pissing down with rain outside. It pissed down yesterday. It's never going to stop. Word to the wise: NZ is not a tropical country.1:02AM
In the wine section of an Italian place. Sitting on the sofa, waiting for coffee... without which I'm incapable of functioning.12:33AM
@Balut My Mum can do that. She's a thespian etc. I read somewhere that that one off Groundhog Day can blush at will. Handy etc. Handy AndieFriday 2009-10-09
4:57PM
@redeye Because it's the word for "yawn"? Something like that. I do that with a lot of words actually. Most of them come to think of it.4:56PM
LOL http://tr.im/Be87 yea, whatever. Anyone attempting to patent software deserves to be pissed on from a great height anyway.2:28PM
I must say the Obama/Nobel tweetstream is remarkably uncynical12:41PM
Kanye this is Obama. Obama, Kanye.12:23PM
Actually that's pretty cool : http://tr.im/Bcon I like art that makes you feel like you're losing your mind12:07PM
Not now David, I'm trying to watch the news : http://bit.ly/usRYF11:02AM
@CrowleysGhost Erm... I'm not getting a lot of joy with the website... do I need to go there in person?9:56AM
Well on behalf of every single human being on the planet, I'd just like to say "Why? He hasn't done anything yet has he?"9:30AM
Just had breakfast for dinner, because that's the kind of guy I am.Thursday 2009-10-08
11:45PM
Ok. Time's run out. I'm going to have to take the law into my own hands and go down to Wellington without telling anyone.11:32PM
Although personally I would've gone for Naomi Watts in Tank Girl, so what do I know. Connifer Jennily in Dark City was good as well.11:30PM
There's something slightly... actually, quite badly wrong... in other people's taste in science-fiction women : http://tr.im/B96G11:09PM
@JimHedley Getting off crack is akin to your head finally acquiescing to a decision that your body made a long time ago.1:02PM
For its time, the end of this was probably the greatest ever Science Fiction Space Explosion : http://bit.ly/T1bsp9:25AM
Ooh... Neato!!! an advert for a company that's exported ALL its manufacturing jobs to the third world !!! http://tr.im/B4CH cunts1:22AM
Monsieur Cok : http://latemag.com/mister-cok-short-film12:26AM
Embarrassment-zone sizes vary... but in my experience they're about 4-5 metres. An easy jump for a flea. A big one I mean.12:25AM
Future humans will be crossed with fleas so any embarrassment can be avoided by jumping 150x their height away from the embarrassment-zoneWednesday 2009-10-07
5:44AM
@flyinglens and all bankers responsible for the current crash to be stripped of their assets and sent to prison.5:44AM
@flyinglens I'd also like to see any bank trying to influence govt policy to be immediately nationalised/liquidated.5:42AM
@flyinglens I'd like to see the banks broken up into smaller companies that don't require my retirement age to be extended to bail them out2:24AM
Down by the river again. Gen-Zers are going by on tiny day-glo bikes... which is ok because they're kindof tiny themselves at the mo.1:30AM
I think debt needs to be recognised for what it is - a type of dilute (or not) slavery : http://tr.im/AVo61:17AM
Flatland revisited : http://bit.ly/19XCvRTuesday 2009-10-06
11:50PM
Yea, well... anyone trying to make software patents deserves to have crisp-packets filled with shit flung at them http://tr.im/AUUQ1:00PM
Happy Fish : http://bit.ly/10AEbU12:28PM
Doing user tests : http://fivesecondtest.com not sure if I should though... I have the attention-span of a gnat.11:51AM
Fuck me. I bet you can't guess what the most popular browser on the internet is right now : http://www.free-the-web.com/snapshot8:15AM
unfucking code that I wrote 5 years ago with.. (and this will make you LOL) XSLT. Not so much a language as a curious intellectual puzzle6:40AM
The Bamboo Aptera : http://bit.ly/uJnWE another massive rant about electric cars.3:06AM
Yea, whatever : http://goforth.levi.com/fortune2:15AM
Something is only "true" if it comes from Al Jazeera or the Guardian... and usually several weeks after the event.2:14AM
Yea - trouble is, real-time news information via twitter is generally shit. http://tr.im/AOFN main-stream news isn't a lot better.2:11AM
Better still, break up the banks. Fuck them. They don't deserve to live.2:09AM
Ooh - Britons will have to work an extra 6 years to bail out bankers http://tr.im/AOEB . Here's an idea: Get the fucking banks to pay for it12:37AM
Mum is now showing Bruce the Grand-daughter baby photos. That took exactly 3 minutes, 15 seconds... which is a little slow.12:31AM
Uncle Bruce has arrived - the roads are cut off with snow and he's been diverted to our place. There's lots of happy shouting and arm-wavingMonday 2009-10-05
3:16PM
@tomnixon I mean in the short term it might be better if your clients don't find out about your sense of humour. Longer term... maybe not.3:15PM
@tomnixon I find multiple accounts incredibly difficult to maintain. I'm not to sure about the wisdom of creating a life/work divide either3:11PM
@leashless I'll get it online etc. It's got a really good/fast jQuery search... but I wanted it to search ALL of my tweets, not just 30003:09PM
@leashless Well yea - you need to sign up for my thing, and (at the moment) it updates with new tweets when you visit it.3:07PM
Archimedes was actually the first person to use the word "leverage" in a talk... 2000 years before Powerpoint was invented!2:42PM
@gharman a mild Irony being that Vivendi is a company originally founded by Napolean B.2:41PM
@gharman Yea - we've hassled the council, they know they fucked up, but they're afraid of going up against Vivendi's lawyers.2:31PM
@gharman My town doesn't have one cause the council signed a £300 million deal with a giant corporation to turn waste into pollution2:27PM
@leashless re: archiving tweets: I wrote a thing that does that... but didn't launch because you can only go back 3000 tweets which sucks.1:56PM
Aye well... I've just retired Chrome in favour of Opera. A mixture of Chrome and Flash (I think) was absolutely killing my CPU1:53PM
Just saw The International, which I thought was alright actually - in a giant BMW advert sort of a way.11:37AM
@stwange It's utterly genius - best TV program ever made.10:19AM
Regretsy, LOL http://www.regretsy.com/Sunday 2009-10-04
3:32PM
@josephflaherty Cheers :)1:57PM
MPAA, RIAA... Meet Hal Hartley. This is an artist, and a genius to boot : http://tr.im/ADJb See what's motivating him? See?1:49PM
@rapella @andybudd It's a damn poor mind that can't think of more than one way to spell a word.12:55PM
@tomnixon That's interesting - I must admit I was a little phobed by their interest rates AND the way they ask for admin donations as well.11:35AM
@madhavaji Man, I have done that with Pizza's so many times.10:23AM
Subtly disturbing micro-sculptures http://bit.ly/atSiY8:53AM
Just accidentally eaten an entire box of apricot-flavoured honey-nut bars. Still... what's done is done. Nothing anyone can do about it etc5:26AM
Just finished another bit of work. Hurrah etc.4:42AM
This is my favourite sort of thing : http://huffduffer.com/carldpatterson/77491:46AM
Hey everyone, I know you don't actually know her (neither do I) but please vote for inkblotsart so she can get a cool job http://is.gd/3ULAj1:44AM
"not feeling like doing something" is god's way of telling you not to do it.12:52AM
LOL : Marilyn Manson (dark gay) : http://www.lovegodsway.org/GayBands Homosexual Gateway Bands. God, I so want to be on this list.Saturday 2009-10-03
3:17PM
@warrenellis When Wankbots Attack1:58PM
@BrianLimond I'm from New Zealand... PLEEEZE ask him if he's Australian.1:57PM
@ItalyFace Oh there's plenty of white-on-white crime, but nobody really notices it.1:54PM
@OneLuvGurl You wouldn't be a Gen-xer by any chance? That describes us perfectly.12:20PM
@robyngallagher eg: U-Turn, Kiss-Kiss Bang Bang, Way of the Gun, Syrianna, fight-club, American history X, Chopper etc etc.12:18PM
@robyngallagher Ah... yea. Yup - ending is good. I've got this funny relationship with pain in movies.. leaves a jarring vibe for me.10:37AM
Out of Sight is on. I quite like that movie actually. Seen it about 5 times. Not sure about the ending. Everyone gets shot or something?10:08AM
RT @yezzer @guardian - yea, bullshit isn't it? Artists ARE geeks : http://tr.im/AwGh + his take on "file-sharing" is retarded and damaging8:23AM
Weekly roundup of random links and whatnot : http://bit.ly/1zhswo3:19AM
Smokey : http://bit.ly/vzTQv2:41AM
LOL . Slow news day? : http://tr.im/AviI12:31AM
Anyway. Another 5am night-before... and now my head feels broken and misaligned... held together with wire, like a post-tsunami lean-to12:25AM
@stilgherrian I find a good way of getting rid of tunes stuck in your head is to listen to this : http://bit.ly/RqdN112:10AM
Slightly spooked by facebook's seemingly psychic ability to know other people I know.Friday 2009-10-02
2:34PM
@rinkjustice But blame God for the Devil. Bullets don't kill people, Guns do.2:12PM
I think I need to smoke more dope. I'm not smoking any at the moment, and it's obviously not enough.2:08PM
Amazingly rare New Zealand Parrot shagging bloke's head. Guided commentary by Twitter's Stephen Fry: http://tr.im/Argl1:53PM
I am a Golden God : http://bit.ly/Kzl5C12:39PM
I just had a big conversation with someone. I hardly ever talk verbally any more. I feel quite disorientated.5:37AM
God, there's so much I don't want to see on TV tonight that it's almost impossible to decide what not to watch.3:33AM
Balls. We want the finest wines known to humanity. We want them here, and we want them now.3:19AM
Catsby's zoned out with one leg stuck up in the air. Cats quite often do that for some reason. They're thinkers basically.3:17AM
Just sold something (the very first) through my etsy shop : http://www.weirdsky.com/ at this rate I shall be able to retire.2:57AM
Real Horrorshow http://joshuahoffine.wordpress.com/2:44AM
I'm so tired I can hardly believe it. I've got to start getting some early nights.2:24AM
This is a fucking travesty http://tr.im/AolR something serious needs to be done about politicians who represent corporate interests12:55AM
When apps go bad : http://fundable.com/index.htmlThursday 2009-10-01
2:26PM
@joshr what like "delete from users where max(tweet_date)<2009-01-01" ? - I could do that for them if they want. By accident.2:24PM
Oh great! Another citizen-funded invention that the police can then use against... well... citizens basically : http://tr.im/AkCY11:17AM
If anyone's got any google wave invites, I'm up for it...2:08AM
@terrasolar Space-based solar power is a totally stupid idea. It's centralizing something that's god's gift to decentralization.2:05AM
The paddle-steamer is out on the river today. It's like spaceship made out of matchsticks.1:41AM
I have two cellphones - one local, one international... blu-tacked together. It's been weeks since I even bothered turning them on.1:13AM
@robyngallagher And yet if it was your own face reacting to the clip it would be bored and a bit vacant looking :)1:11AM
@joshr Oh right - that's reassuring. It's a gen-x thing. Culture about culture. Like this : http://tr.im/Ahlm a video of album covers1:07AM
Nice day. I might go up to the lake and feed the ducks. Flee in terror when the bread runs out, pursued by hundreds of the fuckers1:02AM
My fav bit in this is ~1/2 way through http://tr.im/Ahiq fat wet silver goths in the rain etc. That guy is the most beautiful girl in rock12:42AM
What the fuck are we even doing there? http://bit.ly/4kDHdYSeptember 2009
Wednesday 2009-09-30
2:33PM
It's probably a squarial. So that's my thought for the day. Only 3.30 in the AM as well. Today's going to be fucking great.2:32PM
If (re)development time falls under the learning curve, then it probably isn't a wheel anyway.2:30PM
Reinventing the Wheel is ok if it's going to take less time than it is to figure out what the fuck is going on with the old wheel.1:58PM
When cats take the piss etc : http://www.flickr.com/photos/snicker/3395944637/9:39AM
"!important" in css, is a sure sign that the developer has given up and is trying random things until something finally fucking works.2:00AM
But it makes the windows fog up. I'm sitting in the car, attending to the flotilla of micro-chores triggered by emails from the prev 8 hours1:54AM
Rain... but good rain. It falls out of the sky, bounteous and symphonic man. Rather than being spiteful and pernickety as rain so often is.Tuesday 2009-09-29
11:38PM
@zoransa It's cluttered because you're following too many people - the ideal (in my most humble of opinions) is 100 - 20011:37PM
Wow... sold two of my Golden Mean Calipers on Ponoko http://tr.im/A9FN10:30AM
What could possibly go wrong? http://tr.im/A5fo5:48AM
Feijoa icecream with feijoa jam. I'm a maniac me. It's my Viking blood etc.3:29AM
The people at the table next to be are having a conversation about The Aztecs. They have absolutely no idea what they're talking about.1:48AM
Tired, tired, tired. The earlier I try to get to bed, the later I wind up staying awake. 5am. Not normal etc. Not even for me.1:20AM
I see that a small bible is recommended survivalist gear: http://tr.im/A3eG Personally I find a heavy-duty wacking-bible has more impactMonday 2009-09-28
11:56AM
@evangineer Although to be fair, if there was a "sit as far away as possible from other people's children" fee, I'd definitely pay it11:48AM
@joshr back in the day we'd drive our living expenses to something near peanuts by living in squats.9:58AM
Chapterhouse reforming? O how I wish I was there, in the audience swaying back and forth, eyes closed, murmuring words I don't understand9:50AM
@paulsilver Oh dear god, I do hope it isn't one of me. That would be even more embarrassing than appearing on "When Drunks Go Mad"1:15AM
It's a bit cold in NZ at the mo. Water is falling out of the sky, and Catsby is a small furry ball sleeping beside me.12:45AM
I'm so uninterested in twitter's Trending Topics, I think I'll write a script to hide it. It's a nagging reminder of humanity's moronitude.12:39AM
If you use jQuery, this is excellent : http://bit.ly/dywMxSunday 2009-09-27
5:31AM
The robot that actually... likes me for who I am, with no strings attached etc, has yet to be invented. And may never be. And may never be.12:18AM
@bergin Hang in there dude.Saturday 2009-09-26
1:50PM
They're lovers not fighters : http://bit.ly/1akD3l6:38AM
@plish not moaning etc :) it's not really about product design.It's a new type of advertising, replicated across the blogosphere as linkbait6:26AM
My life has lost it's narrative-drive.3:59AM
@plish Dude, those aren't inventions, they're drawings of things that will never be made. They may have well just drawn a time-machine.Friday 2009-09-25
12:41PM
RT @Prycie http://bit.ly/3Pub2o LOL - Prime Minister's wife's Twitter following is 5 times bigger than the entire labour party.12:22PM
Really visceral - the bass player owned their PA... allegedly hitting a low note a little hard one night and 1/2 the audience collapsed.12:20PM
Cargo Cult Rock : http://bit.ly/19FdtK this was the first cool band I was ever into.9:48AM
RT @leashless http://bit.ly/PBQbU looking for all the world like a police-state kidnapping its own citizens.3:15AM
@dahowlett re: Tudors - we're a lot less violent than we were... but we're still in the sway of self-serving institutions that need war.2:53AM
The New Honda Dorkmobile : http://bit.ly/3gqVjm2:37AM
The Devil's Urinal : http://tr.im/zFqE1:13AM
Ooh look, a dead sheep floating down the river. My mate Sven stepped on one once, thinking it was a rock. Knee-deep in it he was.1:04AM
Right, today I'm definitely going to finish all the work that there is in the whole wide, world - then have a computer-free day tomorrow.Thursday 2009-09-24
11:45PM
RT @MistaBell http://bit.ly/1dD18O < I should read that thread religiously, every time I quote for a job. I almost always get burned.1:59PM
@madhavaji Yea, it's weird isn't it? I can't decide if it's an icecream or some sort of alien disease.1:48PM
A Thing : http://www.moresoon.org/?l1:31PM
@mrjudkins Nah pool-playing is pure, blind, drunken instinct. It's a zen thing... distract your conscious mind etc.1:26PM
Although I do sometimes pretend to be autistic to avoid eating salad. You're allowed to do that sort of thing at my age.1:25PM
Damn, that's another thing I don't have in common with Mozart, Orwell, Einstein, Beethoven and Newton http://tr.im/zBui12:54PM
@MichaelPhipps Congratulations Sir. Is this a proper delete, or a "Facebook Delete" where they only pretend to delete it?3:37AM
Holy crap it's cold. I might have to light a fire. It's hosing it down with rain in NZ.12:50AM
@mrjudkins LOL - it took me around 25 years to finally use trigonometry. I did maths to 2nd year at uni as well - that's 6 years of trig.Wednesday 2009-09-23
11:52PM
@joshr pretty girls smoke because nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to humanity. The sad, pragmatic truth.12:35PM
There's a basic contradiction between playing in an attention-economy and enforcing an artificial scarcity around your output11:48AM
You can't live with one foot in the 21st century and one in the 20th. It doesn't work. The differences are too fundamental11:46AM
I find it vaguely annoying when a video I've embedded gets TOSed... but I'd be REALLY pissed off if it was my video: http://tr.im/zuA611:40AM
Holy crap, that was a difficult day. The swings and roundabouts of outrageous fortune and whatnot.12:13AM
So a blackbird comes in and trashes the place. Broken classes, crap everywhere, tipped over plants. Catsby having a lie down, ignoring it.12:11AM
Chaos this morning. Lois from next door brought the papers in thinking no one was home (I live in the suburbs) and left the door wide openTuesday 2009-09-22
7:45AM
@tomnixon Yea - I've got a couple of hundred dollars/quid in there... every so often some gets paid back so I recycle it.7:39AM
The thing that really hurts young musicians (or used to) is industry gatekeepers controlling access to audiences.7:37AM
Yea? Well I used to be a young musician and I'd say that's total bullshit : http://tr.im/znn66:52AM
Om nom nom bird : http://bit.ly/3zA3nL6:47AM
@tomnixon do you do the Kiva thing as well? I've been there for about a year now I think.5:34AM
Almost 24 hours have passed since the great wipeout that was the previous evening. Funny. Seems like yesterday.2:26AM
Well it's a nice day, in a blithery, messing with your hair sort of way.1:39AM
@SimonHume yea - all yours etc.Monday 2009-09-21
11:43PM
Bless. Lying on the bathroom floor, dry-retching... Catsby is all attentive and concerned.11:17PM
This must be what a hangover is like.11:15PM
OK. Back to normal again etc. Whatever.1:03PM
Q2? A shirt? A2:.. well it depends... how physical the work is.1:01PM
Preemptive Job Interview questions #1 : Q: Do you expect me to wear a tie? A: I think I'd be happier somewhere else.12:47PM
@everyoneElseInTheWorld... I'm not really drunk etc, I just told @OneLuvGurl I was, in an attempt to be dashing and daring and whatnot.12:45PM
@OneLuvGurl pdf... is a profilactic (and I'm quite, quite drunk so I shan't attempt to spell that)... a proficlatci format. etc.12:43PM
@bergin Wrong question dude. Real question: "how long until you realise you've got a habit?".11:56AM
obviously... looking back from the 23rd Century, things would have been radically different had twitter settled on 145 chrs rather than 140.11:38AM
Glen Cambell is on TV. Upcoming tour etc. If I could find some acid, I'd definately go. No one could hold me back. Fuckin no one.11:36AM
Trying to find Demon Cleaner by Kyuss on youtube. Anyone who takes their best song off youtube really, really, really doesn't get it.11:32AM
PDF is an attempt to turn the internet back into paper again.11:10AM
Catsby's a good cat. There there Catsby etc. There you are.11:00AM
Given a choice between Al Stewart's Year of the Cat, and On the Border, I think I'd have to go against the crowd and go for On the Border.10:05AM
Catsby's got a terrible great oily patch on his shirt. WTF has he been up to. He's a terror etc.9:19AM
Spinny Bug Wings : http://tr.im/zh7v8:33AM
Matt Damon is on TV. A feel a bit sorry for Matt sometimes... I mean he gets to be on TV a lot, but people are always hassling him.8:31AM
@rapella It could be placebo... in fact I'm sure to an extent it is, but that's good enough for me. This is NZ. Prozac costs about £1/month8:05AM
@rapella Works for me - I can feel my legs go tingly about an hour after taking it. Weird fizzing sensation.. which decreases over time alas7:17AM
Champagne, Prozac and Feijoa Icecream. It doesn't get any better than this.7:16AM
@stilgherrian A little too aggressive perhaps, but it feels good to know I'm not the only one :)7:12AM
@andybudd Yea, email needs to become a white-list thing ... eg: only unknowns within 3 degrees of separation on FB, twitter etc get through3:23AM
TL;DR : http://bit.ly/882Hg2:16AM
Scopa in Cuba Street Wellington has Free Wifi... you need to ask for a password etc. Is there a hashtag for this? There should be.2:06AM
Anyway, La Reine Margot is one of my fav films ever. Jean-Hugues Anglade is beautifully complicated and fucked up. Genius.1:47AM
I recently called someone a cunt for suggesting "Austerity with a social purpose". Here's at least part of the reason http://tr.im/zfqP1:38AM
Holy crap I feel like shite. I've only been drunk 5 times this year, but seem to be making up for the lack of hangovers in other ways.Sunday 2009-09-20
11:03AM
Hell Pizza and La Reine Margot. Marvelous.10:05AM
@LeifKendall God doesn't need to decide. Millions of years of fucking people up with thunderbolts evolved a species that does his will 24/72:42AM
Sunday in Suburbia. The neighbour's rooster is going off. Lawnmowers in the distance etc. The sky is blue, the grass is green.1:03AM
I was going to go to the Free Software Day thing as well. Come all this way etc. Apologies to all for being flaky and unreliable.12:47AM
I've done me back in somefing criminal.Saturday 2009-09-19
10:53AM
Now normally I hate advertising as much as the next man, but this is cool: http://tr.im/z7L8 because it has no advertising in it.9:10AM
I've injured my back something injurious.4:24AM
Does anyone want about 20 kgs of "stuff that might come in handy one day", but in the last 15 years or so, hasn't?3:12AM
"Austerity for a social purpose"? By whom? On behalf of whom? Fuck you, you unutterable cunt.3:09AM
Actually Child-Benefit paid to millionaires is irrelevant compared to the cost of underwriting their gambling habits http://tr.im/z6zO3:00AM
@joshr Don't wave your cock about though - it creates a wild-card factor which can rapidly get out of hand. You do "find out" quickly though2:21AM
@joshr Dancing with girls basically involves standing in front of them and waving your arms about. Jumping about etc. Works for me.1:01AM
@yezzer Probably not until next year alas. I think I might head for Sydney next... and... you know (cough) "get a life"1:00AM
@fitzthemighty Yea - another unfortunate thing about time etc speeding up (as you get older) is that your mass increases.12:56AM
The trouble with immortality is that time speeds up, eventually passing the speed of light. My mate Owen told me.Friday 2009-09-18
1:58PM
@yezzer Tell them you've got a Bafta, then smash the place up. That's what I'd do. If I had a Bafta etc. I'd be utterly ungovernable.1:30PM
@tomhimpe which they will do. If Joss Whedon was up for it, you could crowdsource the funding for another Firefly series in a matter of days1:28PM
@tomhimpe Demand It is quite a neat idea - self-generating market-research. The only thing better is getting people to pay up front.1:24PM
150 millionths of a degree above absolute zero? How the hell does anyone do that? I can't even make toast : http://tr.im/z3bZ7:10AM
That said, the TV programs I do recognise are definitely shite.7:09AM
Not watching TV is habit-forming. No TV means not finding out about other programs. The TV Times becomes a list of meaningless names4:29AM
Turkish Delight for lunch. The slippery slope of decadence slideth a little steeper.3:34AM
Robot Roundup #1 : http://bit.ly/1lKI9D1:47AM
My favourite one is the JUST the 4 armed special-effects one : http://www.incredibox.fr/1:30AM
Once again my horoscopes are too vague to be of any practical use. Bah.Thursday 2009-09-17
3:27PM
@OneLuvGurl What if it's a picture of a poem?6:28AM
Nickwit The Terrible : http://bit.ly/2st0fZ4:29AM
Abracadabra etc : http://bit.ly/20Lwh52:50AM
I've just discovered that if I wear my headphones on the front of my face, they not only cover my eyes but squeeze my nostrils shut as well.1:53AM
Thursday is Chair-Throwing Day.12:26AM
Edge of Darkness was excellent : http://bit.ly/3WLuHDWednesday 2009-09-16
11:22AM
500 quid? Yer aving a turksh, mate : http://tr.im/yQF4 10 Shillings!!! Yer off yer trolley etc.10:39AM
Oh Neato - Peugot have pulled out all the stops and invented the world's ugliest flea-pot tea car. http://tr.im/yQtm9:55AM
Yes. I have been saying this for yonks etc : http://bit.ly/4pRG9R5:57AM
The tragedy is that these people appear to be dominating the discourse : http://tr.im/yPAa The moronosphere needs to be marginalised12:22AM
I've ex-ed myself from Reddit. It's gone from being an interesting-stuff-aggregator to being an attention-seeking-twat-aggregatorTuesday 2009-09-15
2:25PM
Robots etc LOL : http://bit.ly/viso15:54AM
Loads of busybodies have come round. Catsby and I have retired to The South Wing... not being busybodies in any sense of the word.4:56AM
This is the main reason I know who Patrick Swayze is : http://bit.ly/p05oT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IThsYOM2y102:51AM
@Swiggs The Daily Mail isn't well known for telling the truth - all other sources are quoting 10s of thousands.2:41AM
Intelligence-enhancing toys for Dogs: http://tr.im/yISS If I gave one of these to Catsby he'd politely suggest I go fuck myself.12:42AM
Stayed awake til 6am yesterday, now today is tomorrow and I feel utterly fucked.Monday 2009-09-14
11:59PM
re: Kayne West etc - maybe a reason CD sales are falling is that I haven't the slightest interest in learning who any of these people are.4:16PM
Tall video : http://vimeo.com/62490033:42PM
Bong, deedely ding ding de ding dang bong, Bong, deedely ding ding de ding dang etc : http://bit.ly/ZZGyz10:55AM
Weeding through the chaos of someone else's coding decisions8:04AM
In the future, computers will have a button saying "That thing you just did... I don't want you to ever fucking do that again. Ever"6:17AM
@stwange Turing. It's to do with personalising an abstract. "Breaking the law" is only "wrong" at an early moral stage http://tr.im/yD7o12:52AM
#TEDxAkl Ooh elitist - looks like an application for Mensa http://tr.im/yCcS but without the puzzles. A walled garden of "thought leaders"12:29AM
@olleolleolle Moocards rock - and the box they come in is exactly the right size fore an Arduino containment facility.Sunday 2009-09-13
6:58AM
@OneLuvGurl The photo doesn't do it justice. My crappier digital cameras were better with sunsets - they'd take liberties with the light
6:07AM
@plish Hmm... I was hoping more for a bunch of Bright Young Things with tufty haircuts and t-shirts with quirky slogans.6:03AM
It's a beautiful evening, all orange and gold. Birds, and cars in the distance, reflections on the river, peach blossoms turning into leaves5:51AM
I mean that failed Beagle Mars rover with the Damien Hurst picture on it is now worth more as an artifact, than the entire mission cost.5:49AM
In the future, hobbyists will make robotic space-craft to go up and bring bits of it back to sell on ebay.5:48AM
Space Junk : http://tr.im/yyqc5:20AM
The Tree of Shells : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qliphoth4:49AM
People 2.0 : Shadows in the Water : http://bit.ly/anffU2:31AM
@plish I'm not sure - I heard Bruce Sterling going on about them the other day. I probably ought to go say hello etc.2:30AM
This is the ship that (one of) my ancestor(s) (Henry Howard) first came to NZ in : http://tr.im/yy0m he was a Red Coat in the 58th regiment2:22AM
Does anyone know who is doing the Augmented Reality stuff in Auckland?2:21AM
@freitasm New Zealand hotel check in/out times are a national disgrace. Especially the checkout times. Idiots. You can tell them I said thatSaturday 2009-09-12
12:35PM
If reinventing the wheel turns out to be struggle (and it may well do) I'd recommend reinventing spears and fire.9:35AM
Tempered somewhat by the fact he has files with names like : 20070919_014442_thumb11.jpg that weigh in at 300kb9:33AM
A sudden pang of paternal/fraternal sadness upon seeing the coder before me has used Narnia characters as his test-data.6:48AM
@olleolleolle I'd see 2033 - because I compulsively see every Sci Fi film I can. Is a Metric Week 5 days then? I thought it would be longer2:05AM
@stilgherrian I think I'd stick to seagull sex dude.12:36AM
How to make cranes : http://bit.ly/19c01tFriday 2009-09-11
3:14PM
Documentaries : http://www.thedocumentarycenter.blogspot.com/11:09AM
Zen Garden etc : http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/zen/sample.css2:56AM
Oh Great. A Walking Vacuum Cleaner Injured Zombie Dog : http://tr.im/yovK2:28AM
Anyone know any NZ investigative reporters? Personally though I think we should just kill the guy. Kill the Aristocracy, for old times sake2:27AM
Just found out that the boss of Hanover Finance that ripped off lots of little Kiwi-Savers is building himself a million house.1:50AM
Being connected to the world 24/7 has actually served to remind me how disconnected from the world I am.. why I haven't put down roots in NZ1:41AM
I'm sitting in the car, in the rain, in a small town in New Zealand, blogging. About Rubiks Cubes : http://tr.im/yogt1:31AM
Dante's Inferno gone cutsey : http://1988chuehinferno.blogspot.com/1:11AM
@xenijardin LOL, Homo's Devil Machine. I think I might get that printed on a T-Shirt12:32AM
@premasagar just come across the US/UK Freecycle rift... do you know what started it? It's all a bit vague.Thursday 2009-09-10
10:57AM
@paulsilver Have you tried switching your computer off then on again?9:37AM
I mean probably wouldn't last long anyway. Might has well have a laugh etc.9:36AM
If I did accidentally teleport myself back to the 14th Century, I think I'd go by the name Nickwit Sparrowshanks just to fuck up the locals3:22AM
@stwange Probably not, but you'd have a better life-expectancy. And more time etc. A double-bonus.3:15AM
Oh dear, a bumble bee has just flown in. Suicide? Nah. Over-reaction. I'll just carry on working.1:33AM
There?s this cliche that it?s easy to take candy from a baby? not if you have to look them in the eye when you do it, it isn?t.1:15AM
Down by the river again. A tiny Maori girl dressed in pink and purple is talking in duckese to the ducks. They're baffled.Wednesday 2009-09-09
11:14PM
@joshr 100 pushups is excessive. It's a well known fact that you get the same benefit from just doing one or two.11:13PM
Does anyone know what's happened to mediatransparency.org ?2:16PM
Cat Drinking etc : http://bit.ly/QagwG8:24AM
@leashless You seen this? http://afghantides.pbworks.com/ my concentration-span is too shot right now to figure it out.4:12AM
It?s all just a? a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details.3:25AM
I just grievously injured my thumb... and the only ice-cubes are star shaped, so I'm sitting here with my thumb in a cup of bloody ice-stars1:02AM
This guy rocks : http://bit.ly/3gAnuM =11:02AM
Just won the lottery. etc.Tuesday 2009-09-08
2:06PM
@lesleyrankine Indeed. Summer promises much, but delivers little. Winter kicks-arse. That's when things happen. Everything speeds up.5:53AM
tl;dr http://bit.ly/jGgM85:23AM
You get up, get coffee, come back, and Catsby's taken your spot.Monday 2009-09-07
1:08PM
Yea, ok, you're annoying me now : http://bit.ly/jkfFO11:08AM
@builtbydave LOL, but you LOVE code dave. It's written all over your face!9:38AM
@doctorow Douglas Coupland makes me feel all warm and appreciated etc. I am every inch a Gen-Xer...5:29AM
Right in exactly 3 minutes I'm going to get on with my life. 3 minutes. Yes siree etc. That's what I'm going to do.2:02AM
RT @rushkoff http://tr.im/y3mA On a system to help wealthy people stay wealthy simply by being wealthy, rather than creating any value1:07AM
@killer_bunnie at any given moment, it's filled with "does anybody else" or "dear Reddit" etc, rather than outward links. Right now ~ 65%1:02AM
@builtbydave Why do you want to move to hosted wordpress?Sunday 2009-09-06
11:01PM
@hrheingold Democracy has become: 'always acting in favour of corporate power, and "marketing" the decisions to the public when necessary'10:56PM
@hrheingold I hear you. What Obama is doing is exactly what "New" Labour did in the UK. Now we have 2 parties to vote for, both right-wing.12:08PM
Orb Paintings : http://bit.ly/8yobi Junk-bot crap-stars etc. Marvelous.12:03PM
reddit has become so self-referential that it's hardly worth bothering with any more.11:59AM
@JanisSharp Government as we know it, needs the most radical overhaul it's had in about 400 years. It's currently not fit for purpose.9:10AM
@JanisSharp Not at the moment no, but that doesn't make that quote from Jefferson a universal truth worth pursuing as an ideal.8:37AM
@JanisSharp Nobody should be fearing anybody. There shouldn't be a divide between government and people. Govt is how we organise ourselves4:20AM
Loads of people in white fibreglass sports versions of Maori canoes are rowing past.4:03AM
Finally got around to writing wrapper for mysql_real_escape_string - which has almost javascript levels of inane verbosity etc.12:23AM
@alexfarran I thought District 9 was excellent - good sci-fi is actually pretty rare. I'm looking forward to Sleep-Dealer. Looks good etc.Saturday 2009-09-05
1:18PM
Trust in BBC grows BECAUSE of attacks by Murdoch and politicians : http://tinyurl.com/lj792y there. Corrected that for you.10:31AM
Does anyone know if it's possible to disable tab-dragging in chrome? It's a pain in the arse.9:38AM
Keanu is on the TV. I like Keanu. I don't care what they say. Go Team-Keanu etc. Ra Ra.5:45AM
Skirrels etc. Marvelous http://bit.ly/138eLQ5:39AM
@mrjudkins yea - Web 2.0 hasn't really sunk into hardware interface design. I bought a wallpoint power-meter recently. Baffling.3:32AM
Looks like Wave has adopted a Kiwi-esque diminutive nomenclature. "The kiddies can have a bicky after kindy" etc.http://tinyurl.com/me9zogFriday 2009-09-04
11:36PM
And that was the day that Nick OD'ed on smart-pills and was found sitting in a skip, chittering to himself about freemasons and infinity11:19PM
It's a beautiful day. I should really attempt to get up etc.10:29PM
I've got an idea: any corporation caught trying to influence public policy should be instantly put into receivership.10:27PM
Copyright Cartels in Lying Through Their Teeth Again Shocker : http://bit.ly/xULt011:14AM
@doctorow re: copyright: tl;dr is the new drm.10:13AM
But I feel like I've been in a baseball bat fight. With one of those mental, steroid chugging gymnasium octopi you're always hearing about10:11AM
Just finished a really tough bit of coding work... which I managed to bring in 20% under budget/schedule.8:46AM
Catsby is asleep on the electric blanket, oblivious to the pandemonium raging upstairs, triggered in part by the vomit he left on the duvet7:49AM
Up to my eyeballs in really complicated code.6:08AM
Now 30 Years later Kit Malthouse (another tory) refers to the "policing industry". Same again: You sleazy, creepy cunts. http://tr.im/xQYb6:05AM
The first time I heard (a tory) call our health service "The health industry", I thought "oh you sleazy cunts. I know what you're about"5:39AM
@timoreilly Congress needs to get out of bed full stop.5:10AM
The Urban Caveman Survival Guide : #1 : Fire http://bit.ly/1iSMyo5:04AM
Cool car : http://www.citroenet.org.uk/prototypes/karin/karin.html12:34AM
@CaseyContrarian Yea, a little too early - It'll take years to fix the damage that Bush et al did. That said, he's not keeping his promisesThursday 2009-09-03
11:33PM
@makethingstalk and the funny thing is, everyone already knows that it doesn't. So where does this desire for violent punishment come from?11:31PM
@makethingstalk No study required. Just look at international stats on youth-crime to see if it inversely correlates to physical punishment.10:42PM
@makethingstalk Does violence against teenagers reduce teenager violence anywhere in the world? What does work? We should try that.3:04AM
Lego v8 : http://bit.ly/6Yc2b1:16AM
@plasticbagUK Well fair enough, but I suspect that people (who are petitioning) care more about the story than the general principle.1:12AM
Yea, well Microsoft can fuck off and die : http://tinyurl.com/l9rqkkWednesday 2009-09-02
10:46PM
@plasticbagUK Because "the story" has more impact if it's personified.11:40AM
@Prycie I went through a phase of using posterous - for what it is, I think it's excellent... I can't keep more than one blog going though.10:46AM
We just saw that District 9. Marvelous etc.. tipped hat to Early Peter Jackson Custard-Pie violence.3:00AM
Arse-biscuits, I forgot to pick my Prozac up. That's quite depressing actually.Tuesday 2009-09-01
2:06PM
R2D2 LOL : http://bit.ly/ZbUrp1:28AM
You can tell by the vengeful/tense expressions that they're all listening to "Eye of the TIger" on their iPods. Bit disturbing really.1:26AM
Some people just went past... Power-Walking. I don't know about Power-Walking. It's quite close to Git-Walking12:49AM
The river is full today. Quite fast too. It's windy today again as well. I'm sitting in the car drinking take-away coffee.August 2009
Monday 2009-08-31
6:22AM
Bruce has managed to get rid of the annoying squeak in the dashboard of my car. TFFT. I was worried it might have been mice.2:37AM
Bruce Sterling's ebullience http://vimeo.com/6189763 after the negativity at reboot http://tr.im/xw4c seems somewhere south of... realistic2:31AM
The other annoying thing about Chrome is when it gets together with flash, it runs your machine so hot you can smell the scorched plastic2:30AM
One of the most annoying things about chrome is that it often mistakes a tab-change for a window drag-drop.1:32AM
I need to figure out what to do with the next 45 years. The first 45 went quite well, in a chaotic, ratbaggy sort of way.12:24AM
Everything's a series of compounding hassles -hell of a lot of work to do as well... which means I need coffee, which means getting milk12:22AM
I need coffee... which means I need to go get milk... which means shaving and feeding the cat. Shaving me. Not the cat... it's a hassleSunday 2009-08-30
4:06PM
@iRbitterT Anyway, given up on Yukaza in favour of "Life is Sweet", by Mike Leigh, and others. Agonising English genius.4:03PM
@mat_walker Looks like you're up the dodgy end of town dude. That's my old neighbourhood.4:02PM
Windy again. If my high-rise strawberry farm blows down again I'm going to fly off the handle and break plates and whatnot.3:43PM
@iRbitterT Yakuza movies are all about honour, plot-symmetry, tunnelly-night-drivey utopia and sudden unfathomable acts of fuckedupness.3:37PM
Attempting to watch a movie about Yakuza. I haven't the faintest idea what's going on. Great movie though.3:19PM
@BrianLimond Well stop yer moaning and tidy yourself up a but FFS. Put a bit of lippy on.12:52PM
Elation on inventing a new swear-word "Piss-Widgets", rapidly deflates on learning there's already a band: "Taylor Nix and the Piss Widgets"11:03AM
@davidrosam Yeah - me too. I was living on Ladbroke Grove - which this time of year means Carnival. I had to escape to my mate's place.10:16AM
I've just noticed that the font on the research wing on Britannia Hospital, is the same as the one that's on everything in Babylon 5.9:55AM
@stilgherrian That actually was fairly funny.9:45AM
@davidrosam Well... lets just say I can remember my 30th birthday feeling like the end of the world... I was a kid.8:31AM
@alexqgb Ta - This is the first birthday I've had in about 5 years. It's taken that long to recover from the last one.8:22AM
@paulsilver Ta. According to theory, from here on in I should be able to take my feet off the pedals... if... you know... I had pedals.6:57AM
How come our police are starting to look more and more like the police-state police off Terry Gilliam's Brazil?6:14AM
Catsby is sitting next to me. He has the patience of a saint that cat, the patience of a saint. The appetite of a gannet.4:47AM
But never mind about that. If I live to be 112, I'll never write a song as good as that one.4:46AM
I once had a therapist that looked a bit like this : http://bit.ly/14MWfS She gave me a t-shirt with a dead bird on it4:44AM
My highrise strawberry farm just suffered an catastrophic systemic/architectural failure.4:34AM
@amandatreeuk It's hard to say.12:33AM
Down the caf. The people next to me are eating salad, and have a pepper-grinder so tall they can't use it sitting down.Saturday 2009-08-29
11:15PM
It's my Birthday today. Is it? Yes it is. I'm in the Autumn of my Days. The Twilight of my Years. Life' Shadow is growing inexorably longer.4:11AM
E-Bikes : http://bit.ly/49v1Za2:32AM
Singing Cats : http://tr.im/xoD2 I've got this theory that good guitar solos are often based on the rhythms of crying.2:21AM
Between them they agreed, never to speak of this, ever again : http://bit.ly/fyP9e2:09AM
Eet has seeesed to beee etc.2:09AM
I came out this morning to find that The Chicken had fallen over. http://tr.im/xoxa So that's my weekend ruinedFriday 2009-08-28
3:03PM
Goldar monstruos del espacio : http://bit.ly/eNnfp1:24PM
This is one of my best bands : http://bit.ly/cGf2O1:05PM
RT @rinkjustice It's best not to look at this Flickr photostream alone. Late at night. In the dark. http://3.ly/DLz12:44PM
By my estimation, I'm the 8,721,791st person to find out how excellent this is : http://bit.ly/SWWDk11:56AM
Fuck me, August the 18th makes me feel like I've got a really bad case of the booze-induced spins : http://threeframes.net/page/210:20AM
American Treasure turns out to be worthless ? after 40 years... http://ff.im/7hIUT6:19AM
Mingy Manga : http://brendantang.com/?page_id=45:37AM
Spherical solutions looking for problems. Another Nickwit rant http://bit.ly/125gPLThursday 2009-08-27
3:26PM
Far out - cool app: http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/2:04PM
The Zoo Song : http://bit.ly/fK1yb12:57AM
New Frontiers of the Unsustainable : Faux-cycling : http://bit.ly/29CEaWednesday 2009-08-26
11:31PM
Suction-cup ceiling-bot : http://bit.ly/fNnxe11:24PM
I'm getting to be a bit sick of these tbh : http://vimeo.com/6192068 and you know what? Fuck 'brands'. Nobody cares about brands.11:04PM
Windy in NZ at the mo. " ", it goes. " ", " ". It actually makes a bit more noise than that, but you get the idea11:02PM
Sudokubot : http://bit.ly/1Zeuat9:42PM
The folks are off up to Auckland for the weekend, which means I'll have to cook/wash for myself etc. It's ok. I've got my coping hat on.12:15PM
Apart from a slightly different face, scarf dude looks just like me http://tr.im/x9xx I keep expecting him to do something fucked up + weird6:01AM
I just got a spam email from someone named "frivolous Whitten". It simply doesn't get any better than that.12:32AM
Errrr.... I shouldn't do that if I were you old chap : http://bit.ly/23hrleTuesday 2009-08-25
1:15PM
"Cellular" was on TV earlier - a fairly screechy cassandra-complex movie. I'm not a huge believer in cassandra-complex movies6:41AM
Dog in the park : http://bit.ly/1xmlyW6:30AM
Warbots, Lovebots : http://bit.ly/EazYV4:21AM
@marie_clair Erm... errm.... Cafe Kilim : Petone : 6445897667 - I presume the number is the password. Not a bad place as far as I can gather3:26AM
@marie_clair Tallin Est, Brighton UK and err... Parnell, AKL all have free wifi. The Turkish place in Petone does as well. It's a tech hub.3:24AM
Planted my high-rise strawberry farm. The hard work to do with gardening is due to plants being short. Plant them up walls. That's my advice12:39AM
Right. Time to do some actual, proper work. Then I'll go out and plant my new high-rise strawberry farm12:01AM
The Reynolds Number : http://bit.ly/f2luEMonday 2009-08-24
11:44PM
@joshr re: regretting what you haven't done : Easy dude, you could wind up like me : http://www.ikostar.com/2008/04/19/genevra/11:37PM
@builtbydave Yea - whenever I come back to vinyl I'm always think "fuck me, this is what it's supposed to sound like".11:35PM
Yea - eye-candy http://tr.im/x1HP is also symptomatic of Incremental Innovation - which means saturation. Ideas who's time is nearly done.Sunday 2009-08-23
11:01PM
Sam Harris, who's job it is to repeatedly, patiently explain what really ought to be the bleedin obvious : http://tr.im/wXsc10:59PM
Ok. The Day beginneth - 30 minutes on my pet project, then on with the proper work. After I've got some bolts for my camera stabiliser.11:30AM
Cool : http://www.thinnerview.com/ I wonder if there's a version that could make me look less of a rudderless hippie?11:20AM
The way you program artificial intelligence systems that are capable of running simulations... is to tell them stories.8:16AM
Back home again. Holy crap I'm tired. I've been wearing myself out etc. Sleep deprivation and whatnot.Saturday 2009-08-22
11:38PM
I'm in the corner, head spinning / buzzing like fuck, steeped in laptopdom, and headphonery, shutting out as much of it all as possible11:36PM
Down the caf, somewhere in Wellington. It's Sunday. People drinking coffee and sharing papers etc, just like they would if they were normal.Friday 2009-08-21
2:02AM
In a caf in Wellington. Guy just game in with his face on upside down. No one better talk to me.12:10AM
Seems to be quite a lot of work around at the mo. Vast and heartfelt gratitude to @paulsilver for helping me out when times were tough.Thursday 2009-08-20
11:23PM
Well twitter has just screwed up in an entirely unique way - can't see its Css file unless you give it ?3e32e=23e32e style parameters10:37PM
@mrjudkins Speaking of which - a straight line (my fault) between 2 parts didn't get cut. Are you able to do a quick bit of laser-snipping?12:31PM
@robshepherd Well some belongings are more personal than others. I imagine that's what they mean.4:15AM
@mrjudkins What I want is a little app that waits for "unavailable in your region" - sends a msg to the originator saying Fuck you, Fuckface1:01AM
Anyway. I'm on the road. Stopped for coffee at bulls. Dad's 70th birthday today.1:00AM
@robyngallagher You think you've got problems. Woke up last night - Catsby was drinking from MY glass of water. He had his entire head in itWednesday 2009-08-19
8:44AM
Home Made Sex toys : http://bit.ly/2YX1d Probably NSFW, depending on your job etc.2:02AM
Anyway, I'm taking my car for a WOF, which is the kiwi word for MOT.1:36AM
Me and Catsby just went through the carwash. I like going through the carwash. It's like a circus ride that washes your car.12:12AM
An excessively late night; another morning feeling horrendously rung out. Listening to a talk about GMOs, lapsing in an out of consciousnessTuesday 2009-08-18
3:27PM
Massive THING controlled by wiimote :http://www.genomicon.com/2009/08/massive-thing-controlled-by-wiimote/ http://ff.im/6MMYx1:43PM
Jaws etc LOL : http://bit.ly/13SAnX8:14AM
The thing about vampires that sets them apart from other monsters, is that everyone secretly wants to be one. They're quite glam.8:12AM
@leashless re: 'needs/qualities of living things - http://everything2.com/title/Mrs+Gren (I can never remember them)8:08AM
Playing with Polymorph. A slightly weird thing to say but it's quite nice... accoustically.6:14AM
Holy crap. I read some lyrics when I was about 6 (in 1972) - and made up a tune to go with them. I've just heard the tune and I got it right6:08AM
Baaa etc. Marvelous : http://bit.ly/bOcI6Monday 2009-08-17
11:56PM
Although I don't feel so bad etc, because I don't carry a cellphone : http://tr.im/wzE810:56PM
And while we're on the subject, Jewish Clothesmaking Robots : http://tr.im/wzt710:50PM
Imperfect Men make Perfect Woman http://tr.im/wzsv What could possibly go wrong? ... that isn't already badly wrong I mean.10:31PM
Hurrah - the fairy lights have arrived. I can get on with my life etc.10:21PM
Lady Gaga (and oh, how it makes me cringe, just to say those words)... It's obvious when you think about it : http://tr.im/wzmQ10:03PM
Smoke Rings : http://tr.im/wzig The coolest thing I have seen all morning12:08PM
At Last !!! a website for/by people who worship-lens flares. http://bit.ly/l8Vve10:40AM
LOL : Support : http://bit.ly/Q9EU89:51AM
@mat_walker @yezzer Van Driver was the only grown up's job I ever did where I didn't wish I was somewhere else the whole time. Good Job.9:50AM
Doing lots of work at the mo. Tis good. I like working. I'm good at it etc.2:39AM
At some point In the future, every last molecule of copper is going to be made into wire, and it'll all be at my place, tangled the fuck up12:37AM
@stilgherrian Atheism is like being "not an astrologer"... it's not really another type of astrology. No "belief" required.12:32AM
@hrheingold Facebook/Twitter - I use Twitter to talk to Facebook. If I could get data out of Facebook into Twitter, I wouldn't use FB at all12:31AM
0 CNC Machine : http://bit.ly/KPCUFSunday 2009-08-16
9:02AM
The Walled World : http://bit.ly/MUO9F8:02AM
@dirkthecow iPhone is the AOL of cellphones, which are becoming less like cellphones + more like... universal hardware interfaces, every day5:43AM
Other PHP coders are weird: The prev developer has encrypted his code against the client, but left the client's login details as plain text2:40AM
@rapella well, I'm saving my pennies etc :) . It's been a bit of a funny year this - got a bit more working coming in now though12:33AM
Every time someone buys a house from someone else, 10s/100s of 1000s of $ leaves my town forever and goes to some distant bank somewhere12:21AM
@rapella the fundamental bit of DNA behind most of the world's problems is that money is created as a scarce resource, from debt12:17AM
@rapella Yea? Why's that then?Saturday 2009-08-15
11:53PM
Listening to this again : http://bit.ly/MjwK3 : possibly the most world-changing thing I've seen.11:49PM
@alexfarran I found it incredibly interesting. I've got a kindof deep-fixation with Rio. It's like the hanging gardens of babylon gone bad10:53PM
This is what I was doing last year : http://tinyurl.com/3mfkt6 - it's a whisker more expensive than it looks. 1400 quid is doable though10:20PM
You can tella Wella Wizard, by the way he wears his hair etc : http://bit.ly/XIv0Q1:08PM
@alexfarran Have you seen that Rio-ian mega-documentary about the bus hijack? Ônibus 174 - the whole thing is on google vids12:18PM
We just saw that Underworld, Rise of the Lycans and against every instinct, thought it was excellent. Grrrrr they go. Werewolves. Marvelous6:03AM
@gubatron yea well, 15 days and I'm 45. One day you will look back and thing that 30 is wonderfully young.6:00AM
@gleonhard Didn't he mean "depth returns"?5:59AM
@peteyorn Yup - I lived in Tallin for a month, Brighton for a month ,Sydney for a month. This year I mainly stayed in bed.2:24AM
White Widows in the Catacombs of Duat : http://tinyurl.com/neljwm2:20AM
Oh Christ, I'm back on coffee again. You can always tell when I'm addicted to coffee - I start complaining about salad.12:00AM
The main problem with salad is that it's chaos basically. Loads of things that would probably be ok on their own, gratuitously shuffled upFriday 2009-08-14
11:58PM
It's decoration basically. Leaves and things. If the cat won't eat it, then neither will I.11:56PM
Dang, darn, flip, dash, heck; blinking, ruddy, flipping etc. Repressed swearing is probably quite bad for you. Like salad is repressed food11:52PM
Sitting outside. It had better not rain or I'll have a mood-swing and get all fuckin... well... all wet I suppose. Dang, darn, flip and dash10:44PM
Pixel Skin : http://bit.ly/ZsLOE10:05PM
Tall Bikes : http://bit.ly/XnBaN2:01PM
There are possums making a row outside. Keeping me company while I'm working, and everyone else is asleep because it's 2am.9:16AM
Well there goeth another day. Another week. What is it? August? Holy crap. Technically I'm middle aged, but I feel like I'm about 12.8:22AM
Racoons? http://bit.ly/iBg8z8:22AM
mars : http://imgur.com/XGEVZ.jpg
1:28AM
Wasted the whole morning trying to make sense of someone who seems to have a type of structural-level dyslexia. Or are just fucking stupid.Thursday 2009-08-13
11:18PM
@andybudd Yea - I think the ideal number of people to follow is about 150. Mind you, I guess that depends on how talkative they all are11:15PM
Time was when I went out and partied - every night, for about 15 years. Looking back I can't remember, or even imagine, what I talked about1:47PM
Moth scribble : http://tinyurl.com/klk8yn2:48AM
Just done my accounts. God I love doing accounts. Accounts, accounts, accounts.2:03AM
today my car is covered in a fine layer of yellow pollen - which is basically "flower wank". What sort of animal would do a thing like that?1:10AM
In case anyone is interested in New-Economics and whatnot, I've found that it's a LOT easier to get people to donate time than give money.1:07AM
@foundinyonkers I think the people behind it are possibly quite clever - "debate" has become a communications channel for creating doubt.12:55AM
This is the view from my office, aka my car, which is where I'm working from now : http://www.weirdsky.com/miscImages/river.jpg
12:20AM
American "debate" is all about people arguing about what makes sense "in their heads", ignoring what actually works elsewhere #WeLoveTheNHS12:19AM
Down by the river again. Some fat people have driven up and parked on the grass in front of me. They're sitting in the car, eating pies.Wednesday 2009-08-12
11:38PM
health-service by country: a gradient from great to shit, with socialised medicine at the top and privatisation at the bottom #WeLoveTheNHS10:19PM
I've been in hospital with life-threatening illnesses in both NZ/UK. The question of money simply never comes into it : #WeLoveTheNHS.2:51PM
Warbots http://bit.ly/6E0q02:09PM
Long Star-Wars crash : http://bit.ly/tj41q1:29PM
Catsby's the only person I know who can purr crossly.1:00PM
Viral Cloud Manufacturing : http://bit.ly/3QhX9z5:46AM
I was going to go see that Harry Potter today... but I'm a bit late now, so I'll leave it. Anyway, that's been my excitement for the day.5:37AM
If I wanted I could write a lifetime's worth of tweets in advance and auto-schedule them, but it'd take a lifetime to do, so like, fuck that5:37AM
Down by the river, without a connection so I'm not there now, but was earlier, which was when I wrote this. Don't worry about it etc.12:38AM
There's a kingfisher sitting in the tree outside. It's a happy kingfisher. It's sitting in a tree. They like that sort of thing, kingfishersTuesday 2009-08-11
10:52AM
Where the fucking fuck have those spaz-chariot headphones gone?3:55AM
So they say "hello" and you say "yea whatever", then next time you pass them, they look at you witheringly. That's why I prefer to stay home3:53AM
Walked round the lake earlier. The trouble with walking round the lake, is everyone you pass, you pass again on the other side.Monday 2009-08-10
11:19PM
Quite a nice snapshot of the current state of web-programming : http://tinyurl.com/mfcw2q3:32AM
How to fuck the banks: create currency based on abundance of production, rather than it being lent into existence as a scarce resource12:32AM
It's an empty machine. The ghost has left the building. All that's left is a self-perpetuating Amway like bubble of misleading advertising12:30AM
If you google 'party supplies wanganui' you get this massive facade of business directories, behind which is nothing. All meta, no data.12:17AM
@stilgherrian re: twitter/news - here's an idea for a feeder-business of the future : out-sourced, mechanical-turk-style fact-checkingSunday 2009-08-09
9:01AM
@mrjudkins That lamp turned out ok in the end - everything's a bit loose, but the design is quite forgiving of loosity. T'works etc.Saturday 2009-08-08
11:00PM
I stayed up til 4am last night designing camera stabilisers and woke up to find that my hair had been attacked by weasels. WTF?10:48AM
Catsby just parked a tiger. Blew chunks etc. Gross4:32AM
Down by the sea - half past four in the afternoon, sun low... cars on the main highway whooshing by behind me. Kapati is a hazy silhouette.1:07AM
Jungle bridges : http://bit.ly/3S05jBFriday 2009-08-07
10:58PM
Daily Mail Cancer Stories. Start with the "a"s http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/2:51PM
Bio-accessories http://bit.ly/6sPp912:58PM
Tree houses : http://bit.ly/ERvdX12:55PM
At my brother's place, having just pulled off a PHP / Ajax coding miracle. I can't believe I got away with that. Works like a dream thoughThursday 2009-08-06
11:43PM
Beautiful day; normal, background-noise depression gone. I'm in synch with the sky man. Everywhere I go I take the weather with me.10:17AM
Oh dear God, I do hope so: http://tinyurl.com/ljoz9z I'd be more than happy if these people fucked off and died in un-cited obscurity.5:50AM
@kalena doubly annoying because my main UK account is set up so it's easy to memorise everything. No bits of plastic or arcane codes to lose5:47AM
Amazingly beautiful evening in NZ. Early spring with the river gone orange and silver and so on, and smoke from chimneys. All is still.5:11AM
And now, a special message to whatever BNZ employee thought "Netguard" cards were a good idea: "You unutterable fucking cunt. Fuck you"4:41AM
Cripes, there's another one : http://bit.ly/r35OQ4:30AM
Well I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire mate. I'm certainly not paying for your "quality journalism" : http://tinyurl.com/lrdo6z1:41AM
Down at the beach today. Telecommuting in the sand... or would be if I could get out of the car. Can't though... The Light... it burns us...Wednesday 2009-08-05
9:38PM
@stilgherrian Trouble is, 4 and 5 star people are horrible too. It kindof goes from low-rent to ugly-snob with nothing in between4:22AM
Soft Stroke Sensors and Wanking Eggs : http://bit.ly/PXx7I2:39AM
Derivative Colonialism : Loans made to 'developing' countries on the condition that public assets/services are sold to western corporations2:06AM
Using the power of the state to force taxpayers to give them money, and turn it into bonuses http://tinyurl.com/klnfxu12:16AM
Down the caf, waiting for all the arsewits to go away... a lot of that sort of thing round here. Potato people with matchsticks for legsTuesday 2009-08-04
11:27PM
Jurassic Park Beer : @driftnetnzRT @Richard_Dawkins: http://bit.ly/2Cm4P beer from 45 million year old yeast8:38PM
Woke up in the morning this morning. That hardly ever happens. Early nights you see.Upset my circadian rhythm. Everything's bright and weird11:00AM
Underarm necklace : http://bit.ly/pZ2gA9:12AM
Poseidon is on. It's similar in many ways to Poseidon Adventure, except you know how it ends already.7:25AM
Ooh - a Mars Thing : http://bit.ly/HUwn26:55AM
Online screen recorders to try out later. http://www.screentoaster.com/ http://www.screenjelly.com/ if I get it together, which is unlikelyMonday 2009-08-03
11:05PM
All laptops should have a big "Shut The Fuck Up" button that you can hit like a lone wack-a-mole to stop it doing whatever it's doing.9:43PM
@timoreilly re: corners - those ultra-fast robots did it for me http://tinyurl.com/kjrtth Hollywood sci-fi is limited to 30 frames a second9:18PM
@yezzer Have you got bird flu then?8:49AM
X-Men 2 or 12 or 4 etc is on. I find X-Men films baffling. Some part of me is filtering out irrelevant data, which is pretty much all of it2:10AM
Chandeliers from the Future http://tinyurl.com/ln9dbw laser-cut, CNC fablabbery with a dash of kinetic art gone biomorphicSunday 2009-08-02
10:51PM
Kohlberg's stages of moral development http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kohlberg.htm10:44PM
I swing wildly between being a Cirrus and a Nimbostratus : http://imgur.com/hZVF0.jpg Today I'm just knackered though.
10:42PM
Cindarella? Is that you? http://tinyurl.com/ng3jrl12:15PM
This dude still hasn't found what he's looking for : http://vimeo.com/46362027:56AM
Today I have mainly been coding like a NinjaSaturday 2009-08-01
11:38PM
High-Rise Capsule Tent Hotel Thing : http://bit.ly/gcqGz9:13AM
Bad Boys II is on TV. Everyone's yelling at once. Even the cat is yelling. It's mayhem.8:22AM
Baa Baa Baa etc. Marvelous : http://tinyurl.com/ngpo2r6:53AM
Julia Roberts is on the TV again. It's The Julia Roberts Season - basically one movie over and over - meets bloke, loses bloke, gets married6:23AM
Just voted in the "no-violence-against-children" referendum... and now I feel like smacking some National Party MP in the fucking face.5:29AM
@plasticbagUK You could've said something similar about Borat. It's a kindof two-tier target audience. So was Born in the USA by SpringsteenJuly 2009
Friday 2009-07-31
12:20PM
This is the song that woke me up as to what really good songwriting is really about : http://bit.ly/YlOLF12:14PM
@stwange in addition to that, the unbalanced extradition arrangement between the US and the UK is cowardly and repugnant.12:11PM
@stwange "what he was thinking" in no way justifies extradition to a country with a human-rights record as bad as Americas.12:02PM
RT @rapella #freegary - Wanna help Gary McKinnon fight extradition? http://www.freegary.org.uk/ and/or follow his Mum @JanisSharp10:07AM
Finally!!! an inflatable fat fairy costume : http://bit.ly/18BXAh9:38AM
@rajdavies RT: Extraditing Gary McKinnon - really makes me angry - http://bit.ly/yi6PP // is there something we can do or is it too late?8:56AM
@phowardcom Thank you :)8:55AM
The @nhsdirect style is a good example for (ahem) "brands" on how to use twitter. Listen: no one cares about brands. They care about people8:52AM
RT @tomnixon Just noticed that @nhsdirect is on Twitter, and they're using it really well - nice6:31AM
I think this one might be better than the original movie : http://bit.ly/cNWn65:26AM
In the 80s, trousers used to come up so hight that they went over your head and you'd need to wander round with your fly down to see out.5:11AM
I keep watching this over and over again, with a totally blank mind : http://tinyurl.com/kvnqd44:49AM
Oh Mai Gard : http://bit.ly/QdtGP Sex toys for dogs.4:28AM
Uber-dexterous robot hands : http://bit.ly/139U9OThursday 2009-07-30
9:49PM
Today is day 5 of giving up coffee - for the first time in ages, the world is big and blue and bright and breezy and inviting. I want coffee12:57PM
@joshr LOL. SEO etc. I totally agree.12:14PM
My glass is 1/2 filled with optimism, 1/2 with pessimism.There's also one of those paper umbrellas, which is a bit of both. Mostly optimisim3:00AM
@darkscript Ah. Beyond my ken then... though the obvious immediate thing that springs to mind is making an igloo out of them. Or a Zorb.1:37AM
Twitter kindof swaps your jokes and your punchlines. If your joke is longer than 140 characters it needs to be palindromic.1:36AM
"oh it was easy in the end" he said after the funeral. "Someone with a black suit wanted a blue suit so I swapped the heads"1:36AM
"He wanted to be buried in a black suit" she (tearfully) said to the Coroner... who thought for a moment and said "I'll see what I can do"1:32AM
@darkscript errm... how you going to do that dude? I want one in the shape of a laptop.1:31AM
See where I come from, #6 is God's way of telling you to sftu : http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/lightning.html1:14AM
HP Sponsered darknet : http://bit.ly/PnBUU12:31AM
Little wooden lasercut robot : http://bit.ly/b1549Wednesday 2009-07-29
10:14PM
Richard Wolff on Obama : http://tinyurl.com/mrqsug - yup, that is what I have been saying etc. People voted for hope, but got a politician.1:04PM
Denial, anger, rage, bargaining, more anger, more bargaining, depression, denial, evasion, sudden attack, denial etc etc.8:33AM
Iamanointed : http://bit.ly/jEvJI #iamblessed7:41AM
Even though it's gorier, I think it would be less scary to be teleported into Southpark-land than Simpsons-land7:35AM
My Sister's somehow persuaded me to drink honey + baking soda (isn't that how you make crack?) every day. And it is actually fairly horribleTuesday 2009-07-28
11:31AM
Some sort of animated sci fi thing, gone a bit weird : http://vimeo.com/500327911:24AM
@wind4me It's a kind of smear - Reagan used to do that all the time.11:23AM
@D4DirtyDigital You're cutting the throats of people from your own country - participating in a race to the bottom. Arrogant/Ignorant - bye.10:26AM
@nikz Cool - you should (ahem) tidy yourself up a bit, get a proper uniform and be like a Crimean-War officer and a gentleman and everything10:17AM
Watching Gothica. It's screechy. The heroine has just gone down into the (trapdoored) basement of a deserted barn, at night. Horror movie?10:15AM
#freewifi New Zealand : Wanganui : Orange Cafe, Stella :: Auckland : top-end of Parnell :: Petone (wgtn) : Cafe Kilim10:12AM
@gubatron Estonia has #freewifi pretty much everywhere.8:57AM
May seem like gibberish http://tinyurl.com/m8pthx but it's exactly the same gibberish Reagan used to win the debate against Carter in 19808:43AM
RT @jstrachan Pluto to get a reprieve ? - http://bit.ly/ZxLIK // Pluto, Pluto, you will always be a planet to me.4:30AM
Errr right http://tinyurl.com/ndqrsg Machine Intelligence, Human Intelligence... it's all good, so long as we can survive human fuckwittery4:25AM
One minute 18 seconds? http://bit.ly/Wox6B Tom Wolfe managed to say it in 3 words : The Favour Bank3:51AM
@thehighwaygirl Nope - Mark Mylod - done loads of really good brit comedies in the last decade or so.2:43AM
I can't wait for the day after tomorrow when I don't feel like crap any more. Giving up coffee again. It's scrambling my brains.Monday 2009-07-27
11:48PM
@D4DirtyDigital Bollocks. Bet you only get pitches from people in countries with serious poverty.11:34PM
Inspiration : http://www.teamwonderful.co.uk/pages/inspiration.html9:50PM
@D4DirtyDigital what you're doing is asking people to work for 3rd world rates - to afford 3rd world living conditions.9:42PM
@D4DirtyDigital depends how much work is involved. You're not buying a product, you're buying the time of a human - who needs to pay rent.9:35PM
@EivindJ I'd say about a day or so, depending on whether admin for organisation and categories are already set up. DM yr email for details11:34AM
@D4DirtyDigital I'm a PHP coder- your budget is out by a factor of at least 10. Unless of course you're getting into 3rd-world exploitation10:48AM
Still, I can't believe the folks are more bohemian than I am. It's distressing.10:48AM
One of the folk's poet friends has turned up. He brought a pie (for his tea), a bottle wine and is staying the night. We like poets etc.9:23AM
@shanegold poke them with a stick?3:35AM
Giving up coffee today, so have a headache. And tomorrow, and the day after that. Then I'm fine etc.Sunday 2009-07-26
11:55PM
At Last! A video of geeks CNC laser-burning QR bar-codes on their bums : http://bit.ly/15tRBd1:51PM
@KindleSp If you're interested in story, you should give this a look : http://tinyurl.com/lthtra ignore the self-helpyness of the title11:14AM
That last link truly does restore my faith in humanity. Endlessly, inventively batty. I love people. They're fucking crackpots.11:10AM
Galileo, Galileo etc : http://bit.ly/4qNEL72:36AM
This is probably the best ever song that ponders the folly of premature moon-exploration : http://bit.ly/6aV8E12:18AM
Sitting in the Avenue, beautiful sunny day, and I'm feeling as wired as fuck.Saturday 2009-07-25
11:52PM
@joshr What are those things running about going woooo? They look like apple-fanboy Steve-Balmer clones. http://tinyurl.com/ytrbdh10:37PM
@timoreilly re: Microsoft Hatred... I'm inclined to disagree. The reasons for MS contempt are usually well-reasoned, and easily articulated.10:51AM
LOL : http://bit.ly/Tu8gJ genius7:55AM
@firstsearch Yea, but a renovated, listed building, with a view, in Bath would be worth millions.5:02AM
For me it'll be something of a milestone when Turn The Page by Jon English turns up on Youtube.2:47AM
Just did the http://www.kiva.org thing again.2:20AM
Anyway last night I dreamed my hair had gone like Nigel Tufnel, so I combed it and then I looked like a girl. WTF? Why can't life be simple?12:14AM
Do the work of 70 slaves! http://bit.ly/pTxuy12:04AM
Thanking the sky for a beautiful day.Friday 2009-07-24
11:00PM
I love this guy : http://tinyurl.com/mvygq5 Art, who's responsibiity it is to wake people up, must remain distinct from the dream @rushkoff10:25PM
AP hoping to DRM news : http://www.ap.org/media/images/APnewsregistry.jpg how do people get to be so inept? Is it their job to be clueless?
9:26PM
@ItalyFace00 At a guess I'd say that twitter just wiped out a load of spammers. I wouldn't be too concerned10:22AM
Swine Flu Supplies at the Paraparam Pak-n-save : http://www.weirdsky.com/miscImages/swineFlu.jpg
9:45AM
This was my second girlfriend's third boyfriend : http://bit.ly/4k8fS9:39AM
Dwell on uncomplicated beauty: http://bit.ly/hgO4r The early 90s were so late 80s.9:27AM
Art for Art's sake. It's easy when you know how : http://bit.ly/iFRqv6:13AM
Back in Wanganui - the news is full of the roads that I've just been on, being all flooded and blocked last night. It was horrendously rainy12:26AM
Some suits have come in. They're team players, but none of them actually like each other. They're laughing blokily, at pretty much nothingThursday 2009-07-23
11:56PM
Consistency is for insects.12:34AM
Favela Chic (wind-powered) Coffee Shop : http://bit.ly/s4d0QWednesday 2009-07-22
11:13PM
Heironomous Bosch meets some sort of porny thing in yet another art site where the pictures are too fecking small http://tinyurl.com/ktuhvq10:29PM
I loose word here, a loose word there... I think I may have tricked myself into making a 7 hour drive today.6:45AM
@LeifKendall Ah yes, mood boards. Those are they. I knew I wasn't imagining it. Which is to say, I wasn't totally sure I wasn't imagining it6:43AM
@robsog LOL - yea, that would work. It needs to be on paper though. I'm entering a competition I can't possibly win cos I'm taking the piss6:41AM
The murder case that the NZ TV news has turned into a soap opera and milked for more weeks than Fawtly Towers lasted for, is finally over.2:57AM
@stilgherrian In London each double-decker bus has ~20 cameras. Each passenger has one. The real impact is being caused by the passengers2:49AM
One for the designer bods. What do you call the thing where you get clients to cut out collages of pics that get across the vibe they want?12:34AM
String is on the radio. "ROOOOOXAAAAANNNNNEEEEE" he goes. Marvelous.12:05AM
@backupmytweets re: 3200 limit. I'm an app developer as well - maybe we could form an app-developer petition to get the limit removed.12:02AM
I'm out. Every time anyone looks my way the words "What are you looking at fuckface?" spontaneously, uncontrolably pop in to my head.Tuesday 2009-07-21
11:01PM
LOL http://bit.ly/CQ78c but for some reason it makes me want to smash someone's face in. Not that I would of course10:43PM
Oceans 13 is a movie where everyone obsessively buys the most expensive stuff they can, but then tears all the labels off.10:41PM
We saw that Oceans 13. It's a weird, gilded parallel universe/advert for everything they sell at airports, but where brand-names don't exist10:29PM
@mrjudkins What it will be is "self-help" masquerading as a bigger pitch for their web design/hosting/seo business. Don't go. Please.10:27PM
@OneLuvGurl Evil Geeks: I though Jeremy Davies in Solaris was truly great http://bit.ly/Rkgu7 though not evil per se10:08PM
@mrjudkins God - all my dreams come true for . It's almost tempting to go along - and get really irritated and depressed etc.12:14PM
@BackupMyTweets I'm having trouble pulling down tweets that are older than about 3200 - can you go back further than this?11:10AM
@Martin_Carr Lucy from Peanuts used to have terrible problems with being "Aware of her tongue" back in the day.6:59AM
RT @doctorow Twitter feed for new novel installments @Doctorow_Makers - which, oddly, I'm really enjoying. The seriality I mean. Being odd6:57AM
RT @StephenBrighton You've got to have a dream, cos if you don't have a dream, how-u-gon-a-hav-a-dream-come-truuuuuue.6:56AM
Loosely based on 15th Century Venice - all fog and crooked alleys; every shadow a dagger, every light a lure. A genuinely dangerous place.6:55AM
There's a competition for what to do with Queens Warf http://tinyurl.com/ngmo9r I'm going to suggest turning it into a red-light district4:59AM
Thoughts on Favela Chic : http://bit.ly/iRNFh2:43AM
The Sodomy Song from Meet The Feebles : http://bit.ly/4lf3UCMonday 2009-07-20
10:44PM
@stephenfry LOL - actually, that was fairly funny. Penguins etc. Marvelous.10:34PM
@cshirky re: searchability - although youtube is now the 2nd biggest search engine on the web.10:02PM
New morning regime: gets up, has coffee, goes back to bed. Similar to the Wibbly Wobbly Men system but with less running about and shouting.3:43AM
My Dad just got me an apple. When Dad gets me an apple, it's peeled, & laid out on a small plate in a floral pattern. Same with oranges etc2:48AM
Comment on why the UK govt is lying to you about nuke power, about 2/3s through this podcast : http://tinyurl.com/kqmpfdSunday 2009-07-19
10:45PM
Foreman Ferris has just sent me an email entitled "African hunter and busty cocksmoker doing uppy-downy" Dare I open it? Dare I?12:57PM
had dinner with this guy once. Too jetlagged,hungover and young to be as starstruck as I now know I should've been http://tinyurl.com/nly6kz12:50PM
@alexfarran Cool - thank you.11:45AM
Gurus I have never met, #3123221 http://tinyurl.com/nef98k11:32AM
RT @cshirky @yelvington E-books broken by design http://tinyurl.com/mjg7pw implying control-systems (as opposed protocols) broken by design?11:08AM
Life Inc : This looks good : http://tinyurl.com/nan58k7:23AM
Out for a walk. "Have you got a map, a cellphone?" says Dad. "What about a hat" says Mum. They both fall about laughing as I leave. bah.5:02AM
Freedom through discipline and whatnot, freedom through discipline and whatnot, freedom through discipline and whatnot4:38AM
Anyway I slept all day today. It's been a bit of a funny month this. I wonder what day it is4:37AM
We saw that Wall-E last night. So why were conservatives so uppity about it? Did they think they were the fat ones? They weren't evil etc12:35AM
Why Nuclear Power is a seriously stupid idea : http://bit.ly/3yttOcSaturday 2009-07-18
4:35AM
Hmmm... I think maybe I need to read some self-improvement books.4:10AM
@rtgarden Yea - I thought it was pretty impressive how rapidly we lost control of the H1N1 situation. It seemed to take about a day.4:06AM
@stilgherrian Psilocybin is usually the cheapest hallucinogen available, but these days I'm finding sleep-deprivation to be pretty reliable3:57AM
Hmm. Womens Weekly. Used to be knitting patterns, recipes etc. Now it's all celebrities who I don't recognise but who look like utter cunts1:41AM
Pirate Bay to become pay site http://tinyurl.com/nlbf4v it would have more chance of success if it decided to become a plant shop12:11AM
Vague Scientist http://imgur.com/qy8jN.jpg
Friday 2009-07-17
11:49PM
RT @diveintomark @cshirky control-systems vs open-protocols : books : http://bit.ly/KJaQ1 #kindles #orwell11:34PM
@inkblotsart My film-school tutor advised wallpapering a room with rejection letters, not about successes/failures, but the number of tries11:26PM
Spooky Furniture : http://tinyurl.com/lxehvm12:20PM
Everything below his knees looks a bit odd if you ask me http://tinyurl.com/m6ffvg Is that what English chaps wear these days? Christ.11:47AM
RT @leashless AAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHA HHHAHHHAHHHHAH AAAAAHHAHAHAHHA HAHAHAHAH AAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA MUHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA MUUU HA HA11:47AM
On TV they're showing the beginning of a Jimmy Page guitar solo, that started in 1977, and which (apparently) he's still playing somewhere.11:44AM
@phowardcom And you don't hate pigeons, you fear them. Yes you do. You fear the pigeons etc.11:38AM
@phowardcom No dude, it's just you :)11:37AM
Stairway to Heaven's on the TV. You remember LOL folks?11:26AM
@KindleSp Babies are born needing attention. It's the method by which we're programmed. It's the reward system that drives our A.I.10:18AM
At any given moment ~5% of the human race are wishing to fuck that 8% of the rest of the human race would stop doing what they're doing6:11AM
Hmmm.... (strokes beard). A face full of custard-flavoured fail. I didn't expect that.2:57AM
I'm programming. Catsby is beside me sleeping. He's better at being a cat than I am at being a human. A lot better.2:29AM
Closeup : http://h.imagehost.org/0053/closeup.jpg
1:37AM
The timing of this is perfect. LOL : http://bit.ly/eIHhh1:23AM
Kindof one of the most tragic photos of Michael Jackson that I've ever seen. http://tinyurl.com/mn85uh12:54AM
I like the quote at the bottom of this http://tinyurl.com/lvy677 but I think it's more pervasive... the roots of all political stupidity.Thursday 2009-07-16
11:46PM
Nike's reaction? To ask the famously cuddly Chinese government to hunt the web user down : http://tinyurl.com/lndwa610:47PM
If you give people a choice between money and attention, most of them will take money, then spend it on attention.10:31PM
If I was @twitter I'd make my own tinyurl that auto-appends affiliate codes for Amazon etc. Make user-recomendations invisible, but bankable10:28PM
Twitter to make 140M next year http://tinyurl.com/nt4cgl ? Twitter isn't so much an app as an environmental condition... and Wave is coming10:21PM
Wakes up feeling normal. Something (blue sky, more exercise, earlier night, honey+baking soda, doubling the proxac dose) worked.11:11AM
Red Bull Ingredients : http://bit.ly/3wYZnk11:02AM
I've got this "it might come in handy one day" relationship with mailing lists. Every time I de-subscribe though, I feel freedom.4:11AM
Blair? The guys' a fucking war criminal. He never stopped lying to us : http://tinyurl.com/mb7skh1:59AM
I'm systematically unsubscribing from all the mailing lists I've inadvertantly got myself on (and never read). There are dozens of them.12:16AM
I don't know about Jim Carrey. He does seem to get away with it. It's impossible to imagine him not being irritating, but somehow, he's not.12:15AM
We saw that Yes Man. It's a light-hearted romantic comedy. It's got Zooey Deschanel in it, which almost makes up for having Jim Carrey in itWednesday 2009-07-15
11:44PM
Visitors have arrived. I'm hiding down stairs until all the shouting subsides a bit.11:54AM
Every CSS bug you've ever had could be fixed in 30 seconds flat, simply by using tables, and really, who would care? #competitivegeekbaiting11:50AM
I could implement your language using mine #competitivegeekbaiting11:46AM
@paulsilver I found Oceans12 to be a bit like Joyce's Ulysses crossed with the fantasy world created by airport-departure lounge advertising11:40AM
The reason New Zealand doesn't have good surfing is the reason for relative tsunami-immunity. We tend not to have gently sloping beaches11:35AM
@Martin_Carr I thought the Sylurians were pretty scary. They had eyes in the middle of their foreheads that could melt through rock.10:32AM
@kalena 160 km off the coast of Invercargil. NZ is fairly geographically immune from tsunamis though.1:47AM
@cshirky I have this nagging suspish that Arduinos might get eclipsed by android-fueled iPhones. iPhones have a lot of sensory stuff inbuiltTuesday 2009-07-14
11:18PM
We saw that Ocean's 12 last night - the theme sounds like "Phoenix" by The Cult. Looks it up on youtube, and it's actually a bit irritating11:16PM
Me and the cat are so tired we can hardly believe it.10:25PM
Ooh - it's a little Hate-Pixie : http://bit.ly/U4kPl10:01PM
@MMM I already do. Unfollow people who tweet about how to get more followers etc. It's a network of trust, not a personal broadcast service9:39AM
Anyway, never mind about that. I made some flying spaghetti monsters earlier, and they've turned out quite well.7:09AM
Doing proper work at the mo. Haven't done any of that for a while, on account of the recession or whatever.2:47AM
@rinkjustice Sorry, I've been neglecting to take my medication of late so am getting sidetracked into odd thought-patterns etc2:15AM
@rinkjustice You can't state teens are being evesdropped on all the time in FB not knowing the % actually on FB. It's workoutable, but low.1:43AM
@munki Picnic at Hanging Rock caught me off-balance, and scared the crap out of me. I found it incredibly spooky.Monday 2009-07-13
1:54PM
@rinkjustice 15% of the teenage popn use facebook? Even if it's true it's a stretch to say "teens are being evesdropped on". 85% aren't1:35PM
@rinkjustice Maybe, but they're still 15%? +other segments (85%) are growing too. But the real figure isn't % of facebook, it's % population1:12PM
@rinkjustice teens don't use facebook either do they? I thought there was a generational divide there as well.12:50PM
@rinkjustice I would've thought the twitter/teens thing was fairly obvious tbh. No teenager wants to be eavesdropped on by their folksSunday 2009-07-12
10:51PM
@vruzz I went through a crack phase, and would say it makes people less happy than heroin - talking and sharing jokes isn't the same at all.10:37PM
aah.. but will this mean that the copyright-cartels will now admit that piracy never did have any effect on sales? http://tinyurl.com/m4f44w10:34PM
@vruzz It is enough just to be happy. Social bullshit can do that as well.10:31PM
Just woken up. Coffee in bed and reading the papers, which are all on the internet. Catsby is asleep beside me. I am domesticated.1:11PM
@joshr I don't get it as much as I used to - sleeping in the afternoon is a good way to set it off.1:09PM
@rapella I was talking about the out-of-body thing.1:07PM
@rapella Ah. possibly talking about something else then.1:06PM
Narcolepsy can be fucking weird.1:05PM
and I could see the room with my eyes closed - so I opened them, and it was like taking dark glasses off... identical, but a bit brighter.1:04PM
I once found myself floating up near the ceiling and was all "HOLY CRAP!, I'M FLOATING UP NEAR THE CEILING!" and bang, I was back on the bed1:00PM
@rapella You got some other sort of link for that? I'm getting a copyright-not-ok-in-your-country message.11:32AM
Helen Hates Animals : http://www.27bslash6.com/strata.html I love this guy. Genius.9:53AM
Coffee Machine : http://bit.ly/1qxkGjSaturday 2009-07-11
10:33PM
RT @freitasm Government plans to filter New Zealand Internet - http://shar.es/Cfjc // "government" has lost the trust of people globally.9:49AM
Well that was a long and difficult day.12:05AM
So now I have two UDIs (unexplained drinking injuries) and am suffering from fleeting/flickering paranoia - though not particularly hungover12:03AM
Persuaded some bogans (they were nice bogans) to take me home etc. Meanwhile my dad was out looking for me in the wrong part of town.12:02AM
Well that was weird. I wound up getting very very very very drunk, and got lost in Aramoho at about 2am- wound up flagging down a random carFriday 2009-07-10
5:18AM
My new thing to be addicted to : http://bit.ly/pezgv4:40AM
@samfarrow He's a lover, not a fighter.3:27AM
Pervy-Sarkozy : http://imgur.com/h6X31.jpg What's the G8 actually for again?
2:42AM
@Changeist yr Pret-pic is possibly being used in some sort of googlemap mashup of local restaurants?2:40AM
Holy crap, Ponoko were quick this time. Speed's the thing. Amazon.com have spoiled us. Mail-order used to be 28 days. Now it's overnight2:30AM
Just jump-started the van. I feel all blokey and capable.1:38AM
@vruzz Yea, but the entire western economic system isn't really economically viable is it?1:34AM
@vruzz in a flippant sort of way at http://www.genomicon.com . I think a slum-level aptera could be a radical driver of social change1:31AM
@vruzz one of the fablab poster-children is in Afghanistan. This isn't about enjoying it at MIT1:30AM
@vruzz Oh I'm well aware - this is why I keep going on about bamboo apteras.1:28AM
@vruzz reprap was initially invented with a specific eye for this - using cellulose based plastic etc. The Fablab initiative as well I think1:14AM
@vruzz I'm quite interested in 3D printing etc - I don't think it's as disruptive as people like to think. eg: sewing machines etc.1:11AM
@pandorasaidoops Male kangaroos are all mouth and no trousers.Thursday 2009-07-09
11:25PM
This is what killed Digg for me : http://tinyurl.com/m3bd79 it became a fuckwit magnet.5:56AM
Lookinbg thru the B-Sides http://bit.ly/gR7PP1:52AM
So this um... Google-OS. How do you get to your local file system? Or memory stick etc? I don't want everything on someone else's computer.1:12AM
@Ktalyst777 In NZ, today is Thursday.12:20AM
Cat drifting : http://bit.ly/2xn90g12:17AM
I have to go to a funeral on Saturday. I don't normally go to funerals - people don't normally die.12:12AM
I've got that Bat for Lashes song stuck in my head. I love Bat, but can't help but feel that latest one is painting-by-numbers songwriting.Wednesday 2009-07-08
9:48PM
You utter cunt : http://tinyurl.com/nm7h9j looks like the perpetrators of the biggest heist in human history will get clean away with it.1:24PM
For a long time, the best gig I ever saw was this guy playing at Reading Fest with Tackhead : http://bit.ly/ZqiEI12:54PM
Google Cloud reminds me of my win 3.1 IT support phase - we used to fuck up newbies by getting their machines to boot straight into Word.12:16PM
@rapella Yea - read it before I saw it... which possibly isn't that surprising in the UK. Bands would bring copies back when they toured etc12:12PM
PG Porn : http://bit.ly/aMP9311:42AM
@rapella For what it's worth, the reason I've been saying "dooby do" for the last 25 years or so is 2.10 into this http://tinyurl.com/ma2p6x11:23AM
@rapella You sound like you're talking in Clockwork-Orangese.11:22AM
Morgue Chocolates : http://bit.ly/4BgdpZ4:56AM
Drinking coke. The good thing about coca cola is that it's 8 tablespoons of sugar with a load of caffeine in it. It's got to be good for you2:59AM
@nobledesign re: Puppy... did it have a long thin tail and two great big front teeth? Kindof squeeky?1:16AM
@GreenpeaceAustP the biggest problem with GE food is that it's all owned by corporations.Tuesday 2009-07-07
12:45PM
Catsby's all fucked up because I gave him Pizza for tea instead of bloody hand-rolled teriyake octopus shrimp vol au vaunts or whatever12:36PM
@Prycie re: Flock: I don't think browsers need more features, I think they need less. Web apps should be slaves to fashion, not browsers.12:12PM
Probably the best song ever written about Scottish internecine inter-clan violence in the 17thC http://bit.ly/41ldqQ11:35AM
Yea - Return of the Jedi is basically when Star Wars turned into one great big Toys-R-Us advert.11:25AM
Friend of mine (Julian) said to a career person at school "something with fire". Seemed silly, but now at 44 I think I know what he meant11:08AM
tl;dr : The Devil's Bible : http://www.wdl.org/en/item/3042/pages.html10:55AM
@iceMagic re: China - there's been a bit. No photies that I've seen though10:07AM
@mrjudkins Ok - when? I'm not due down your way until the 11th... or um... does he want me to post it to AKL?10:05AM
@mrjudkins Yea, but you can't have the hard-drive.9:58AM
That Yoda's a bit of a fuckin grumbler if you ask me. He's all: "this I meh", "that I meh" etc. It wears you down after a while.8:43AM
@g2support although you might be talking about something else. If so, apologies etc.8:41AM
Tex Perkins : http://bit.ly/AlYHO Australians isn't it. Marvelous.7:48AM
RT @kaiserkuo @MalcolmMoore: There are now 10,000 armed Chinese protesters on the streets around People's Square, and growing. FUCK!!7:21AM
That fucking rocks. It's like David Lynch meets Boogie Nights... but (and this is the weird bit) it's actually a really cool song.7:16AM
This is so cool I can hardly stand it : http://bit.ly/4xFSe6:52AM
Watching revenge of the Jedi. I think this was the point where the whole thing went muppety and crap.5:14AM
Someone managed to persuade me that the constant zinging in my head was probably sleep-deprivation, so I've slept all day.1:07AM
@mrjudkins it's the 20th century's Sci Fi event horizon- the point after which things stop being predictable so you could just make stuff up1:05AM
Thinking outside the box that puts us in an even smaller box than the one we started with. http://tinyurl.com/n355phMonday 2009-07-06
11:13PM
The note at .43-.44 on this http://bit.ly/CzTSA is a truly great note. Best note in the whole song.10:59PM
Another one for the pro-nuke twats http://tinyurl.com/lk3ft9 if a solar panel blows a fuse, you don't need to shut down a % of the grid12:13PM
I've set up a cron job to email me when @twitter decides to let us have access to timeline tweets older than ~ 3000. C'mon. Who's are they?11:38AM
Proto-goth-tastic : http://bit.ly/12mrpp I didn't think these were allowed out in daylight, but this one is.11:19AM
My dad getting his picture done by a street artist in London in the early 60s http://bit.ly/jzwn710:05AM
Something about the born-again-christian-ness of this brings out the inner punk in me : http://tinyurl.com/mcz87f Get pissed. Destroy... etc7:53AM
11 out of 24 : http://www.ukcitizenshiptest.co.uk/ not British enough.12:32AM
Fuck chat up lines. A quick suicide - no caveats, questions or explanations... you simply don't get any more sincere than that.12:30AM
The most beautiful girl in all of NZ just walked past. If I wait here, maybe she'll come back and I can rush out and die at her feet. Maybe.12:20AM
Is it possible to freeze onions? No it isn't. Is it? I don't know. It's hard to say. Never tried, never will, but still... one does wonder..12:02AM
In Cuba St. This fat bloke with a beard just walked past wearing the girls version of my old school uniform. Sigh. Memories.Sunday 2009-07-05
11:44AM
LOL http://bit.ly/12Ldgf Genius.3:38AM
Nice collection of steampunk stuff : http://bit.ly/ivo0eSaturday 2009-07-04
9:05PM
An industry that truly has run out of ideas http://tinyurl.com/m9fwlb There should be a word for this - polish masquerading as innovation12:30AM
Oh great, a flock of twats has just turned up. It's a Twat Flock. I might have to go home.12:02AM
My mood wants to swing, but it's got nowhere left to swing to.Friday 2009-07-03
9:24PM
Lazyweb: a service responding to "Content Not Available In Your Location" messages with "go fuck yourself you cunt" tweets to content owner.10:40AM
I've climbed to the top of both of these : http://tinyurl.com/la4lv710:36AM
@adactio Laestrygonians - just for the sake of aesthetics etc.5:57AM
@artistVictoriaC Jim Kerr action-man dolls, also wearing git-bags. It's obvious when you think about it.5:22AM
@artistVictoriaC I see your Flock of Seagulls and raise you one Jim Kerr wearing a Git-Bag : http://bit.ly/110wvL5:02AM
Catsby's a funny critter. He's sitting on the bed with one leg stuck up in the air. He can't remember who he is our how he got there.Thursday 2009-07-02
11:25PM
I've finally cracked and blocked all adverts on Chrome. Sorry, that one with the ghost with the mouse-over noise did it. Fuck you etc.9:01PM
Another cold Friday, and another week vanished in about 3 days. Dad is trying to get his new coffee machine to go.11:38AM
LOL : http://bit.ly/tso0B Lettuce etc.8:33AM
We just went and saw that Transformers. Too much was both right with it and wrong with it to contain in one head. I need a nice lie down.1:48AM
@mrjudkins http://tinyurl.com/5qy783 (part 1 of 3) - gives perspective on it rather than breaking any spells. Worth watching.1:36AM
@mrjudkins The Wire is the greatest TV series ever made. Have you seen that talk by the guy who wrote it?1:14AM
@joshr found this last night http://tinyurl.com/5u3gdf after deciding the best way of becoming a Buddhist is to watch youtube vids about it1:08AM
You chaps in England won't have heard of a middle-8. It's the bit where the guitar solo goes when people are too lazy to write a middle-8.1:06AM
I've got the middle-8 from "ooooo ooo oo, I keep crawling back to yooo" by Tom Petty stuck in my head. Could be worse I spose. A lot worse.1:03AM
@joshr Know what you mean. I want to live in a UFO. There's this huge and worsening conjecture/reality ratio with "progress" reporting tho.1:01AM
A rug-dealer has set up shop next to the Thai place... mothballs mingling with the garlic creating something akin to panic-scale halitoses12:58AM
Sitting on a park bench in the avenue "near" the caf because morons have taken all the seats. Space-wasters. Utterly pointless.Wednesday 2009-07-01
8:18AM
@drinktracker People have more time because TV has become so terrible. It's good to see girls getting into home-made weaponry though.6:13AM
Eh oop, the TV NZ news is on. That means crime (preferably murder) and sports. NZ has artists/scientists etc, but they're not really valued.June 2009
Tuesday 2009-06-30
12:30PM
ah. a bit of pirate-bay perspective : http://bit.ly/mozIq11:56AM
Anyone anti-EU really ought to have a non-standard phone-charger rammed into their gob : http://tinyurl.com/kqa7lq9:52AM
Reverse Image Search : http://tineye.com/ - works pretty well - and gives a hint of just how big the non-english internet is.9:36AM
Holy Crap - Pirate Bay sold: http://thepiratebay.org/blog/1647:34AM
I can do that magic eye thing with this : http://bit.ly/Jw6YQ5:47AM
Tourist remover : http://www.snapmania.com/info/en/trm/index.html5:18AM
Nail Houses : http://bit.ly/2B7uRp12:37AM
Mum, Dad with Grand-Daughter : http://www.weirdsky.com/miscImages/lupita2.jpg
Monday 2009-06-29
10:35PM
@polymath22 that's not conservatism, that's evidence-lite free-market-fundamentalism.Conservatism is a different set of aberrations entirelySunday 2009-06-28
2:33AM
Oh wow, another electric car that's going to be almost as popular as the Segway itself : http://bit.ly/6AFVySaturday 2009-06-27
11:55PM
Last night all the change fell out of my pocket, all over the floor, so today I'm going to get revenge by not getting out of bed all day11:20PM
Some perspective of the twitter/Iran thing : http://tinyurl.com/qv65e4 I always did think it was a little too self-congratulatory.11:19PM
@makethingstalk That's one of my Mum's pet hates - diminutives. Kindie, chippies, footie, Welly, Parmy etc.1:26PM
@alfaguru Yarggh. About a month ago I was able to access entire timelines. I was just about to launch, and they cut it to around 3.2k11:37AM
The Barney Miller Theme : http://bit.ly/QQZl911:05AM
@alfaguru hello, I've just seen Tweetake. Are you able to back up more than 3000 tweets? I'm playing with this myself - having trouble7:36AM
Crowd-Sourced Intelligence etc : http://bit.ly/131Jj7:19AM
I've come to a more or less complete standstill. I've stopped. A solitary led is the only indication that I haven't died completely. Sigh.5:54AM
Your timeline is not retrievable : http://bit.ly/YHnB14:38AM
YUS!!! I just beat Bloons 3 on the hardest pattern, on the hardest level without using super-monkeys!!! http://tinyurl.com/ao3nx83:56AM
Little Baby Stovelets : http://bit.ly/17AObDFriday 2009-06-26
12:49PM
Speaking of which, if anyone knows Robert Plant, see if he'll do a cover of this : http://tinyurl.com/ltdnhv It'd be weird enough to work.12:42PM
@alexfarran Hal - Worry About the Wind : http://tinyurl.com/ltdnhv #cheesily which, IMHO has classic written all over it, but there you go.10:09AM
@joshr Doesn't wave use HTML5... which IE doesn't?6:06AM
@jon_hirsch The record sales will be balanced by the > million ticket sale refunds.5:24AM
Fringe furniture etc : http://bit.ly/sBLEX3:13AM
@Balut Anyone who uses the template "[word], just [word]" is an arsehole as well. God I despise those people. Bastards. All of them.3:00AM
Anyway - I thought the musicians making money without fucking their authenticity, using twitter was interesting http://tinyurl.com/lhjub42:57AM
New City Hall for Tallinn http://tinyurl.com/l35hl3 - hoping it softens the divide between the old town and the rest of Tallinn.2:45AM
But this Michael Jackson thing is like Princess Di - one minute the media are beating the shit out him, next minute they're all his friend2:44AM
The only Famous-Person death that really shook me up was Elliott Smith.2:18AM
I saw Michael Jackson once - at The Dorchester in London, wearing a bandanna over his face, with a plague of hasslers chasing him.Thursday 2009-06-25
1:56PM
Anyone who rhymes "after-thought" with "astronaut" is ok by me : http://amandapalmer.net/media10:55AM
Like this one : http://www.gizmag.com/go/3703/ Incredible. What are these people smoking? Tea?10:49AM
Another electric car that looks even more like a teapot, than any of the others, that also all look like teapots http://tinyurl.com/mk52an10:05AM
Anyway, I untangled a massive ball of wool earlier, so that was my evening.7:40AM
I'm definitely definitely seeing Transformers ROTFL after this : http://bit.ly/CR7km7:39AM
Corrie's on. I like Corrie.4:14AM
Butterfly zoom : http://bit.ly/Nn4DX3:52AM
Another Theo Jansen variant : http://bit.ly/da7v51:16AM
Wankers : http://bit.ly/ydtVN Still, what do I care? I hope they go out of business. @msofficeusWednesday 2009-06-24
9:25AM
@GerryTierney Nah, I'm south-east of Gandhi me.9:06AM
@GerryTierney I'm from Falkirk... we spell things a little differently there.9:06AM
@hexayurt went to an EU car-show in 79. There was an electric car - looked like a teapot. 30 yrs later they're still using the same template9:00AM
@GerryTierney Ever seen an Aptera? - now that is a cool looking car, and it's electric. 99% of electric car design is really pedestrian.8:30AM
Yet another electric car that looks like a teapot : http://tinyurl.com/lbv3hj They drive me mad these people.8:10AM
We went to Virginia lake earlier, and saw the signets. Black ones. You chaps in England won't have heard of signets. They're like swanlets.5:50AM
Owl Scratching : http://bit.ly/CaINx5:37AM
The Samurai Tie-Cutting Incident : http://bit.ly/ab4Cr5:31AM
Genetic Algorithm controlled pixel-fish : http://bit.ly/FMDfn5:22AM
That's pretty cool : http://fixoutlook.org/ @msofficeus :: nice use of twitter to complain about MS fuckwittery.4:32AM
Deathbug 2020 : http://bit.ly/7Oh5T Lord of the Flies. Equinox of the Gods. The Sorcerers Apprentice.1:48AM
Beautiful day in NZ today. It's all clean and fresh and sparkly. The prozac must be working.Tuesday 2009-06-23
11:02PM
Electric plane http://bit.ly/22PEMM12:05PM
Secret Rabbit etc : http://bit.ly/17djrv11:17AM
This is the best jingly guitar song ever written : http://bit.ly/GSEyH9:33AM
M.A.D becomes A.ssured I.nsanity : http://bit.ly/4lvyT1:53AM
Kindle DRM etc : http://tinyurl.com/l59tk6 Hardware as control-system... The Prophylactic Web.1:01AM
Curta Calculators : http://www.vcalc.net/cu.htm Websites that are actually "about" something don't need shiny buttons etc. And are better.12:52AM
There's an epic guitar solo going on at the mo. Down the caf - I'm the only one here under the age of 60.12:32AM
Dad's latte machine has stopped working, so I'm feeling a little... distrait this morning.12:29AM
I quite like the look/principle of this : http://www.bitblinder.com bitblinder. Haven't actually tried it mind. Can't. Not invited etc.Monday 2009-06-22
11:53AM
@SimonHume Yea - UK A&E depts at midnight Saturday night are amazing... like M.A.S.H11:48AM
@SimonHume A&E should really be A or E. Go back and tell them etc. Someone has to.11:06AM
@matski_98 It's the rotation. Makes them dizzy. Makes me dizzy just thinking about it.10:40AM
@bergin The dog?10:39AM
Now that's what I call a guitar : http://bit.ly/Jy59R10:11AM
Just saw that In Bruges. Excellent etc. Apart from the eye thing. That was a problem with Once Upon a Time in Mexico as well.12:46AM
@rapella Well, Pepe Escobar knows better than I... all I have is vague suspicion founded on what went before.12:39AM
I've got a twitter app (almost) ready for launch... but can't because there seems to be a timeline bug. Anyone know how to contact twitter?12:07AM
RT @umairh http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/06/revolution.html etc.Sermon from the Mount 2.0Sunday 2009-06-21
10:41PM
I don't suppose you chaps in England could ring up the police, and ask them what they fuck they were doing? http://tinyurl.com/memcc810:22PM
I see a little silloeto of a man http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/4:37AM
Just went to the art gallery. I liked the rabbits.3:07AM
THX-1138 http://bit.ly/CR9xYSaturday 2009-06-20
11:41PM
@rapella Fairly lucid analysis of power deliniations in Iran here : http://tinyurl.com/m3f532 US not involved. #iranelection11:56AM
Oil Monster Movie http://bit.ly/pNe5p11:22AM
That's me that is : http://bit.ly/18Xv3O8:41AM
re: http://www.empireonline.com/crypticcanvas/default.asp does anyone know what the kungfu chearleaders, + the person in front of them are?2:28AM
@hexayurt There y'go : http://tinyurl.com/lt2hne Dreamcar 123, though I think a reverse-engineered Aptera might be a better bet.12:47AM
So Google is on the side of history : http://tinyurl.com/kv8dgz and tends to make sets-of-protocols rather than control-systems12:44AM
And that is why facebook is the AOL of social media, and iPhone is the AOL of cellphones.12:43AM
Echoing the idea of hierarchy vs network as defining conflict of the era,control-system vs sets-of-protocols being the respective objectives12:30AM
Clay Shirky wearing a suit in front of some very busy wallpaper : http://tinyurl.com/kwf2xd12:20AM
Wellington slashed upon by winds and rain etc. It's pissing down in buckets of cats and dogs.Friday 2009-06-19
1:34PM
Got 45 - 5 escape me: http://www.empireonline.com/crypticcanvas/default.asp10:27AM
@OneLuvGurl We found this human skull in this cave at the back of my house when I was a kid. That was pretty creepy as well.10:25AM
@OneLuvGurl A struck nerve is a struck nerve. There aren't many films that have done it... the Japanese version of The Ring, Don't Look Now.10:16AM
@OneLuvGurl That "The Others" totally creeped me out. It took three goes to see it all the way through. Must've struck various nerves etc.9:43AM
@OneLuvGurl I am soooo sick of movies that end with five minutes of physical fist fight - it's fucking redundant. Bankrupt etc.9:40AM
Anyway, now eating hamburgers and champagne, in bed, on account of being a man of wealth and taste... living on borrowed solitude.9:13AM
No torture scene either, which is unusual for action movies these days. Once every movie had a gratuitous sex scene. Now it's torture9:12AM
Just saw that Terminator. Not bad now that they've gotten rid of all the camp one-liners. The "moral" at the end was bollocks though.9:07AM
@bergin ermm.... when?Thursday 2009-06-18
11:02PM
@sunlightnetwork You might be interested in this one actually : http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/11:01PM
@freitasm Yea - when I come across an openID login, I generally just give up. And I'm a techie. A web-dev techie.10:59PM
Crowd-sourced Sunlight-is-the-best-disinefectant etc http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/11:44AM
Anyway, it had an Aptera in it. Aptera's are the only cool electric car ever invented. And they're really cool. I should know etc.11:44AM
Anyway. We just saw that Star Trek. "one for Star Trek" quoth I, aged 44. I wasn't wearing a costume or anything.11:34AM
Folk Stadium Hobbit Rock : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs7Zx6I3Vrs5:32AM
People behind me discussing "birth plans". One of them has an allergy to opiates.Will bide my time, then attempt to sell them some mushrooms4:56AM
In a pizza place, quietly nursing this ugly suspicion that they might be playing Meatloaf. Someone, somewhere is busting a gusset. For love.4:25AM
Liquid lego : http://tinyurl.com/nuxy7d Closer, closerWednesday 2009-06-17
12:33PM
Now there's a guy who seriously does not understand the nature of the beast : http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=19552...10:01AM
@CrowleysGhost That is kindof a conspiracy theory site though isn't it?9:26AM
We were never that articulate.9:23AM
Reality Bites is on - never seen it before. That's my generation, or one of them. I've had a load of them now. I was never like that though.8:25AM
@stilgherrian Really? Mine's getting thrown out of The Crow's Nest, in Crow's Nest.5:58AM
@marie_clair This is what we're worried about http://tinyurl.com/6k549a It hit just after WW1 and killed more people. The strain was H1N13:26AM
I just had my passport photos taken again. I look like a terrible fat thug. FFS. I don't look like that in the mirror.3:23AM
Preferably something big like an albatross, or a flying elephant.3:20AM
I think as well as a "feeling lucky" button, google should also have a "feeling unlucky" one,which causes a bird to crap on you or something12:45AM
Two other people can't stop laughing. They're laughing at nothing. Laughing at air. Ha ha ha they go. Jesus.12:38AM
There's an old woman sitting opposite me, drinking tea with a teaspoon. Christ that's irritating. I feel like I'm losing my mind.12:36AM
@gubatron No. The judiciary is part of the checks/balances that keeps democracy from being corrupted. And reality isn't black and white.12:12AM
Wearing a shirt today. I thought I was going to have my passport photo taken, but I shaved as well and now I've got some sort of rash. Bah.12:11AM
I'm 1/2 way thru this twitter app and a load of people have randomly followed it. They've unwittingly become my guinea-pigs. Muh ha ha etcTuesday 2009-06-16
11:08PM
Paper clip LEDs http://bit.ly/16Si9e10:54PM
Plugwall : http://bit.ly/StC7L10:31PM
So what do you think "They" are going to do when they realise that all the smarts/sensors needed to fly a cruise missile are in an iphone10:27PM
Operatic Face Gestures : http://bit.ly/pRqal8:35PM
coffee is basically a type of soup8:08AM
Twitter API is kindof erratic http://bit.ly/9f2Aq not working - that ID works7:26AM
@MichaelPhipps I did a situp earlier. Ok. That's not true. I might do one later though. Or tomorrow maybe.6:09AM
The Dawn Chorus : http://bit.ly/wXQTY Twitter in Iran.5:26AM
These are Scousers BTW : http://bit.ly/rXyRG Scousers. Marvelous.5:24AM
Scouser Spinal Tappers : http://bit.ly/18IWHA - the way the feedback fades into the chorus ~2.45 is fucking perfect.5:08AM
Chemist Humour : http://bit.ly/hz7dw2:08AM
Just retrieved an é from the internet to use in the word clichéd. I have 4 planets in Virgo. There's nothing I can do about it. Any of it.1:54AM
Patiently sitting here, waiting to have greatness thrust upon one.Monday 2009-06-15
11:44PM
Looks like classical fascism to me http://tinyurl.com/m3f532 right-wingery, thug-castes, politically controlled industry etc #iranelection11:01PM
Opacity http://bit.ly/2gMZgM1:54PM
Something about the Iran/Twitter thing reeks of bullshit to me. it's a type of entertainment. Slactivism for people with no skin in the game9:07AM
being messed about by cron. Something's not right. Works from CLI, doesn't work from cron. Bah.1:54AM
iPhone : The AOL of Cellphones : http://bit.ly/F3SRU12:41AM
For twitter to be a news feed, there needs to be a "filter out the opinions of people who aren't actually there" thing. hashtags don't work12:37AM
Someone's just come in dressed as a giant rabbit. It's an attention getting ruse.12:29AM
http://bit.ly/18V6Bp The 2nd photo is one of "those" photos. It's like THE photo.Sunday 2009-06-14
11:38PM
And if twitter's location search is to be believed, the vast majority of the noise is coming from outside Iran.11:22PM
Mixed feelings about the Iran/Twitter thing. You could actually fake a revolution with about 10 people fairly easily.10:14PM
There's Poetic jingly janglyness in something called firefly luciferase being made by a church : http://tinyurl.com/lcbyy4 Closer, closer.10:00PM
ok, you're scaring me now http://hahahaha.fr/9:47PM
Kaleidescope : http://bit.ly/btONl11:07AM
@AltEnergyWebPar White rooves to alievate climate change is straying into geo-engineering territory. Not a good idea.11:05AM
Neologism of the day : "Patient Zero" - the first computer (or person) to get a virus.11:02AM
@hexayurt LOL, Evil Beards.11:01AM
Dom, Sasha, Lupita, Chien-G and Tosca have come to stay. Chien-G and Tosca are dog and cat,others are people, apart from lupita who's a baby10:59AM
@iRbitterT blushes modestly.10:59AM
@amandatreeuk The Bee's Mouth up Western Rd is a good one. Atlas Lounge nearby... um... Earth and Stars Windsor St down from station...8:22AM
I'm too tired to even complain about how tired I am. I haven't even been doing anything... apart from playing Bloons Tower Defence 37:07AM
@fdousek Still too broke to leave the house. I'd like to get something together for September... see how it goes I guess1:58AM
The Blurred Crusade : Onion skin layers of simulation : http://tinyurl.com/nmnp5g On wargaming.Saturday 2009-06-13
11:04PM
The google/youtube add for Purefold http://www.ag8.com/purefold was for fish taxidermy. So that's my day complete.10:48PM
From where I'm sitting, evidence of Iranian election fraud is less convincing than that surrounding Bush's win in 200410:46PM
After all the facebook name panic, I feel slightly guilty that I did actually get my own name without even trying. I don't use FB that much2:19PM
Cool : http://bit.ly/OC3On9:11AM
Bullets hitting a wall at a million frames a second http://www.kurzzeit.com/kameras.htm2:22AM
@rapella Trailer Park Boys. I've Memorised the whole thing. Marvelous etc.1:13AM
Strange as it may seem, one of the most labour-saving things I've ever done is write my own FTP client.Friday 2009-06-12
10:55PM
I am a micro crowd.9:14AM
Another one for the pro-nuke morons : http://tinyurl.com/nsmrs28:27AM
When Noshbots Go Mad : http://www.genomicon.com/2009/06/noshbots/2:00AM
Google's spell-checker means never having to learn how to spell thesorus.1:04AM
You chaps in England won't have heard of David Blaine - he's what the NZ TV News reports between the adverts and sports.1:03AM
People at the neighbouring table are of the opinion that David Blaine should probably win a car, whether he killed his weird father or not1:00AM
I quite fancy spears actually. Esp' at night. If there's a full moon. A mixture of paintball and spears then... with glow in the dark paint.Thursday 2009-06-11
11:36PM
The Transitional Web : http://bit.ly/WydOH9:42PM
@hexayurt Seen this? http://peepoople.com Doesn't have the "fire-and-forget" aspect of modern sanitation, so possible cultural hassles etc.10:06AM
24 is on. Jack seems quite tense about something.9:59AM
@iceMagic Oh crap - sorry, I've been offline for a bit. You sorted yet? PHP can have error messages turned off so you could well get nothing9:57AM
@SimonHume Nah - Arsenal have more sincerity. Less clinicism.9:52AM
@SimonHume I seem to recall that being the sum that EMI advanced Robbie Williams last time round. My dad won on the lottery earlier.7:32AM
LOL RT @guy1067RT @Vulturo: Soon, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will merge to form one big social network called YouTwitFace4:24AM
@iceMagic I'm in NZ, what do you need?1:45AM
I think I might gaze into the middle distance for a bit actually. Something to do innit.1:07AM
Yea - email is kindof fucked. It's like trying to communicate through the window of a London telephone box covered in prostitute adverts.1:03AM
idea for book : a collation of tweets written while not actually getting around to writing the book. Based on a true story. Kindof.1:01AM
There are some people loudly admiring the art on the cafe walls - I don't have the heart to tell them that they're looking at utter rubbish.12:59AM
Similar to how the bulk of the time spent writing each individual tweet goes on getting them to exactly 140 chars. Count them. I don't care.12:57AM
Anyway, right now I'm writing my new book. I'm writing it in HTML. So far I've spent 10x longer doing the css as I have on the actual words.12:54AM
Just saw my friend from school's little sister. She's grown. Massive. Has she got a cooler car than me? No. I don't believe she has. Heh.Wednesday 2009-06-10
10:28PM
A bit like The Thick Of It then : http://tinyurl.com/nrooez : Holy crap, how is this democratic? It's Neo-Byzantine court intrigues10:07PM
@WineryNZ and anyone following more than a couple of hundred people is going to miss every second thing you say anyway. 1000s? Forget it.10:05PM
@WineryNZ No, but then "collecting followers" is missing the point of twitter. Quality trumps quantity. Quantity is for insects. Ants mostly9:34PM
The majority of email that I get is grey-spam. Not spam per se, but "newsletters" that I've signed up to at some point, but no longer read11:30AM
@paulsilver yea - my (ahem) intel comes from this http://tinyurl.com/cgvs53 wot I wrote. IE8's uptick is mirrored by IE7's downtick7:33AM
Looks like it's IE7 users migrating to IE8 rather than IE6. Which is logical enough I suppose. IE6s are doggedly holding out until PC death7:06AM
@freitasm I usually go to SPQR for pizza in AK - I doubt they'll be able to fit 60 though.7:04AM
@anucreative I once drunkenly met this (professional) Elton John impersonator at one of those gay-ish clubs up from the Pier. Probably him.7:01AM
Monitoring things : http://bit.ly/n6xDQ closer, closer...5:30AM
Eating Grain Waves, the greatest crisps in the universe that come from NZ. In NZ, if you call crisps crisps, you get pelted with eggs3:26AM
Things I learned about life from tinkering about with Ponoko.com http://tinyurl.com/mn3aw81:27AM
The Great Disruption : http://tinyurl.com/kode8j The quiet forebodings of an internet airhead.Tuesday 2009-06-09
11:44PM
You can't make an omlette without breaking an egg; you can't make a chicken without not breaking an egg. Take your pick. Omlette or chicken.3:23AM
At least partly based on a RT @timoreilly -current era will posthumously be known as The Great Disruption. Probably. Maybe. I like it anyway12:33AM
@hexayurt Sounds like time to try new things then. Assuming it's an either/or situation rather than a change of primary emphasis.12:24AM
@hexayurt Go where the energy is. Decision-making is often just a process for rationalising what you already know you're going to do. Maybe.12:15AM
Someone just wandered past carrying a boomerang. Australian presumably. I wonder what that was all about. There aren't any kangeroos etc.Monday 2009-06-08
12:00PM
Well there went Monday. Almost a computer-free day, but not quite. I find it incredibly difficult - something I need to do though.2:04AM
I think I need a holiday actually. Not from work... but from giving a flying fuck about anything. Tomorrow then: Not Give a Toss Tuesday.12:52AM
@joshr Well you're an honourable man Josh. Run for something. I'd vote for you. Fuck, I'd campaign for you.12:34AM
@joshr Oh you know, a sinking sense of doom... but these elections are the ones that people always use to beat up the incumbents.12:12AM
This is what Tony Benn warned of a couple of years back though - when economies go down the tubes people turn fascist.12:10AM
Down the caf. It's a beautiful day in NZ, but the world is a slightly shitter place than it was this time yesterday.Sunday 2009-06-07
11:30PM
Sportily dressed people from the 80s, involved in the worlds most elaborate anniversary-forgetting ruse, to music: http://tinyurl.com/pms3nn11:13PM
Midwinter isn't here yet... but spring flowers are.11:22AM
Just saw Righteous Kill with Robert de Niro and Al Pacino. It's a cops and robbers movie without any robbers.2:54AM
I was sitting outside the caf earlier and a palm-nut fell on me. I might go down the video shop later. It's Sunday. It's a bit blithery.Friday 2009-06-05
11:16PM
Well that went quite well I thought... am now so hungover that all I can do is watch funny videos on youtube all day.3:08AM
@firstsearch - so do you think there's enough of us to warrant a tweetup then? I only know one other geek-person here.1:37AM
@firstsearch I'm IT-Director/tech-dogsbody of this : http://www.11v11.com . It's basically a massive database of football data.1:36AM
And you know, David Carradine? You haven't slipped in my estimation by a single whisker - in fact if anything, it's soared a little bit more1:30AM
http://bit.ly/OwKaF Bruce Stirling on writing etc.12:17AM
Down the caf in Wanganui, New Zealand, doing database stuff on a server in Manchester, UK. Electrons in copper etc. Radio waves. Coffee.Thursday 2009-06-04
10:48AM
Australian tardis tank thing : http://bit.ly/UKnKD10:47AM
Horn chairs : http://bit.ly/HBdzu10:33AM
@startupmeme sorry - wrong link... or I don't understand as much as I think I do. Try this : http://tinyurl.com/pm8d9v10:24AM
@olleolleolle LOL - yea. Maybe. I find statistics incredibly hard to track down. Ironic in a roundabout sort of way - Wolfram is no help.10:22AM
He was actually taking the piss wasn't he: http://bit.ly/6dgs710:21AM
Yes, yes I know : http://bit.ly/CPGN45:12AM
Well today has been a week of distraction, ever since Monday, which actually started on Tuesday- now it's Thursday which is basically Friday2:12AM
Wandered round Virginia Lake earlier. I always feel like the other ducks are laughing at me. Idiots. Duckwits... that's what they are.12:21AM
The only answer that Wolfram Alpha has ever given me to anything I've asked it is "Wolfram Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input."Wednesday 2009-06-03
8:31PM
And I've found out that there isn't even an Ikea in NZ. NZ is so far away, that not even Vikings want to come here. Jeez.8:30PM
Stayed up to 2am designing camper-van interiors. Don't like any of the normal ones. I want minimalism, Zen etc. An empty panel van basically4:44AM
@rapella One man's cryptic is another man's craptic.4:41AM
If God had meant us to get it all right the first time, he wouldn't have given us reincarnation, though a simple ctrl-z would have sufficed.2:15AM
Another one to shove up the arses of the pro-nuke morons : http://tinyurl.com/psvn2v "these screw-ups happen". Not with solar they don't1:40AM
My Uni house was cool - a big tumbledown old place with wrecked cars in the driveway and a chest-high lawn. Big sofa on the veranda.1:38AM
Fuck me, that coffee was horrible - only tea-ladies with life-times of hands-on experience can make latte taste like it's come out of an urn1:12AM
When is a sheeple not a sheeple? http://bit.ly/3dqub1:03AM
Finding out how to block ads in chrome : http://www.adsweep.org/ : sorry, I can't abide in-line text ads. They're the deal-breaker for me.1:00AM
Back at my old university, in halls of academia etc. Fuck me, this place has changed. My old house is gone and they've put up a Burger KingTuesday 2009-06-02
10:53PM
Does anyone have an NZ tv news twitter address? I'd like to give them a running commentary on how incredibly fucking inadequate they are.10:52PM
http://tinyurl.com/r7mprw NZ Safest country in the world. Still, the TV news is basically a boring version of crimewatch.10:30PM
@kalena I used one in one place I had - only way of getting your towels dry.8:53PM
0 million isn't an investment, it's a symptom -a really bad one.8:50PM
http://bit.ly/1iVpK Christ on a bike. Well that'll be 0 million more than google's spent then.11:47AM
@eddieizzard @Martin_Carr Wanganui, NZ is as black as coal (proper country dark) on account of it being nearly midnight, and winter.9:56AM
300 is on TV. It's vikingy.7:22AM
Larry King is on the TV, being interviewed by an NZ presenter, who is managing to bring out the creepy, human side.Monday 2009-06-01
11:38PM
Beautiful day in NZ. Time I got up etc.11:37PM
Innovating through cracks in the pavement : http://bit.ly/OgUnL11:34PM
Aesthetic Algorithms : The killer app of mass-customisation : http://tinyurl.com/mo9ko912:54PM
Today I have mainly been drawing owls.5:07AM
Well that's today's out of control ranting out of the way : http://bit.ly/3cMBed12:01AM
Bank holiday today. What it means for me is driving about for ages in a state of gear-grinding irritation looking for a coffee selling placeMay 2009
Sunday 2009-05-31
10:12PM
Science News Cycle : http://bit.ly/8OSZC8:59PM
So Catsby is hiding under the duvet. He's on a diet he doesn't really understand on account of having gout. No bacon etc. No mozzarella.8:57PM
Shame. Poor Catsby is cold. It's a glowery sort of day. The folks are off to some other town to see some sort of high-brow movie.1:55PM
Predictions for Wave: The translator will be iffy, the real time typing will be patchy, the gluing-together of conversation will be massive.1:50PM
@j4ngis cigam1:44PM
Preventing skynet etc : http://www.preventingskynet.com/2:22AM
Oil Punk : http://bit.ly/15wX0L possibly NSFW12:20AM
Now owned by the biggest water company in the world - a company (oddly enough) founded by Napoleon in the 1800s.12:19AM
This is what Mormons were like in the 70s. I know. I was there. http://bit.ly/3wPkFQSaturday 2009-05-30
11:46PM
This guy rocks : http://bit.ly/xFw7t I wonder what the guy on the other end thinks.10:41PM
You are not your Meatsack : http://bit.ly/sBRfP LOL. I think I'm in love.9:25AM
Charlie's Angels 2 is on. It's about some fighty acrobats. I'm not 100% sure what's going on TBH. Mum's reciting The Lady of Shalott.9:13AM
Once a week, every week, New Zealand collectively loses the lottery.7:12AM
They had a grand piano and two drummers. Any band that comes from Sweden, has a grand piano and two drummers is ok by me.7:11AM
Logh do a song about that actually : http://bit.ly/RdtIc I like Logh. Went to Sweden to see them play once.7:09AM
Children Have The Funniest Accidents is on TV. This is what it has come to. Life. Saturday Night. Whatever happened to it?2:36AM
@CrowleysGhost Bing (and Microsoft generally) has been completely blind-sided by Wave. The possible ramifications of Wave are huge.12:41AM
What am I going to do today? Let me see? A quick look at my to do list perhaps. And then I'll have a lie down.12:19AM
Down the caf. On the radio is a band playing "Sexual Healing" on trumpets with a little more gusto than is choreographically possibleFriday 2009-05-29
9:43PM
@yezzer Dude, you didn't twitter that while you were... I mean.. from the errr... doesn't bear thinking about.9:15PM
@nobledesign So are you alright now then? What happened?1:31PM
Arseing fuckspuds. My server is down. WTF?12:42PM
Ah - ok. So the Wave DBs aren't only hosted by Google. I think this is a game-changer. One of the most holy-crap things I've seen in years12:08PM
So the great Wave question is: Is all this extra functionality worth google owning the internet?11:55AM
re: Wave : can't decide whether it's great or scary. Microsoft ought to be shitting themselves I think.11:44AM
I've been through Landmark Forum. I find that whole "40-yard happy" thing to be a little spooky now.11:43AM
Is it me, or do the people in that google wave video have EXACTLY the same over-happy, clapping at odd times thing that cult-members have?9:55AM
I have a sneaking suspish, that the money you get from google-adverts is often less than the reputational capital you lose by having them.4:04AM
Something I've noticed - sites that are actually "about something" tend to look like this : http://tinyurl.com/kmpd6u3:59AM
Pruned and repotted my nepenthes. So that was a trauma. I've been putting it off for months. Didn't really have enough sphagnum moss either.2:11AM
Gave the letter box another coat of paint earlier. It's now definitely the blackest letterbox in the street. None more black etc.1:14AM
Googles self. Bah. Still, at least my photie's back on the front page. And the Porn Star is relegated to the Second Page1:10AM
The family at the neighboring table have been replaced... by the same family with slightly different heads.1:09AM
The other thing bing is up against: google/humanity have ~12 yrs of co-evolution. It may not be perfect, but we understand the imperfections12:22AM
Anyway. I'm down the caf, sitting in the corner wearing my "fuck off" hat.12:21AM
Bet it doesn't work : http://tinyurl.com/kjcqhm Google is basically AI - and the thing about AI... time in the game is a huge advantage.12:17AM
Attempts to get coffee this morning have been, unsuccessful. There are too many people. And they're all double my weight. I feel like a weedThursday 2009-05-28
11:26PM
@AmyMyDarling :), no I'm pretty sure that's only you... or was, until you mentioned it.11:22PM
Slinky Inky Music Thing : http://tinyurl.com/mtr5zf10:19PM
http://tinyurl.com/prfxju Yea - here's an idea: Put the health insurance industry out of business. They don't actually deserve to exist.9:39PM
Is it me, or the Israeli accent gradually morphing into a South African one? http://tinyurl.com/kslse5 Not complaining mind. Just saying.12:07PM
Cool : http://www.mbfala.com/11:31AM
@amandatreeuk I don't think it was a venue back then.11:15AM
Is it me, or do they not make them like this any more? http://bit.ly/Bsg9A4:35AM
The gorillagram of regret.4:30AM
@dahowlett Apology Grenades: Hand-thrown bomb-ettes that explode, showering the room with millions of little bits of paper saying "I'm sorry4:25AM
I've got that catpower loop stuck in my head again. Still... at least it's not the Pat Condell Song : http://tinyurl.com/8afb5n4:22AM
Catsby's been put on a special diet largely consisting of biscuits. He won't like that. He mainly eats Mozzarella, Fish and Chips and Bacon3:53AM
This is my CV etc : http://www.tangerineworks.com/cv.rtf It's on the internet. My main driver is the 2nd to top link. Slightly obsessive3:36AM
Another Ponoko thing finished. Getting stuff that you've made yourself through the post is far more exciting than getting... products.3:32AM
@plasticbagUK I expect they're wondering who this nodding, smiling bloke is - panicking a bit because they're running out of things to say.1:46AM
Holy Crap, a nun's just come in. I didn't think people did that any more. It's quite medieval etc. Get thee to a nunnery etc. Weird.1:08AM
@rapella Would be most incredibly grateful etc.12:43AM
@rapella Ok... err... sir... err...Your Grace... errr...12:01AM
Still, it's a nice day in NZ. The sky is blue... but is it really? Is it really blue? Or is it just pretending to be blue?12:00AM
God I wish I was back in England. Someone give me a fucking big contract so I can migrate etc.Wednesday 2009-05-27
11:59PM
#crapnamesforsuperheroes Little Miss Naughty11:59PM
#crapnamesforsuperheroes Bumfish Boy11:14AM
@yezzer Yea, I'm with @matski_98 Flash Bloke does have a certain ring to it. Imagine having that on a business card. That would be cool.9:25AM
The Velvet Underground, two generations removed, teaching the world to sing, but the age of 21. Fucking weird band all things considered.9:23AM
Anyone who can look at these and not get that sharing IS culture is seriously missing out on the 21st Century. One decade in.9:20AM
It does my head in slightly that there are about 400 versions of this http://tinyurl.com/pbmp7a on youtube.8:13AM
http://bit.ly/11ltIV7:23AM
There isn't anything I want to watch on the whole television7:12AM
Folks have gone off to a play reading. They're bohemians. I used to be a bohemian, but then I turned into this guy http://tinyurl.com/qeu2xs2:12AM
Walking round with laptop sometimes feels like Moses - but instead of 10 commandments, there's about 30 GB of error messages.2:10AM
Catsby's just got back from the doctor's as well. He's even more heavily sedated than I am. He's sitting in the shade. He's very old. 16 yrs12:25AM
Emerged unscathed from the doctor's. No alcohol and do more exercise he said. Stop doing stuff you like, and do more stuff you hate, he saidTuesday 2009-05-26
11:42PM
In the doctor's waiting room, waiting. They've asked me to fill out a questionaire, and I don't agree with any of their question choices.9:41AM
New Slang : The Unfolding Grammar of Emergent Techs : http://tinyurl.com/o5anu85:37AM
@twitoscope setup test5:20AM
@lordtrilink You can simulate the effect of a whammy bar by nimbly detuning and retuning your strings.4:22AM
Small hoppy thing. http://bit.ly/15dUHY these are the things that beat the dinosaurs.2:36AM
Unbelievable palavar - had to use google street-view to find the address/phone of my doctor - and then there's a fucking answering machine.2:25AM
Wishing there was a proper MVC version of Wordpress that didn't pursue the ludicrously Micky Mouse practice of embedding php in HTML12:48AM
@Shadowfoot Calendars are so last-year.12:37AM
Yes http://twtvite.com/fj7m16 #twtvite #Welly090618 - but you need to tweet closer to the time. It's all about spontaneity etc.12:31AM
@iRbitterT So how does the process at your place work? Do I upload SVG files or something?12:29AM
Anyway, I'm down the caf. There's a woman with a gratuitously klaxony laugh - like being hit in the face with a bag of banana skins.12:23AM
Though not Nonchalance-Extreme - which is trying a whisker too hard... or just plain "Nonchalance", which is like so last season.12:21AM
I noted (with a sinking feeling) that my new shampoo's slogan is "Total Care". That's not really what I wanted. I wanted Nonchalance-Plus.Monday 2009-05-25
10:20PM
@iRbitterT The entire process of ordering materials, scheduling etc seems to take about 10 days.12:27PM
Just made my first foray into laser-cutting steel. Now sit back and wait for two weeks for it to turn up etc. Amazon it aint.10:00AM
@BrianLimond What? Properly? You ok?3:33AM
I love the way they're called "Affordable Urine Samples" to distinguish themselves from those that are priced beyond the reach of Mr Average3:32AM
RT @mrjudkins : At Last !!! Piss-shop 2010!!! http://tinyurl.com/p24xv6 Is there nothing science can't do?1:37AM
Houston, I think we have a problem : http://bit.ly/ln2Da Planet Earth is Blue and there's nothing I can do1:35AM
Fuck me other people are irritating. Other people are the most irritating people in the world. And a load of them have just sat next to me.1:21AM
Down the caf. God-damn I feel feisty. Writing politically charged blog-posts etc. I'm going to try to buy some plastic rivets later.Sunday 2009-05-24
12:35PM
I don't know what they did in chrome 2.0, but I've got 3 tabs open and it's using about 50% of the CPU - running it amazingly hot.11:14AM
Brotherhood of The Wolf is on. It's even better than it was the last time - apart from the kung-fu gypsy fight about 15 minutes in.10:24AM
Mad Max II is on. Return of The Micro-Bogan.7:17AM
Got a 25 second loop of this in my head http://tinyurl.com/pnucll - from 2.50 to 3.15. We get further and further and further from the world6:57AM
I've had to go downstairs even though Wallace and Gromit is on... because people are eating apples. Can't abide apples. Drive me mad.5:26AM
LOL http://bit.ly/w0fd85:22AM
Robot Gladiators etc http://bit.ly/AW2IG3:56AM
Thoughts about living in the back of a van : http://bit.ly/MUMUt1:02AM
Soldered together my fraying and recalcitrant laptop lead for the 20th time. Why don't I buy a new one? No time etc. Busy.Saturday 2009-05-23
3:20AM
Down the caf. Non-descript innit. I'm becoming more and more addicted to laser cutting stuff. I'm finally drifting into physicality. TFFTFriday 2009-05-22
7:04AM
Christ, the interview on TV at the moment is so lame I feel slightly faint. It's with the mother of the people who did the M runner.3:33AM
Vodaphone 3G FTW. It's taken 17 minutes (so far) to load the home page of my site.The speed gauge says 0bps. Isn't that slower than dial up?3:23AM
The phlegmy Wellington sunshine is coming through the window and hitting me smack in the face. To move? Or just wait for nightfall?3:20AM
Teapot cars as Social Objects : http://tinyurl.com/qtpp3c3:01AM
Just went in and talked to the Ponoko people. We like the Ponoko people.1:03AM
I told the waitress "Sorry... first thing in the morning. I can't understand anything".10 minutes later she's still laughing. I don't get it1:01AM
It's quite disorientating. Information overload. Everything is in your face and I can't understand what anyone is saying. It's all noise etc12:58AM
I'm down in Wellington - in a caf etc. For... months now I've been in a sort of social sensory deprivation - I'm a paranoid recluse.Wednesday 2009-05-20
11:52PM
@stephenfry I recently abandoned Digg in favour of Reddit. Digg has too many (how you say?) idiots on it. I think it's an astroturf magnet5:42AM
Submitted self to TweetingTooHard http://bit.ly/Lum7a Fame awaits. I think I'm ready for it etc. Some of us have it thrust upon us you know3:02AM
@hexayurt I've read that the reason a cellphone quadrupals a 1$ a day earner's income is that it provides a reliable "address".3:01AM
@hexayurt re: ID cards - yea, I think "everything has a URI" is a fundamental emergent morality... but it can't be top-down.2:59AM
Listening to Umair Haque on the internets : http://www.vimeo.com/4366804Tuesday 2009-05-19
1:31PM
On ID cards and creeping fascism/corporatism : http://bit.ly/ReOAb