Tag: LiveJournal
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Mad World – Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012
This seems a quite appropriate footnote for 2012, with the Mad World 8-bit cover and game deaths. It’s one of the best Boing Boing posts of 2011 and I missed it (this has been rectified – I’ve now worked out a way to integrate my LJ inc friends/group posts with Google Reader/RSS readers with LJProxy…
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Portraits
I tend to keep this blog mostly music based, but for those who may not have guessed I’m a photography nut (my DJ name is Instamatic, go figure) – well more than nut, a nut that wants to make photography it’s lifeblood (treeblood? err enough of metaphors Tim – Metaphorical Ed). I’m doing a Portrait…
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Not SmartFTP
Something I hate about commercial ‘free’ software, like FTP and Anti-virus programs when they say ‘free for uncommercial use’ – so I happily use them at home (not commercially of course) for several years, lured into a false sense of a happy-warm-fuzzy-glow towards the company. Then some marketing wonk in the company obviously freaks out,…
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Web 2.0? 0.0.0.2 more like
Once upon a time, there was a little powercut in San Francisco… Why should I care you say? Well seeing that one powercut can wipe out Livejournal, Second Life, Craigslist, Technorati, Typepad…the list goes on, you wonder why in this apparent age of Web 2.0 these systems are still susceptible to one fatal flaw –…
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Liquid explosives or liquid lies?
(crossposted from my Livejournal) I have been telling anyone personally who will listen about the stupidness of the liquid explosives plot and how it wasn’t possible because even my little-remembered rudimentary GCSE Chemistry (I had a very teenage practical interest in things that go bang, so I think I unusually took notice at that point)…
