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  • my dotcom career

    What I would like at the moment is The Idea. Not an idea, but The Idea. The Idea is a new way of pulling together a few existing web technologies and/or successful sites, and mashing them up into a new and exciting formula that is smartarse enough for a Google or Yahoo to buy for lots of money. The execution of The Idea is potentially not as tricky as having The Idea in the first place. I can program, I can learn, I can configure software. I can make it happen. It is having it in the first place that is the problem.

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  • Post Number 500

    Have I really written this much crap? Well, it would appear I have. Ouch. Well, I have been posting backwards as well as forwards, I know have posts going back 21 years on here, culled from old diaries and the like. And I can sometimes be prolific with my regular stuff.

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  • Much better weekend

    Well, we’ve spent the weekend up at the home of flotskyfamily, and everything is good, flotskydad is out and fighting fit, so we are all happy. had a very good time catching up, meant a lot to see him and see he was doing ok.

    It is strange, because in our immediate family, we don’t do serious illness normally. We do clumsy and accidents well, but we don’t really tend to stay overnight in hospital. In fact, in my reckoning, my dad was the first of us to stay overnight in hospital since my sister was born. So I think it worries us more than people who are a bit more used to it.

    We spent most of the weekend just relaxing with them, needed it. So I am a happy chap.

  • Odd week

    Sad to report that flotskydad has been in hospital this week. Nothing too serious thankfully, but obviously a big worry. Happily he is due out tomorrow, and even more happily, we will be there to see him. Really looking forwards to it, he hasn’t had a great time obviously, and it will be very good to see him and catch up, and obviously see my mum as well.

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  • Comment is free: Keeping mum on the net

    Article discussing the right to free speech on the internet, in context of current situation involving Gina Ford and mumsnet forums.

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    I’ve been following this story closely for a few days, there are several issues here involving freedom of speech on the internet in the UK. What is fair criticism? Is downright nastiness actually libel? Should an ISP be liable for possible libel committed on their servers. If as seems possible, this ends up in court, it could well be a landmark case. We have Demon vs Godfrey, which established what seems to be a large swathe of precedent over what seems to me a narrow set of circumstances. It would be very interesting if this case was fought, as a result in favour of Mumsnet could change that substantially, and potentially make ISPs a lot bolder about standing up for their users.

  • Guard dog mauls Elvis’s teddy in rampage

    More here.

    I just don’t think you will get a funnier story all year. The headline is a killer for me, but then when you read some of the details of the story… I won’t spoil it, it is wonderful.

  • Liquid Liquid – Cavern

    Had never seen or heard this until about 5 minutes ago. This is what Grandmaster Flash sampled for White Lines. Apparently the subsequent court case put Sugarhill Records out of business. Just a great track, you can hear why it just had to be used.

  • New Sony Bravia Ad

    Looks like this has been filmed in Scotland. I reckon this could look great in slow motion, which I would be shocked if it wasn’t filmed in that manner.

  • Happy 25th Birthday MTV (well for yesterday)

    So MTV is now 25. Ouch. They celebrated last night by repeating the first ever hour of MTV. It was amusing in parts, the constant reminders that they had changed TV forever during their first hour. What was stunning was that first hour of music. Bear in mind this was 1981:

    It is easy to forget that 80s music wasn’t all New Romantics. In fact I can remember having MTV explained to me in the mid 80s (before we really got it in Britain) and being surprised that it was, almost completely, white rock music. Well it has changed, it did get into rap before it became a TV channel rather than a music channel. Now we don’t need it. I can get virtually any video I want by searching for it on Youtube. Still, it was interesting to see what was played at the start. Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while…

    EDIT Have now added in all the links to the youtube versions of the videos where I could find them

  • 5 records that are definitively you

    Basically, pick 5 records that sum up you or your music tastes. Mine are:

    • Everybody loves the Sunshine – Roy Ayres
    • Voodoo Ray – A Guy Called Gerald
    • WFL – Happy Mondays
    • Concrete Schoolyard – Jurrasic Five
    • The Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin

    You?