Archive for November, 2006
Stop - scammer time!
A fun day. A bit of wheeling, a bit of dealing. Listed my old phone on eBay only for it to be ‘bought’ by our old friend, a Nigerian “419″ scammer. Not a particularly good one either.
Obviously I caught it, reported it etc, but now I’m struck by a more interesting thought. Would the scammer [...]
Mobile TV - not quite yet…
Just upgraded to a Nokia N73. Very nice it is too. I’ve pretty much come to expect good usability from Nokia - I loved their older phones and they do an admiral job of keeping complex phones as simple as possible.
Anyway, it being a 3G handset, Orange are desperate to foist 3G content on me. [...]
"Copyright is fundamentally socialist"
Mick Hucknall makes a fool of himself on Comment Is Free. No need to add my own analysis, the comments suffice rather nicely. Poor Mick. Poor Cliff, too.
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You can’t Have Your Say and eat it
Interesting article on the BBC site: “Web fuelling crisis in politics“. As a rule, I tend to find any government proclamation on the state of the web patronising at best, dangerously ill-informed at worst - but, for once, I’m in agreement. I find the majority of political blogs little more than infantile, partisan nonsense. This [...]
Ys
It’s not often I talk about particular albums on here, mostly because I’m fully aware of the pitfalls of sounding like an amateur sixth form critic. But I have to recommend Joanna Newsom’s Ys. Please buy it.
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Banality #3
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