Y'know things that are all the rage? Blogs. Everyone has one; or at least had one before Facebook, Twitter et al diluted the realtime pool.
Since I'm nu-old skool — and watching endless streams of people writing #incomprehensible #twaddle u n me l8r lol @knickerlicker has no long-term value — I figured why not make a blog? The main difference here compared with other people's blogs is that instead of being limited to one topic, you get a little slice of everything all mashed up. I'm too good to be tweeting.
N.B. The views expressed herein are not my own: they have been carefully shaped by a barrage of mainstream media propaganda and fill-in-the-blanks guesswork. Also, I'm prone to lying for the sake of entertainment.
Game show music
[3 comments] · 1496 words (devours about 7 mins)Though I code by day — and often by night — music is where my real passion lies. So when an opportunity comes along to write some music for TV it’s not something to turn down. Or is it? May I share a little story…
Ill fitting toast
[1 comment] · 244 words (kills about 2 mins)Manufacturers of toasters take heed: would it hurt to do a little more research before releasing your products?
Multilinguality
· 1448 words (eats up about 7 mins)Some people speak English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Swedish. I speak BASIC, 68000, C, Tcl, awk, PHP…
Suckipedia
[5 comments] · 882 words (sucks up about 4 mins)Type in almost anything into a search engine and, aside from porn, Wikipedia will feature fairly prominently in the results as representing facts on that topic. Is that really a good thing?
Count me out
[3 comments] · 1122 words (munches about 5 mins)The 2011 census form is available online. That means I can pay it the usual amount of attention that crap software requires: next next next next next next Finish.
Calling ark-builders
· 82 words (devours less than a minute)The animals went in two-by-two hurrah, hurrah.
The animals just won’t make it through hurrah, hurrah.Stab stab slice I'm better now
· 246 words (sucks up about 2 mins)Don’t forget to be aware that you’re self harming today while you search for the razor blade. I won’t forget, because I’m now learned.
Craptcha
[5 comments] · 505 words (sucks up about 3 mins)CAPTCHA allegedly stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. What it actually stands for is “Chuffing Awful Process That Completely Humiliates Anyone”.
