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 waste their lives telling each other about their shockingly tedious days erodes my will to live — 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. Txt spk iz da bom.
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.
Naming today's musical period
· 909 words (eats up about 5 mins)I’ve often wondered what future civilisations will call this current era of music. My music teacher always opined it would be labelled “modern”, or “rubbish”, but maybe there’s more to it than that.
Windows installation makes me look bad
· 1053 words (kills about 5 mins)After many years of installing Windows for people who should know better, I’ve come to the conclusion that operating system makers enjoy raising my blood pressure.
The Sun's tits
· 881 words (munches about 4 mins)Depending on your viewpoint, the title of this post could either be about Page 3 models in the Sun newspaper or a statement of fact about the quality of its content. Guess you’ll have to read on to find out.
Proof of irrelevance
· 959 words (vacuums up about 5 mins)You know those signs “You don’t have to be mad to work here… but it helps”? Those are in every room at the European Court of Justice. Nowhere else would someone float the idea of a ‘Right to be forgotten’ Internet law and have it taken seriously.
Top-level domain name madness
· 293 words (vacuums up about 2 mins)Dot-ninja, dot-guru, dot-news… every month there’s a new set of domain names to choose from. But are the choices that sensible?
BitCoin and the 51% attack vector
· 459 words (vacuums up about 3 mins)BitCoin has had a rough introduction to the world, and the latest threats will test its staying power. Hold course, keep her steady…
The smoking PC: lessons in dust and fans
· 839 words (munches about 4 mins)In twenty years of building and maintaining computer systems I’ve never seen this level of damage due to heat. The devil is in the dust, it seems.
Yahoo email now with sponsored spam
[10 comments] · 402 words (eats up about 2 mins)People logging into Yahoo’s email accounts (like rocketmail) may have noticed a rather nasty-looking advert directly in their inbox. Oh dear, Yahoo, oh dear.
