January 2009
Preparing to hit the open road. See you later, people.
Only on Italian TV does a major football coach get a lapdance while two fat blokes dance in the background. http://bit.ly/1XdFXK
Trying to finish everything in front of me so I can take a couple of days off. Quiet weekend up the coast with wine + books beckons.
[BBC] David Lammy: UK will not legislate on piracy →
[MacLife] iPhoto's Faces Recognizes Cats →
[MarkCuban] The great internet video lie →
My reading of this story suggests guardian.co.uk might be the 2nd or 3rd biggest newspaper on the web in the US. Really? http://bit.ly/qheD
[NYT] Amazon set to debut second generation Kindle... →
[Apple] Mark Papermaster to begin working on April... →
[FredWilson] Twenty-Two Years Of Job Creation... →
[VentureBeat] AOL might sell Bebo? “Absolutely... →
[Epicenter] Muxtape Returns as a White-Label... →
Lovely video: http://vimeo.com/2834087
coffee with @redsleaves has left me pondering a bunch of intriguing stuff.
One site links to our Google Drive story (http://bit.ly/RRjE) as proof of a “Zionist internet control plan”. Srsly. You couldn’t make it up.
[TechCrunch] comment: 'It reminds me of when... →
Only racked up 149 of the Guardian’s 1,000 novels you must read. However, I’m pretty sure I don’t want to read them all. http://bit.ly/12Kmb
[Carsonified] 15 hours left for Carsonified's eBay... →
[NYT] Hardcore Gamer magazine flogs itself on eBay... →
[KevinKelly] The cosmic genesis of technology →
[RussellDavies] Talk about the As →
All go here in the Guardian’s SF bureau. Furious typing, weird music in background and me shouting on the phone. Almost like a real office!
That was a pretty productive Sunday, all in all. Still no macaroons, though.
Good grief. I just seeded a Pandora station with She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals. I’ve subjected myself to 80s hell. FOOTLOOSE?!
Feeling a distinct lack of macaroons.
[JoelSpolsky] Fog Creek's new offices →
[Walrus] OLPC: what went wrong →
[OLPCNews] What Went Wrong With The Walrus' OLPC... →
[Infovore] Learning to Think Like A Programmer →
[JoiIto] 'When I was 15 a Japanese businessman... →
Cryptomnesia: a condition in which people forget whether or not they wrote something.
Having a bit of a Twitter cull. No offense if I chop you off, just trying to make the balance work better for me.
technology is my enemy
And here’s when we met Andy Hertzfeld to talk about the Mac at 25: http://bit.ly/Cmh6
[Reuters] China says Internet crackdown to be... →
[ArsTechnica] Documentary features peek into Jonny... →
[Forbes] America's Most Wired Cities →
[AllThingsD] Palm to Apple: Bring it →
The Mac at 25: part of my interview with Steve Wozniak. http://bit.ly/15Q46
Finishing off couple of epic articles I’ve had bubbling away for weeks. It’s a funny kind of productivity.
Thankfully my internet’s back now, though. Turns out previous cable guy had “plugged something in backwards”. I suspect Satanic involvement.
Had trouble this morning getting editor to understand difficulty of writing about the web without internet access. It was 7.30am, though.
Weird. Two direct messages @tahmina sent me have just disappeared. Gone. Poof! Nowhere to be seen.
Just got off the phone with @geordiekid. He’s still in the office, and it’s 1am in London. I urge you to tell him to go home.
Latest instalment of Bobbie’s currency doomwatch: “The pound has reached its lowest level against the dollar since 1985”.
[ArsTechnica] Pandora adds commercials →
The TV at the gym is showing Paula Deen cooking some fatty southern stuff on Food Network. It’s clearly a test of willpower.
[Telegraph] Google exec denies 'screwing' music... →
[Reuters] Microsoft expected to cut jobs →
[MySociety] The vote on concealing MPs' expenses... →