January 2008

The Archives

• People's Republic of Worthing

  Timber on Worthing Beach makes BBC news

  01.20.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The BBC reports that Worthing beach is closed. That’s not quite true. As I Tweeted earlier, you can’t get down on to the sandy bit of the beach that’s exposed at low tide because of the piles of wood, but there are no restrictions or barriers where we live in West Worthing.
  I took some [...]

• Internet, Music

  Pandora’s gone again

  01.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  globalPandora works no more.
  Alas, it’s no surprise.

• Photography

  Take a look at Violator3’s photographs

  01.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve been enjoying these photographs on Flickr. Some are quite exceptional.

• Technology

  Asus eeePC - I’m in love!

  01.18.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Just as Apple launches its MacBook Air, I took delivery of what I feel is a better answer to the problems of lugging a computer around.
  My £230-ish Asus eeePC is light and small, although not as outwardly sexy as Mr Jobs’ new child, costing around five times more.
  There’s something really appealing to me about the [...]

• Things you should know

  Thelonious Monk

  01.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  “I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public want — you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing — even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.”

• Internet

  I blame Apple!

  01.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I wondered why I couldn’t log on to Twitter a minute or two ago. Then the penny dropped. Hasn’t Steve Jobs’ annual address to the faithful just started?

• Internet, Music

  Pandora available again?

  01.15.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Mashable reports on globalPandora, a service that lets us Pandora fans outside the US listen again.
  How long will it last? Your guess is probably as short as mine.

• Internet

  Escaloop is cool

  01.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yesterday Morn tweeted that his mate, Carlo, had launched a lifestream service. What’s a lifestream? Well it’s a summary of most, if not all of someone’s Internet publishing, all in one place.
  Here’s mine. I set it up yesterday as a relief from doing the VAT - isn’t the Interweb absolutely essential on a Saturday afternoon? [...]

• Housekeeping

  Someone, somewhere said I should try BlogDesk

  01.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  So, I’m trying it.
  I’ve set it up for my blogs, and now I’m trying to figure out if this will turn up in the right place.

• Music

  Goodbye Pandora

  01.08.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I’ve been one of those people listening to Pandora since a US-based friend pointed it out to me. Yes, I’ve been listening to Pandora from the UK. Naughty me!
  Earlier today, the inevitable happened. I got the following e-mail (along with my friends in the UK who also listen to Pandora, I imagine). The boneheads of [...]

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