Posted in anniversaries, buildings, communication, computers, discomfort, emotions, far_away, kaputt, location, person, technology, telephony, time on November 27th, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve never thought of myself as the sort of internet junkie that can’t last more than an hour or so without tweeting, blogging or checking something online. I tend to be a briefly toe-dipping early adopter, then later on a resolute if unenthusiastic long-term user of new technologies. The idea is that this nets me [...]
Posted in anniversaries, communication, dickheads, far_away, holiday, location, occupation, opinion, rants, technology, telephony, time on April 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
Brennig wonders how anyone could ring anyone else at 2.30am about a car. All I can add in terms of data points is that my birthday began earlier than I had planned this morning, as someone who’s either a quondam Iraqi translator, gangland supergrass, or Russian billionaire fallen from grace texted K. at a little [...]
While planning on the phone for his arrival in Oxford tomorrow, I just referred to Looby as, er, Looby. He isn’t called Looby. Well, you know: any more than I’m called “sbalb” or “smallbeds”. It confused him quite a bit, and then his confusion confused me. I’m about to go upstairs and fox the hell [...]
Posted in blogs, charity, climate, columnists, communication, diary, dickheads, editing, environment, experience, idiom, instant_messaging, journalism, language, location, loyalty, media, nu-media, opinion, parties, rants, research, society, spelling, syntax, technology, understanding, wisdom_of_groups on February 18th, 2009 1 Comment »
I used to love The Register. It stood up for digital rights, stuck the knife into governmental IT projects, shone the light on ID cards and gave due attention to the largely pointless and wasteful intrusions of technology in the form of CCTV or the database state. But for the past twelve months or so, [...]
Posted in cliques, commerce, communication, instant_messaging, media, nu-media, online_applications, scams, society, technology, telephony, web on January 24th, 2009 No Comments »
You should never listen to me, really. When Twitter could no longer send free SMS updates in the UK, I was one of many that predicted the decline of the service in this country. The reason was my personal experience: I felt I had found Twitter’s “killer” application—liveblogging and expanding the experience of things like [...]
Posted in amerika, blogs, cliques, communication, computers, election, future, instant_messaging, media, nu-media, politics, society, speculative_tech, technology, telephony, time on November 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
Since staying up for the first round of election results I haven’t really caught up on my sleep until today. I woke at one point last night feeling like I had been drugged, so deep had I been sleeping. Even the flimsiness of our new curtains—and that’s another, surprisingly batshit story—couldn’t keep me awake, until [...]
Posted in articles, blogs, commerce, communication, computers, crime, industry, journalism, language, media, nu-media, people, phrases, politics, responsibility, society, technology, web, word_games on September 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Craig Murray is once again being threatened with libel action by a millionaire, although this time the threat is a rather tangential and allusive one made by someone who considers himself a “good friend” of the potential plaintiff.
What’s most interesting is that in response Murray has written a search-engine optimized blog post. Read his last [...]
Posted in art, artificial, cliques, communication, development, diary, entertainment, experience, far_away, instant_messaging, location, made_our_own_fun, media, metaphor, music, nu-media, occupation, online_applications, society, speculative_tech, technology, understanding, web on January 21st, 2008 4 Comments »
Saturday saw me largely confined to the house with my bad back, which meant I missed a party in London and was feeling particularly fed up. I decided, rather impulsively, to drink something and wander round the internet. Only at the time I considered it extending my experiences beyond the paradigm of normal partying.
Re-reading that [...]
Our local surgery is actually encouraging people to join The Big Opt Out, which may be in line with the BMA’s general policy and so more common than I expected. Unfortunately I’m having perennial printer problems and so can’t get my free PDF from the site (I recognise that template, mind), but the surgery is [...]
Yesterday I was having serious difficulties establishing any kind of human contact with anyone. On my way into Oxford on the 100 bus, I failed to answer a call from hatmandu as I’d put my phone on vibrate (specifically to hear it over my iPod) and then left it in my bag, where I couldn’t [...]
