2003-01-31
... ? XBOX Cluster
... ? How to be a Programmer Robert L. Read, PhD
... ? The Lord Of the Webs (TechNews.com)
... ? The Mad Revisionist Naturally, our first suspicion was directed against the most obvious suspect: Sweden...most excellent satire...
... ? yay!...
... ? Dave Kopel & Glenn Reynolds on RAVE Act on National Review Online
... ? BBC NEWS | Business | Nation's wealth to be 'mapped'
... ? UCLA Ergonomics, Home of the Bruins - Monitor Heath & Safety...2003-01-30
... ? v-2 Organisation | news | The high cost of less...
... ? The Beast - Buffalo's New Best Fiend - At D.C. protests, a few hundred thousand go missing "In a glib, permissive age where dissent, protest, certain forms of civil disobedience, and even the occasional arrest are superficially acceptable and even encouraged, the only real taboo when it comes to having political convictions today is meaning it."... " If there were just 30,000 people at that rally, I'm a Chinese jet pilot."...
... ? The California Aggie Online Russ Fagaly — Mary Jane got pregnant "January 28, 2003 - Like most people, I don’t enjoy being lied to. I had originally planned to write an article talking about my bout with local Davis banking. Instead, I rushed to complete this article about one Super Bowl ad that caught my attention. It probably caught yours as well. It’s not too often I get to write about serious issues, so you’ll be seeing the bank article next week. This just in: smoking marijuana causes people to get pregnant!"...
... ? Has Your Web Designer Ever Heard of Contrast? - Power Guides - Wow Web Designs2003-01-29
... ? Browse Top Level > Software > Macromedia..10,000 CDROMs donated by Macromedia..soon to come online for download once the technical issues have been addressed...
... ? BBC NEWS | Technology | MPs urge changes to net snooping laws
... ? PROJECT GUTENBERG OFFICIAL HOME SITE - INDEX -- Free Books On-Line -..Still going strong...
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Online | Why VHS was better than Betamax
... ? Morons in wwwebbbbbbbb ssspaaaaaaaaaaace! A message to clueless website authors...
... ? eras0r3.net- collective_erasure_project ...see also Erasure in Art - Destruction, Deconstruction, and Palimpsest for some examples of Erased Art....2003-01-28
... ? BBC NEWS | UK | Climbie report urges childcare reform... The entire country is haunted by this tragedy....and to hear that this kind of abuse, and the inaction of the Social Services, is not "uncommon" goes beyond shocking...I don't care about blaming individuals for this, although it must be said that the "authorities" should hang it's many heads in shame, but rather than we finally learn something from this & BIG CHANGES are made... Where has the principle of CARE gone?...
... ? WARP RECORDS | WARPNEWS - Crhis Morris nominated for his "MY WRONGS 8245-8249 AND 117". fim..... First release from WARPFILMS... DVD out later Feb....
... ? WooferAttack...great pictures of Warp & Rephlexs recent euro-tours... WooferAttack is a good friend from XLT....
... ? Computer Artworks - Organic Art Oldie but goodie....Lathams work in creating forms is a constant inspirer; at heart, it's Art....2003-01-27
... ? FT.com / Sports - Kasparov vs machine showdown2003-01-26
... ? CNN.com - Ants tunneling 'like crazy' in shuttle - Jan. 25, 2003
... ? c o n s t a n c e a d a m s - S p a c e A r c h i t e c t u r e A f t e r ' 2 0 0 1 '...
... ? Coding from Scratch: A Conversation with Virtual Reality Pioneer Jaron Lanier, Part One .. Interesting, tho a little wooly in places, thinkpiece...Part 1 of 2..
... ? Wired News: Senate Rebuffs Domestic Spy Plan2003-01-25
... ? HYBRIDMAGAZINE.COM | BOOKS | An Interview With William Gibson
... ? Salon.com Books | The emotional machine..Year old interview with Steve Grand of Creatures fame..
... ? linux video linux usability ..or, why do I bother. - JMZ2003-01-24
... ? ..bought her first laptop home last night...a SONY VAIO....not top spec but more than enough great design, looks & tech to make me sweat... As a kid I wanted to work for SONY - it was something about the logo I think; SONY always read as shorthand for "THE PHUTURE" ...Wish I'd persued that dream but to geek kid stuck in rural Essex, SONY existed in some other "modern" world; a layer impregnable to the "likes of me"..(hehe...the UK class system was obvious even as a small child. I so hope that tatty truth has dminished for kids today...) ... Still have a HiFi Amplfiier/Radio combo by them; some weird SONY seperates oddbod; Genuine wood-ended unit with faux brushed-aluminium facing; an aesthetic from the depths of design hell...but it still works after all these years...,perfectly.... and it's got the LOGO..always the LOGO...
... ? ..James Gleick - What Just Happened?... ..Mick Middles -From Joy Division to New Order: The story of Tony Wilson & Factory Records.. ..Sylvia Nasar - A Beautiful Mind - (3 or 4 reading of this..I know I'm receiving the DVD for my birthday so I'd like to finish the book again before then. I've only seen it once (on DivX) but was quite impressed with it..They missed a huge amount of Nash in the movie, not just in terms of his sexuality as hightlighted elsewhere, so it's good to have a Bio as full of depth as this one ..)..... ...Doug Coupland - Life After God ... one of my desert island books... ...Francis Bacon in conversation with Michel Archimbaud....a classic...Bacon at his most witty; always wit with substance and so doubly precious...
... ? Wired 11.02:- Logomancer - Rudy Rucker reviews Pattern Recognition
... ? Wired Magazine Issue 11.02 - 2003 The Year The Music Dies...2003-01-23
... ? TardBlog - Archive 11-23..Priceless Deer Suit story....
... ? The Tard Blog... One of my best friends is a Special Needs teacher; she'll love this...
... ? ...last night....moving stuff...I feel more than a little changed...2003-01-22
... ? Yahoo! News - Cloned Cats Aren't Necessarily Copies
... ? Plant Spirals: An Introduction to the Exhibit...yet another field pioneered by Turing...
... ? The Unseen Gulf War by Peter Turnley - The Digital Journalist
... ? Why Shakespeare Is For All Time by Theodore Dalrymple ... "Shakespeare knew something that we are increasingly loath to acknowledge. There is no technical fix for the problems of humanity."... and I am a living sign....;)..
... ? 10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World
... ? Shirky: The Music Business and the Big Flip... "Digital changes in music have given us amateur production and distribution, but left intact professional control of fame. It used to be hard to record music, but no longer. It used to be hard to reproduce and distribute music, but no longer. It is still hard to find and publicize good new music. We have created a number of tools that make filtering and publicizing both easy and effective in other domains. The application of those tools to new music could change the musical landscape. "....
... ? Nearly a week off...after Inspection I soooo need a rest...2003-01-21
... ? Surfin' Safari - Dave Hyatt's Safari Blog
... ? Google Directory - Computers > Internet > On the Web > Weblogs > Blog Tools
... ? My Way News - PBS Show Examines Lasting Racial Divide
... ? New Scientist- Chemistry guides evolution, claims theory
... ? Still going strong....Lets hope it continues...A daily gem...2003-01-20
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Online | 1.618 is the magic number
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Just chill - Spring Heel Jack
... ? WARP RECORDS | STAKKER | EUROTECHNO | CAT129..7 quid..ROUTINE, the US only compilation (again for 7 quid...)...
... ? The Independent - Identity cards will carry minimum information, Blunkett says...
... ? ...too many sites come up horribly mismatched. Designers seem to assume everyone has a white window background colour...Mistake!!..I always change mine, bright white is too harsh on the eyes so I end up with sites that are patchwork quilts of grey & white. I'm sure I'm not the only one...
... ? Burch Blog..Greg Burchs great Flash MX blog...
... ? William Gibson...comes to the UK in April...Book Tour for PR...2003-01-19
... ? Duke University Alumni MagazineExperiments with the enigma of optical illusions have led neurobiologist Dale Purves and his colleagues to a controversial new theory of how our brains perceive the visual world. ..
... ? Bots, Drones, Zombies, Worms and other things that go bump in the night
... ? According to Amazon, PR is out in Paperback before Hardback in the UK...huh???
... ? 'Pattern Recognition': The Coolhunter...Gibson makes the cover of NYT books section..yay!...(and, of course, they love PR...)..
... ? PCWorld.com - Credit Card-Size Hard Drive Can Hold 5GB... I've always suspected that the credit-card was the ideal form for portable data..small enough to transport easily, whilst large enough to handle easily...anything smaller, I think, would just feel wrong to most people...(Minidiscs, the audio kind, I think suffer from this..).. Whether this will be able to stand up to everyday use remains to be seen..it does sound like the tech is really an isotype of Floppy Discs which were never 100% reliable...Not as sexy as solid-state but if it works, they hell, why not?...2003-01-18
... ? Infiltration: Paris Catacombs
... ? the law of the playground: the least coherent encyclopaedia of playground insults on the internet
... ? Reuters - Music Industry Execs Set To Face the Music2003-01-17
... ? ...and we did extremely well; not official yet but overall it looks we're in the top 20% of FE Colleges...
... ? vnunet.com Boasting drug dealer united with law ... I know the net makes the best of us feel confessional but fuck knows what this chump was thinking of...
... ? ...Just a little disappointed in the design ugliness of Gibsons messageboard setup... Would have been so much more in keeping if it was custom-written/designed - a Dreamless-esque flat-noir design is far more atmospheric, and when it comes to community, atmosphere is such an important ingredient... Since there's a mb in the book itself, it's a pity it feels like just any other mb...
... ? ..so far (it's only January..).....The UK jacket of Pattern Recognition....think I'll wait for this version after all...
... ? from Zeldman...
... ? XHTML?...
... ? nice piece at News.com by Whitfield Diffie, Mr Cryptography...
... ? ...Paul Allen's Vulcan develops wireless Mini-PC ... Anything to make my bus journeys more fruitful; I travel for 2hrs a day & apart from reading & pondering, it's difficult to make any use of the time..Laptops are just too big...
... ? ..are being given to Delivery Team Leaders this morning...far too early to call but from the initial 3 people I've spoken to it would seem we haven't done as badly as we feared..
... ? ...with the release of GNUWin II CD...I've been meaning to check out more of these programs but haven't had the time to setup a suitable Linux system; so pretty useful for me to have them all collected on one CD...
... ? Guardian Unlimited Money | News_ | Philosopher Julian Baggini on 'victimless' crime.. "When the Crosdale family discovered a cash machine that wouldn't stop giving out money, they withdrew £134,410. Now three of them are in prison. Was their crime really that bad? Philosopher Julian Baggini considers their case...
... ? I, Cringely | The Pulpit - Why Microsoft Should Build Its Next Version of Windows on Top of Linux ...
... ? Why are Safari and Sherlock two different applications? (kottke.org)
... ? Jon Udell: Namespace completion and DOM support in Apple's Safari2003-01-16
... ? ..it'll take a while to fully digest...this mind needs sleep..... "I feel like the punchline to a joke I might have told 10 years ago"...Martin Amis (Success, I think..)..
... ? ..Post 16 E-Learning Strategy - Task Force Report....
... ? Our OFSTED inspection continues...atmosphere here seems super-confused, things are not looking good overall...
... ? "Croydon Facelift" - the tightened look council estate girls get when they've scraped their hair back too far in a ponytail...(props to Popbitch...)..
... ? .. Weirdness ...
... ? schematic output.. SCH023 Richard Devine - asect:dsect EP...
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Leave them laughing...I often wonder wtf Bill Hicks would make these current dark days...
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | First view of Freud's portrait of Hockney
... ? BBC NEWS | Politics | Tories plan Section 28's removal...2003-01-15
... ? Momus - A Complete History Of Sexual Jealousy - Parts 17 to 24 ..Woke up with this going thru my mind this morning...heard it on some obscure indie comp back in NME C86 days and the lyrics were beyond anything else at that time..can still remember even now... "If looks could kill I'd kill the men Whose looks would kill you if looks could kill"... Never really investigated him further (only had eyes for Steven ..hehe..)...but think I should now...
... ? Fonts For Flash...props to K10K for pointing this out....haven't tried em yet; but will probably replace the beautiful Miniml ones (no longer free :(..)...
... ? Sad office wheeze this week has been convincing colleagues that Maurice Gibb was in rehersals for his upcoming role as the new Dr Who just prior to being admitted to hospital...I really dunno how I keep a straight face sometimes....
... ? TIME Magazine | Brian Eno: A European View - Jan. 20, 2003 - "To this European, America is trapped in a fortress of arrogance and ignorance.."...one of the best pieces I've read on the current situation; Eno's one of the cleverest guys in UK culture (as anyone who's ever read his A Year (with Swollen Appendices) will know...)...
... ? The Open Web Application Security Project...Useful Guide to building Secure Web Apps....
... ? The Register.."The RIAA is preparing to infect MP3 files in order to audit and eventually disable file swapping, according to a startling claim by hacker group Gobbles. In a posting to the Bugtraq mailing list, Gobbles himself claims to have offered his code to the RIAA, creating a monitoring "hydra". "....Intersting but seems a little unlikely... When are they gonna learn the war is already lost?...
... ? EducationGuardian.co.uk | Special Reports | Full text of Margaret Hodge's speech...Achieving excellence and equality in post-16 education...some interesting snippets in here; 50% of 16yrs old in FE by 2010 does seem extremely high...
... ? ...seems to be going ok after all the stress of recent weeks...I'll be so glad when all this over, it's totally overshadowed my Xmas etc.... Thankfully it only happens every 3 yrs...They've already labelled our Intranets as "oustanding" so that's great to hear; a lot of the staff here don't realise how far ahead of most Colleges we are when it come to CIS systems, so they tend to take it all for granted...
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | The nominees...Pretty boring list as usual...good to see some Garage in there...(yet another gay music form straightened out by the UK...half these kids have never heard of the Paradise Garage or Larry Levan (who would no doubt turn in his grave hearing the negative vibes of so much UK Garage...)... Give me some golden-age Strictly Rhythm any day....
... ? ..already doing the rounds on P2P....looks like it'll be a 3 Disc set (for the movie, at least)...2003-01-14
... ? Deep/Young Ethereal Archive...some extremely beautiful pieces here; so very easy nowadays to get jaded and cynical; that "seen it all before" attitude.... but every now & then something comes along that makes you realise there's still a lot of exciting work waiting to be discovered...
... ? stereotypography :: all your favourite news__...Somehow this site has slipped past my radar; all the best design newsfeeds in one place...
... ? ..is now available from Boomkat...recommended (esp. Issue #8...)...
... ? ...Comes as no surpise; far too easy to set up this sort of scheme...Speaking to colleagues at work and from my own experience, Education in the commercial sector is a joke; this story just highlights that....see also BBC NEWS | Education | Millions lost on training scheme
... ? ...editted by John Lahr (of Orton Diary/Prick Up Your Ears fame) is probably the best Bio I've read recently...re-reading it now & the wit of the man is simply stunning.....check the cover pic for some idea of the sheer old-school English stylishness of the man....
... ? ..before work in the morning....difficult to take the day seriously...(ironically it was lent to me by my boss...)...
... ? ...hehe...trying to comvince my SO that Poland will make a great holiday this year; I can't stand beaches and all that shit; I want something real!!!....I'm fascinated by the place but she's not convinced....2003-01-13
... ? A Stumbling Bloke, I'm a twenty digit combination to unlock.....Temazepham references in Smiths songs...whatever next?..:)..
... ? Longitude...bumper full version currently on Cable - UK History...TV at it's best; rarely even better than the book...
... ? BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | New ape population found A secret population of orang-utans has been discovered in the forests of the island of Borneo.....YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.....
... ? BBC NEWS | England | Sprout-eating apes raise whiffy issue....ok..so, I have a Rang thing goin on...but who cannot love these gentle brothers... "You can certainly hear it and it echoes throughout the building, so you know when they've let one off."
... ? BBC NEWS | UK | Police arrest Townshend .."He has been detained on suspicion of possessing and making indecent images of children and of incitement to distribute such images"....making?...
... ? "Pram Face": a phrase used to describe a popstar who has a face that looks more suitable on a girl pushing a pram round a council estate....(props to Popbitch..).. Essex is, of course, the spiritual home of Council Girls (our UK version of Trailer Trash for all you head-scratching non-brits...)....In fact, I'd go as far as saying that Essex is the Bromide of counties...
... ? ...a good friend who I don't see often enough....but hopefully she knows me well enough by now to know I'm Mr Flakey when it comes to telling people how much they mean to me....
... ? ..let's just hope it's been patched..:)...(that said, I run a big intranet of IIS4 and it really isn't a bad bit of software, just an easy target being an MS product...)....
... ? Analogue Bubblebath 5... was never released (apart from these test pressings...)... A number of great tracks (as you'd expect from the Twin) but the price (nearly $2000 USD currently) is beyond stupid....
... ? 2002 MP3 Losers...no real suprises here...
... ? 2002 MP3 Winners...Good to see Soulseek continues to avoid the mainstream, despite it being the P2P system of choice for most people I know...
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Online | Support networks
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Online | Thanks for the memories: Friends Reunited eye sell-off
... ? BBC NEWS | Education | Digital learning plans approved
... ? BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Clonaid ordered to reveal 'clone'...yet another chance to roll out the Raelian UFO Staircase photo...
... ? FishSauce - Daily... check the Why Books Are Nice Presents entry especially...I couldn't agree more...
... ? LabMistress' Blog - Kevin Mitnicks Partners blog....not long now before the man himself is back online...2003-01-12
... ? WHSmith.co.uk...I can't wait for the UK release & WHSmith are always very good at getting US copies....All I need now is some money in the bank..:(...
... ? Q & A online as well now.....
... ? ... blogs...hope this isn't just a promo device for the book but has some life beyond that...
... ? has transformed my film watching again. I'm such a sucker for Additional Commentaries, they alone make DVDs a no-brainrer for me, but I'm no fan of DVD playback on our previous setup, a computer monitor. So a lot of the discs I've amassed over the past few months have only been half-watched at best, but now I can view them on the TV (with remote control etc..) and the oh-so-important Sofa I'm turning into a film junkie again... The SO has suggested I have OCD tendancies as she sees me watching the same film multiple times....but there's nothing obsessive about fully an exploring an artwork to my mind....
... ? ...You made a billion faces smile & that's one hell of a legacy...sing on...
... ? very hard to swallow...seems very odd for him to be named yet the Police haven't charged him & theres no real evidence. One of the few ever to come out of the smack tunnel...I admire him for that alone. The UK Press seem to have judged him GUILTY already...These modern-day witchhunts are so ugly and dangerous and, after last years scenes of mobs on the streets, massively irresponsible... Thankfully The Observer haven't succumbed to the rabid slatherings of the tabloid sunday rags....
... ? mess with your spelling & grammer...just had to re-edit all of yesterdays posts ...lol...2003-01-11
... ? made into way into my DVD last night....In 2 minds really; lot's of little geeky touchs and in-jokes give it an nice half-knowing vibe, but far too much delving into the stereotypical David vs Goliath (with echos of Johnnie M at the end with the global broadcast...)....and was the love interest really needed??... 5/10....nice piece of Linux fiction but for non-geeks I'd say nahhhhhh......
... ? kuro5hin.org || Great UI design lies... Essential reading....Too many designers are really stylists; designing is 100% about providing solutions to problems. not just surface decoration....Good design is invisible; always good to bear in mind....
... ? I'm not a big chatter but it's now there if needed..I'm g3rmorg ... Looking forward to catching up with Phobiazero, tune, sine & the rest Xltronic cru..
... ? ..the DVD in these small hours....I must have witnessed this film more times than even I care to admit.. a film that never disappoints... ...Never been able to stomach Requiem more than twice; much too close to home...which as it's had a profound effect on me & my life , it's a very special movie to me..
... ? ..just popped a new 20gig HD in this machine & once I'd got it connected (EIDE & Power ) XP did all the work for me....no messing with FDISK or hassles like that; it walked me thru without treating me like an idiot (MS Wizards are a personal hate, worthy of lethal injection...or perhaps something slower..) ... but this took the idea to it's fulll potential..Edging towards a true Agent as long promised... HD upgrades have always been a pain, but out of the hundreds I've done, this was the tops...
... ? my best mate is 67 and does me the big favour of passing his sleeping pill script onto be....56 tabs ......(20mg tab = 10mg Valium...)... For an insomniac like me., I get 3 scripts a forthnight, it's so nice to just lay your head on the pillow and sleep.... Slightly Sleezy I know...but that''s me.....2003-01-10
... ? Zenarchery.com Kicking It In The Subdermal Layer ...Prescription Tranqs/Sleeping Pills can help that hand-wobble problem, not too many tho or you may end up with a "I Love Flowers" tatto-scar and no memory from where it came...;).. I found this out when I lanced a blind boil on my arse...now that was sexy!!! :)... Move to Europe, mate....we'll fix your krees....2003-01-09
... ? BBC NEWS | UK | E-cyclopedia's glossary of 2002 Many of the defining moments of 2002 spawned their own words and phrases. At year's end, we once again take stock of these additions to the news lexicon...
... ? PopMatters - Of Big Oil, By Big Oil, For Big Oil: The 10 Most Startling Speculations and "Conspiracy Theories" About September 11 and America's New War - ...
... ? Pubs/Clubs & Drugs don't mix apparently...according to a story currently running on BBC News24... Strikes me that this machine is just something Bar/Club owners can wave at the Licensing board as proof of a No Drugs policy, rather than an attempt to make clubs drug-free, which just isn't gonna happen...expensive 40 grand tokenism...
... ? BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Artist sorry for Cilla insult ... KneeJerk alert!! what a cop out...probably the best cover so far on G2 this week..."Fuck Cilla Black"... "We don't read the Guardian and it was a cheap publicity stunt"...
... ? Welcome to the browser jungle, Safari - Tech News - CNET.com...nice article outlining how Safari, Apples new browser, fits into the Mac world...
... ? Slashdot | Blogging With Camera Phones...Smells like Moblogging?... Spent sometime trying to explain the concept of blogs to my SO last night; think I might have Geeked her to sleep...
... ? New Scientist -Flexonics The idea of printing a light bulb may seem bizarre, but US engineers are now developing an ink-jet printing technology to do just that. The research at the University of California in Berkeley will allow fully assembled electric and electronic gadgets to be printed in one go.... I get this feeling that 2003 is gonna be a sci-fi tinged year...
... ? to have YH back, even in it's new Lite form....2003-01-08
... ? ..finally....but don't picture scenes of winter wonderlands & all that; this is Essex after all, even the snow tries to avoid falling here if it can...
... ? ..re-reading this now...David Diamond has done a great job of communicing Linus's world-view & personality...
... ? but it's gonna need a re-read sometime in the future...very technically hairy in places, not the sort of book to dip into; found myself skipping far too much....perhaps I've got a lazy mind this year...
... ? ..on this quarters Grooves magazine by WeWorkForThem (the two Mikes et al)...Probably the best IDM mag as well; even if it's release seems a little sketchy at times...Subs were very cheap at only 20USD for 3 issues, including shipping to the UK...recommended, makes a nice companion to The Wire ...
... ? MacEdition : CodeBitch : January 6, 2003 - Very interesting article about Mac / PC browsers....
... ? ..to replace my greying one....will there ever be a time when I buy anything other than black? I doubt it.... hehe...I'm such an "art-fag" stereotype...I prefer to call it Terrorist-Chic...at least I know now that Echelon will be reading this now...:)...
... ? TASCHEN: Books...when it comes to Art books, this publisher leads the way...not only are the books always beautifully produced, with wonderfully accurate reproductions, but they seldom break the bank...I'm lucky as our local book remainder store sells them off at less than half-price, even less thanks to the traditional post-xmas sales.... Latest purchase is ART of the 20th Century.. more or less an encyclopedia, it certainly weighs like one...
... ? ...the big benefit of getting up at 3-4am in the morning is having News24 as ambient backing....Suprised to see the DeCSS case getting an item on there this morning; pity it's such a short piece, practically just a headline, and so little of the background & issues this raises get a mention (part from, of course, the "movie industy" being up-in arms about it...)....
... ? Apple - PowerBook G4 17"...bit late for a Dear Santa letter... God Bless Apple; they ain't angels business-wise but when it comes to pushing general computer design, it's hard to beat em...
... ? New Scientist - First speed of gravity measurement revealed ... The speed of gravity has been measured for the first time. The landmark experiment shows that it travels at the speed of light, meaning that Einstein's general theory of relativity has passed another test with flying colours...
... ? YH is up again....(well, YH Lite...still a lot of work to do...)...great start to the day....2003-01-07
... ? BBC NEWS | Technology | Teenager wins DVD court battle...great news...
... ? YH is still down....:(...
... ? EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools | A third of teachers plan to quit..to do what exactly?? ... I work in Eucation and I hear moaning from the lecuturers almost daily...Speaking to a guy yesterday he was telling me the basic is £14 (~$25) an hour; which ain't that bad, considering the extended holidays etc.... Galls even more as us lowly support staff earn far, far below that, yet are expected to be as deciated, profesional etc...I even spend a lot of my time training em, doesn;t that make me a teacher myself??.. Don't get me wrong, I'm sympathtic to the way the Govt has treated FE over the last few years but it's 2003, we live time where everyone struggles...
... ? EducationGuardian.co.uk | Further | PC potential..more FE news....I see so much IT going to waste, due in no small part to the conversative nature of most educators...simply supplying PCs is not enough; smacks of tokenism...
... ? EducationGuardian.co.uk | Further | The fat years? Association of Colleges' reaction to the cash settlement...Hadn't noticed this before... We have Inspection of the Govt next week...this happens every 3 yrs in FE in the U. We're an oustanding College so I doubt it'll be a problem & we should pass with flying colours...Great to be busy but although it has overshadowed my Xmas & New Year.. Pass the Valium....
... ? WebReference.com - The Webmaster's Reference Library - Web Authoring Tips & Tutorials for Developers...a long time favourite....
... ? WeWorkForThem™..There are many imitators but we are the true creators...Mike Young & Mike Cina at their very best (plus other guests...)...
... ? John F. Nash, Jr. - Autobiography...a great introduction to this lost & found soul of 20th century science... Do yourself a favout and also pick up A Beautiful Mind, the biography the santized film version attempted to re-create....
... ? EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools | A third of teachers plan to quit..to do what exactly?? ... I work in Eucation and I hear moaning from the lecuturers almost daily...Speaking to a guy yesterday he was telling me the basic is £14 (~$25) an hour; which ain't that bad, considering the extended holidays etc.... Galls even more as us lowly support staff earn far, far below that, yet are expected to be as deciated, profesional etc...I even spend a lot of my time training em, doesn;t that make me a teacher myself??.. Don't get me wrong, I'm sympathtic to the way the Govt has treated FE over the last few years but it's 2003, we live time where everyone struggles...
... ? WARP RECORDS | WARPNEWS - Pool Party CD - Confirmation of the £50 rumour....time to check the old bank balance today..... Confirmed track listing from WARP.. WARP WIFOF2003 MIX. 39m:27s LFO: millionaire dogs [exclusive. New album in 2003] beans: roar [taken from from the new album ‘tomorrow right now’ released 10/3/03] luke vibert: [tbc warp ‘03] satanstornade: unlock the mysteries of the sun [ taken from ‘satanstornade’ warp666, out now] luke vibert: [tbc warp ‘03] aphex twin: windowlicker (acid edit) [taken from the forthcoming ‘26 remixes for cash’ double album, released 24/3/03] dub kult: bells of death [tbc warp ‘03] louis digital: [tbc warp ‘03] denis rusnak: working sister [tbc warp ‘03] brothomstates: rktic rmx [tbc warp ‘03] mira calix: nunu [extract from a piece created for the “Micro Music” event in Geneva, sept ‘02] plaid: miamivice [tbc. new album and DVD in ‘03] nightmares on wax: 70s 80s (acapella) [taken from ‘70s 80s’ single, released 24/2/03] autechre: naftwa4 [exclusive to this sampler. New Autechre album ‘draft7.30’ is released on 7/4/03] boom bip: the unthinkable (venetian snares remix) [due on lex in 2003. lex014 www.lexrecords.com ] richard devine: itsuko [from ‘asect:desect’ sch023 schematic.net] chris clark: rob lee [taken from the forthcoming EP ‘ceramics is the bomb’ due early/mid 2003] hell interface: the story of xentrix
... ? picked up this yesterday...a look into the age old maths problem (& how it was eventually solved...)...verdict to follow but looking good so far.... Notice the correct spelling of Colour....Four Colours Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved - Robin Wiilson...
... ? Better Living Through Software - The Semantic Web...very interesting... plus it's a MS guy....one blog to keep an eye on....2003-01-06
... ? ..with how this blog is going... ..I think I'm beginning to get some idea of the raison d'etre of doing this; hopefully my written skill will improve as well.... ..Why I didn't write the code etc. myself I don't know...Laziness I guess....
... ? is not til April on Penguin .. piss. pity US shipping charges have gone up so much in the last year making it less tempting to order online..Had a good experience with WHSmiths here who sorted out a US copy of Dave Eggers AHWOSG well before it was available at minimal extra cost; hopefully they can do the same with this...I know it's only 2 months but it is William Gibson....
... ? QUICKCAM Astrophotography...
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Andrew Marr meets - and sits for - David Hockney...I must remember to buy a copy everyday this week, the tabloid size G2s cover is a different artist each day; starting with Hockney... I should mention Hockneys last book about lenses & there use in Art history was very impressive & lush..a seamless Art/Science/History combination ...beautiful ideas beautifully reproduced...
... ? The Register - Microsoft's masterplan to screw phone partner - full details...Do people ever learn??? ...
... ? Scientific American: Ant Supercolony Spans Thousands of Miles..one of my favourite stories of 2002...
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | Internet archive rekindles family life in the shtetls Internet archive rekindles family life in the shtetls, the eastern European Jewish villages razed in the Holocaust...
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Belated homage to city's amateur genius Manchester shows Impressionist talent of labourer too poor to go to art school or view Paris artists
... ? Goodbye, Columbus!..NYT on Gavin Menzies, a popular if somewhat dodgy historian...1421 wants to be another Longitude or FMT but the beauty of those books were they came out of no-where, initially selling themselves using standard publicity, good reviews & word of mouth ; all the marketing behind 1421 feels a little too pushy to me...I don't feel a book gets anything positive out of being so hardshly marketed.. But I haven't read the book though so we shall see....
... ? just picked up some rare Stakker tracks from a friend on Soulseek... top notch Acid...15yrs old and still sounds like the future....
... ? Wired News: Mac Buzz: Will Ipod Show Movies?...should be "Will Ipod be 100 quid cheaper?" so I can vaguely afford one?....2003-01-05
... ? kuro5hin.org || Occasional Art Piece: Malevich's Black Square
... ? I need to change the CSS scheme on here soon...looks a bit too Praystation at the moment... Nice little Colour Scheme generator over at http://www.colormatch.dk/...
... ? whose theme tune I can't even recall get's cancelled...
Good.
The BBC always got a lot of things right with Science & Tech programs, gems like The Sky At Night, Horizon & QED were the proto-geek mindfood of choice as I was growing up. But Tommorrows World was like the runt of the pack, made sense in the 70s, wobbled in the 80s & then tumbled into dumb-land in the last decade...
Sadly they intend to keep the name & "will create a number of new programmes under the Tomorrow's World brand name over the coming year. "...note the use of the singlar "year"..
... ? Po Bronson, I doubt I'll be getting What Should I Do With My Life?...it looks just a bit too self-helpy for my liking; doesnt realy seem in keeping with his previous work....
... ? BBC reports....at least, this'll make it harder for them to dodge the much needed DNA tests. It appears the first one is tied up in legal issues in the US hence no test yet....2003-01-04
Where is this story headed?..
... ? In 2003, Tomato will release their fourth work "tomato four," - stepping into a new and unknown domain, which is not CD-Rom nor a DVD video -PlayStation2....
... ? in the new Pattern Recognition book..."Google Damien and you will find a director of music videos and commercials"
"yet he holds on to this Mac for the way you can turn it upside down and remove its innards with a magic little aluminum handle. Like the sex of one of the robot girls in his video, now that she thinks of it. "
... ? Pattern Recognition is on sale in hardcover from Putnam on February 3rd, 2003...2003-01-03
... ? Complex behaviour of orang-utans suggests human culture started to develop 14 million years ago, much earlier than thought.
... ? ..over at Burn it Blue...listening to the pre-release is like some weird time-warp; this was some of the first Acid I ever heard; time to hunt in the loft for the original video (..why no DVD re-issue???...)....
... ? ...various reasons given but they sound like excuses; general subtext seems to be it's a fake...
... ? Troll.....a /. K5 FAQ...
... ? Great CD of upcoming WARP releases for 2003...including AFX & AE...
approx track list
LFO: millionaire dogs [03] 0:00 beans: roar [03] 1:38 vibert: ~no name~ [tbc 03] 4:35 satanstornade: mysteries of the sun [warp666 25/11/02] 5:11 vibert: ~no name~ [tbc 03] 6:15 aphex: windowlicker (acid edit) [26 mix for cash - warp102 24/3/03] 7:40 dub kult: bells of death [tbc 03] 10:50 louis digital: [tbc 03] 13:30 denis rusnak: working sister [tbc 03] 15:22 brotmstatez: rktic remix [tbc 03] = phat 17:24 mira calix: nunu [micro music event 02] 21:45 plaid: miamivice [03 new album] 24:33 nightmarez wax: 70z 80z [24/2/03] autec: naftwa4 [7/4/03] 28:00 boom bip: the unthinkable (V SNARES remix) [LEX014] 30:08 R Devine: itsuko [shc023] - schematic 33:34 Chris Clark: rob lee [03] 35:04 hell interface (aka BOC): the story of xentrix. 38:10 not a dud on there really... also rumoured to be included when you order a largish amount (around £50 worth... ) from WARPMART...
... ? to my good friend, titsworth and his list of upcoming music releases...
... ? The classic Stakkar EuroTechno due out 27th Jan...as well as more Stakkar "Sessions" from Rephlex.... Acid Goodness....2003-01-02
... ? ..about XML today thanks to this thread - XML and verbosity - always good to hear real-world experiences...
... ? ..this year was a rough MP3 of Sinead O'Connor totally pissing over Elton Johns Sacrifice...pure aural heaven...
... ? WARP re-releases AFXs Hangable Auto Bulb EPs...We've got the 26 Remixes for Cash compilation to look forward to (even though I already own the vast majority of the tracks on there...) which, along with the recent re-issues of ABB3 & the Caustic Window Comp, shows AFX isn't adverse to making old stuff more widely available...
... ? XHTML - No-brainer really...ASP + HTML + CSS were my core tools in 02 - Now browser support has hit the mainstream, it's time to make the small step to XHTML...
... ? (again) today....lets hope our TRON-esque Firewall is blogger friendly.... edit: indeed it is...
... ? 2003 List of Banished words...
... ? After the shocks and the hype, the gentle art of painting is ready to make a comeback ...2003-01-01
... ? ...and some fucker goes and changes the Theory of Relativity...Great nerdy discussion over at Slashdot...
Something tells me this new formula shown isn't gonna find it's way onto too many T-Shirts...
... ? I almost forgot... 03 > 02? .... I sooo hope so....
... ? The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life ... Total geekout time for Smiths fans; all the songs dissected...kinda anal in places but fuck! it is The Smiths... Like reading long-lost letters to a first love...
... ? LFO An oldie but goodie... Daniel Brown of Noodlebox fame vs LFO (the UK one, not the awful US band of the same name....)... New album due in next few months...if you can't wait that long snippets of one track can be heard on the recent WARP Sampler 2003 - Mix CD....
