November 2011
2 posts
Fixing missing/deleted Feedburner feeds in my...
A quick note to share how I resolved my problem with disappearing RSS feeds when migrating from Feedburner to Google Apps for Domains. (RSS is the syndication bit that makes this blog appear in your reader.)
Back in May when forced to migrate from the Feedburner service to the… Google Feedburner service I needed to associate my old username with a Google Account. I chose to use a...
March 2011
3 posts
WatchThanks to young Upstart for a loan of this documentary which presents a partisan, engaging defence of modernist public architecture. I mention it here partly as it’s rather interesting, and also as I learnt through it that the 1966 film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was shot on the Alton Estate in Roehampton. This may mean little to non-South West Londoners, but I was...
“I blog the same way I make love. Infrequently but spectacularly. Or should that...”
– Adam Buxton on the challenges of writing regular toss when the real, money-paying world gets in the way.
November 2010
1 post
4 tags
May 2010
2 posts
February 2010
2 posts
“The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without...”
– Gabriel Zaid quoted in Nick Hornby’s The Complete Polysyballic Spree
BBC News - Today - Audio slideshow: 'Shaped by... →
‘I don’t want to be remembered as a war photographer’
January 2010
8 posts
747:40
THE icon of the jet age, the most alluring and attractive of all widebody airliners (A380 designers take note), the 747 is 40 years old this week and Flight International has a slightly geeky yet quite readable history to date - and there are still more than 100 on order.
Having already travelled in seat 1A this year I can report there is still something novel and exciting sitting in the very...
Hahnenkamm Downhill - You Finish, You Win →
With the Winter Olympics on the horizon, here’s the downhill skiing experience in the words of a racer. I got scared just watching it…
“Our ideal passenger is someone with a pulse and a credit card, who will follow...”
– Michael O’Leary exhibits his normal love for customers.
Netflix movie queues
I (geekily) think this is very interesting - charting the relative popularity of DVDs rented through Netflix. Have a play around. As Junk Charts writes, this is the best yet from the New York Times team.
“Motivational speaker, celebrity, drywaller”
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First among eagles - The Globe and Mail - Eddie the Eagle’s back in Calgary, and still puts on his bottle glasses even though he’s had eye surgery.
December 2009
9 posts
As Is : Flashback
Quite Very surprised when the first album to appear on Spotify this evening is Nitzer Ebb’s As Is. Never heard of them? Of course not, but this was probably the band that I followed most closely around the age of eighteen. Can’t remember why, but just listening to it again (I had only the vinyl) brings back every lyric.
Turns out they’re still in the studio and touring. Even...
“Don’t be needy, be succeedy!”
– Neil Mullarkey on using improv comedy skills in business (believe me, it’s better than it sounds).
X-Factor Series 6 Voting Data →
I don’t give a monkey’s uncle about the programme, but the voting data is rather interesting. Gives lie to Jedward’s alleged popularity.
Interestingly, if you take the average percentage vote each week, add them together over the series, and multiply by 237,000 you’ll get Simon Cowell’s annualised income; divide that by 3, and you’ll have the size of his ego....
“Passion is the feeling you get from mastering a skill, not some magical quality...”
– Cal Newport - Deeply useful insight that challenges all those career guidance books.
November 2008
1 post
The Right Stuff revisited →
A thoughtful review of Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff some thirty years after publication. It now seems like a golden but departed age.
May 2008
1 post
TechShop →
Despite my ineptness, it would be great if one of these existed in South London. Imagine the carnage!
April 2008
1 post
“I miss meat and blood very much. Not vegetables because they are food for a...”
– Isaya, London Marathon-running Maasai warrior
March 2008
1 post
February 2008
4 posts
fuckyourtranklermanta →
It’s amazing what you can find through misdirected internet searches… I think this guy has a thing with minicars. I think.
Information Aesthetics →
Chart of fatalities in Iraq, 2007, from the NYT. On the other hand, I am allowed to obsess about the visual presentation of data. Having inherited the “interest in design” gene, if not the actual artistic one, Information Aesthetics is an engaging collection of good communication. Unlike Junk Charts, which is pretty self explanatory.
FontBook →
Utterly useless for a market researcher, yet utterly compelling: the 3kg FontBook
As overheard by Ma Down in the chip shop
Chip buyer: I don't know why we bother with Valentine's Day anyway. Who wants to celebrate a massacre?
January 2008
5 posts
Electronic Voting Machines →
Vote count server crashes; ‘sliding finger’ bugs; thousands of votes lost. Why sometimes paper beats microprocessor. Via Joel on Software.
December 2007
5 posts
Countdown →
has a Wiki devoted to it, including every collection on letters ever played. Bearing in mind we’ve just passed Episode 4493, that’s a lot of pencil chewing.
“Marathon runners always make me suspicious – it seems a sign of someone who is...”
– Lucy Kellaway
“There’s only three things I’ve ever been afraid of: heights,...”
– The Line Man
November 2007
2 posts
Watch24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot - CollegeHumor video
History of Religion →
The eternal battle for dominance.