Today in Music | Music News Review

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:04:15 +0000

I found this fascinating quote today: It’s a sad day for YouTube users in the United Kingdom. The phenomenally popular video site has starting to pull all copyrighted music clips from its UK website, with most videos expected to be blocked from the site within the next two …CarpetDog in, Today in Music | Music News [...]

Slideshows are boring. Your images are not.

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:02:05 +0000

With all that’s possible with TV & film these days, how is it that we are still in the “next slide please” stone age of image presentation? This question prompted the guys at Animoto Productions, a bunch of TV/film producers and techies, to lock themselves in a room and nerd-out. Their mission? To make the type [...]

Father Christmas found dead :-|

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:57:53 +0000

The Spoof : Father Christmas Killed in Tragic Sleigh Accident, Say Cash-Strapped Parents St Nicholas, the jovial and benevolent bearer of Christmas gifts died when his custom-made sleigh collided with a Jumbo Jet just outside the North Pole, newly-impoverished parents reported to their children yesterday. The man more commonly known as “Father Christmas” (or “Santa” to the offspring [...]

Makes you feel humble?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:09:59 +0000

Does this make you feel humble? The size of our world Well, it does me. Baffles the mind it does…

Google may be doing the rounds again…

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:21:13 +0000

We Buy Kidneys : Google may be doing the rounds again… Google may be doing the rounds again… It’s been said through the grapevine that Google may be doing the rounds again. What do I mean by ‘doing the rounds’? - updating page rank (or PR)… What good is PR? I guess for some people who like to [...]

American Idiots

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:23:48 +0000

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I can predict keyword trends!

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:56:27 +0000

I know you must be wondering how exactly you can predict keyword trends. Well, it’s now possible. See, while most everyone out there is running all different type of reports with their latest, greatest keyword tools, all the tools have one thing in common. They all pull one-dimensional data. One keyword, one count number and no track record or [...]

The Definition of Love

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:50:44 +0000

by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) My Love is of a birth as rare As ’tis for object strange and high: It was begotten by despair Upon Impossibility. Magnanimous Despair alone. Could show me so divine a thing, Where feeble Hope could ne’r have flown But vainly flapt its Tinsel Wing. And yet I quickly might arrive Where [...]

Sungha Jung from South Korea

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:54:04 +0000

Steve Dorrington - Rare indeed

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:51:46 +0000

Steve There are 373,766 people in the U.S. with the first name Steve. Statistically the 153rd most popular first name. More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Steve are male. Names similar to Steve: Steven Stephen Dorrington There are 638 people in the U.S. with the last name Dorrington. Statistically the 41520th most popular last name. Steve Dorrington There is 1 [...]

Keeping insanity at bay…

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:48:23 +0000

1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down. 2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don’t Disguise Your Voice. 3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that. 4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your [...]

I’m Sorry to Everyone Who Knows Me But…

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:41:59 +0000

I would like to make this public apology to anyone who knows me. Everyone who knows me, knows my musical tastes. I have tastes that fit my age nicely. Well something happened on Saturday night… I had just knocked up a nice chicken curry (low cholesterol kids, so don’t worry). I sat down in front of [...]

Just upgraded to WP 2.3 and…

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:37:15 +0000

It all went to bat sh*t. I have some plugins, you know those things that do stuff on the blog, and they’re not compatible… Well hopefully it is all sorted out now and back up and running. Lesson of the day? Backup BEFORE you upgrade - no matter what they say, there will always be something to [...]

Do you have experiences of bad coders?

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:40:55 +0000

Having experience of using local and outsourced programmers: Never EVER believe the following from a programmer: 1. Examples of work* (unless on the site of someone you know and they’ve been openly using it for at least 3-6 months) 2. Testimonials (unless from someone you know - see 1 above) 3. Reviews (unless from someone you know - see [...]

5 mistakes designers tend to make

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:30:57 +0000

excellent article on web design mistakes clipped from www.articlefollow.com 1. PDF files for online reading Users hate coming across a PDF file while browsing, because it breaks their flow. Even simple things like printing or saving documents are difficult because standard browser commands don’t work. Layouts are often optimized for a sheet of paper, which rarely [...]