June 2004

24 hour dotcom

June 12, 2004

Some guys over at the Wizards of OS conference are engaging in what they call 'performance art/business project' and creating a dotcom in 24 hours. When it's done, they're going to flog it on eBay and get rich. Possibly. I'm still not clear what their product is, but they have less than nine hours left […]

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Old posts. Old, old posts. Old, old, old… OK, you get the picture

June 11, 2004

I recently imported my old posts from Blogger and have been slowly going through them and categorising them. Some of them are really, really dire. Some of them are quite good. Wouldn't want to work out the ratio, though. I haven't edited them, except for one comment added to one post, but I have deleted […]

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Six meals a day

June 10, 2004

Ok, so this post feels a bit odd for me, a bit too confessional, but I'm gonna go all counter-intuitive and post anyway. I figure that if it's of no interest, you'll just skip it. A couple of months ago I fainted. On what was, I guess, a date. A first date at that. Luckily […]

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Sunday's little get together

June 10, 2004

Sunday night, after NotCon, a bunch of us met up for dinner at the Anglesea Arms in Kensington. Guilty parties were: Stephanie aka bunny, James Cox aka imajes, Jason from South Africa, Jyri Engeström, Gerard aka insert coin, Matt Freestone, Perry de Havilland, Hugh Macleod aka gapingvoid, Julian Bond aka jbond, Mike Jones aka imsickofmaps, […]

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Stephen Joyce scuppers readings

June 10, 2004

Stephen Joyce, James Joyce's grandson and last remaining relative, has pulled the plug on readings of Ulysses which had been planned to celebrate the centenary of Bloomsday (16 June – the day on which the events in Ulysses take place). He declared that 'any public reading of what is regarded as the most influential novel […]

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NotCon04 notes

June 9, 2004

So, herewith my NotCon04 report. This isn't going to be a hugely detailed discussion of what was said. Others were blogging and taking notes as we went, and each of the sessions was recorded, so the entirety of the conference will at some point be posted online for your delight and delectation. Best place for […]

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Back!

June 9, 2004

Got back to Dorset this morning. Touch on the tired side – felt the most incoherent I ever have of a morning this morning. Really do not do mornings. Will post something more intelligent about NotCon04 etc. later on, when I feel a little less dozy.

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Londinium

June 8, 2004

Just a quicky – more tomorrow. Notcon++ Dinner after Notcon++++ Joi Ito++++++++ Wagamama's++ Really_hot_weather– Nicking_Joi's_laptop_to_blog_with++

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Off again

June 5, 2004

Off to NotCon04 tomorrow morning, thence to meet Joi and a whole bunch of other cool peepz. Back, er, sometime. Tuesday, possibly. Fill ya in then.

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Free vs. Free

June 5, 2004

Since posting the Something for Nothing essay, I've noticed one particular stumbling block cropping up time and again. I've seen the same point brought up in Something for Nothing's comments; on the IRC channel #freeculture; and during the Q&A after Lawrence Lessig's London lecture. The problem appears to stem from two interpretations of the word […]

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Ducks quack with regional accents

June 4, 2004

I knew that French cows can't understand English*, but a new study shows that English ducks quack with regional accents: “Cockney” ducks from London make a rougher sound, not unlike their human counterparts, so their fellow quackers can hear them above the city's hubbub. But their country cousins communicate with a softer, more relaxed sound, […]

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Best review of Troy so far

June 4, 2004

From The High Sign (sorry, no permalink), this is just a great review of Troy: Scrawny Andromache, the wife of Hector, As played by Saffron Burrows, evokes naught So much as the desire to buy Big Macs And stuff them down her craw: eat, lady, eat!

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

June 4, 2004

Stu over at Feeling Listless reviews Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and finds it far better than the first two Potter movies. Hadn't been bothered about seeing this, prefering instead thoughts of a Troy rematch, but maybe I'll put the effort in whilst I'm up in London to catch it. Although still haven't […]

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"It was this big… no, really!"

June 4, 2004

Joi's AP interview did the rounds, and eventually wound up on CNN, from which: “'And then Bunny said to Snowchyld…' oh damn, where are my fingerpuppets?”

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Parental revenge is sweet

June 4, 2004

Let the punishment fit the crime. (eBay auction page: read whilst still available.)

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