…relatively recently, that I would date no one but another geek. Weirdly, it seems I'm not alone. There's even a book, ffs. Well, you know what they say. The geeks shall inherit the earth. (…the live, and the neutral.)
Another 10th planet has been found. I wonder how many 10th planets we will have to go through before we find an 11th. Although I very much approve of calling it Xena. About time we had a cute warrior princess tearing up the skies.
Ed: Any zombies out there? Shaun: Don't say that. Ed: What? Shaun: That. Ed: What? Shaun: That! The Z-word. Don't say it. Ed: Why not? Shaun: Because it's ridiculous. Ed: Alright. Are there any out there though?
For reasons currently unclear, our internet connection is completely b0rked. It just died this afternoon, so I am reduced to using the Treo. This means no email, IM, or IRC and makes working nigh on impossible. Grrrr. I could so have lived without this. UPDATE: At last, it's back. Phew.
We've just hit halfway on our pledge drive to raise enough money to get a British version of the EFF up and running. The 500th pledger was Galen Gusdorf, who was absolutely not in any way harangued into it by me on IRC, oh no sirree, I didn't just spend the last hour obsessively hitting […]
I promised myself that, as part of my chilling out and general recovery from jetlag and exhaustion regime, I would spend this weekend offline. Not staring at my computer screen. Not answering email. Not writing blog posts. Not working. Instead, I would go for walks. Read books. Watch movies. Sleep. Sleep a bit more. Sleep […]
Danny O'Brien writes about our UK digital rights project in The Guardian today. Hopefully this will get a few more people to add their names to our pledge. In less than a week, we've managed to attract 450 people to promise their support to us, we've had emails from individuals who want to do more […]
Hugh's started up a wiki for bloggers looking for work, love, or blog consultants. Great idea – perfect for the hResume microformat too, once it gets up and running (microformat = way to format structured data online in a human readable form, so that we can read it but web apps do cool shit with […]
I never knew that to some people, 'looking for work' == 'being a hooker', but apparently so: “I just thot you might like some feedback from someone else w/ a lotta time on their hands. The Welsh emphasis caught my eye, tho I would imagine you're much better at singing than Geology. I was saddened […]
The funny thing about burning out is that in the past, I was never alert enough to see it happening. I suffered dreadful burnout after my start-up died, two years ago. For nine months, watching my business slowly disintegrate put more stress on me than I've ever felt before. The day I gave up, the […]
I've had a few meetings with Danny O'Brien from the Electronic Frontier Foundation over the last few weeks, talking about the possibility of starting some sort of EFF-like organisation in the UK and generally volunteering myself to assist. At the moment, the digital rights activist community in the UK is somewhat fragmented and I believe […]
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