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Post-Viral Infection

Well, it turns out that sometimes people do behave in a surprisingly decent and honourable manner. The CEO of BoggleIt.com has stepped in and paid my friend’s fee, after Moodia screwed them.

Diseased Marketing

My absurdly hardworking chum Alex de Campi has just been rather badly shafted my a marketing agency. You can read the full story of how Moodia shafted a bunch of hard working people for yourself.
I personally find this particularly disgusting, because Alex, being the terribly conscientious person that she is, is determined to pay […]

To Do List

Various techy things I want to get done in the next few weeks, just so I’ve got a record.

Sort out home network, add secure wireless.
Get all 4 of my machines on speaking terms.
Clean down Sindri. Get it back up and running with both a Rails and a PHP environment on there.
Make a final decision […]

Spimes, Blogjects, And Other Buzzwords: A Primer

Spime is a pretty stupid sounding word (like most neologisms), but it describes an increasingly important concept - they are objects that can be digitally tracked through their entire life-cycle. There’s a little more to them than that, because the man that coined the term, Bruce Sterling, is a big techno-hippy, and felt the […]

Note to Self

The much-beloved last.fm expose a “top albums” feed (here) that provides amazon URLs to images. It doesn’t change enough to be worth tying directly in to my weekly “top ten” list on ala.sda.ir but it might be a useful data source, to then build a personal weekly top ten albums.
I’m thinking about this because […]