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Bloc Party - The Prayer video 2007-05-26 15:33:00 Although it was released a few months ago, I've only just noticed the video
for Bloc Party
's "The Prayer
" on YouTube during the week. Intriguing, disturbing, and just brilliant - all at the same time. And the tune is rather good too. I have to admit that the video made me relisten to the tune , and i've had it playing on my car stereo non stop for the past few days. I'd keep an eye out for Bloc Read more:Bloc Party
Redesigned my blog - what do you think? 2007-05-26 08:03:00 You might have noticed that i've moved this blog to a three column format and redesigned the general look of the site. I've also started publishing adverts from Chitika,Auction Ads and ReviewMe. What do you think
? I hope the ads are unobtrusive and not too much in your face, but let me know if they are. I'll be tweaking the layout over the weekend. I've not blogged about the new advertisers, or
Moved to three columns 2007-05-25 18:46:00 I've been busy this evening moving this blog to a three column format, which i found on Blogcrowds. So, there will be a lot of moving things around , as i tweak the layout. It's by no means final right now. Read more:columns
Link-love from John Chow 2007-05-25 08:10:00 Yesterday, I bought the make money online prolific blogger John Chow a beer via his newly installed buy me a beer wordpress plugin.
A nice simple idea - one of those "why didnt i think of that before" moments.
Now in return I get a bit of link love from John in a thanks for the beer blogpost. It'll be very interesting to see what effect this has on my blog traffic. Google Analytics hasn't yet
Intel ultra thin laptop 2007-05-25 03:30:00 Intel unveils the world's thinnest laptop, and it's as skinny as a Razr. Codenamed the Intel Mobile Metro Notebook, this prototype was designed by Intel along with Ziba Design, and it's a mere .7 inches thick and weighs just 2.25 pounds. Read more:Intel
Buy Me A Beer! 2007-05-24 15:50:00 After John Chow added the buy me a beer wordpress plugin to his blog, I was inspired to add a "buy me a beer" sidebar blob of my own. You can see it on the right hand side. You'll be making a payment to "Saffron Technology", which is actually just me. It's the name of the one man band company I owned for consultancy purposes a few years ago, thats now defunct. But my paypal account is still
Review Me review - Mozomo dot mobi 2007-05-24 13:45:00 Please note: This review was sponsored by Mozomo on ReviewMe for $5
I've just received my first ReviewMe review offer - from Mozomo.mobi- Designer Mobile Content who , according to their blurb are "the first Premium Designer Mobile content store which produces truly luxury and designer mobile content". It sounded interesting, and within the marketplace of my geeky/techie gadjet loving audience.
Supplemental hell 2007-05-24 09:52:00 After reading John Chow's post about getting out of the Google supplemental index, and then reading that Shoemoney has managed to increase his traffic by a staggering 1400%, again by getting out of Google Supplemental, I had a look at the supplemental index for the site I work on for my day job. It doesnt look nice, with around 265,000 pages in supplemental.
Why is this important?
In the words
Titan's coasts and drowned mountains 2007-05-24 06:32:00 On May 12, 2007, Cassini completed its 31st flyby of Saturn's moon Titan, which the team calls T30. The radar instrument obtained this image showing the coastline and numerous island groups of a portion of a large sea, consistent with the larger sea seen by the Cassini imaging instrument
Read more here Read more:drowned
, mountains
Review of John Chow dot com 2007-05-24 04:05:00 If you are curious about how to make money online then a visit to John Chow's blog wouldn't go amiss. It's currently ranked no.1 in Google for the search phrase "make money online". His blog is very easy to read, and a great place to read up on the various advertising and affiliate schemes on offer to bloggers. Also , if you review his blog, he'll create a link back to you in one of his "make Read more:dot com
Jodcast 2007-05-23 14:38:00 The Jodcast is a twice monthly podcast on astronomy from Jodrell Bank Observatory.Now I can set the phase variances in the deflector grid.read more | digg story
Programming languages 2007-05-23 09:55:00 Spotted this in the comments on Losing big is easy - a blogpost about badly named computer languages (and its quite funny too)
Christopher said...
Cool, great names for future programming languages:
- Rockefeller
- Capone
- Patton
- Shark
- Fire
- Arrow
- Ring
- Eagle
Example:
Woah, my boss asked me is I could take over the project from Mike, and I said"sure", because Mike used Rockefeller Read more:Programming
Panoramic drive through Berlin 2007-05-23 06:43:00 Map Movin 360 is an astonishing map hack. Fabian Zastrow and Christian Müllenhagen (who are both post-graduate students from the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin
) used a videocamera, combined with a single-shot panoramic camera system to film a route in Berlin which is totally panoramic. During the video, you can move the camera around to see what's on your left, your right, your back Read more:drive
Bizarre aerial drone photographed in California? 2007-05-23 03:37:00 This week I was visting my fiance's parents in Capitola. We were eating dinner on the back porch when we noticed this "object" sort of hovering in the sky.
At one point a car stopped to look as well. No one had any idea what this thing was but everyone in the car was visibly freaked out by it.
There's also some writing on this thing, which I didn't recognize (and I read both English and Hindi) Read more:Bizarre
, California
Review Me 2007-05-22 11:01:00 I've signed up this blog to ReviewMe, which is an interesting concept - you, the blogger, gets paid for reviewing other websites, and thus those websites will gain some extra traffic. I'll only review sites that would be of interest to readers of this blog, and of course, I will be entirely transparent in my reviews - I will state that any review is a "review me" review.
Interview with Dr Michio Kaku 2007-05-21 18:19:00 Fascinating interview with Dr Michio Kaku on parallel universes, the matrix and superintelligence. I particularly liked his explanation of the multiverse idea:
Now, this can be compared to sitting in a room, listening to radio. When you listen to radio, you hear many frequencies. They exist simultaneously all around you in the room. However, your radio is only tuned to one frequency. In the
Dell announces models for Ubuntu 2007-05-21 07:10:00 Over at Jeremy's blog is a blogpost about a Dell email, in which they announce the models
on which Ubuntu
will be offered:
We will be launching a Linux based OS (Ubuntu) on the E520, 1505 and XPS 410 starting next Thursday, 5/24. We expect these systems to be less than 1% of our OS mix for the entire year which is ~20,000 systems annually. Please cover the huddle deck below with your team by
Linkdump 2007-05-21 03:20:00 Undiscovered bedrooms of Manhattan
Projected climate map of Europe circa 2071
The last ten seconds of every episode of season one of Star Trek:The Next Generation
Episode 47 of the Linux Action Show is out
U.S. slow broadband speeds
The Motorola Razr 2 runs Linux
Death by Lawyer - 10 cool sites that we miss
Amsterdam in 3D 2007-05-18 09:27:00 3D buildings for Amsterdam
have been rolled out to Google Earth.
Pageflakes 2007-05-18 04:05:00 I came across Pageflakes
by accident, while browsing around the Shoemoney site. Pageflakes reminds me of the old Web 1.0 "portal" idea, but done in a revamped (and rather nicer looking) Web 2.0 way.
Do check it out , i think you'll like it:
Pageflakes
Windows Vista review 2007-05-17 08:30:00 When you peel away the fancy graphical interface enhancements, you're left with an operating environment that performs poorly, is difficult to use, has inadequate desktop hardware and software support, and annoys its users with unending security messages.
More here Read more:review
, Windows
, Vista
, Windows Vista
New Madeleine poster 2007-05-14 05:35:00 Via Sky News
Madeleine
McCann's family believe a new picture of the missing four-year-old could play a vital role in the search for her.
The photo clearly shows her distinctive right eye, where the pupil runs into the blue-green iris.
It is this distinguishing mark that will identify Madeleine to those on the lookout for her, according to aunt and uncle John and Diane McCann.
If you know
Friday linkdump 2007-05-11 11:26:00 JahShaka - open source video editing
Photoshopping a big girl into a model
Dumbest creationist quote ever
Time lapse "gravity wave" video taken in Iowa
10 smart lifehacks for Google Reader
Ubuntu Studio released Read more:Friday
Google Maps Street View 2007-05-30 05:46:00 Google Maps has just become even more awesome. "Street
View" launched for selected U.S. locations.
More details here
Update: A list of interesting places is being compiled by LaudonTech
Update 2: Google blog about this on their Lat Long blog. Read more:Google
, Google Maps
Microsoft announce Surface 2007-05-30 05:11:00 I'm no fan of Microsoft
, but this techcrunch article has a very cool video from Popular Mechanics showing off their newly announced "Surface" platform. The interaction reminds me of the computer interface in the film Minority Report.
M81 galaxy 2007-05-30 04:52:00 The sharpest ever image of the M81 galaxy has been taken by the Hubble space telescope.
The sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 is being released today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. A spiral-shaped system of stars, dust, and gas clouds, the galaxy's arms wind all the way down into the nucleus. Though the galaxy is
Link baiting update 2007-05-30 02:59:00 My link baiting post from yesterday appears to have worked, in terms of increasing traffic to this blog. Yes, its a bit evil, but as the graphs and stats from Google Analytics show, sometimes a bit of link baiting can boost the traffic levels. Whether that turns into a boost in long term traffic is another matter.
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