Snippets
Since I’m a failure at regular blogging, I’m pushing microblogging instead. At least then I can only micro-fail, and at scale you’re really just talking about some minor disappoint that can be solved with ice cream.
Posts from
28 Days
28 days after moving to San Francisco.
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‘Its an odd thing being in two different parts of Middle America for a fortnight. Most of those who choose to come to America come to the wonder of New York, of Boston, San Fransico or LA, or to the Grand Canyon, the Cape, Florida or California. To be in Denver and, more particularly, St Paul and Minneapolis, is a salutary experience.
You feel it hard. America is living in the past, a past of consumption, fatty foods, garish television, weight reduction ads, depression relief pills, gas guzzling freeways and a dependence on splurging out 25 per cent of the entire world carbon emission totals.
Travelling bumper to bumper, rat race to the workplace for 50 minutes each way, six lanes of traffic clogging the freeway, with many more trails of such traffic glimpsed from the side windows.
Parking in vast multi-storey carparks that dominate the city centres, a short walk through massive yet inefficient security into great icy barns in which these conventions take place and are reported.
This sort of living, which huge numbers of Americans experience every day of their lives, is NOT the future. There is no soul, no touch with nature, no brush with fresh food or fresh air.
The sheer cost of maintaining a building at 15 degrees C when its 23 outside must be monumentally wasteful, and everyone of the skyscrapers, office blocks, malls and convention centres you see are up to the same stuff, freezing inside against a perfectly manageable temperature outside. Theres not a single opening window in Minneapolis.
Yet for the first time I have heard politicians on both sides at last calling for an end to Americas dependence on foreign oil. But there is still no clarion call for a Manhattan-style project to find alternative energy sources.
So yes, being here at this crunch moment in the life of America is, er, a kind of a treat. But you know something, you feel neither of these competing teams is offering a big enough vision for whats needed to change America.’
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I’ve lived in my new apartment for 7 days so far. I just put in an order for a dining table and six chairs to go with it. Not sure they’re going to match quite right, but the table shape is worth it and could always be stained later.
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One especially aggrevating passage in Sarah Palin’s RNC speech last week was this:
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Thanks to !FatBusinessman, you can in fact still disable the ‘Browse By Genre’ list and ‘Link to iTunes Store’ arrows in iTunes 8, there’s just no UI for it in the Preferences any more.
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!Pownce Feature Request: Hype Machine music player integration for URLs please.
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So today people at Yahoo are playing with Yammer — the ‘Twitter clone for business groups’ that won the TechCrunch50 yesterday.
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I’ve taken to using Bazaar for most of my code. Local check ins for when I’m away from a net connection, and then a repository on my remote machine. In fact, though I’ve been rather lax in getting my most recent web server set up, it will, eventually, be running with each hosted web site deployed as a check out of the central repository.
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Trying to get a handle on one of the reasons for my mood having dipped this week.
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Everything Old Is New Again. Tabless Browsing
Surfing like it’s 1998. I’ve switched from back tabbed to multiple windowed browsing on Mac OSX.
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Cyril Doussin posted on Pownce:
Song of the day (1/3)
Song of the Day 2/3
Song of the Day (3/3)
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Song of the Day
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What’s wrong with a miniskirt? You can cause an accident because some of our people are weak mentally
If you find a naked person you begin to concentrate on the make-up of that person and yet you are driving.
These days you hardly know who is a mother from a daughter, they are all naked.
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Hey San Francisco!
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In response to Jeremy Keith on Pownce:
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My idea of a proper role of a journalist is not to be part of the contest.
Practical Publishing
The scenario I’m trying to support is this: Rather than someone come to this site and subscribe via RSS just to the blog, they would subscribe to the lifestream. But, the lifestream would be built such that the content is relevant enough they don’t get irritated by its content.