Finding Google’s Backwaters

Feb 2, 2009 |

There are so many ways to get to the good stuff on the Internet. Lists, StumbleUpon, optimised search returns etc but there is a truly enormous long-tail of weird/wonderful/dross.I thought it might be amusing to see some of this randomly, ignoring any notion of...

Luckily It’s All About The Art

Feb 1, 2009 | ,

When it comes to reward for effort, writing a book has to feature at the very lowest reaches of the league table. Months of effort and toil on The Beatle Man and I get 46p for every copy sold on Amazon (or other sites). I'm not complaining, such is the way...Recently,...

My Social Media Map

Jan 28, 2009 |

Following on from my earlier thoughts on a Web Ripple, things have moved on quite a bit and it has now got a bit more complex than a mere linear ripple. So I drew this picture. This is not all the possibilities; this is what I am actively doing now. I have a ping.fm...

CoolIris

Jan 26, 2009 | ,

I had neglected my photo site for a while so, as it had started to pick up quite a few Stumbles, I thought I should freshen it up a bit. Cue orgy of tinkering e.g. I got rid of the horrible banner and replaced it with another horrible banner.One thing I had been...

Blu-Ray Review : Baraka

Jan 26, 2009 |

It has not been customary herein for me to review much in the traditional sense, but I thought I should scribble a few words about a movie I watched last night, Baraka: Remastered (Blu Ray) [1992] Although nearly 17 years old, the remastering and transfer to Blu-Ray...

Mumbai Days

Jan 13, 2009 |

I found this lying on a backup drive recently. Long since forgetten. But, with the end of the Bush era approaching and dark recent days in Mumbai, I thought it appropriate to post it. It tells the brief tale of a week in Mumbai when I met one of the richest men in the...

Creative Producer of the Year

Jan 5, 2009 |

They say there are many ways to skin a cat. But, in general, getting movies made has always been down a more trodden path. Raise some money, make the film. OK, sometimes it can be hard, people have mortgaged their house to get films finished (as Chartoff and Winkler...

2009 – The Goals For The Year

Jan 5, 2009 |

Now, you could argue that as my attempt at setting a set of public goals ended up with mostly failure in 2008, I should perhaps hold off on any bold pronouncements in 2009. Nay not so. The process is valid, even if I failed it.So, here they are, the 2009 goals - a few...

Desert Island C90 Challenge – My Tape

Dec 31, 2008 |

So, here it is, frozen in time at the end of 2008, my Desert Island C90. As ever, tomorrow's will be as different as yesterday's.This should have been a lot easier. Armed with a lot of data from last.fm I shouldn't really have to think what I like listening to, it is...

2008 – Review of the Year

Dec 29, 2008 |

At the end of last year I wrote a list herein of things I'd like to accomplish this year. This is how badly I fared. 1 Great Photograph - FAIL I didn't really manage it. There are a few that I really like but nothing anywhere near what I was hoping for. Despite all...

Desert Island C90

Dec 24, 2008 | ,

Last New Year I had much fun putting together my list of best album tracks. So, to continue the 'tradition', I'm going for something similar this year. Inspired by my earlier (failed!) meme Desert Island Amazon Challenge I'm going to do a Desert Island C90. Young...

Ipernity Slideshow and Award

Dec 18, 2008 |

While the world is stayed generally Flickr obsessed, Ipernity has snuck up on the rails. I've been a member for a while and I have to say I like it a lot.First of all, it is a really neat implementation. The UI is neat and makes great use of all the Ajax-y goodness...

How to Display Your Twitter Location on a Website or Blog

Dec 14, 2008 |

In preparation for next year's Sucata Run to Split, I was pottering about with some updates to the Team GI blog. The plan was to be able to display our current location on the blog using or Twitter location (which we could set with BrightKite or an iPhone). Anyway, it...

Scale Free Networks and Social Networking

Dec 3, 2008 |

A while back, I blogged an article I had written on Enterprise System Adoption and Scale Free Networks. I was reminded of it recently in relation to my experiences with Twitter and, in particular, @ruskin147's blog post on the impact of @stephenfry's Twitter reaction...

Dog Man Star

Nov 28, 2008 |

It seems strange to review an album when it is already over 14 years old. Yes, really. God, I'm old. But something is compelling me to do it. It is generally impossible to say that anything is a 'favourite'. The concept simply doesn't and shouldn't exist. But you have...

Meanwhile in 1886…

Nov 17, 2008 |

As with all great butterflies, it doesn't take much to send me off onto another flower. Wasn't feeling too peaky last week, so the slightest suggestion from my Dad/Auntie that I should do some family tree digging had me off and running on a little bit of genealogy....

Apparently It’s Nearly Xmas

Nov 11, 2008 |

Going to start doing the occasional micro-photo-blog like what we did on the Sucata Run. I'll stop when it reveals that I do little of interest. For those of you lucky enough never to set foot in Livingston, this is what Xmas looks like in the shiny new shopping...

2021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009200820072006