The heat has been off in my house for the last 4 days, because I have been away. I can see my own breath in my bedroom. I am going to bed, and not getting up until the thaw sets in.
Author: Alasdair
Links For Monday 15th December 2008
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I think I want one of these, provided I can hack it not to transmit to a third party for it's scripted rubbish, because I can do without my private life being profiled…
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I suspect I might need this in the next few days.
Links For Thursday 11th December 2008
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A norwegian photographer. Really very lovely stuff, has given me a few ideas.
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I have a well documented hatred of portraiture, and family gatherings are always a bit of a photographic trial for me – I feel obliged to attempt a bit of photography, but I'm never happy with the results. I might see if I can get anything out of some of these ideas…
Links For Wednesday 10th December 2008
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Please view these links as a pair. Mangement accepts no responsibility for cognitive distortions caused viewing either without proper context.
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Choose between this, and the next link.
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I pretty much do have everything I want aside from more and more camera lenses, but I have a number of possessions I want to upgrade over the next year or so, particularly in a homewares kind of line. This might be a handy reference.
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It's about the time of year I start putting a little brain space into the revamp of my website(s). I'll probably go with yet another off-the-shelf template in the end, but some of these icon sets are just fucking beautiful, and crying out to be used in some way if I do finally do another roll-my-own.
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An on-line friend passes this one on, saying "new favourite wikipedia page". I think it may be mine, too.
Links For Monday 8th December 2008
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This is an excellent argument for developing in the manner one wishes to. I don't need to support IE on my personal sites, and while I'm good enough at what I do that they're going to remain legible, the fact is that I am not going to waste hours of my life on support a product I heartily wish people would stop using.
Links For Friday 5th December 2008
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Than fuck. I hate not having a proper path in my finder windows.
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It occurs to me that I own a Wiimote, but no Wii. Using it to turn my Mac screen into a multitouch surface might be fun. As long as, y'know, I use a pen and not my fingers. I'm not a client, after all. I don't need to do fingers-on-the-screen rubbish.
Links For Wednesday 3rd December 2008
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Ding! I have an OpenID (in fact, I have several, thanks to having accounts at a number of different sites that provide it, and keep meaning to set my own up so I've got control of my own ID) but I never use it, because it's as much faff as creating a username and password. If there was simply a button on my browser that I could click to say "identify me to this website", I'd use it a lot more.
Links For Tuesday 2nd December 2008
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Jason Kottke wonder if poor site appearance and lack of care in administration and moderation is a factor in the behaviour of its users. I have no way ofr proving this, but it feels true. Anyone know if there have been any proper studies in this area?
The Pleasure/Space Ratio
I am currently conducting a sizeable purge of my life.
I am dividing everything I own into three piles.
1) This item is useful, or contains useful information.
2) This item is not useful, but simply owning it brings me pleasure on at least a monthly basis, and the item is not larger than quite a small breadbox.
3) This item is not useful and is not small, and should be binned.
(Definition of “useful” is not limited to the strictly practical, and includes entertainment value – books, CDs and DVDs and similar are automatically “useful” as long they’re good.)
You would be amazed at the amount of stuff I have acquired that this does not cover. In future, I shall refer to this simple series of questions when evaluating whether or not I need to own something:
“Is it useful? Is it funny? Does it cause Is it larger than a breadbox?”
Week: Over
Well, that’s a spike put in one of the shittier weeks of my life.
Themesong:
“We walk but once among the living,
So no regrets and no forgiving
Hard to dance when you’re down upon your knees”
I have a week off work, and I intend to decompress like a motherfucker. And also tidy up. And dance.