Via the rapidly-becoming-required-reading Coilhouse, Dame Shirley Bassey covering Pink’s “Get This Party Started” with the most over-the-top-campy-goth video I’ve seen in a while.
Category: General Blogging
Will everyone stop being insane now?
This 25/200/1000 emails thing is not about how may individual emails you get, as anyone that bothered to look into it for five minutes would find out.
It’s not about notifications on your own journal, or anything like that. As far as I can see, if you used to automatically get notifications (for your own posts, for community posts), you will continue to get them.
You just have a limit on the number of conversations that you would *not* normally get notifications for that you can track. You know, that totally new feature that they introduced a few months back? The one that’s always had those limits?
You aren’t being fucked in the ear, except perhaps by your own laziness in accepting what you read without looking for the background.
Bloodspell
I was going to write something about Bloodspell, the feature edit of which is now available from the Bloodspell website, but I find that Charlie Stross, renowned clever bastard and author has rather beaten me to it. This is the bit that rather got at the hairs on the back of my neck as a thing that is both true, and not something I’d considered up to this point:
“And remember: this isn’t about to replace Hollywood tomorrow, but if Marvel and DC Comics aren’t feeling the chill wind down the back of their neck, they’re asleep at the switch. Because as streaming internet media players become ubiquitous, this sort of thing — cheap, fast and out of control — could very well be the future of mobile entertainment.”
I do still intend to write something of my own about Bloodspell, but I thought it was worth quoting that here, while I try and find the time to get my own thoughts together.
Portfolio
I finally got around to putting an actual photography portfolio site together over the weekend. If you point your browser at http://photogr.aphi.st (you can’t buy .er domain names yet, so I cheated) you’ll find what I think of as my best photos from a few years of sporadic photoblogging at electricana.
I’m really only noting this here so I’ve got a record of when I got around to sorting it out, but if anyone’s interested enough to take a look, and let me know if they think I’ve missed any really good shots out, that’d be terribly nice of them.
And now, the waiting…
Lunchtime: discover I have more money in the bank than I thought.
Half an hour ago: get home, immediately check that all the payments I’m expecting to go out have gone out, and discover they have.
Five minutes ago: Buy shiny new camera lens.
I’ve heard of this “saving for a rainy day”, but I’m not convinced.
Dopplr
Anyone around these parts have any use for a Dopplr invite? Have picked up one at FOWA (not that I travel much, but you never know, my habits might change, and I like to get my name as a username) and so can now invite others…
Photography Longshot
Does anyone in London own, or know anyone who owns a Ricoh GX100 digital camera, that would be willing to let me use it for a few hours one afternoon? Or anywhere that would rent me one for an afternoon? I’m contemplating buying one (it’s a compact with the same kind of image quality and control as some DSLRs), but it seems to be a love it or hate it camera (not quite, but it has a couple of flaws that some people don’t like) and for the price, I really want to try before I buy…
Things that pleased me this morning:
An advert for Polish vodka at the bus stop. In Polish. I’m sure it’s part of some bigger campaign, but I like the fact that we’re becoming sufficiently multi-cultural in Britain that we will actually put up adverts in non-native tongues, and it’s no big thing.
Heard on the radio:
To order Special Brew: “Four cans of angry and a swan-strangler, please.”
Skates for sale…
Before I ebay them, I thought I’d just check here – anyone want to buy a pair of hardly-used men’s size 11 K2 inline skates (suitable for people with size 10 to 10 and a half feet), plus pads and a bag?
Total cost to me: 160 quid. Total cost to you: 100 quid, plus shipping, if you’re not in London/able to meet me somewhere to take them off my hands.
(Yes, I have knocked the skating on the head. I enjoyed the lessons, but I didn’t enjoy it so much out in public, and would rather just get on with other kids of exercise, rather than hoping skating will get more fun.)
Please feel free to point anyone you think might be interested at this post.