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Archive for November, 2007
Still looking for a better name for our company. The latest Kawasaki on it made me think of iTW - let’s go funky online.
Cracking story (bad pun) from Aliblahblah (one of Caroline’s friends). Who knew kids could get foot-and-mouth?
The lady who has “voiced the tube” for eight years has been sacked because of some tongue-in-cheek fake voice overs and (more importantly) for seeming to say that she hates the tube. Cue some terrible attempts at humour by the Telegraph.
We were sat on a table with Vince Cable at a friend’s wedding a few months ago (he is stepping out with a relation of the bride). As we sat down, I couldn’t see his surname, but didn’t know many people called Vince who I thought might be famous. I did a surreptitious Wikipedia on the way to the loo and realised who he was.
He eventually told us he was an MP (natural part of the conversation, not a position-drop) and then the table dived into a very interesting and wide-ranging conversation, only a small part of which was about the LibDem leadership.
I agree with the Jonza that the speculation about his future is crazy. Could we really have the leader of our third party elected on the back of a reasonably good parliamentary joke?
Jonny links to this years’ bad sex awards. They are truly terrible, and far more graphic than I remember (NSFW).
We have always celebrated the anniversary of our stepping out together. I managed to use the same day to propose, five years later so we are now celebrating both (we went to San Sebastian for our ten-year one, for example). I’m glad to see Jonny celebrates their proposal anniversary as well (congratulations, too). Although it does put in place yet another hard-to-buy present each year…
This feels like an April Fool, but I trust Roland, so therefore I want one.
Interesting move by Facebook to team up with retailers and share information: automatically updating your Facebook profile with purchases you have made. I can see why people don’t like it - I choose what to post on my blog: it isn’t done for me. Without this control, I don’t know if I necessarily want to publicise my SlingBox (or equivalent)? And just imagine how many presents this could mess up: “I see you’ve bought X. Is that for me?”. Or maybe this is a previously-unseen Christian-right agenda to lessen adultery?
Here’s Pegaus singing in Spain. You can’t miss me, I’m tall. And we rocked. Well done everyone.
Some interesting things in there.
I don’t want these for xmas.
A detailed analysis (by someone who has been close to similar projects) of what might have happened in the HMRC security lapse.
How did I miss Kindle, Amazon’s new eBook reader - that’s a substantial line extension. Shame it isn’t in the UK yet. As one of the commentators said: does Apple have an instant competitor with the iPhone+iTunes Store?
A quick script to build your own URL shortener. Nice idea, but some of the discussion of the pros and cons of such a service have made me think again about deploying it at work or home. (Summary: given that URLs just work and most are clicked as links, why put another layer of failure into the system?)
A fun list of bizarre legal cases. I loved number 4: stealing a railway station.
What thought process led to “let’s break your leg for £100k insurance”, both parties agreed and they filmed it taking place. Ouch.
Jo suggests that this toy looks a little like my brother-in-law. It does, I guess.
