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June 23, 2005

Wary of editing

Does anybody know what's going on with Zempt? Their roadmap says they want Linux support in version 0.4, but that was released in November last year, and I can only see a Windows version on the download page. The site doesn't seem to offer a lot in the way of contact details, either, except for some crappy web forum. Hope they check their referrers!

I've installed gnome-blog, but it doesn't seem to be particularly clever, lacking any kind of preview facility or understanding of textile markup. I'm wary of editing entries directly in the MT interface at the moment, because firefox is crashing on me a lot at the moment. And of course, Zempt isn't available on my platform.

So, my other question is this: what do other people use to post to their weblogs, if not web interfaces, Zempt, or gnome-blog? Answers which work with MT3 and run under Linux are particularly appreciated :-)

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June 21, 2005

Dear NTL

Dear NTL.

No, 192.168.100.10 is not a good IP address to give to a customer. Not even for an hour. Please choke to death on a giant bunch of cocks.

Lots of love and hugs,

James.

Update: apparently, this address is what the cable modem provides when it loses touch with NTL. So, they weren't explicitly providing it, they'd just dropped my line. Which I suppose is somewhat less fuckwitted.

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June 20, 2005

Ana Woozle

(This entry will mean nothing to most of my regular readers. Oh well!)

ana woozle

Ana Woozle has just passed through this site during a woozle race! Click here for the next stop.

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June 17, 2005

We interrupt your scheduled programming...

Eep. I just broke my atom feed and fixed it again, but I think in doing so I may have caused syndicated versions of this site to explode, gaining 15 new unread posts. This doesn't seem to include Planet OxIRC and Planet #nott, but may well fool Livejournal, and the various offline syndication things people use. It definitely did affect bloglines. Sorry folks!

While I'm doing the meta thing, the observant among you may have noticed I've now added a few small advert blocks to the site. I'm not sure I'm comfortable doing it, but figured there was only one way to find out - having a go. If in a few weeks the feeling of dirtiness isn't outweighed by the profits, I'll probably ditch them again. Incidentally, I'm not allowed to draw attention to them in any way, so please, whatever you do, don't click them! Or something...

And finally, this post will take the total on the site to 100. It's only taken something like 17 months, which I make to be roughly a post every 5 days — probably a slightly higher rate than I'd have guessed.

We now return you to your regular programming.

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June 16, 2005

Stealing your music

Via Kottke.org (a website I find at once interesting to read but impossible to navigate), here's one man's open letter to the music industry, explaining why after years of staunchly defending them, he has given in and started to steal music.

But I have also now started stealing your music. I haven't stolen much, but I'm sure you will agree that the moral issue is not merely one of quantity. I have been one of the last independent apologists for a moral kernel, elusive now to perhaps the point of imagination, in your corrupt and desperate retreat, but now even I have given up. I still buy, but now I also steal. You have forfeited your right to my loyalty. And maybe you're too lost and beaten to care, and even more likely it's too late to matter, but for a few minutes I'm going to pretend that neither of those things are so. I'm going to pretend that you're still capable of awareness and reason, and in a spirit of truth that you long ago stopped deserving, while I've still taken little enough to list, I'm going to tell you exactly what I have stolen from you, and why.
-- Glenn McDonald

I lack his vast music budget, but otherwise almost totally agree.

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June 15, 2005

Somebody hates you

You're not really famous until people you don't know start attacking you.

"But perhaps no recognition that I've received is quite so flattering as the fact that there's been a vote for deletion (VfD) for the Wikipedia page about me. There's certainly good reasons for haters to be annoyed by me, but you're nobody until somebody hates you for no good reason at all."
-- Anil Dash, VP at Six Apart

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June 14, 2005

Random notes

If I wait until I have a full entry to write, I'll write nothing. Much as you'd all prefer that, here's the alternative:

Which might explain why I'm sat here writing drivel at 2.30am, instead of sleeping. Oops!

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June 06, 2005

Is Bob Geldof dead?

A couple of weeks ago, some scruffy Irish rock star (no, not Bono) announced a series of concerts to coincide with the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, with the intention of increasing his profile on the lucrative after-dinner speaking circuit.

What's interesting about this is that, 2 weeks before the announcement, in a Times article of May 9th, Geldof said such an event would take place only over his dead body.

Mr Geldof said: “To try and artificially reproduce Live Aid would almost be a disaster. I wouldn’t do it and I can’t see a point to it. We already have high awareness of the issue in Britain. Live Aid II happens over my dead f****** body — nor can they use the name Live Aid, because it is a copyrighted brand.”

The record industry and broadcasters are pushing for a 20th anniversary Live Aid concert, which would achieve massive international exposure, but Mr Geldof will not be bullied into participating. He said: “They want Geldof to ring bands up and say, ‘Will you do it?’ Is that going to achieve anything? I didn’t do Live Aid so I could sit there and watch Queen. People don’t want to revisit Bob’ s greatest hits, either.”

So, my question to you is this: does this prove that Bob Geldof has been dead for some time, and his media presence/image is being sustained only by the latest in special effects technology? We should be told.

Update: Bob Geldof is, of course, not dead at all. He's just completely insane.

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