Category Archives: Musings

Bike Into Work Extreme Edition

These days, I’ve been biking into work more often. 36 minutes for a 12 km trip is my best so far. Top speed, 31 kmh. So, I was kinda wondering… Somewhere, there must be someone, where they bike into work … Continue reading

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Blogging Is Not For You

It pisses me off to no end, when people assume that with modern technology, with the ubiquitousness of social networking and user-generated content, and with My, Live or Windows Spaces everywhere, blogging has now become “for everyone” and that what … Continue reading

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Is The Internet That Evil?

So you’re bored and restless and there’s nothing else to do on Sunday but watch more mummies and crocs on NGC. Or you could go to the theatre and see a movie. The film Afraid that No Country for Old … Continue reading

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Live Life, Shut Up

“Good heavens, how do people do this?” That was, to an extent, the first thought I had this morning. To an extent, because while the sentiment was certainly there, the verbatim rendering of my first thought must have been more … Continue reading

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Using Drupal

Using Drupal… Tim Berners-Lee Ubuntu Ubuntu Fridge Mike Bloomberg Amnesty International AOL Corporate Popular Science Novell Communities United Nations (End Poverty) Avril Lavigne NASA (APPEL) Linden Lab MTV UK … Using Joomla… Stupid Horse Tricks Need I say more? Dries … Continue reading

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A Screaming Came Across the Sky

Some people, when they see me walking in my khaki cap, leather jacket, baggy multi-pocket corduroys and heavy boots, say I look like a Fallschirmjager – WWII edition. So I took a look in the mirror and decided I needed … Continue reading

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The Dating Game Is Not A Game

Whoever called it that must have been a seriously troubled individual. The “dating game” is not a game at all. In fact, it’s seriously deadly. Not much unlike gladiator fights in classic Rome. So you could say I’ve been out … Continue reading

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Where Do I Pay for Twitter?

Is it me, or has Twitter usage exploded? There’s a buzz there I can’t quite put my finger on. A lot has to do with this: the re-emergence of the TBMT, the Twitter Business Model Theory. And this: I’d pay … Continue reading

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Me, Angry?

Nah, not. But I don’t like people who refuse to believe a blog is more than a stupid journal for moron geeks video on the web isn’t just for rich tossers trying to get richer an idea can be great … Continue reading

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Ubiquity/Privacy

There’s so much to read these days. Here’s something. One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. [...] In a world of superubiquitous … Continue reading

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