I learned in the pub this evening that there is a page on Encyclopaedia Dramatica dedicated to someone I have met in person. In all honesty, it’s rather sad to see that since the last I heard of him several years ago, he not only hasn’t managed to pull himself together and sort himself out, [...]
Archive of posts filed under the General Mumbling category.
Christmas
So Christmas has been. It has not, however, gone. Christmas does not end until Epiphany on the sixth of January. But Christmas day is over, so I can at least do some reflecting on the subject. I think one’s enjoyment of Christmas is very much dependent on one’s relationship with one’s family. It’s almost invariably [...]
Spam
Well, having migrated this blog over to its new WordPress-based setup, I quickly discovered the downside to this arrangement: comment spam. I never had any comment spam before. I don’t know whether the system I had before was just particularly resilient to spam (possibly because having the comments hosted externally from the blog itself was [...]
Loudness War and the future of recorded music
I was recently pointed towards an interesting article on the future of the ‘Loudness War’ that is plaguing recorded music (I’ve posted about this issue before, but if you’re still not sure what it’s about, see
WordPress
Welcome to the all-new, all-singing, all-dancing* Strange World of Axel Fendersson mk. II! So I finally got around to doing something I’ve been vaguely considering doing for almost as long as I’ve had a blog at all: migrating it over to WordPress rather than using Blogger to administer it and Haloscan for comments. I’ve set [...]
Government advisor sacked for giving wrong advice
Links: BBC News, The Guardian, The Times. So the government has a board of scientists to advise them on drugs policy. That’s good thinking. It’s good to have some hard facts available when making policy decisions. Unfortunately, the advice they give is at odd with that of the tabloid press, so the government ignores them. [...]
Hatred from Hull
Well, this makes a change from the more usual “Three of your friends have a crush on you!” adverts: This would be more convincing if I actually knew anyone from Hull. Okay, not much more convincing, but still. Presumably these people hate me because they envy the fact I don’t live in Hull.
Monkey Island, Special Edition
www.monkeyislandspecialedition.com Not sure what I think about this. From what I gather, the game is completely faithful to the original. The story is the same, the dialogue is the same, the jokes are the same. They’ve just tarted up the graphics, UI and sound. Which at least means that this ‘remake’ isn’t sacrilegious, but does [...]
European Elections
So, election yesterday. If you didn’t vote, you suck (assuming you were eligible, obviously). If you voted BNP, you also suck (I thought Charlie Brooker’s recent column on the subject was rather good). What I don’t understand is why anyone would vote for UKIP or No2EU or whoever in this election. Okay so you don’t [...]
Farcebook and Naughty Chavs
I’ve been playing the ‘Rock Legends’ game on Farcebook recently. This game somehow manages the shameful combination of being both boring and addictive. However, I have forgiven it these faults on the grounds that it produced the following auto-generated band name: In other news, chav porn! Complete with David-Cameron-inspired title.