Just Too Good

I’ve hosted my infrastructure at Bytemark for a couple of years now and overall I’ve been very pleased with it. Virtualisation really is the future. However just yesterday I was outraged to see that they’d upgraded the spec that was being offered to new customers, without making mine any better a clear case of double standards. I sent them an email to complain and just a few moments later got a very polite note back in response saying that all I needed to do was reboot my box and the upgrade would be there, after a slightly longer than normal start. »
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Shuffle Is As Shuffle Does

You may have seen a fair bit of stuff scrolling past on here that is work related. This is partly because 3GSM is going on and partly because people are talking more about stuff that interests me in mobile. However the disclaimer should always be applied. You will not find anything ‘new’ on this site to do with mobile as I’m not allowed to talk about it. In that spirit here’s a long excerpt from a pretty insightful essay by Carlo over at mobhappy. »
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Tickets To What You Need

This has been the story of my week. Perplex City, the story so far. It is impossible to tell stories about non viral becomings (still working my way through A Thousand Plateus) The Old Bailey, the story from 1674 to 1834. Because of a bravura piece of writing in one story I watched an enjoyed a * much better onehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SPFT/. The title of this post is from Badly Drawn Boy. You can tell stories in maps, underground maps. »
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The Talking Leads To Touching

Let me tell you about some interesting things. I saw that Malcom Gladwell had written an interesting long article on Rick Warren, Christian minister and author of the ‘purpose driven life‘ a book that I have read and that was most certainly ‘not for me’. More Adventurous by Rilo Kiley is a cracking album (and where the title of this post comes from). emusic is actually rather good, who knew? There are prize nominated SF short stories available to read in many places. »
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SMS

Texting has arrived in America, you can tell because the critical articles have started. I found this marvelous snippet on aldaily: Text messages are in their spare reality mostly devoid of complex feeling. Which, of course, suits emotional cripples just fine I suspect that’s not supposed to sound like as much of an attraction to the medium as it does. But this storm of negativity doesn’t matter at all, since mobiles are such compelling devices that even the Amish desire them. »
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push the button and let me know

An interesting unordered list: Phantom withdrawls in the British ATM network during the 1990s. Moneyball for american football, excellent article, well worth a read. The Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga is one of the great internet collaborative creations of our times. Here’s a couple of hilariously good sample pages: Reality and Simulacra and the Penny Arcade Conspiracy Theory And Paul Golding with the wisest paragraph of the day: »
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