Weekend links – problems with opening my text messages

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Glen McNamee

Another week and another weekend links post that is on schedule

Girly Scribbles sends a Letter to her 16 year old self.
Noscene tell us which WordPress plugins he uses and so does Scribbler.
Another day is experinced by Leoni.
George Osborne’s Tory conference speech helps Charlie Brooker discover that Ageing isn’t fun, but it’s better than death, by at least, ooh . . . 8%.
Dan’s veridct is much harsher than the judges on X-Factor.
Noscene has a clear out.
Andre at cobblerkhan give us Part 3 of the Ballard of Patsy Walker And The Tears Dried On Her Face.
Pete has a Lyrical Dissection on Shakira’s She Wolf.
Anton Vowl looks at then incredible story that is Derek (Mary loves Dick) Acorah will attempt to contact Michael Jackson in a live séance on Sky1.
Winter’s here, suddenly for Boz.
Obscure Gamer looks at The Whine List.
Finally Mikey says Don’t Stop Me Now.

Google Wave Invites

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Glen McNamee

I have a small number of Google Wave invites to give away, if you are interested leave a comment below using the address you want the invite sending to.

EDIT: Thanks for all the interest, but they’ve all gone now.

Facebook Warning PLEASE KEEP YOUR KIDS SAFE

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Glen McNamee

Recently I’ve seen the following message posted on several status updates on Facebook from Teesside all the way up to Newcastle

PLEASE KEEP YOUR KIDS SAFE, DO NOT LET THEM WALK ANYWERE ALONE, TO SCHOOL OR TO CORNER SHOP BECAUSE SOME BASTARD IS GOING AROUND TRYING TO PICK KIDS UP OFF OUR STREETS HE IS SAID TO BE WHITE, AGED 40-45 WITH A LOCAL NORTH EAST ACCENT. HE DRIVING A SMALL WHITE VAN WITH BLACKED OUT WINDOWS ON THE REAR DOORS. COPY N PASTE TO YOUR PROFILE SO YOUR FRIENDS CAN READ IT

Being the old cynic that I am, I imedintaly smelt a rat. The warning has all the hall marks of a fake, it’s all in uppercase, it has now details, of a time and a place, and advises people to ‘Copy n paste‘ it.

After a little bit of research a found the story in the Hartlepool Mail and it seems it is true that a van driver twice approached children asking them if they wanted a lift (but didn’t leave the vehicle) on Friday 9th October in Hartlepool.

I just wish people when posting (and reposting) this sort of warning that they provide this sort of information, link to the source, and write it in readable English.

Music Monday – No Bounds – G.O.L

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Glen McNamee

A really brillant track by a ambient band call G.O.L. (Gods Of Luxury). I would listen to this on the ‘Ambient Dub Vol 2 Sensations of Tone’ album in 1993 while reading the works of Arthur C Clarke. Good times.

Weekend Links – I’m really struggling to read your handwriting

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Glen McNamee

This weekend I present a slimmed down version of my favourite links

badfairgroundart is a brilliant blog is dedicated to the unintentionally hilarious art found on many a funfair attraction.
Leoni has a difficult story of survival to tell in two parts.
A different Repton is remembered by Merman
Scribbler has been having a bit of a shocker lately.
Dan springs to Stephen Fry’s Defence.
Andre’s Blog is now cobblerkhan.blogspot.com as he explains in By any other name (worth a link because of the Nick Fury/Norman Osbourne strip) and while you are there checking out “Inglourious Basterds” – The Uniforms.
Mike gives us his Beatles Rockband verdict

Four weeks in a row now.

Google gives me a Wave

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Glen McNamee

Google wave

This morning I received a invite to Google Wave, thanks to the lovely IamKat (She doesn’t have invites left, so don’t hassle her with requests). I’ve had a wee play, and my first though is that it’s still got a way to go before it has a hope of changing the way people work. Going forward I shall be having a play with integrating this with WordPress for this blog and ObscureInternet.

Project still Awesome

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Glen McNamee

Just to clear something up, if you are thinking that because I’ve started 40 things to do before I’m 40 that I’ve given up on Project Awesome you are very much mistaken.

Project Awesome is what will help me complete my 40 things goals. Currently I am focused on two closely related goals

Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working

I’ve set up a rule on the wireless router that limits my allowed time on the internet, this means I won’t be tempted by mindless internet browsing while I’m working on important task and it will also help me focus on the internet based tasks as I know the time I can do these is limited.

Wake up when my alarm clock goes off

As I’ve stopped myself using the computer late at night (with the odd exception) I now have extra time to wind down before going to bed. This has helped with my sleeping and therefore it has been easier for me to get up on a morning. I’m far from perfect, but I’m getting closer to getting up when I want to.

Obviously I’ve been doing other things, but these two have been my main focus.

Music Monday – Jeroen Tel – Alternative Fuel

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Glen McNamee

It’s Music Monday again, and it’s c64 music again. This week I’ve give Jeroen Tel’s Alternative Fuel which was written in surprisingly recent (for a SID tune) year of 2004 in for the X-2004 demo party in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

It’s One of my favourite tracks from one of my favourite musicians, I hope you enjoy it.

Linkadinkydoo

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Glen McNamee

It’s now three week in a row that I managed to give your recommended weekend reading on time, so enjoy.

Tiggy decides if can’t beat the spammers, join ‘em.
Andre invite us to Smack my blog up
Charlie Brooker suffers through Live From Studio Five
Stormkeeper has So much to think about, so little time…
eConsultancy tries to inject some sensible advice into Google’s Cervical cancer jab results, and so do I cervical cancer jab and cervical cancer immunisation.
Anok asks What On Earth is Up With Kid’s Cartoons?
Pete looks at the Monumental Stupidity of some internet reviewers.
Anton Vowl on how the newspapers just won’t let go of the scaremongering
Dan has 41 free great games if you are bored.
Pete give us a quick review of The Faster and the Furious-er
Pounding Heartbeat has 3 Simple Rules
Leoni’s Trying not to fall out of the system
Finally Achievement Unlocked is a brilliantly addictive web game.

Glen McNamee

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