2008-12-05 (Friday)
Comments I've posted on other sites
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My First Website | Jason Santa Maria
Here’s my first site from 1995. That size made more sense on a 640×480 monitor. Obviously, I’d just…
Links
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Haddock Events
We’ll be using a Upcoming group (private membership, publicly viewable) to collate interesting events. Feel free to let me know if we miss something.
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Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation
“The younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. … until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were teenagers — we aren’t fully an information age society.” (via Oblinks)
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Outlet PHP ORM - Welcome
I’ve just started using this. I needed something simple and lightweight and I think I like this. Still a little rough, but getting there.
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Remember to breathe: Catching up a bit
I’m loving Eric’s account of being at LISPA. Nicely written and very reflective. He’s the father of someone I was there with until July, and is now doing the course himself!
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Friday’s Newspaper Front Pages | UK News | Sky News
Gallery of (some) UK newspapers, with permalink to the day. (For current day go to UK News, then see link under ‘UK News in Pictures’ on right.
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PressDisplay.com - Newspapers From Around the World
Browsable versions of newspapers from around the world (click country links in left column). Costs money to see much though.
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Sounds Familiar?
More listenable accents and dialects, British, old and new, from the British Library.
Tweets
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Watching a TV programme you've never heard of that is better than anything you've seen.
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Having dinner with people so intelligent you wouldn't even understand the inscriptions on their awards.
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I am at the pub with people so funny that everyone in the room has wet themselves. Twice. So have you.
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My commute is going so badly I'm still waiting for Tuesday's train. With at least four thousand people. The train will have no carriages.
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The music I am listening to is so obscure that you haven't even heard of the language in which it is barked.
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Today, more things have gone wrong for me than have gone wrong in the combined lives of you and your last eight direct ancestors.
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This week I have worked harder than you. My work has been to a higher standard than yours. My week has been longer than your week.
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I've just bought something that you'd want if you'd heard of it.
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I ate a larger and tastier lunch than you ate and I'm now more full than you've ever been.
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I'm having a worse time than you're having.
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I'm having a better time than you're having.
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Boast. Ask. Moan. Vaunt. Comment. Amuse. Brag. Point. Vent. Quote. Preen. Correct. Complain. Neologise. Wonder. Swagger. Assert. Advertise.