The US Supreme Court
has just ruled that manufacturers of technology are responsible for how consumers use that technology! Basically what they are saying is that if you use say
Internet Explorer to commit a crime such as fraud, then Microsoft could be legally held responsible for providing you with the means to do so!
The damage this could do to the world's technology market is incalcuable. Unless of course, the world's technology market does what one would reasonably expect it do, which is to say to the Supreme Court
"Listen you withering bunch of retards; criminalising the entire software and technology market just to get back at one or two insignficant companies that create P2P technology, an act which incidentally will do fuck-all to stop file sharing, is about the dumbest thing imaginable. Therefore, I would invite to suck my balls."
Monday, June 27, 2005 5:44 PM
I'm really tired, and as a result I've been yawning lots this evening. I'm going to make you yawn too, just because I can. Yawn. YAWN.
Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Hey, look the word
yawn starts to look really weird when you see it over and over again. Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn. Sounds weird too when you say it out loud. Yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn.
Yaaawwwwwn.
That is all.
Friday, June 24, 2005 11:36 PM
Occasionally, when I go upstairs and see Jimmy the cat asleep, I like to play cat buckaroo - a game that requires both a steady hand and an understanding of the complex dynamic underpinnings of a cat's psyche. The game is quite straightforward, you simply pile things on top of a cat until it gets pissed off and shakes everything off. I'm really bad at the game - the best I've ever managed is three things - a sock, a TV remote control and a watch. The sock was easy, even the tv remote went unchallenged and the watch barely raised an eyebrow. But I got cocky, I clearly thought that I was some sort of cat buckaroo master, that if there was some sort of cat buckaroo world championship I'd be a dead cert for the title. As I put an empty bottle of mineral water on Jimmy's head I realised how wrong I was. Clearly I'm not a cat buckaroo master at all, I'm actually a bit rubbish at it. I really sbould learn to walk before I can run, and can have any hope of competing with
these people.
Friday, June 10, 2005 10:52 PM
I just got home to find an envelope stamped ER and Buckingham Palace on my door step. Finally! A reply to the letter I sent Prince Charles a couple of months ago telling him to
fuck off. If memory serves, I also called him a
monkey felching bastard. I sent the letter for two reason - 1) I was very bored at work one day and 2) There was some article in the paper about him complaining of press intrusion. I'm not normally in the habit of sending insulting letters to people in the public eye, although coincidentally I did send an email to the English National Opera earlier today calling their Director of Marketing a
prick and a
wanker and telling them he should be sacked after
this shameful episode. In fairness, in the same mail I also thanked them for their decision to start using
surtitles, so it's not all bad.
So, you may be wondering what the letter said. It was on Clarence House headed paper and said...
"Dear Mr Hill,
Thank you for recent letter. Your comments have been noted.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Claudia Holloway"Well, that doesn't sound particularly sincere to me.
Your comments have been noted, notice it doesn't say
who noted my comments. To be honest, it looks to me like Charles probably isn't even aware of my letter, which frankly means it might have been a waste of a stamp. I would have hoped for at least something along the lines of "
I have discussed the matter with His Royal Highness and he has decided not to fuck off on this occasion." Still, at least they did reply, although it probably didn't cost them much, I would imagine the heir to the throne probably gets some sort of staff discount on letters he sends via the Royal Mail.
Thursday, June 09, 2005 6:25 PM
This lunch time I have been mostly playing
Urban Golf which captures the deep felt frustration of normal golf rather well.
1:05 PM
There's a lot of talk about
Carbon Neutrality these days. For example, in order to make their new album
carbon neutral, Coldplay planted enough trees to offset the CO2 usage recording the album will have generated. It is a shame nobody pointed out that the easiest way for them to remain carbon neutral would be to not have recoded another album in the first place, because they are talentless gibbons whose songs all sound the same, and they should all be locked up for crimes against music in a high-security prison where they get bum-wrecked every night by someone called
Big Ken, because they deserve it.
That aside, I've found out that one way of reducing carbon emmisions is by multitasking your dishwasher usage. First up
The Surreal Gourmet has a recipe for
poaching fish in the dishwasher. If that's not enough it turns out you can
clean your keyboard in the dishwasher too. So next time you are about to set a load of dishes going, think to yourself - do I have any fish that needs poaching or keyboards that need cleaning too? Welcome to age of Carbon Neutrality.
Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:42 PM
This is cool - some artist takes drawings of monsters from
younglings children and re-imagines them.
Monday, June 06, 2005 8:40 PM
I'm not normally one to get concerned about the latest health scare going on the world, but when I see pictures like
this coupled with reports that Bird Flu is succesfully
breaking the species barrier, I have to admit to being a little concerned. I shall be keeping a close eye on
this site in the run up to my trip to China.
Sunday, June 05, 2005 12:21 PM
I must give mention to my new favourite radio station -
Resonance FM. Imagine if the DJs on Radio 3's Late Junction got smashed apart on crack, then joined forces with Radio 4 and went on a Hunter S Thompson style bender, and before they sobered up they were all told to come up with a new broadcast schedule - this is what they'd do.
Plus it has a decent 128Kb MP3 stream.
Sample programme listing...
13:00 - 13:30 Taking a life for a walk
LIVE broadcast of perambulating performance. Caroline Kraabel and her baby go out for a walk through London’s streets - accompanying themselves with saxophone improvisations.NICE!
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As I sit down to re-watch the first series of 24, I want to point out
this Wired article from a few years ago that I came across last night. It concerns Nina Myers, Mac Vs. Windows computers, and will make Nick smile. Note that there's spoilers, so if you haven't seen season 1 of 24, and plan to in the future, don't read it.
Saturday, June 04, 2005 2:36 PM
