It’s still quiet on here as most of my more mundane updates are now being “microblogged” on Twitter and Facebook, with links going out on Delicious (man, I’m pretty web 2.0). Join me on those, and I will look for ways to increase my writing time so I can post more substantially on here. Happy Bank Holiday weekend, y’all!
Archive for May, 2007
Now, I’m not a big fan of the Mac/PC ads, and I like both Marvel and DC comics. But these are brilliant, from “some random guy” on YouTube.
Thanks to Chris for pointing them out to me. You can watch them all on the dude’s YouTube site.
My brother’s film company, Slingshot Studios, has just launched a distribution arm. Read more here.
I have always been, and will continue to be an advocate of online shopping. I get most of my stuff from one site or another, love the concept of shopping comparison (t’is the Indian in me), but, yesterday, when my motherboard deep fried itself, I couldn’t wait for replacements to arrive.
So: the walk down Tottenham Court Road, and inspection of a few shops. The prospects didn’t seem good: everything was significantly more expensive than the online prices I was aware of, and none of them filled me with the confidence that they could put the pieces together I needed. Then I got to a shop called Yoyotech: they were friendly, helpful, professional, competent, and actually quite charming. I spent half the day in there for one reason or another (some of the parts in the first build they gave me ended up being faulty but they resolved it for me seamlessly) and I was really rather impressed. You can imagine the stress losing a PC would cause a Technophile like me…
But I’m all back up and running now, and grateful to Serge, Courtney, and even Brian the wandering pro poker player (see you at the Gutshot!). Even Microsoft’s Product Activation helpline was particularly helpful for Vista’s inevitable hissy fit. I’m now I’ve got a shiny, eco-friendly Core2Duo powering the beast…
For the geekily curious, my ‘control station’ is powered by an Intel E6600, 3GB of RAM, Nvidia 7950GT graphics with dual monitors, Audigy2, and about 700GB of delicious storage)
One of my agency’s clients, Mopay, has just released this viral:
I think its pretty funny (and no, I wasn’t involved in this one). The service is good too; mobile phone recycling, for which they give you money. Check it out.
This year really has been the year where the world realises that the things we do have an impact. It’s not all about Al Gore’s PowerPoint skills, I’m sure, although no doubt its helped.
Some updates. I’d call them musings but they really don’t deserve that much credit.
I’ve been quite busy for the last month or so. Lots of gigs, parties, work (so much work), so I’ve gotten behind on almost everything. My RSS feeds are collecting unread items like Mrs Haversham’s house collects dust. It’s horrible, I tell you. It’s almost got to the point where I want to abandon Google Reader and start again afresh.
But I won’t. Because I’m not that crazy.
I have been occupied with one thing or another. Facebook seems to have been stalking most of my friends, leaping into consciousness a couple of months ago and adding yet another form of communications I need to check. I wish there was a simple way to route everything to Gmail (although I do like the Facebook interface…).
There’s been gigs. Minutes and Urusen both have had/are about to have lots of gigs. I’m going to one next Wednesday in Farringdon. Do come, and sign on the wall on the open Facebook event I’ve created to foster interest. Urusen are truly amazing; I can’t recommend them enough.
There’s been films. Good, good, bad, & ugly. I was very sad about Spidey being bad. The Xbox360 game is not terrible, though.
There’s been games. Spider-Man 3, PokerStars (lost too much money!) & C&C. Jon @ EA sent me both the PC & Xbox360 versions of C&C, and between the fact that my PC can’t quite cope with all the effects and the fact that the 360 version has a pretty clever control scheme, I may end up replaying it on Xbox. It is, needless to say, an awesome game.
There was (briefly) exercise. Got to 10 consecutive days of working out then it all went rather to pot. Am looking for encouragement, squash buddies, cycling buddies, anyone who can persuade me that I should be out doing something at some point.
The flat move is imminent, which is rather stressful. In a few months I will not be where I am now. I should probably have a party to celebrate / commiserate. It’s been a wonderful 6 years here, it really has. Due to the fact that wherever I move to will be a bit smaller, I am looking at ways of making my PC quieter. A silent PSU is en route, and I’m hoping to make the transition to Core 2 Duo in a couple of months (unless Intel wants to help me out sooner? I wish we really did get crazy quantities of freebies working in PR…).
My own writing has stalled. As you’ll have noticed from the silence on the blog. I’m still full of ideas; and will work up an action plan to get them written up.
I’m still getting used to Vista. The fact that iTunes runs like a dog on it (I can’t believe they haven’t fixed this, stupid sniping betwixt Apple & Microsoft camps just ends up annoying innocent consumers like me in the crossfire) means I’m WAY behind on video podcasts too.
And now, there’s going to be sleep. A good night’s worth. See y’all.
I’ve been too busy / distracted to post lately. And, of course, within 6 hours of Wordpress 2.2 dropping, I’ve managed to find the time to upgrade. /kicksself for procrastination.
I will be better to you, beloved reader, soon. I promise.
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