Wonderland

I forgot

..I had a blog. Entirely. Oh well.
Nothing to say anyway except ARGH WHY DIDN'T I GO TO ETCON because now I'm ravagingly jealous, even though my carefully thought-through plans of Milia and E3 and Supernova (or pop!tech? Or Siggraph? Or oooh oerhh erh splat) seemed so much more sensible and fun instead and evvveryone but everyone has gone to ETCON so it's clearly terribly Last Year.

Yes.

Have a lovely conf, you bastards :)

So simple, it hurts

What a lure - the e4 site is offering up the most basic of etchasketch style apps - no colour, 3 paintbrush sizes, one eraser. But! If they like your picture, it goes on telly for 2 seconds, and they email to tell you when.

There goes my afternoon.

If you read one thing today..

Read this long, very articulate, very fascinating and very complete argument for new copyright laws and a change in the way we distribute art and media.
Oh.. and Cory's got a new book out ;)

(Bloody good it is too.)

More on Broadband TV

"Various services to speed up the migration have emerged. JDS (Japan Digital Serve), for example, is delivering the digital Bsat ('BS Digital') channels to cable operators via fiberoptic network as a direct feed into their systems. The method allows for cable operators to convert the feed to analog until their digital plant is ready. Japan Cablenet is another venture to supply programming and content to cable operators digitally. Interactivity and on-demand applications are part of the plan."

(Slightly edited by me. Full version here.)

Broadband TV

Looking for details on Asia's broadband-only television services, I stumbled across this in the UK - 3BTV, an almost "public-access" internet teevee "channel".

Dear diary...

Today was a different day.
Got further down the road of what I want to do at work - long overdue. 680 cigarettes not smoked - spent 50 quid on expensive makeup instead. Re-enrolled for a life painting class, and signed up for Kendo classes - finally! Have been swotting up on the etiquette .. way more fun that [not] going to the gym, so one vastly-expensive-and-guiltily-never-used Holmes Place membership cancelled (Annual Kendo membership = one month at a gym).
Huge weight off mind, if not off arse.

So it's Dance Dance Revolution, Eye Toy and Kendo from here on in, as per my new theory that jumping around in front of the eyetoy and hitting people with stick swords is the best way to get fit. Assuming I can get P off SSX3, that is.

I've created a monster...

Them's the rules

Inspired ruleset. Particularly like

* nOnE oF ThIs BuLl sHiT. NoT eVeN iN yOuR sIgNaTuRe.

and

* If you are banned for whatever reason, you can only view and post in "The Tard Farm". If you can prove that you aren't a total moron there, you might be un-banned. If you re-register with another name, your IP will be blocked.

The moderator 0wns J00.

Spam from the Future

So do mydoom or any of the recent worms fiddle with sys clocks? I am getting tons of the usual spam, but from the future.. one, two, three, up to five days in advance. Oh and some from 1970.
Vintage spam! Maybe I could ebay it.