Go watch the Evernote presentation.
Haven’t got my invite yet (come on guys!) but it looks like this year’s Skitch. And I already want to have that app’s babies. I may have to marry both and visit on alternate weekends.
And moleskines just got upgraded:
Now I have hipster drool in my beard.
My new HG10 is here:
Canon kindly sent me one as part of their Canon Camera Buzz sponsorship. It’s been pottering around in the post for almost a week, but I finally got my hands on it:
Now to point it at things…
UPDATE: Thanks guys! My inbox is MELTING. I have more than enough replies. If you already emailed me then you’re in with a chance. Anything I get after 23.59 on December 21st will not be considered. Cheers!
I’ve been looking for an excuse to post the Daft Punk ‘body remix’ videos that have been doing the rounds and what better introduction than a Radio 1 documentary that my friend Talia did. You can check it out here.
That’s probably the first time I’ve listened to Radio 1 since the Tommy Vance Friday Night Rock Show back in 1989.
Anyway, here are the vids:
And check out Talia’s blog here. She’s my lifeline into pop. I tend to dismiss everything with very little reason, but Talia introduced me to Northern State’s Can I Keep This Pen? (The one and only time I’ve ever resorted to iTunes - and what a piece of shit experience that was) and The Pierces. Fuck it, it’s Saturday night -let’s post some more vids:
Northern State are great. Think Le Tigre stroking The Beastie Boys. And The Pierces have WHISTLING and a James Bond theme song thing going on which kills me:
And if you’re into podcasts - which I’m not at all, but am learning to appreciate slowly - then you need to check out Podcast Dot Com. It’s a really nice idea and the guy behind it is smart as a whip.
So am I right in saying the embedded Animoto vid in the last post works fine on site, but fails to load in your RSS reader?
It sure ain’t showing up in my Google Reader.
Some of my friends on Twitter prefer to talk only to people they know or who have proved themselves interesting. Me? I don’t give a fuck who you are. And if someone adds me on Twitter I add ‘em right back. They then have maybe a week’s grace to prove themselves not a fuckwit. Far from a perfect system, it hasn’t stopped me being bored to tears, hit on and occasionally disturbed over the last year*, but it works for me.
So today (if you follow me) you would have seen this:
Following only half a conversation can get a tad frustrating, eh? What George and I were talking about was this:
I’m as much of an Aliens fan as the next guy, but seriously… if you need a working LED ammo counter that counts your ammo usage while blasting in the general direction of imaginary monsters then fair play to you.
*much to my surprise I’ve been using Twitter since November 2006 and have around 170 pages of tweets trailing behind me.
Because I’m an idiot I packed for Istanbul about ten minutes before getting into the car for the airport. I’m pretty good at this by now and as long as I have a laptop and an Internet connection when I travel I’m usually set. Seeing as the fuckwits at AirFrance managed to lose my luggage I’m glad I travel light, but this trip I forgot to load up the laptop properly . This meant that I only had a couple of movies with me and just enough music to get me through a long weekend. What if the terrorists strapped bombs to the UK and pushed it into the side of America while I was away?
My rule normally when travelling is to take enough digital media with me so that I can survive away from home indefinitely. It all worked out in the end. Despite parts of the country flooding while I was away, London survived and I picked up another copy of A Bittersweet Life while I was out there. Some people buy carpets in Istanbul - I buy cool-as-ice Korean revenge movies. This was a nice movie to fly back on as it counterbalanced watching Alain Delon in Un flic on the way out.
All of this is a long winded build up to the fact that this week I bought a new hard drive. This one.
It’s small, sexy and (now) filled with evil. Never again will I travel without a copy of William Shatner’s Kingdom of the Spiders or Special Agent Dale Cooper’s Twin Peaks Tapes or indeed my beloved Telly Savalas album (the ‘music’ that must never be played).
I sleep easier with this knowledge.
I’m still stumbling my way around Facebook and learning mainly by taste. Being added as a vampire, zombie or STD is plain annoying so there’ll be less of that. Watching how smart people use Facebook seems to be the way to go. Take Chris Brogan’s Grasshopper group, for example:
Facebook isn’t just a school toy or “yet another social network.” From what I’m learning, it’s a pretty useful system that can be used very effectively to build a very vibrant network, provide excellent tools (especially with lots of good 3rd party apps), and then provide you the chance to use it to DO SOMETHING.
I believe that Grasshoppers is a great way to prove this. Join the group. Determine what we’re doing and how you can apply yourself to it. And then dig in.
Turn social networking into action.
Thats a jawdropping idea. Especially seeing as so many people seem to use it for nothing more powerful than sharing photos of old school friends ie. a dusty box best left under your fucking bed.
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