Lee’s blog

ICANN FAIL

2008-06-27T10:15:37Z

I've never been a fan of ICANN. They're a ludicrously costly organsisation whose "authority" stems from administrative stewardship for some of the internet's universal namespaces. As I used to point out: ICANN costs millions to run every year an...

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Comic chat redux

2008-06-16T22:50:35Z

Hah. Now every stupid instant messenger conversation I have can be rendered as a poorly conceived anonymous three-panel webcomic. Huzzah. There's still a bit of cut-n-pasting to do, but stripgenerator.com seems to be quick and simple enough.

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Watt the...?

2008-04-23T12:28:45Z

Why the hell are we still labelling light-bulbs in watts? The energy consumption of a light-bulb is rarely the overriding criteria for choice (otherwise we'd be saving energy by sitting in the dark), it's whether it's bright enough for its inten...

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Donut Plains

2008-04-18T01:15:18Z

"My girlfriend is always kicking my arse at Mario Kart DS - the Wii version may be my best chance to claw back some dignity," I say, gripping a white plastic toy steering wheel. Apparently, in Mario Kart games, having played the first game...

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Snow day

2008-04-06T17:19:49Z

It snowed in London last night. As made my way down the street I felt a cold wet thud against the back of my head. For the first time in my adult life (that I can recall) I'd been pelted with snowballs by kids. And not the powdery snowballs of...

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Browsing history

2008-04-06T14:56:26Z

One of the things on my mental radar for 2008 (trends: tea-snobbery and "kaizen") is the mainstreaming of personal statistics - data gaterered about a specific person, presented (primarily) for the use of that same person. The concept is alread...

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The Obvious Joke

2008-03-08T20:12:57Z

"I've just been reading an advanced copy of the government's Byron Review on videogame ratings." "Oh really, what does it say?" "Seven out of ten."

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The Action-Movie-Badass Guide to Self Surgery

2008-01-24T21:31:20Z

I saw No Country for Old Men last night. It's a good movie, certainly, but since it followed many of the rules of a typical genre action/chase/thriller. In that context, which you'll understand if you've seen it, it's ultimately unsatisfying. On...

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How to bypass my spam filter

2008-01-09T19:40:30Z

It's a new year, I've got a new empty inbox, and I'm turning up the sensitivity dial on the spam filter. Email, for me, falls into three broad categories - lists I've subscribed to, mail from people I know, mail from strangers. Lists can be id...

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Things I Like

2007-11-26T20:58:09Z

On my way to work today I was thinking about "Foutaises", a seven minute Jean-Pierre Jeunet film which illustrates a character's various likes and dislikes. Thoughts, experiences, a sort of observational nostalgia. Similar to the observations of...

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