It seems we live in different worlds.
Archive for the 'chatter' Category
I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds and often finding myself having to zoom through them, only briefly reading a few that catch my attention. This post just caught my attention. Not because of the discussion about GPLv3 and backwards compatibility, but because of the Dylan quote at the end, naming him as a famous poet (which is the subject of some debate).
Now anyone I know can attest to my Dylan fanaticism but my interest stems from my father, who grew up with Dylan at his peak. It seems, however, that the tech business has a fascination with Dylan. Jobs plays his songs at any opportunity in his keynotes, and Steve Gillmor and Jason Calacanis referred to him constantly in the Gillmor Gang. What is it about Dylan that the tech community loves?
I’m lying in bed this morning listening to the news on Radio National and I hear Bush’s comments on the search for Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan’s wilderness:
It’s a wild place out there. Wilder than the Wild West!
He really does think he’s living in the movies! It reminds me of his “Top Gun” moment:
Update: I just found the transcript of the talk the sound clip was from. I misquoted slightly. The actual quote is:
Taliban and al Qaeda fighters do hide in remote regions of Pakistan — this is wild country; this is wilder than the Wild West
It sounds no less silly to me.
Aldi are renowned for selling cheap stuff. Some deals are really good, but most of the time the stuff is rubbish. I thought it was particularly amusing after seeing that the latest “Surprise Buys” contains the dot com bubble’s chair of choice, Herman Miller’s Aeron chair, as a prop. Why would you put some piece of $29.99 rubbish on your $1000 chair?
I just followed the link from Hugh’s post to the nominations for the 2007 Weblog Awards. I see that Gizmodo is nominated in the following:
- Best American Weblog
- Best Computers or Technology Weblog
- Most Humorous Weblog
- Best Writing of a Weblog
- Best-Designed Weblog (huh?)
- Weblog of the Year
Where’s Engadget in all of this? I think Larry Dignan was spot on when he compares the iPhone keynote coverage of some tech blogs, Gizmodo and Engadget being two of them.
10:57 a.m. Jobs keynote wraps up. Gizmodo has stuff up, but posts jump everywhere. It starts to dawn on me that I may have been at the wrong URL with a bunch of other people. Confused by the nav going on there. Was I at the wrong URL? I’m guessing this strange approach is designed to maximize page views.
Being the top ranked blog in Technorati doesn’t count for anything? Is it because of the fact that they’re owned by the evil empire these days?
When I was in Grenoble in October last year, one of the things I’d planned to do in my free time was climb the famous Alp d’Huez. I was all set to catch the bus to Bourg d’Oisans, hire a bike and attempt the climb. Little did I know that my bus timetable did not apply on Sundays and seeing that I was leaving the next day I couldn’t afford to go in the evening. Since then, however, I’ve been riding to work 4 days a week (realising I was an idiot to think I could do the famous climb in my then state of fitness!) and have been eyeing up my own mini Alp d’Huez. Well today I got home, dropped my bag off, went back into North Sydney, across the bridge, and on my way back I finally did the climb. Here, courtesy of Google Earth, I present my Alp d’Huez:
Looks tiny doesn’t it!?
Aside from being an excellent source of technology news and banter, you occasionally find answers to some of life’s great questions at The Register. Upon checking my RSS feeds I see the following articles:
- Why is it absolutely impossible to sneeze with your eyes open?,
- Why do we open our mouths to yawn properly?, and my favourite title,
- Is it true that a woman’s breasts can grow enormously overnight?
Excellent stuff el Reg.
