2005 November Archive at Meta Comment

Monthly Archive for November, 2005

In Memory…

Posted November 28, 2005 0 Comments

Dans la m?ɬ�moire du pr?ɬ�sent
et dans l’espoir ?ɬ� l’avenir.

⌊ Anton Chekhov.

This is my Flickr ‘tag cloud’; a breakdown of the most commonly denoted keywords I use when adding photos to my Flickr PhotoStream. I think its a fantastic overview - and wish someone would come up with one for WordPress, I’d like it to scan my Posts for commonly used phrases (or words) excluding all the ‘and’ ‘the’ ‘fuckers’ etc. from my ramblings. Wouldn’t that be fun? ‘tag clouds’ are everywhere in Web 2.0, so I’d like one for Meta Comment.

2000
2005
6thyear
aberdeenshire
adayinthelife
apple
applemac
archive
arhip
aviemore
bahill
bbq
billy
billyshouse
blackandwhite
blackwhite
blane
blog
blur
bonfire
burning
bw
callum
camera
cameraphone
camping
campsite
canon
canon1218
clouds
components
contrast
craig
daniel
daniels
dark
day
days
daytime
dayz
dog
drinkinggames
drunk
ebay
edinburgh
elcampio05
elgin
emily
f717
fall
february28th2005
film
fire
flash
france
fujitsu
glenmore
gordonschools
green
guts
harddisk
harddrive
holiday
holidays
howto
hue
huntly
ibook
insch
inside
ipod
jodie
jodiesbbq
johnny
jqm
julia
jumping
kenny
knighter
kyle
landscape
laptop
laurence
leesbbq
light
lindsay
logicboard
longexposure
louisa
louisasgathering
mac
macintosh
macro
make
me
metacomment
misc
mist
moon
motherboard
motion
music
mydaytoday
oldschool
os104
owen
owendavey
panorama
party
perthshire
photoshopping
podcast
podcasting
quincy
quoting
rabbit
rain
rebecca
reidfest
rennie
replacement
s8
school
scotland
screw
seasons
shand
sky
slr
smoking
snow
sony
stupidity
summer
sunny
sunshine
super8
supereight
tiger
torx
travel
trees
uk
vodka
watersportstrip
whiskey
william
williamshouse
winter
zoe

Also, slightly related; here’s everyone’s Flickr addresses, if you want to keep track:

Although, y’know just adding people to your “Contacts” doesn’t hurt, Billy. Oh and if you don’t know what all this is about “Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos to the world, show photos to your friends and family, or blog the photos you take with a cameraphone.”. Flickr is crack too.

Cars Are Stupid (Car Salesman; doubly-so)

Posted November 18, 2005 3 Comments

Me: “hey, does it have a connection for the iPod?”
Car Salesman: *with a gallon of contempt* “I think you should grow up.”
Me: *suffering from emotionally driven hatred of this man and all he believed in* “Do you know where your industry’s going? Your dead, your pointless, there’s no future in your ugly cars.”

This followed a conversation about Biodiesel, in which he referred to renewable fuel sources as “hippy petrol“. He concluded “it won’t be as popular, for some time”. What a fucking idiot.

I can’t wait until the day someone opens an Apple Store on his patch, hey maybe they’ll employ him… “he’s got considerable experience in retail, a proven track record of meeting targets. He’s a smart lad - previous employers note he can close big-money sales and he’s good with big-wig customers“. I’d employ him - for a week, I’d make him sit at the back and watch. What a waste of time selling cars is buddy, I don’t suppose he ever thinks about the murders he’s creating, the harm he’s doing or the short sightedness of his employer. How dare you dismiss true technology - how dare you! Your crap will rust under the weight of conscious consumerism - when people realise how stupid cars are. Bah! - buy a bike, spend the rest on a Mac (just an idea).

Anyway - I hate cars. Mix that with an arrogant car salesman, one who uses the word Progress with contempt, who disregards the continual warnings of science and common-sense over the issue of fossil fuels. Cars are ugly, they kill more people than smoking, gun-crime and mass-murders do every year (British Statistic, heh).