Its not a very insightful note, more a bitch really. Here’s an Open-Letter I’m sending to the creators of ringo.com (a poor rip-off of Flickr). Flickr works, always did… Ringo doesn’t, yet I’ve heard excuses and then the ‘I don’t cares’ of family members this evening as I tried in vein to convert them… I don’t like it when I sign up for something I have to opt out of 15 (at least 15) newsletters/spam, I don’t like having to be a member of anything to keep up to date, I don’t like obtrusive ads, I hate slow servers, I hate poor quality compression, I hate lazy standard-raping design. I hate ringo too. My short letter went:
you need RSS feeds, if your advertisers can’t handle that- improve your site design, server speeds etc. etc….
…i would not use this ’service’ if it were not for my family’s eager stupidity. by which i mean i am only using this because people have locked themselves into your little game, without knowing it they’re stuck. do you offer an export system?
perhaps you should just give in, have you seen Flickr? if i were you I’d question whether it was worth getting up in the morning.
- Callum
I just recieved an automated e-mail telling me I should not respond, but reassuring me someone would not ignore my e-mail, maybe read it and not respond - but not ignore my “Suggestions”. I hate fake 2.0 - I e-mailed Thor at ValleyShwag this morning, I got a personal reply in 2 minutes flat. It was 6AM where he is. damn! If you want my hard earned, don’t spam me and don’t advertise on me… don’t automate response me either- what is this 2000 again. Holy mother of Tim Curry I’ve had a bad day.
Chris Morris made a radio series in 1997 called Blue Jam. It was on Radio 1 very, very late at night. It became Jam on Channel 4.
This is a late night show, I give series one to you nowto William really, but its downloadable elsewhere so pff. Do Not listen to this during hours of light, except twilight and no-light.
This is a late night show. There is some fantastic music in it, some Chris Morris original, and some ‘comedy’ the like Radio 1 has not the balls to ever re-broadcast.
One of the eppisodes was pulled off live air during playback apparently, weeks after Princess Diana’s death Chris Morris thought it funny to mash together clips from her funeral with some inapropriatisms… I’ve not heard it yet. 38.3MB, .zip. If you like this, you’ll also like “On The Hour”, the radio series that lead to “The Day Today”. You can bittorrent “On The Hour”, here.
Remember, this is a late night show. If its still a PM its too early. It won’t make sense if your sober to the daily realities. Go on, have a drink or two, or a pill, or a fight with a Bonobo.
Update: I recognise Ivor Cutler as the crazy Scottish poet, btw. This is how Billy will sound in 60 years. I always thought, I compiled a CD for Bill before he went to Nepal with Ivor on it, does he remember - did he thank me. pff.
Have you noticed the media is trying to pull down the Labour Government this week, the health service is a joke, 1000 prisoners loose (well, y’know- lost track), Prescott’s had an affair (Prescott being one of Labour’s biggest - hoh - strongest opponents of Tory Sleeze). They didn’t make this much fuss when Tony took us to war on false pretentces, the easiest and cheapest trick of any leader is to do these things and then hide. Apparently Blair couldn’t hang around for questions after Charles Clarke gave his bit today, as he had to meet some Scottish Businessmen. Hah!
I’m so sick of his face. Another face I’m bored to the point of feeling increasingly pale and suseptical to projectile vomiting (possibly at his light-bulb of a face): Nick Robinson. Twat; go back to ITV where you belong, with your big blue- fisher-price graphics. You arse. FFS; he’s on the radio, right this second.
Now. Good things; The Classic Serial - Dead Souls by Nikolay Gogol. Starring Michael Palin and Mark Heap. Its on Radio 4, Saturday afternoons 3.00. here’s part one. It is fantastic, Mark Heap continues to play the same style through everything he’s ever done… Spaced, Big Train, Jam and Green Wing-ish, in this he plays the main protagonist; Tchitchikoff. Excuse You. Michael Palin plays the narrator who gets involved in the story a good bit.
I’ve always had a vivid memory of improperly switching off my stereo only to find it jump into a hidden Karaoke Mode the instruction manual failed to tell me about. It took a second to realise there was no Bono the first time, I was pretty happy about the de-Bono-ing. When I reset the box, it was back to normal… I could hear the vocals and everything worked as documented. I hate everything working as documented. Apparently they added the Karaoke Mode to the model up from my Sony MHC-NX1, but through some strange power-related ‘pop’ it went all Bono-less.
Anyway- 5 years on I cracked it again, and rather than phoning Quincy (who I think was out last time) I plugged in the iMic and recorded a track onto the iBook, I’m afraid U2’s latest (certainly not greatest) album was all I have in 320kbs (use any CD it works fine, but 128 MP3’s sound ‘watery’). Check it out, if you want: link.
I’m guessing this works by cutting out certain frequencies… and in certain compressed songs there’s not enough ’space’ to distinguish them. (?) If anyone knows where I can get an iTunes plugin that does the whole Karaoke effect that’d be more fun than waiting around for the stereo to pop again. Well, I’m off to switch the stereo off and on, I need to listen to the radio now.
Have I ever written a “yeah, you can use MySpace if you want but you’re selling your soul to ‘Tom’ whoever he is” post before? No, don’t think so - but if you were looking for a website related to MySpace, why would you come here. Because Google said so?
It appears metacomment.com has more than a little in common with MySpace, if you believe anything the Google results pump out. (Dude, I’m 5th from the top in a related: search, wtf does this mean).
Just to keep you all calm; I don’t sell your comments, online routine, friends, clicks/pageviews to the nasty viral marketing monkeys the way MySpace do. :D
Here’s a link, and another: link. And I want this t-shirt, thanks.
Update: Will just pointed out its not related to MySpace.com, but rather MySpeace.com - horrah for the key fumblers (I’m one of them).
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