IBM have a long musical history - I’m not making this up - they had a theme song back in the 30’s called “Ever Onward” in which the band would chorus:
EVER ONWARD - EVER ONWARD!
That’s the spirit that has brought us fame!
We’re big, but bigger we will be
We can’t fail for all can see
Everytime I touch an IBM Thinkpad, I hum a little funky piece that appeared at the end of a few old IBM ads from the late 90’s - a really catchy bass line, that’s all I remembered. Quincy remembers it too. For some reason that song tuned right into our 14 year old minds and it stayed there. I love thier logo too, like the horrible 90’s electronic snare IBM’s logo is unashamedly 80’s.
Now - ladies and gentelmen I have found that piece of music. And it wasn’t on IBM’s Music Clips page, no. Earlier today my ears were once again on fire with the funky, pulsating rhythm of pre-dot-com-bust… dun dun du dun dun. During the installation of ViaVoice (for a friend) I was presented with a demonstration sound which would make any true geek’s (or late 90’s nostalgist’s) toes tap and head a’bop. I present to you, from the olden-times of the Interweb, from when e was cooler than i: smart.wav - the IBM Theme Tune (which I’m sure is copyright-ed, sosumi).
Update: I just found an old IBM Ad on YouTube, link.
I’ve updated my photo page again, I know its not ‘all there’ yet. In all honesty Flickr seems to work very well for me, but I know some of my friends prefer the safety and privacy of metacomment.com’s shores. So I’m using this funky PostcardViewer script, its flash- and I hate flash.
I’ve got other issues with it; restricted editing (unless you pay up), no user-downloading, you have to re-write a gallery from scratch if you add one image, its all driven by a really awful iPhoto / Photoshop script (its very manual), the quality isn’t that great and every time you visit the page your forced to download 3mb+ of images, every single image on the page… every time. I’ve only been messing with it for an hour or so, its mighty pretty- that’s no excuse.
Hey did you know my Photoblog is useless until iBlog 2 comes out? That’s beacuse I have screwed my iBlog settings into oblivion and when I think photo uploading these days I think Flickr. Maybe I’ll do it with Wordpress one day (or, as I said, iBlog 2).
So, there we go- I’ve fixed up a Photos Page. Just wanted to leave a note to self: I’m planning to upload last years ‘best of’ in a few areas- “general” “people” “places” “parties” - all the top notch photoshopped stuff that I never Flickr-ed. I also have to upload some real quality old-school tapes as we (Q, Bill and Fuzz) discovered there are a few forgotton moments on 20 or so 1hr DV tapes I re-discovered over the weekend. Watch out for that on:
photos.metacomment.com
friends.metacomment.com
UKIP is sort of a bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists mostly
I love the “mostly”. I love even more that the racist, fuitcake lonies (that’s right, no quote marks - I happen to agree, for the second time today, with the leader of the Conservative party) only appear to be angered by the ‘racist’ bit. #
