Flickr now has photo stats! Yet another way to waste time on my favourite photo site!
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This can usually be found on Twitter.
May I return to the beginning
The light is dimming, and the dream is too
The world and I, we are still waiting
Still hesitating
Any dream will do
And maybe - just maybe - this might be my last blog post in 2007. So just in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night! -- and have a fantastic 2008!
Labels: happy new year, joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoast, merry christmas, winter solstice
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So I've been up late listening to the special 'Big Link Up' edition of BBC World Have Your Say on the BBC World Service, who celebrate 75 years of broadcasting today (December 19th) - happy birthday, BBC World Service! - and also have a spiffy new website; nice and clean, although I don't know if the interactivity is worth it. I'm wondering whether to recommend that they - or atleast, WHYS - go through the (supposed?) pain of setting up Slash, just so we can get threads and conversations and so on just like this (heh, you thought I wouldn't mention Perl's birthday two days ago? 'e don't know me very well, do he?)
So, umm, yeah. On that note there's somebody birthday I "forgot", except I didn't really forget and it's a long story so yeah. Feel free to complain in person, or wait a while, and it'll all be made up and all. I smashed a bottle today - glass! Glass! The horror. Had to sweep it up and all. Did I mention we don't have a dustpan? Nasty.
Am supposed to be in tomorrow, or rather, I can skip (it's Bakri Id/Hari Raya Haji) but would prefer not to. But obviously I'm not going in in the morning. Had a pretty decent game of Civ4: I started my last game again, but quit it because I'd made some stupid strategic mistakes earlier (mainly: attacked too early). So I started over. Now, my Civ's in much better shape, I think; it's hard to tell, because if either of two huge empires who are currently very friendly towards me suddenly decide to take me down, I've had it. A lot of my money's in the ground, and I can't really finance a war. It really is very Roman, though: hodge-podge of foreign colonies captured from someone else, ruled by one or two purpose-built Roman cities, while the "homelands" are vast open spaces, beautiful cities, Rome herself (3 wonders, I think!) in one corner but very much the centre of it all. And now, as 1400 AD creeps up, I have given up my dictatorship to be King of the Romans! Now, if only I can fill up the uneven areas of my emp... err, kingdom, reform my economy (I'm back up to 40% research taxation, and have lots of ignored techs to work on!) and develop my countryside (particularly in the "colonies" ... I'd prefer to leave the homelands pristine and clear for the enjoyment of true Roman citizens), and avoid not getting swallowed up for fifty years or so, then I could consider declaring war on the Aztecs and finishing them off, giving me - I hope! - a land advantage over the Americans and Germans. Unless they make it to other land masses, I guess. And I better be careful not to let me guard down: both the American and Germans probably feel entitled to my Russian conquests, and to say nothing of the Roman homelands ... let's see, let's see. Lots to think about!
I've spent large portions of last week finding new photographers I like, and especially new favourite photos. I hope I didn't creep anybody up by sneaking up on family photos from the Everybody's Photo list! I'm going to stop for a while, 'cos I'm scared Flickr will think I'm creepy, but hopefully will start again soon in a while. There are so many undiscovered gems lying around (and discovered gems I haven't discovered alsos). And yes, Flickr Stats is just as addictive as I thought it would be.
That might actually be all for once. Several links and other detritus remain unposted, but, hey - do I look like I care? They're time will come, and my Mac has space enough for a large inbox, should it come to that.
Then, friends, 'til break of day - I'll away, I'll away! Goodnight, all.
Labels: bbc world service, birthday, civilization iv, flickr, late night, photos, radio, world have your say
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Flickr now has photo stats! Yet another way to waste time on my favourite photo site!
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As a complete aside, I loved how The Cat in the Hat used the Beatles song Getting Better (Mike Myers even alludes to it, in character, as "we managed to work in an up-tempo pop tune into the soundtrack, that's important"), and as soon as it started, I wondered what they were going to do about it's rather dark final verse. The answer? Just hum it, then start singing again once the final chorus rolls in. Smart, although I only saw a bit of the movie, which many people didn't like. Ho, hum.
Labels: beatles, cat in the hat, getting better
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That didn't end very well. At all. How embarrassing :(.
Otherwise, okay, alright. Calls to make home, hang clothes up, then sleep beautiful sleep. Sleep, glorious sleep!
Labels: embarrassement, mmm sleep
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At the moment, I have the following requests on Facebook:
I'm tellin' ya, the guys in the future are going to make as much fun of us as we make of the Victorians. Modern times, indeed.
Labels: facebook
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As they have for a while, once I've finished cleaning out my room, fleshing out my plans, and had my trip back home, thenI'll push 'em all, probably all at once. But they'll be worth it! Promise!
I got really sleepy around 1am, after waking up around 10 or 11, then going sleep again for an hour or two. I was like, crap, my biological clock is really out of whack! But now I'm slowly waking up again (at 2:45am exactly), so it's all good, i guess.
Labels: biological clock, no-links
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It seems like forever since I last really achieved something. I suppose programming achievements don't count; they aren't real, they don't matter. Like all programming, it's just scribbling with chalk on clouds of thoughts, or something therelike.
The biggest problem of a lack of achievement is getting to sleep at night: your body wants you to, your mind wants you to, but something inside you says that as long as you're awake, the day is not wasted; there might be more happening, if you can just stay awake ten more minutes, there might be one e-mail sent (or received), one phone call or SMS arriving, something - anything! - which will make your last 15 hours on earth worthwhile in some small, but locally significant, way.
This almost never happens.
Phrase of the week: It's turned out nice again! Lovely.
Labels: boredom, pointlessness, today, underachievement
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"A beach house," he said, "doesn't even have to be on the beach. Though the best ones are. We all like to congregate," he went on, "at boundary conditions". "Really?" said Arthur. "Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."
