May 2006 Archives

Mucking about in the Pyrenees. On holiday and offline (largely). Back on Monday:-)

ooh ooh ooh...

Six Apart - ProNet - What's new in Movable Type 3.3?

It's around the corner :-) And you gotta love a company that doesn't go for version number inflation...

So I got three-and-a-half hours sleep last night and I started work at 05:00 this morning.

I'm just so happy with this job I could scream.

So I get home at 23:15 last night, check my eBay listing and my bike didn't make the reserve price. Arrrggggg, I need to sell it tonight so I can pick up the new bike tomorrow before going on holiday on Saturday. Quickly, I click on the three top bidders and send them a message.

...ah, a captcha, that's new, probably to prevent spammers or something... Fill in the number and pow, I can't send a message to my buyer because the auction is over. What??? how the hell am I supposed to sell the bike??? (£32 later)...

It's getting near midnight and hallelujah, the top bidder sends me a message. He's still very interested and wants to make a deal. OK, I click on "reply to message", give him my details and wait... another captcha and wham! THE SAME MESSAGE AARRRRRRRGGGGGG!!!

Bloody hell, there's a trend going on here. Big hosted apps can't afford to monitor or consider individual circumstances. It would cost a fortune to have a human evaluate every message sent on eBay or every click sent to an Adsense server. Instead, these companies work on aggregate (kinda the same way racial prototyping works).

Basically, the way it works is that if you find yourself in a situation where on aggregate a crime takes place then you are arrested, whether or not you had any intention of committing a crime. Aggregate justice is a whole new way to say goodbye to our Eighteenth century friends. Maybe we'll be bringing back the lash next...

Remember the old corporate anthem, Our vision of global strategy by good old KPMG? It established the corporate anthems meme (it was Chris Raettig who started the meme proper...) which ran and ran with contributions from around the world.

Archive.org has preserved the original (note the back story of KPMG getting the wrong idea about deep linking). Anyhow, imagine my surprise as I bumped into another, a truly awful corporate anthem from German firm Messe Duesselforf (thank you Adfreak)

I guess my question is did this thing ever go away or did we just move on?

Hey, I finally figured out what to do with the KG800 chocolate phone the lovely people at Hill and Knowlton sent me a few weeks ago. I think I'm going to shoot some videos on the theme of objects of desire and see where that ends up...

Just got this from the Movable Type developer list

Coming soon: Movable Type 3.3 beta test

Yippee :-)

A nice lady at work was sitting across from me this afternoon. In a flurry of note taking, she generated this fabulous post-it portrait. Thanks Katie:-)

But thank you risingslowly for the info. Any Americans out there know what "rising slowly" refers to?

Sorry about all the bike pics. The beast is officialy on ebay

Playing with etsy.com Check out the "shop by colour" interface, just lovely...

Another fine 2.0 app:
http://www.codefromthe70s.org/traceroute.asp

...and don't you just wish you had bought that uri

Bloody French street theatre... I was merrily on my way to an event at the ICA this morning when this large wooden spaceship crashed out of the sky and gouged its way deep into the tarmac of Regent Street.

OK, not really, but darn I should watch the news. Large chunks of the West End were completely roped off this morning with all parking bays supended etc. Apparently there's gonna be a huge metal elephant-robot tromping around London over the week-end. Sounds fun but I'll be tromping around the South Downs with Billy. Will try and take some pictures:-)

Actually, I've just been sent a sexy new cameraphone from LG so might have some news to add re mobbloging stuff (first step is to instal shozu)...