Archive for 2007
LocateTV 13 Oct 2007
OK, so I’ve given in to the charms of Lotte over at LocateTV. I was contacted a couple of weeks ago to see if I wanted to have a go at their limited beta and provide some feedback. Shortly thereafter it went into public beta anyway. Obviously the aim is to get as many people [...]
The Shelf Life of Music 11 Oct 2007
Does anyone else find it a bit odd that when you first hear a song, while it may not strike a chord immediately, once you like a song you can listen to a song over and over and it still sounds good and, for want of a better word, energises you, then slowly it becomes [...]
PC Noise Ratings 29 Sep 2007
PC manufacturers give a lot of info about their PCs; weight, height, how many frames the graphics cards can do, how many watts the PSU kicks out, how many fans there are, how big they are and how fast the turn. Do you know the one thing they all leave out is? The noise they [...]
Presumably 27 Sep 2007
I seem to be using the word presumably a lot lately, both in speech, but more so in written comments and emails. Presumably I picked it up somewhere (damn, there I go again), maybe it’s to avoid the ‘assume makes and ass of you and me’ joke. Weird how things like that happen though, one [...]
Dated URLs for Posts 25 Sep 2007
If you look at the URLs to my posts you’ll notice that they have the year, month and day, along with the title in them. Personal choice when I started the site, but a lot of people work this way. I’ve noticed when I’m trawling through Google looking for advice, reviews or something else the [...]
Rest Easy OCD 23 Sep 2007
I’ve mentioned before my slight OCD tendencies. Turns out a number of my workmates are likewise afflicted (a lot more people than you realise, it might be just because we’re getting older and like things a certain way, scarily I have noticed I’m getting set in my ways and I haven’t hit 30 yet!). It’s [...]
Why do We Find Things Beautiful? 21 Sep 2007
I understand why we find other people beautiful (or not), it’s a rudimentary method of picking a suitable mate, or at least cutting the numbers down significantly. This obviously has survival implications reproduction implications. I also understand why we find babies (and other animals with similar traits) cute, it increases the likelihood we will nurture [...]
Finding Similar Items 19 Sep 2007
A lot of places, mainly online stores, now have the ‘if you like this you may like…’ or ‘customers who bought this also bought…’ features to help (and encourage) you to find similar items you might like. Unfortunately they’re often not very good, people buy a lot of wild things on one order so you [...]
Drowning in Email Addresses 17 Sep 2007
I have a lot of different email addresses. In Thunderbird I have 23 separate accounts listed. Most aren’t used, many now forward into other accounts and I’m slowly bringing them together, although I still have the issue of a work account too. This means people often get confused when mailing me. Many of my accounts [...]
Stationless TV 15 Sep 2007
It has started. I think more TV shows will end up going out to audiences in ways like, maybe establish and audience on a regular channel, then split to online media. Some will eventually start away from TV stations, maybe a few websites will become their own TV channels or listings sites, so the wheat [...]