September 2009
21 posts
To be honest, I don’t differentiate between “dance like there’s no one watching” and its opposite.
Nokia buys Dopplr. We hope Dopplr stays open to all. But you know, a while down the track, Nokia will change the terms and conditions, then they’ll require you to create a Nokia login, then they’ll change the logo to say “Dopplr from Nokia”. Say it ain’t so.
Before I bought an iPhone, I had Sony Ericssons, for which I bought plugins from Feisar.com that allowed me to receive text messages simultaneously on my phone and on my Mac, and I could reply to them from my Mac too. It was nice being able to use the full keyboard to send out text messages, and to get the text messages on screen. It also let me know when someone was calling me, so if I had...
Me: perfect lies
Creevus: that sounds like a movie on cable
Me: correct. starring justine bateman and arnie
Creevus: "A housewife has an affair with a yoga instructor, but will it end in MURDER?"
Me: (it doesn't) (well except for the bad guy) (he had a rough childhood) (you don't see that in the movie though)
Creevus: also he gets migraines and death is sweet release for him
2010
Listen:
Friday 5 March - San Francisco -> Las Vegas Thursday 11 March - Austin for SXSW Wednesday 17 March - Boston -> New York Saturday 27 March - Melbourne
“We laugh too much anyway, Fox. Going to ROFLcon would probably kill us all.”
– Michelle Park
Today I began my 9.09 project. At that time, I must read one chapter of a book - any book. For the rest of the hour, I can continue to read, or I can choose to write instead. Today I read a big fat chapter from Designing for the Digital Age about defining requirements. So there’s that, which is nice.
Einhorn is Finkle! Finkle is Einhorn! →
I visited the parents the other day and dad was playing mandolin accompanied by an orchestra playing the same piece on YouTube. “The best part,” he said, “is the applause at the end!”
Started watching True Blood season 1 yesterday. Finished watching True Blood season 1 yesterday. Enjoyed.
In “Confessions of an Advertising Man”, Ogilvy writes:
Once every few years a great new agency is born. It is ambitious, hard working, full of dynamite. It gets accounts from soft old agencies. It does great work.
The years pass. The founders get rich, and tired. Their creative fires go out. They become extinct volcanoes.
The agency may continue to prosper. Its original momentum is not...
WINDY
Michelle says people go mad from extreme wind. Moreso than from extreme heat. I haven’t seen her data so I don’t know if she’s right.
Strange news headings today:
“Mexico plane hijacking ends smoothly”
“NHS staff suspended for playing The Lying Down Game”
SXSW 2010, baby →
“Is someone going to bring a stopwatch or will we be up all night just like the...”
– Girl from UX Book Club
I’d like it if you sent me stickers for the back of my iPhone.
Fanged frogs, grunting fish and tiny bear-like creatures.
SXSW demands I write a company name on the registration form. I don’t know whether to write “Disco!” or “Dream Division” or “ASDF”.
In other news, my worst real-nightmare (when you wake up and think that all-of-that actually happened) is that I’ve failed a university subject because I didn’t attend the classes. Last night it was French. I skipped a class - here, there - until I’d skipped so many that I had no idea what was going on, what homework was due, when the exams were, or anything. I woke up, frazzled....