Damien Mulley

Got a text from Fixer last night. He got a nasty blood infection that could have killed him. God bless Anti-biotics.

Speaking of red (oooh good segway Damien) , red versus blue is some thing the geeks and nerds of Boards were muppeting on about a lot there before. Seems they swept the awards at some animation festival. Correction: ‘Machinima is filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment.’

Its again a difference between the haves and the have nots as without good bandwidth I can’t download these shorts with large file szes to watch them.

Ordered loads of uninteresting crap online during the weekend. A few Christmas presents, T-Shirts, music cds and a DVD.

The cds I ordered are: TURIN BRAKES Ether Song , RADIOHEAD Hail To The Thief (Limited Edition) , RADIOHEAD I Might Be Wrong – LIVE , ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Kill Bill Vol. 1

And then I got City of God on DVD.

I’m soon going to have to catalog my dvd collection soon. Ebay has Cuecats for a dirt cheap price so I might get one of them and then use some free software to catalog them.

Moriarty from Aint it Cool comments on Charlies Angels

Set on another planet where physics obviously don’t matter, this is the story of two very hot girls who are friends with a girl who’s been told she’s hot, but really isn’t. Together, they randomly beat, brutalize, and sexually belittle their male victims while wearing as many different fetish-themed outfits as possible.

As uninterested in narrative coherence as even the strangest David Lynch film, CHARLIE’S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE should scare a whole generation of 12 year old boys off heterosexuality once and for all.

Matt Haughey created a very informative piece on using Googles Adsense. I might at some stage in the future use AdSense for another project but I don’t think a personal blog would make anything from Ads and plus Google won’t do personal websites.

The domain name Matt uses is cool too – http://a.wholelottanothing.org , he is also the dude behind MetaFilter which I view a good few times a day.

I like the mixing of maths and art and anything geek. So Jason Salavons website is something I’m ooohing and aaahing at. Thanks to Dave for the link.

So whats my to-do list this Bank Holiday ?

Lets see. Get Mulley.info working again to accept mail. Put some form of content on Mulley.us and get some forum software on the Mulley Genealogy website.

And if thats not enough I should try and start making inroads into getting the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Teen Resource site up and running.

Tech link: Many 2 Many – a collaborative blog on social software. The quality of the posts on this are really high and the comments contain some nuggets too. A great site with a great audience.

For the past few nights I have been going to bed at 9-10pm at night and its making a world of difference to my work. My productivity has sored. I realised my body needs an avergage of at least 8 hours and getting to bed at midnight or 1am or sometimes 3am and being back up at 6am was turning me into a zombie.

Now its Friday night, I don’t have to be up at 6am but I think I’m still going to be heading to my leaba early. Going to attempt to read the final installment of the Dark Materials Trilogy tomorrow.

Forgot to mention that I’m on a strict “calorie controlled diet” since Monday. So as well as no caffeine, alcohol and the rest theres no fatty foods and anything that tastes nice.

People are going to get worried now that I’ll turn into a Jesuit. I do have the whole power tripping thing and sadistic side too. Gods soldiers. Hmmm.

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And in tech news. Amazon today has opened up searching of all the books in their catalog. They’ve apparently scanned in every word thats in the books.

I’m pretty sure the API hackers and geeks out there are going to come up with some neat unthought of uses for this. It’d be damned cool if you could rebuild a book back in its entirety by searching this. Yes I know just by using a dictionary attack this won’t work unless you could scan for a series of words and go from there.

I suppse you could do it if you were allowed to search for large sets of words. Start with a word, then build a sentence around it and see does anything match and keep on going.

I’m sure the first apps will be word frequency things. “the word ‘fuckface’ is used twice in the Douglas Coupland book ..” etc

Right. I’ve decided to do something challenging. I’m giving up drink, drugs and caffeine for 12 months and it begins now.

So from now til October 2004 I’m going to be suffering drunken nights out while sober. Friends pissed and slurring around me and me as sober as a judge. Or friends giggling at nothing and me again sober as a judge. No tea, no coffee and no diet coke.

Its interesting to see how long I last and how it affects me.

Techy Link of the Day:Personas

DodgyList is now up and running thanks to kevin

Also more Iceland photos are not available on the Gallery Page.

Been reading about the Lazyweb for a while although never actually visited the site. (the rss feed seems borked)

Today I did visit and saw an idea for trying to connect with old friends. I had been thinking about this too but with other features such as a list of friends that you do have contact details for as well as a list of those you don’t.

So if say you are trying to Find John Q Murphy from your old school you list the names of guys/gals you know from that school and keep in contact with. Stick all them on a page that can get searched by google and whatnot. If John Q is looking for Mary O’Shea from your class and you have her name listed on your site he finds you too with a google search and sees you are looking for him. He also gets to see other people from the class listed. “Oh yeah Pat O’Brien ! I forgot about him. Oh he has a website, cool. ”

Maybe have an autoform that sends an email via your site after you authorize it so he can email Mary without knowing her address. With you authorizing this email it will prevent spamming via your site too.

If the people you know have websites you would of course list them too and any other details they want listed. The only issues would be too much detail as someone might try and steal that identity.

I’m not sure if something like this exists already as I’m too lazy to go and check.

(I started thinking about this again lately as recently I did a search for a friend and found he was last working in some college in the UK. I emailed his address but I don’t know is it still checked. I’m not a fan of read receipts )