How to Relax

This is how I currently pass my days and which I’m finding very relaxing and pleasurable, albeit solitary (but I LIKE being by myself )
7.30AM: Alarm goes off. Cuddle cat. Get up (approx 7.45AM). Drink 2 mugs of strong black coffee and 1 mug of white tea (Soy milk, not cow’s milk). Browse [...]

Italianissimo on BBC iPlayer

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Just a tip for those of you interested in learning Italian. BBC iPlayer currently have 19 episodes (I think 15 minutes each) of Italianissimo for free download). It’s great! While my Italian is more or less ok-ish (I can understand a fair bit but not too comfortable with speaking, though I am able [...]

I’ve Now Got 4oD

I’ve finally managed to get 4oD, Channel 4’s on demand service, to install and actually work. I had tried more than a year ago but encountered some annoying error (I blogged about it at the time). When things like that don’t work first time, I tend to just not bother.
However, someone told me the other [...]

How To Enjoy The Edinburgh Festival

… without leaving your hoose.
I had planned to go out and about today, but for two reasons have been staying indoors all day:
1. it was pissing down all morning and well into the early afternoon. Like, proper pissing down.
2. I have pain in my lower stomach. Nothing to do with ‘The Curse’ ( :p ). [...]

New BBC iPlayer, new Firefox

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Just now I’ve had a look at the new BBC iplayer site. Very much an improvement on the old one – you can now just go through the different channels, and a great bonus is that the radio stuff is now integrated too. Might even get me to start listening to the radio!
Though [...]

The Rifles ‘Local Boy’ = The Cure ‘Just Like Heaven’

I’ve been listening to The Rifles album – No Love Lost. Great album but I noticed they seem to draw inspiration from The Cure a fair bit. The song ‘Local Boy’ has the same fucking riff as the Cure’s Just Like Heaven. It’s a pretty blatant rip, so much so that it nearly sounds like [...]

BBC iPlayer Icon is Skype in Pink

I’ve just started using BBC iPlayer, more info on that some other time. Just an observation that their wee icon looks just like the Skype one – only it’s pink

My N95 Mobile is Now Unlocked

My gorgeous N95 is now unlocked. Cost me £10 from a phone shop on Mare Street. Fuck you iPhone, with your shiny huge billboard ads EVERYWHERE, your penetration of every magazine, newspaper, and TV, casting yourself as absolutely desirable, most beautiful necessity.
Unlike the iPhone, the N95 has a 5 Megapixel-camera, and 3G (the iPhone’s camera [...]

A HOT video of lenina 1991

A friend of mine yesterday gave me a link to a youtube – video I’m in. I used to work behind the bar in an indie club in Germany, and in 1991 for some reason two of the DJs made a video portray of said club.
Seeing that back then, I was one of the ‘Vorzeigepunks’ [...]

How to Go Viral (2G1C)

It’s very difficult for an online video to go viral these days. Here are two ways of doing so:

Deploy various conscious strategies (as explained here: The Secret Strategies Behind Many ‘Viral’ Videos)
Create a video so horrible, disgusting, and unwatchable, that it’s a genuine watercooler moment (as can be seen here: Two Girls One Cup – [...]