Year: 2007
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A Year With Last FM
In a post a year ago I described a recently-published chart of ‘best ever’ albums that claimed to be the most accurate as it was based on historical sales. I posited that a chart based on what people were actually listening to would be better, although this would be impossible to obtain. In that post, I hazarded a guess (by way of example) that the 10 albums I listened to the most were: Radiohead OK Computer Desaperacidos Read Music Speak Spanish Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands At The Drive In Relationship of Command Pleasure Forever Alter Oasis… Read more
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Geek Tragedies
A couple of weeks ago, my PC died (again). This is a major catastrophe in our house, what with the kids and Webkins, and the wife and on-line shopping. In theory we can access the Internet via the PlayStation 3, but actually doing so is an exercise in exasperation – the browser window is either too big or too small (you can’t get it to simply re-scale for the TV size the way HTML should), and entering even the shortest URL via the controller is truly painful (and the PS3 refuses to recognize my (non-Sony) bluetooth keyboard). A life without… Read more
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Radiohead Ate My PC
Unless you’ve just emerged from a coma (in which case you have probably have better things to do than read this ‘blog) you’ll no doubt be aware that Radiohead‘s latest album In Rainbows was released last Wednesday (10th October 2007). In typically contrary style, Radiohead have eschewed the traditional release approach, and have made the new album available as a (effectively) free download. This is not a new tactic – Dead Heart Bloom did the same thing with both of their first two albums. What made Radiohead unique is that they left the price up to the individual purchaser – “It’s… Read more
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Black Boys on Mopeds
I’m in Manchester (England, not North Carolina) for the week, facilitating a Knowledge Management workshop. For those not in the know, Knowledge Management basically involves defining and implementing a strategy for capturing an organization’s knowledge (which may be on LANs, paper, individual PCs, or in people’s brains), organizing this so that the information can easily be found, and sticking it all somewhere that everyone who needs it has access to it. I guess it’s not much of an issue in a small company, but when you’ve got several hundred people who are globally distributed (principally Manchester, Bangkok, and Guatemala) who… Read more