Month: February 2007

chocopix

Bought a red nose yet? If so, how awesomely cool is the chocopix! Almost awesomely cool enough to stop me from eating it. Almost.

yahoo pipes

You’d think I planned this stuff. No sooner have I asked about RSS feeds than I hear about Yahoo Pipes which “is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment”.
And yes, the site is down at the moment, it’s THAT popular.

Wiggle and the lost Lock Lace

It’s nice to be nice, ain’t it.

So allow me to pass on a tale of good customer service. A tale to inspire, to encourage, to coax, but above all a tale to warm our consumer hearts and restore our faith in humanity.

OK, maybe it’s not that good a tale. But it is a story of good customer service, and it’s nice to be able to say that.

It is a tad long though.
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Feeds? My aRSSe

Ohh yes, hitting top form with the witty post titles now!

Two posts today, both of which may hold limited appeal. First up, a few questions about my RSS site feeds, and later a nice tale about good customer service.

If you don’t use the RSS feeds, then I’d ignore this post.
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amen break

YouTube video on the history of the Amen break (via) (via Hg)
“Beginning … as a 6-second instrumental bridge in the middle of a B-side of an obscure Sixties soul record by The Winstons, and charting its evolution into an endlessly repeated/reworked/ simulated/sampled/dissected building block of modern musical culture.”

meaning of this