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Short posts, quick brain dumps, interesting bits and bobs that don’t warrant a longer post.
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Vice CityVice City proves runaway hit:“The fourth instalment of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game has become the fastest selling title of all time in the UK.” Crap, you mean I should finish level one of the third ‘installment’ (tut, tut BBC) that I’ve had for about a year or so now? Aside: ‘Instalment’…
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Alter-BloggingHmmm need a better title. Anyone else noticed a subtle shift in the way we blog these days? With the arrival of stable commenting systems, BlogRoll etc, there is a lot less cross-linking of personal sites, instead the you get mini-dialogues between site owner and site visitor, played out in the comments box. Could someone…
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AwardsAll Things Blog have announced their nominations for the Annual ATB Blog Awards, and it’s good to see a few of my regular reads (as featured in my BlogRoll) nominated. Very well deserved, go and vote now! Of course I’m not in the slightest bit jealous. No, I’m not, as Nick Cave wrote in a…
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Staring into the Singularity Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. If computing speeds double every two years, what happens when computer-based AIs are doing the research? Computing speed doubles every two years. Computing speed doubles every two years of work. Computing speed doubles every two subjective years of work. Two years after Artificial…
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Russian RouletteDid anyone else catch this rather bizarre celebrity gameshow last night? I only saw the last 15-20 minutes of it but I did like the idea. Cached page from Google. Briefly: Line up six celebrities on six circles (top down view like the chamber of a six-shooter), ask them general knowledge questions, and when…
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Music protectionMany others have stated the argument for and against protecting music CDs. My personal position which has remained unchanged for the last 2 years or so since I ‘discovered’ MP3s, is that I will download a few tracks to see if I like them, and if I like enough tracks I will buy the…