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  • Dave 1:39 pm on April 19, 2009 Permalink  

     
  • Dave 7:26 am on April 5, 2009 Permalink
    Tags: , , , , rbst, ,   

    Best food begging face Your little brother is pulling faces again

    Sherwood Forest Farm Park opened up again for 2009 on Saturday. The weather was lovely as well – sunny and quite warm – this meant that some of the animals were enjoying it rather than curled up in balls in their various shelters.

    More photos in this Flickr set: Sherwood Forest Farm Park 04/09

     
  • Dave 8:09 pm on April 3, 2009 Permalink
    Tags: , chesterzoo, duck, giraffe   

    Four giraffes and a duck…

    You can't ride on the teacups any more Pam, you're too tall now Giraffe Giraffe Happy Eater We both know you've got a sandwich - question is, do you feel lucky?

    Taken during a visit to Chester Zoo a few weeks ago. It was a bit cold and overcast for much of the day. I definitely want to go back when it’s warm and sunny.

     
  • Dave 3:35 pm on April 3, 2009 Permalink
    Tags: brass, electronic, , röyksopp, video   

    Röyksopp – Happy Up Here (Brass) 

    I saw an interview with Röyksopp on Channel 4 recently which ended with a brass band playing a version of their last single, Happy Up Here. I really liked it. Mind you, I really liked their original version too…

     
  • Dave 3:28 pm on April 3, 2009 Permalink
    Tags: , , facebook, links, noise, rss, tweets, twitter   

    The Rubbish Tip - I by carf, on Flickr
    Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic License by  carf
    The more ways of communicating and passing information there are, the more ways there are to fill these things up with noise so that the end result is that you have so much information available to you, you really spend your time trying to pick out the good bits.
    This seems to be made even worse by the same information appearing in multiple channels.
    For example, I use Facebook and Twitter. There are some people on both and some that just use one or another. Some of the people who use both have set things up so that their messages get sent to both systems. The end result for anyone who uses both is that you see a lot of duplicate information.
    Another example is the practice of posting links from Delicious to blog posts. It is possible to subscribe to Delicious pages, tags or networks to get these in your RSS reader, which I used to do. People then post these links to their blogs – which I also subscribe to in an RSS reader, which gives you more duplication information to filter through.
    The worst practice I’ve seen is somebody who has daily blog posts called ‘My Tweets’ which just parrot out a load of partial conversations they’ve had with various unknown people. How is that useful to anyone?
    The end result of all this for me is that I just hit the off switch for feeds or Facebook or Twitter contacts when the duplication gets out of control.
     
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