Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

...the tree stood, broken hearted...

( The Heartwood )

A tree, its side ripped off by the wind, exposes a simulacra worthy of Fortean Times.

...I had to walk from Putney Bridge to home, and spride had shown me how to use the manual functions on my digital camera. What was I to do?

Stand in the rain and take photographs!

( Caution: night time photography experiments inside. )

...is like breathing. You can't survive online without it. Installing the Google toolbar is the first thing you do when you set up a Windows PC with IE. Or at least tweaking Mozilla so it uses Google as its default search engine.

And this is why:

I found an amazing quote on evan's LJ, from a lecture by Google's Urs Hölzle:

"Google gets 1,000 hits per second...
*advance slide*
...at 2am...
*advance slide*
...on December 25th."

...for, as Igor says: "IT MUST BE MINE"!

...as they will be copy-protecting all their CDs in Europe, using Cactus Data Shield - a technology that has damaged computers, and is unable to play in most car CD players. And you can just forget about that MP3 player of yours...

More details on this insane policy here.