digitaldust

OK, so even though I was boasting of getting ahead I’m still months behind on this one. The Register’s highly developed investigative journalism reports on Google’s attempts to buy NZ.

As they point out world dominating villians need a place to hang out and Mt Doom is up for rent now after Sauron’s eviction.

[via Read/WriteWeb]

tower bridge detail

New toys arrive by the minute. The DSLR has opened the floodgates. I got my new Lensbaby the other day and have started to get used to it.

It is a bit weird to begin with. I’m trying to apply all my large format learning - lens angle equals half the angle between the film plane and the focus plane, yadda, yadda… but it seems to be a bit more unpredictable than that. More of an intuitive experience. Which is actually a bit more enjoyable. Screw the maths I can just take lots of pictures with the DSLR and hope I get it right. Shoot from the hip!

I’ve nearly caught up with the rest of the web universe.

Dude, that is so yesterday afternoon, about 3pm.

Yours,

Rik

—–Original Message—–
From: Dan Dixon [mailto:dan@headshift]
Sent: 03 May 2006 14:35
To: headshift1
Subject: web design death clock

http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/05/01/the-web-design-trend-obituary-death- clock/

Partly because of a cunning trick I’ve implemented in my RSS feeds. With a little inspiration from a friend of Al’s, I’ve gone for a much simpler and, I’ve now found, much more effective set of classifications.

1. Good
2. Possibly Good
3. Possibly Crap
4. Crap I have to subscribe to for some reason but cant be asked reading

In one avian bird flu swoop I’ve made my feeds manageable. Now I only subscribe to 99 feeds (excluding my flickr feeds, that would at least double it), so maybe I can’t complain compared to other information junkies around who do 3-5 times that much. However I don’t inject meth-amphetamine into my eyeballs like I catch some other people around the office doing.

I went from thousands of unread items to less than 100. the other thing I noticed was that all the my “Good” blogs had relatively low posting rates (except WMMNA and frankly I have no idea how she does it).

I’ve also noticed that the stuff I read is the good stuff and I skim the headings of the “Crap I have to….”, to stay peripherally across various business and pleasure things I simply must stay across. Both of which are relatively low volume.

Apologies for the meta/geek/lifehack stuff. These things are nearly as bad as the proverbial cheese sandwich post.

PS: Rik is reading this post before I’ve posted it. We’re trapped in a Xeno’s paradox of web awareness. But it’s better to be Achilles than the tortoise - even if he is left behind he’s got great abs.