http://www.nickjordan.co.uk The idiotic ramblings never stop. Sat, 17 May 2008 10:01:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just been introduced to We The Robots via Metafilter, and have spent a happy time reading the archives and chuckling to myself. It's clever, witty, tragic and just plain damned funny. This is one I shall be reading regularly. http://www.nickjordan.co.uk/index.php/2008/05/17/we-the-robots/ Fight for your writes. A nice little article by Zoe Margolis. While it's highly unlikely that I'll ever write anything here that anyone else would want to reproduce, I'm fully aware that the copyright for my blog posts rests with me and, if the circumstances arose, I'd be more than ... http://www.nickjordan.co.uk/index.php/2008/05/04/copyright-is-important/ Email spam celebrates its 30th anniversary today. Oh joy. Perhaps we should celebrate the occasion by hunting down those responsible and stringing them up with Cat 5 cable. http://www.nickjordan.co.uk/index.php/2008/05/03/thirty-years-of-crap/ Yesterday I spent a very enjoyable day out with friends Jen and Steve visiting a couple of National Trust properties in Kent. First off we went to Ightham Mote, which I'd visited before but was very happy to see again, and then Bodiam Castle, which I hadn't been to. It ... http://www.nickjordan.co.uk/index.php/2008/04/27/a-day-out-in-kent/ Yesterday I went to a recording of Have I Got News For You. I'd been to radio recordings before but this was my first TV show, and I have to say it was great fun. The half-hour show took about two and a half hours to record, and I got ... http://www.nickjordan.co.uk/index.php/2008/04/25/have-i-got-news-for-you/ I've been playing with the latest version of the Flock web browser, and it's good. Very good. In fact, it's come so far since the last time I tried it that it's practically a different beast altogether. It now imports all your bookmarks, cookies etc. from Firefox, the browser upon ... http://www.nickjordan.co.uk/index.php/2008/04/13/flock-11/ This morning I managed to have a minor accident on my motorbike. I won't go into all the details here except to say that I wasn't hurt at all and neither was anyone else. The bike's fairing and headlight don't look too good; I had a repair estimate this afternoon ... http://www.nickjordan.co.uk/index.php/2008/04/04/bike-accident/ On Sunday afternoon I ordered a MiniCard holder from Moo.com. I was very happy indeed when it arrived yesterday and even happier still when I unwrapped it and had a good look at it. It's exactly what I've been waiting for - a made-to-measure container to keep my MiniCards safe ... http://www.nickjordan.co.uk/index.php/2008/03/27/minicard-holder/ Yesterday we jumped on the bus and, amidst the snow showers, went to Ikea. It being a bank holiday weekend, I expected it to be unpleasantly busy but it turned out not to be too bad at all. We'd gone with the intention of picking up some picture frames but ... http://www.nickjordan.co.uk/index.php/2008/03/23/a-trip-to-ikea/ I've just had my attention drawn to Match It For Pratchett, a website that has been set up in order to raise at least £500,000 for research into Alzheimer's, the disease that Terry Pratchett was recently diagnosed with a form of. Mr. Pratchett himself has recently given half a million ... http://www.nickjordan.co.uk/index.php/2008/03/17/a-quick-plug/