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seldo.com

Personal website for Laurie Voss, aka @seldo

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1,485 from 11 Sep 2001 to 14 Sep 2026
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2026 6

  1. We are all Product Engineers now
  2. Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.
  3. Did OpenAI hack Hugging Face or didn't they?
  4. AI has torched the market for junior programmers
  5. Developer Relations: what it is, and how to measure it
  6. Do AI-enabled companies need fewer people?

2025 3

  1. 2026 is the year of fine-tuned small models
  2. AI's effects on programming jobs
  3. What I've learned about writing AI apps so far

2023 3

  1. On AI, ML, LLMs and the future of software
  2. There's no such thing as the fundamentals of web development
  3. The case for frameworks

2022 1

  1. Crypto: the good, the bad and the ugly

2021 2

  1. What I've learned about data recently
  2. Twenty years of blogging

2020 2

  1. You Will Never Be A Full Stack Developer
  2. What is good code?

2019 2

  1. Databases: how they work, and a brief history
  2. Biographies of every US president as audiobooks

2018 5

  1. Becoming American
  2. Shoes
  3. Life in the bonus round
  4. Hands to Heaven, but about web standards
  5. Quasar Industries' Domestic Android robot hoax

2017 3

  1. Help decriminalize homosexuality in Trinidad and Tobago
  2. Are we making the web too complicated?
  3. How does one defeat Donald Trump?

2016 1

  1. Web development has two flavors of graceful degradation

2015 2

  1. Inclusiveness vs. safety in online spaces
  2. On the Techdel test, and giving a shit about workplace diversity

2014 3

  1. You suck at technical interviews
  2. A comparison of diversity at three major tech companies
  3. On Brendan Eich, equality, and freedom

2013 9

  1. Why I am a web developer
  2. Stepping back from awe.sm
  3. An open letter to Mac Fingall, in response to “Abnormal Behaviour”
  4. Eight things that are bigger threats to our civil liberties and democracy than PRISM
  5. On Internet surveillance and the role of the state
  6. A very brief history of US government Internet surveillance programs
  7. The origins of life
  8. San Francisco city guide map, for the prospective resident
  9. Tumblr will kill RSS

2012 9

  1. Why all Americans should be in favor of immigration reform
  2. Blue-collar knowledge workers will save the economy
  3. HTML5 vs. Obj-C is not the same as PHP vs. C
  4. Others
  5. 2012 Presidential Election: the polls to watch
  6. A conversation with Rick Santorum
  7. Five little problems with Twitter's UI
  8. Invention
  9. Why I really, really hate Instagram

2011 25

  1. On Google integrating Google+ into Chrome
  2. The real cloud
  3. Wanted: statisticians
  4. ORM is an anti-pattern
  5. iPhoneTracker, Extra Creepy Edition
  6. Briefly, on Agile
  7. I want to expose your children to homosexuality
  8. The 12 Days Of Christmas, by the numbers
  9. @linklog and the delicious shutdown
  10. A few words about Wikileaks
  11. It gets better
  12. Three gay teens kill themselves every day
  13. PHP needs to die. What will replace it?
  14. PHP needs to die. What will replace it?
  15. The obligatory I-am-getting-older post
  16. Arrington is completely wrong about women in technology
  17. In defence of SQL
  18. A letter from a mother
  19. Towards a real distributed social network protocol
  20. Apple's ban on intermediate platforms, and what this means for web apps
  21. Re-Expressed
  22. 3 years, 3 days
  23. Seldo.Com is 10
  24. On leaving Yahoo!
  25. A new adventure

2010 7

  1. Google Buzz
  2. Corporations are not people, and should not be
  3. Obligatory iTablet speculation post
  4. Wells Fargo are running a "free credit report" scam
  5. Are spot instances killing the performance of Amazon EC2?
  6. It's never cool to not know something
  7. How to promote your website without being evil

2009 42

  1. This blog in review, 2009
  2. Avatar and the future of movies
  3. To the disaffected supporters of the UK Labour party
  4. More on the App Store: are web apps the solution?
  5. Bing and News Corp: it'll never happen
  6. Faith in humanity
  7. Three easy ways to fix the App Store. And one really, really hard way.
  8. Dear Window #5 at 10am on Thursday, 12th November 2009
  9. Citizen journalists are self-serving. Just like ordinary journalists.
  10. Immigration is good for you. Yes, you.
  11. Web companies are user interface companies
  12. Pilots, part 8
  13. Pilots, part 7
  14. Pilots, part 6
  15. Pilots, part 5
  16. Pilots, part 4
  17. Does anyone want more Pilots?
  18. AT&T's censorsorship of 4chan
  19. Pilots, part 3
  20. Pilots, part 2
  21. Pilots, part 1
  22. IE market share: not so fast, TechCrunch
  23. Obama on gay rights, so far
  24. On oil reserves
  25. A first-person report from Iran about the election
  26. California Proposition 8 Upheld
  27. Ten Things Twitter is Not
  28. SF Outside Lands
  29. On Love
  30. Twitter, Google and SocialRank
  31. An open letter to the Daily Express
  32. On the length of a shower
  33. I don't get no respect
  34. Journalism is dead
  35. In defence of unit testing
  36. On web development
  37. Introducing Cascading Semantic Descriptions
  38. On Microformats
  39. One of those days you'll always remember
  40. Coming soon to a nation near you
  41. Microsoft is not a web company
  42. Your first lady

2008 36

  1. This blog in review, 2008
  2. My favourite tweets of 2008
  3. Lily Allen - Womanizer
  4. On Network Neutrality
  5. Awful Gays vs. Awful Nerds
  6. HTTP Conversation Codes
  7. I shall use my power of rainbow!
  8. Were the world mine
  9. I really hate cosmetics advertising
  10. I will not be protesting the Prop 8 decision
  11. What the Obama administration's national CTO should do
  12. The trouble with Republicans
  13. Google Maps Mashup: fire station distance finder
  14. President Barack Obama
  15. Vote
  16. Motivation unknown
  17. The Bradley Effect is a myth
  18. Signal
  19. His name was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, and he was an American.
  20. This is a picture of a puppy
  21. Vote No on California Proposition 8
  22. 10 Things I wish people knew about me
  23. A personal note from Donald E. Wildmon
  24. Software development meme
  25. LOLEconomy
  26. Android will not unseat iPhone
  27. Google Chrome: that full review already
  28. Calm down, everyone
  29. US Presidential Debate schedules, 2008
  30. Just one of those things
  31. Google Chrome: watch this space
  32. Now that's what I call iconic
  33. Lucy from the Sky
  34. Hotties for Obama: how to build a website in 32 minutes
  35. The Tyranny of iTunes
  36. Insightful political analysis, live on GTalk

2005 1

  1. 7.7.2005

2002 2

  1. The Info Service (your guess is as good as mine) maintains this really quite fabulous index of...
  2. Somehow unreported until today, Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died two days ago on August 6th 2002. Although...

2001 2

  1. Y'know what? The legal system sucks. On November 26th, 2001, a previously-convicted child molester...
  2. Karlie Rogers

Undated 1319

  1. How to get an idea for a startup: move to the Bay
  2. IT'S NOT A TUMAH
  3. RURL bookmarklet / toolbar button
  4. Google Knol is evil
  5. This week in the US Presidential Campaign
  6. I'm off
  7. I'm off
  8. The future of social software, part 2: social processors
  9. Not dead
  10. Coming soon to Air Force 1
  11. Barack Obama, democratic nominee for president
  12. The future of social software, part 1: social networks
  13. No More Dates. Ever.
  14. Twitter does not have any competitors
  15. A Surprising History of the Caribbean
  16. Good things this week
  17. Why I'm supporting Obama, redux
  18. Journalists do the best catfights
  19. Telling
  20. Hillary Clinton, it's time to go.
  21. Forgive me
  22. MicroHoo: a temporary reprieve?
  23. Mayor Boris Johnson
  24. Obama is the candidate for technology
  25. Truck testicles: they're not for everyone
  26. What people don't get about Twitter
  27. Things that were not discussed in tonight's debate
  28. You can go home again
  29. Briefly on the Olympics
  30. I'm in London
  31. Remaining democratic primary dates
  32. The Emergent Web: the elevator pitch
  33. The Emergent Web
  34. Seldo.Com is 7 years old today
  35. Twitter color wars 2008: blue team avatar generator
  36. Useful junk
  37. Tales of the unexpected
  38. Your attention please
  39. Why I love the Wikipedia
  40. Site news
  41. An ode to the essence of boy
  42. Why does my mobile phone suck so much? (Part 2)
  43. Why does my mobile phone suck so much? (Part 1)
  44. Wooooo!: an American cultural institution
  45. Poor Hillary
  46. But I wouldn't want my kids to be gay
  47. A sight for sore eyes
  48. We have more work to do
  49. Okay democracy, I did my bit. Now it's your turn.
  50. Vote today!
  51. Focus on the positive
  52. Like a punch in the stomach
  53. Egg on your Facebook
  54. To the supporters of John Edwards
  55. Obama takes South Carolina with a 29-point lead
  56. Twitter is down
  57. Minor new stuff
  58. A question of etiquette
  59. Twitter stats
  60. US Presidential Primary Dates
  61. Barack Obama is the candidate who gets the Internet
  62. Gay people are loathsome
  63. Just call me Seldodamus
  64. Related stories, part 2
  65. Related stories
  66. Inspirational
  67. Amazon MP3: two thumbs up
  68. This blog in review, 2007
  69. New Year's Resolutions
  70. Traffic lights in Port of Spain
  71. Did I mention I was on holiday?
  72. Television is dying
  73. On Unicorns and Indie Rock
  74. Global Village
  75. ISO bored graphic designer
  76. Nils Voss, 1908-2007
  77. Cultural differences
  78. In which I make my best joke ever
  79. It's out there
  80. Idle question
  81. Google Web Toolkit and a high-level language for the web
  82. Oops 1
  83. Work ethic
  84. Yahoo! and Google: who will win?
  85. For the record
  86. A little remodelling
  87. My Christmas List
  88. Halloween 2007
  89. Stop press: hot monks in Burma!
  90. Does Microsoft really think Facebook is worth $15 billion?
  91. On gigs and killer monkeys
  92. In Rainbows
  93. New Life Goal
  94. What Would Tyler Durden Do?
  95. New Home, meet Old Home
  96. One Laptop Per Child
  97. Hat Par-tay
  98. Do the Mash
  99. Early adopter, thy name is "chump"
  100. I Resolve To Never Be On The Same Social Networking Site As My Children
  101. Things that only happen to me
  102. AFA says: Ford is awesome!
  103. Amazon Unbox and the Law of Small Numbers
  104. The Gay FAQ: your input required
  105. After-after-afterlife
  106. Minor update
  107. Mosh pit
  108. We're hiring
  109. Standard Malpractice
  110. More comedy gold from the AFA
  111. Story of a boy
  112. Thoughtflow
  113. Leaf in the stream
  114. I hope they love you too
  115. The joy of California
  116. Pownce
  117. BubbleWatch Alert #006
  118. The Final Harry Potter
  119. Simplify, simplify
  120. Ow 1
  121. Yowza
  122. Harry Potter: the story so far
  123. A squishy machine
  124. American Family Association only in favour of Christian families
  125. BubbleWatch Alert #005
  126. Years
  127. iPhone typing review
  128. My iPhone feature wishlist
  129. Omfg
  130. Happy iPhone day!
  131. BubbleWatch Alert #004
  132. A minor prediction
  133. Proud of what, exactly?
  134. T-t-t-touch me...
  135. Safari on Windows
  136. Kyle XY
  137. Oh, well said
  138. BubbleWatch Alert: #003
  139. Why I'm not sure if I'm really a grown-up
  140. BubbleWatch Alert: #002
  141. BubbleWatch Alert: #001
  142. Bubble 2.0
  143. So what happened today, you ask?
  144. Things that are probably invented a lot, but, due to the manner in which they must be tested, one never hears about
  145. My Amazon.Com is NSFW
  146. Internet killed the Video Star
  147. Desperation move
  148. My own personal rant room
  149. Media
  150. Twitter
  151. This is kind of an odd question, I know...
  152. A small price to pay
  153. City by the Bay
  154. Hey, look what I did!
  155. This post is illegal
  156. Being American Is...
  157. A Survey Apart
  158. I saw Orion
  159. America: currently holding a 50% off sale!
  160. Nerding Man
  161. No more Don't Be Evil™
  162. My blogger code
  163. This weekend was brought to you by...
  164. Joost Beta
  165. My weekend
  166. Here comes... Dr. Tran
  167. Launched!
  168. Miscellaneous followups
  169. A proud day
  170. SueTube
  171. Something is happening
  172. It seemed funny at the time
  173. Citibank: Worst bank ever?
  174. A question of scale
  175. "I will out-diva you, bitch!"
  176. Worth a thousand words
  177. California...
  178. Jokes for nerds, jokes for nerds
  179. Surreality calling
  180. ER
  181. Ow
  182. The Triumph of Capitalism, Part 2
  183. So much to say, so little time...
  184. The Triumph of Capitalism, part 1
  185. Day Two
  186. Good morning, America
  187. Curtain up
  188. End of Act Two
  189. New hair
  190. The future is bright
  191. I could be hurtful / I could be purple / I could be anything you like
  192. A farewell to London
  193. I'm outta here
  194. The iPhone
  195. Last Popstarz Ever
  196. Applicants and Supplicants
  197. Interview result
  198. Interview monkey
  199. Product placement
  200. Bored
  201. Top 20
  202. Happy New Year!
  203. Possibly newsworthy...
  204. The year-end review
  205. Textual intercourse
  206. My Island Paradise
  207. Mehragon and oh, I'm gone
  208. "So, when are you leaving?"
  209. Hacked again :-(
  210. Wii! So I had a go on Steve's Wii this afternoon at Dan's sumptuous paella-fest. I am by no...
  211. My blood's not good enough
  212. Hacked
  213. Light a candle
  214. Little things and ancient history
  215. It's important to have goals
  216. Not your typical wedding
  217. Everything (and everyone) must go
  218. The next step
  219. What I just did was important
  220. The Host with the most
  221. The company of strangers
  222. Ding, dong the witch is dead
  223. Worst blogger ever
  224. I ass-cone SF
  225. Oh, man
  226. Saaan Fraaaan-cisco
  227. Panic over
  228. Five things
  229. When it rains, it pours
  230. Thiiiiings... can only get bettahhhhh....
  231. I do the web
  232. The start of a story
  233. Agreement in Principle
  234. Ghettorian
  235. Sacrospinnicus
  236. Oops
  237. Birthday shenanigans
  238. The Shoot Experience
  239. Shoot experience
  240. Two related thoughts, part 1: DVDs and airline security
  241. Suri Cruise
  242. And now, for something completely different
  243. Metronidazole and the subjective nature of reality
  244. Mandatory Parental Licensing
  245. Explictly Sorry
  246. Gattawho?
  247. Ah, competition
  248. Things to do while waiting for your jaw to stop hurting
  249. Grrrr :-(
  250. Question of the day
  251. I don't post lyrics much these days, do I?
  252. Oh ye of little faith
  253. Snakes on a Plane day
  254. Google.fm
  255. Home before 7pm!
  256. Fa-la-la-la-la-aaargh
  257. 8/10 is 9/11 minus 1/1
  258. Face paralysis Wednesday
  259. Israel vs. Hezbollah
  260. On Castro and Cuba
  261. Mmmmbublemmmble!
  262. This Week In Tech
  263. Friday
  264. Bring the pain
  265. This is why I shouldn't read books about genetics
  266. Ffs
  267. Pirates vs. Superman: a double review
  268. Use the Beta, Luke
  269. I steal music
  270. Snakes on a Music Video
  271. Snakes on a Plane: the merchandising
  272. More photos
  273. I'm back, baby
  274. More things to remember to blog later
  275. They've got GPRS in Kharikov! This message coming to you from inside the offices of the Bank of...
  276. Ukraine, part 2
  277. Sorry, did I forget to mention...?
  278. Tonight
  279. Bugger
  280. Becalmed
  281. Snakes on an Update
  282. On going home
  283. Sorry, I suck. Also: sorry, cow.
  284. Seldo.net version 0.2
  285. On Tesco and Globalization
  286. This Friday
  287. Afterlife: an update
  288. British Summer rain / Seems to last for ages
  289. Musication
  290. "Al-Qaeda does not believe in transparency"
  291. The current season of Doctor Who
  292. Of some relevance to the current discussion
  293. In other news...
  294. Crisis of Cool
  295. Popstarz this week?
  296. Ass Recognition
  297. I have seen the elephant
  298. Bread machines are evil
  299. The final sign of spring
  300. Oh dear
  301. No school for gays
  302. Foursome
  303. Bird Q (and A)
  304. Ambient Poison
  305. They're coming!
  306. Blog Birthday
  307. Big Weekend
  308. V for Vindicated
  309. Syriana + Elections
  310. House warmed... 80s style!
  311. Announcing Eat Like A Grown Up month
  312. I went to work today
  313. Surfacing
  314. I'm BACK, baby
  315. Be There Soon
  316. We have liftoff
  317. Racism is a crime; being a racist is not
  318. On hold
  319. No Smoking
  320. The Vice President Of The United States Shot Someone This Weekend
  321. Munich
  322. Quote of the week
  323. Soft skills
  324. Off to pokey
  325. On islamophobia and freedom of speech
  326. Just a smidgen sexier than James Blunt...
  327. An open letter to the editor of the Western Mail
  328. I must have missed the memo
  329. Roller Disco
  330. Opera Mini
  331. Planetary realignment
  332. Buttoned Down Disco
  333. Friday 1
  334. Read all about it
  335. Importing MovableType into WordPress without comments
  336. Sunset
  337. One of those days
  338. Say hello, again
  339. Beauty and the Geek
  340. Blonde Joke
  341. More about the flat
  342. Flat finding
  343. To Seldo.Com bloggers
  344. Holiday snaps
  345. Mr. Popularity
  346. Ariel Sharon has major stroke
  347. Final Straw
  348. Brokeback Mehntain
  349. Shaaaaaaaaadaaaaaaaap!
  350. "Do enraged lemur!"
  351. The Year in Blog
  352. Comedy photo of the day
  353. I'm back, baby!
  354. Low-fi reality
  355. Off to the tropics
  356. Christmas Spirit
  357. The Sky at Night
  358. Geek fact for today
  359. The Lion Roars
  360. Party
  361. DJ
  362. Baby Pandas
  363. Your unexpected fact for the day
  364. Bank Error
  365. Iraq and the Long Tail of conflict
  366. Job Satisfaction
  367. Unselfish, part 2
  368. Unselfish
  369. Webgeekery
  370. All I want for Christmas
  371. It remains cold
  372. IT IS SO FUCKING COLD RIGHT NOW
  373. Take me to Paris
  374. Sober up
  375. I love Defective Yeti
  376. Zzzzzznnnnnneeeeeeeeeeee...
  377. Jon Stewart in London
  378. Well, that wasn't too bad
  379. T'was the night before Yahoo...
  380. Comedy Gold
  381. The new place: I do Yahoo
  382. Testing whether I can blog from my new phone...
  383. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  384. Popstarz Forever
  385. Breaking news
  386. The Final Countdown
  387. Voter Registration
  388. Ewww
  389. Beam me, Scotty
  390. Job
  391. R.I.P., Simon Hobart
  392. Under the influence
  393. Cooler than the Red Dress
  394. Goodbye, Dick Cheney?
  395. My housemates are famous!
  396. Mr Big
  397. SpareKeys.Com
  398. Points for disarming honesty
  399. Target market
  400. I'm outta here
  401. More NYC photos
  402. Today was a very good day
  403. Busy busy
  404. NYC photos: day 1
  405. I'm back, baby
  406. NYC, day 5
  407. NYC, day 4
  408. NYC, day 3
  409. NYC, Day 2
  410. New York, NY
  411. "What, not ever?"
  412. Customer service
  413. Birthday photos
  414. Birthday, Part 2
  415. Birthday, Part 1
  416. Traitorous flesh
  417. Trapped in the attic
  418. "Oh, and no healthcare"
  419. 49
  420. Crash into me
  421. You're it
  422. Cooking breeds cooking
  423. Google Talk
  424. Puddle
  425. Relaxed
  426. Being geeky
  427. Terror Calculus
  428. Ideas from somewhere else
  429. Gabi and the Whoremoans
  430. Jocks vs Nerds
  431. Cult
  432. 7 Million Londoners
  433. Quite Uncommon
  434. Planet Afterlife: Mirror
  435. The Big List Of Totally Inappropriate Occasions on which George W. Bush has used the phrase "hate freedom"
  436. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  437. Summer Party
  438. ANGRY MOSHING REQUIRED
  439. Very geeky question
  440. Fantastic Four
  441. Stop bombing us, dammit
  442. Summary
  443. Perspective
  444. From the horse's mouth
  445. Another busy week
  446. It's been an odd week
  447. Recovery
  448. You'll work it out
  449. This is a test of my emergency broadcast system
  450. Which Guru are you?
  451. One of the most convincing spams I've seen in ages
  452. Last 10 songs
  453. Second helpings
  454. It's Thursday
  455. Mr. And Mrs. Smith
  456. Things I was asked at work today
  457. Why Software Patents Are Important
  458. Oh dear lord
  459. Make Poverty Histowy
  460. Never argue methods if you agree with the conclusion
  461. Batman Begins
  462. Who Boy
  463. Live Off
  464. Misshapen
  465. Hayfever
  466. As You Like It
  467. Fantastically 13
  468. Yikes
  469. Gurgle
  470. Darth Vader is... my penis
  471. Locking down
  472. Safe dreaming
  473. Miss-Shapes
  474. Chicken stuffed with brie and leeks
  475. Caffeine free: Day 2
  476. Antisocialite
  477. Star Wars & Care Bears
  478. Relay
  479. Announcement
  480. Hallo
  481. Ill again
  482. Blog watching
  483. Worship at the altar of Lucas
  484. Self-correcting
  485. An open letter to Sno
  486. Things that have been good recently
  487. Chav Detection
  488. Oh dear
  489. Houseparty: the final score
  490. Blogging from the dinner table. Either a new low, or a new high. I'm not sure.
  491. On laughter
  492. Johnny Hart, he no likey da evolution
  493. I'm back, baby
  494. Sixty years birthday
  495. By the way
  496. Still here
  497. Back from Grenadines
  498. This is being experimentally moblogged from the deck of a moving yacht on the caribbean sea. Isn't...
  499. Interminal
  500. For once, they may be right
  501. Downfall
  502. Why I should vote Lib Dem
  503. Who should I vote for?
  504. Meta-spam
  505. Vote not-Tory
  506. Beautiful Boxer
  507. The feeling of power
  508. The English Countryside
  509. People suck
  510. The Real World Is Overrated
  511. Take that, PG-13 life!
  512. Buttoned Down Disco
  513. John Kerry for Pope
  514. PopeWatch 2005 and the perils of infovorousness
  515. That's it. Game over.
  516. Not dead
  517. Save us!
  518. My day has been made
  519. On Computational Hygiene
  520. Parkage == fun
  521. Small victories
  522. Picnic in the Hyde Park
  523. Double speak
  524. Web2: hello, world
  525. Hit me
  526. iPod meme
  527. Summer clubbing, had me a blast...
  528. Apparently, I'm a genius
  529. Today was a better day
  530. Ugh
  531. Working til 10.30pm sucks
  532. The Doctor Is In
  533. Newsflash
  534. Gone to the Dogs
  535. Too busy to blog
  536. Data mining
  537. Dr. Now
  538. On London
  539. On the weakness of CSS
  540. Hey
  541. Life: a how-not-to-do-it guide
  542. First impressions
  543. Oh dear god
  544. Tedium-pum-pum
  545. *reset*
  546. Enlightenment
  547. Gabi and the Whoremoans
  548. Some minor meta-blogging
  549. Life on Mars
  550. Over-analysis ahoy!
  551. Not trying to make up blog entries at all
  552. Damn
  553. I am mortified
  554. Time dilation
  555. Closer, but no cigar
  556. The track and the highway
  557. Welcome to MT3
  558. No matter the test, I come out as "geek"
  559. ...and we're back
  560. Woo
  561. Moving day
  562. Popnews
  563. At This Point: the case for attacking Iran
  564. It feels like years since it's been here
  565. Commanding the tide not to rise
  566. Brother, can you spare £50?
  567. It's another boring What I Did Today Post
  568. Scissor Story
  569. Oh hell yes
  570. Ghost fancier
  571. Fajita madness
  572. Homesick for a place that doesn't exist
  573. Deco-fabulous
  574. Beautiful mistakes
  575. Decisions, decisions...
  576. Fuck bars
  577. Sociability
  578. Comment fucking spam
  579. I really must get back into the habit of keeping a notebook by my bed for writing down the thoughts...
  580. Projecting
  581. Must try harder
  582. Exactly how I'm crazy
  583. Dammit!
  584. Noooo
  585. Hee hee
  586. Invisible black
  587. Sense of occasion
  588. Temporary absence
  589. Back to the grey
  590. My Island Paradise, part 5: coconuts and crix
  591. My Island Paradise, part 4: sunshine and spiders
  592. Mac Mini and iPod shuffle
  593. On globalization being self-limiting
  594. My Island Paradise, part 3
  595. On geekiness being hereditary
  596. Mini meta-blog: on blogging frequency
  597. Planet Seldo
  598. My Island Paradise, part 2
  599. 2004: a review
  600. I blog because I care
  601. My Island Paradise
  602. But I wouldn't have Shreddies and tea because they are both brown
  603. Resolutions
  604. It's my party and I'll blog if I want to
  605. You can't just make stuff up
  606. More tsunami stuff
  607. 2004 goes out with a bang
  608. ...and when do you leave?
  609. Gmail is expanding again
  610. Shame-based education
  611. The four estates
  612. On the 18th Day of December my good friends brought to me...
  613. Brand hijack
  614. Uninspired
  615. Love.Angel.Music.Baby
  616. Other people's words
  617. Why I love my iPod
  618. Blithe Spirit
  619. Poetic justice
  620. Point. Click. Kill.
  621. I haven't blogged in ages
  622. War Zone
  623. Um, why is there a tank in this picture?
  624. Goodbye, Ashcroft!
  625. A thought shared
  626. No More Mr. Nice Guy
  627. Oh, Canada...
  628. Can't take anymore
  629. Better Luck Next Time
  630. Partisan
  631. Sky Captain and the Spitfire of Prodigy
  632. Life on hold
  633. What did they call it before then?
  634. Jon Stewart's appearance on Crossfire
  635. Smallville: the obsessive line-by-line, part 2
  636. That's it. No more being nice to disabled people.
  637. YourBlog.Seldo.Com
  638. Big Thinker
  639. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
  640. Welcome to the Brand New Same Old Site
  641. Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes...
  642. Hero: the mini-review
  643. Smallville: the obsessive line-by-line
  644. Pulling out of Iraq
  645. Resign, Rumsfeld
  646. London in September
  647. Downtime
  648. Birthday weekend 2004: Mission Accomplished
  649. Code, a play
  650. My precious...
  651. Enough already!
  652. Love is all around
  653. "What's the most visually interesting thing on this menu?"
  654. It's that day again.
  655. Hellboy
  656. Pour some sugar on me
  657. Reasons to oppose Bush that have nothing to do with Iraq
  658. I, Take It Back
  659. Welcome to Seldo.Com 2.5
  660. RSS stands for Really Sexy Site
  661. Nailed
  662. Brainwashing for fun & profit
  663. Grade inflation and falling standards
  664. This is why it's .com, not .org
  665. The Dancing Baby
  666. Life is busy
  667. You do it to yourself
  668. Convergence/divergence and the iPod
  669. Inspector Sands
  670. William Shatner covers Common People
  671. Your nutty historical trivia for today
  672. Comment spam
  673. Freedom2Surf customers
  674. Fun
  675. 20 Questions to a better Personality
  676. Have some linkage
  677. Today's bit of computer trivia
  678. Warwick University Weblogs
  679. Where are you going?
  680. One of life's question answered...
  681. No one is surprised
  682. In the face of the evidence
  683. Linkdumpery
  684. Linkdump
  685. Countdown
  686. Coolest. Emoticon. Ever.
  687. What I've been listening to
  688. Scratchpad
  689. Big ol' link-dump
  690. An ode to
  691. Pssst...
  692. It just keeps getting better
  693. Enough with the bad hair jokes
  694. Older, wiser, same bad hair
  695. Losing by numbers
  696. Meet me where?
  697. Scratchpad
  698. New job!
  699. On Trinidad
  700. Whoops, big gap
  701. Van Helsing
  702. Sweet
  703. Your trivia for today
  704. You what?
  705. Don't tell me it's coincidence
  706. Backlog
  707. Party like it's 2000
  708. Stop Press
  709. Stalkervision™ returns
  710. You've got questions, we've got answers
  711. The Weekend Report
  712. It's not self-centered if everyone does it
  713. Listening to...
  714. Not who I was
  715. OK Cupid
  716. Say hello to the Master
  717. Speaking out of turn
  718. The old debate: one night stands
  719. I can't believe I never did this one before
  720. Linkdump
  721. You might want to change that name
  722. The Bracket Quiz
  723. How obscene
  724. Does Godwin's law apply here?
  725. Oh, closetedness, how I don't miss thee
  726. Mr. Personality
  727. A softer world
  728. Jamie's got a gun
  729. Blog-birthday
  730. "Are there any other females in this room?"
  731. Get it while it's hot
  732. Real life is so confusing
  733. Thoughts on design principles
  734. Design sites
  735. 10 Things That Make Me Smile™
  736. 20 Random Songs
  737. You can't hide from the Google
  738. Link dump
  739. BBC Broadcast Assassins
  740. Your Disco needs Stu
  741. Sashay, sashay...
  742. Meta 9 cometh...
  743. Why yes, I did have nothing else to post today
  744. New adventures in Deco
  745. Give me my marriage, George
  746. I can't decide
  747. Outkast can ruin your photos
  748. This is me
  749. I think I'm going to respond to them all like this
  750. Dear god that's beautiful. I love DeviantART (thanks again Steve; when are you coming to London...
  751. Sure, I could have made it look like me...
  752. Heterophobia: tit for tat?
  753. I love Apple trailers
  754. Which America-hating minority are you?
  755. Grrrrrrrr...
  756. Fox News are craaaaaazy
  757. Nuff said.
  758. Fair trade?
  759. Wow
  760. Yes, it was a whitewash
  761. La, sir...
  762. Sometimes... you just click
  763. Wait... I'd vote for who?
  764. Oh, well said
  765. Ooops... I did it again
  766. Queer Eye for the Spandex Guy
  767. A letter to my boss
  768. The Locker-Room Effect
  769. Supermarket chic
  770. Island boy
  771. 100,000 words in a cunning order
  772. Another drug bites the dust
  773. The Tropics Are Hot
  774. Random link dump
  775. My mission
  776. Rocked
  777. I got a scanner
  778. I've been ill
  779. My friends are hilarious
  780. Oh, how fickle is my tender heart...
  781. A darkness growing in the East...
  782. Sparrow in a sunbeam
  783. So today the BBC announces its plans to sell off its technology division, putting 1,400 jobs...
  784. Merry Fucking Christmas, kid
  785. My love life
  786. Reintroducing...
  787. Hubby time
  788. More thought dumping
  789. Backlog ahoy
  790. Friday Five
  791. Consider me black
  792. Zion is over!
  793. Exercise for the reader
  794. Hey baby, I've got a big blog
  795. I am the worst person in the world
  796. Foxman -- in colour
  797. Please work.
  798. And it's a whole new look for Steve. Kinky, but sexy.
  799. It's time to leave the country
  800. Googlewhacked
  801. To the bastard who stole my coat
  802. On the whole - with the exception of occasional terrifying statements by Oliver Letwin, the only...
  803. Rape accusers exposed, redux
  804. Do yourself a favour: try to kill yourself
  805. Synchronicity rules OK
  806. The Information Revolution
  807. I'm Jean-Luc Picard! Woohoo! Kick ass! :-) He also comes with a quote which is extremely in...
  808. Early sunday morning, while I was asleep and failing to notice the beginning of daylight savings...
  809. God is broken. Please try again later.
  810. Basement Jaxx's new album Kish Kash is absolutely genius, just like all their old stuff is. I...
  811. StalkerVision™: The Return
  812. The Secret Policeman
  813. Ignore this entry
  814. Out Of Reach
  815. Dabs.Com sucks
  816. I'm going to be talking about the rise of the Internet over television as the dominant medium...
  817. Bloggers are like...
  818. Should I stay
  819. You're not a cool, with-it, happening Christian kid unless you've read the Extreme Teen Bible, or...
  820. Uh, like brotherly love?
  821. "No, seriously, you have to see the ladies' loos..."
  822. Shoes. Butter. Together.
  823. UK premiership footballer rape names
  824. Response to comments on freedom of information
  825. Comments on censorship and freedom of information
  826. Just sometimes...
  827. Aww yeah
  828. We may be looking at a sand gap
  829. October 12th-18th is Gay Sex Week. Dear god, please let someone organize a fundraiser... I want to...
  830. To quote Neo...
  831. UK footballer rape update
  832. Smallville
  833. Shakespeare's R&J
  834. Change! Your! Name!
  835. Surely this works as well?
  836. Italians do it with the lights out
  837. Don't wear sunscreen
  838. Cordelia will hate me
  839. Total Recall*
  840. 9-11 Survivor is a game mod based on the Unreal Game engine. It recreates the twin towers on...
  841. Stuff to read
  842. Trapped like rats
  843. Good lord, TV is going to suck this season. But new Smallville season from October 1st --...
  844. So, following Dan's worrying new trend of finding profound meaning in Robbie Williams songs, I...
  845. Chutzpah
  846. Everybody should get on down to the Stealth Disco, currently taking Wide Area's London office by...
  847. Birthday weekend 2003
  848. How to get Java to work in Mozilla Firebird
  849. So, the RIAA is trying hard to be more evil, and has got as far as suing a 12 year old girl. A 12...
  850. Linkage! Freak yourself out with some optical illusions. The current guestbar at BoingBoing is...
  851. Dan's right; this blog is dull as dishwater recently. What am I doing wrong? Possibly not browsing...
  852. Today's Pret
  853. Things responsible employees don't do, #1
  854. People (I think in the context of the article I read it was American people, clearly the only kind...
  855. Prêt-a-revue
  856. I recently downloaded an episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. It was funny and cringeworthy...
  857. Slow day at work today; my boss is demoing some software I've written, so I can't work on it until...
  858. .perl { font-size: 40px; font-weight: 500; color: yellow; font-style:italic; } .laugh {...
  859. The most interesting thing about Cem Kaner's software bill of rights is the fact that we don't have...
  860. Madonna snogs Britney Spears and kisses Christina Aguilera! This is the kind of publicity stunt...
  861. The street I work on has been custom-built to remind me of people I know. So far: Topman...
  862. Q: How many bloggers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None. Bloggers don't change light...
  863. Homo High
  864. Blame eDan. Seldo is a Giant Ant that breathes Poisonous Gas, Tunnels Underground, dislikes...
  865. Try this: Sitting down, start making clockwise circles on the floor with your right foot Now,...
  866. Come! Do battle with Seldo the Man-Eating Kung-Fu Monkey! (via Kyle the Pasta-Eating Assassin...
  867. Blogstakes lets you and me win crappy prizes!! Woohoo! More interestingly, the Devil's Dictionary...
  868. Random links I've made today: Get your very own George W. Bush Aviator Action Figure! Complete...
  869. Useful discovery for today: turning emacs from "totally insane key mappings that it will take you...
  870. PHP 5: Now with OO goodness
  871. Dumb things I've seen today: a virtual server, minimized into a corner of my screen, running a...
  872. Gay Marriage
  873. Edinburgh was fun, and After Dark was awful, but full bloggage will have to wait, as I'm off to bed...
  874. To quote Rik: "Link to me, you git." Done. Yesterday saw more festival-type activities....
  875. The fringe continues to entertain. So far we've seen: Everyone loves me, a musical comedy. The...
  876. I'm in Edinburgh, staying at Evil Dan's, and as with every home machine I've come across recently,...
  877. Well, Matt's done the Friday Five again, and other than posting yet more stuff about gay marriage...
  878. Aaron Swartz, self-important boy-genius that he is, does occasionally have clever things to say....
  879. Matt has updated his website, because he lost control of the old address. It's new and it's fab! Go...
  880. Random links that have interested me enough to bookmark recently: AwesomeGamerz is a mildly funny...
  881. Pearly gates
  882. Found a flat!
  883. I signed up to Friendster today. If you know me, and would like to find out what e-mail address I...
  884. I'm beginning to suspect that my trouble getting a flatshare is related to my trouble getting a...
  885. TheFunny.Org attempts to be funny, and occasionally succeeds, including this TATU parody. I'm...
  886. UNIX-MySQL date and time converter
  887. Cool! Hehehe... play with the kitty! And on a more serious note, Slate has good things to say about...
  888. WOW. The ridiculously wealthy are creating a gigantic, palm-shaped island, big enough to be seen...
  889. I haven't been blogging here much, because I've been concentrating on GayGeeks a bit... this...
  890. Oooh! Join the contest and you can be in a BmB strip! Cross-posted to Gay Geeks
  891. I've just posted a massive backlog of good stuff to Gay Geeks, including a followup to the Tom...
  892. So apparently reading an article criticizing the government is enough to get you investigated by...
  893. So, Jewel -- remember her? -- has a new song out, called Intuition (please don't link to that; my...
  894. We're back!
  895. Got a job!
  896. The fear is gone. The tension has drained away, replaced by a rushing flood of relief I have...
  897. Webcam mania...
  898. Random amusing linkage recently: A new approach to website security: The Honour System (hit the...
  899. Well, that was interesting. Nipped down to London for the weekend* for Toby and Fee's joint...
  900. I should really know better.
  901. Is anyone else a little bit disturbed when people concerned with the interrogation of high-ranking...
  902. Be ashamed of yourselves
  903. Group hug
  904. Big Brother is redundant
  905. Identity Crisis
  906. Bless. John at Rainbow Villa is a nearly-20 semi-closeted gay boi just starting out on the big ol'...
  907. THAT WAS ORGASMIC Thoroughly compensating for Rainbows being crappy yesterday, Crash was just......
  908. Yet more backlog (the sheer size of the backlog is daunting): You know how it's supposed to be...
  909. Oy vey, but this end-of-term stuff is fun! Five hours of lazing around in the sunshine on the lawn...
  910. I quite like the Friday Five today: What's one thing you've always wanted to do, but never...
  911. (Cross-posted to Gay Geeks) A few words on the ongoing SCO versus IBM situation, rapidly...
  912. FINISHED! And that's a big SCREW YOU to the educational establishments of the country! I don't...
  913. Last exam, in my life, ever, in 1.25 hours. Scared? Me? Also, this is not what I wanted to read...
  914. Blog Backlog day 4 -- these are less frequent than I originally intended, since I've been working...
  915. Blog Backlog day 3 (ish). Parallel universes really exist, in an article that's fascinating,...
  916. Day 2 of the Great Backlog, let's get going people. Time is money! Back when Yahoo! was the...
  917. Right! Well that's nice and done with then. Four exams done and out of the way, one left in a week,...
  918. Wallearn courses
  919. Syllabubbles
  920. Blogging (and the pointless websurfing that powers it) ends now. Yes, I know I said this a week...
  921. Oh, and just in case you were wondering if there really was someone tasteless and sleazy enough,...
  922. I refer everyone to the current front pages of the Ironic Times and the Daily Probe. The Iraqi...
  923. Memory I remember Crix and peanut butter At midnight When the house was sleeping I...
  924. Unfortunately, only the name is satirical.
  925. Are you Addicted to the Internet? 68% Hardcore Junkie (61% - 80%)While you do get a bit...
  926. My god, Thomas Friedman is such an idiot. In a recent op-ed piece in the NY Times, he declares that...
  927. Okay, my personal alarm bells are going off: 402 cases in Beijing alone. This being up from the...
  928. Creme eggs should be available in six-packs all year. I'm just sayin'.
  929. Okay, that's it, deadlines are scaring me again. I'm going offline until this blasted report is...
  930. Whoa! The Trini blogosphere (until recently somewhat dire) has suddenly expanded for me, via...
  931. On Iraq from an email to Ben, cross-posted to Free Trinidad. Ben said: There are at least...
  932. It was recently pointed out that a Google search for "Chris Seldo" turns up this photo. Google...
  933. Enough already! Stop sending me this link! Here it is: welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com, a...
  934. I haven't seen enough human beings in real life recently. Somebody invite me to lunch.
  935. WebTorrent: the peer to peer web If you haven't heard of bittorrent already, you're missing out on...
  936. Now that I've generated my blogger code, ( B9d++t++k++s-ufiox+e-l+c--), I can blog about a meme...
  937. It's time for another backblog. Are you paranoid about being attacked? Then you may want the...
  938. My new desktop background (I was going to say "wallpaper", but if it's a desktop, how can it be...
  939. G Takahashi has a good weblog thing going, with some recent posts about the war. One examines the...
  940. It's good to see that not all Americans are clueless about the real reasons behind the war in Iraq....
  941. Well, I've been offline for a week taking a break on the south coast, which was nice. I celebrated...
  942. Slate today accurately points out why Donald Rumsfeld shouldn't leture anybody about the Geneva...
  943. There's no way we can lose the war against Iraq. Everyone knows that. The US and the UK have more...
  944. Well, war is pretty much all I've been paying attention to recently, so a bunch of random links...
  945. I get an entirely higher class of bizarre dream than most people, I think. Last night, I found...
  946. Blog backlog! A bunch of semi-random stuff that probably gives a good look into my thought...
  947. Well, tomorrow, we go to war it seems. And so I've been thinking about war, and my thoughts about...
  948. Bring on the bombs, we're going to war. Like it or not, apparently.
  949. How the passive mode in P2P programs like KaZaA and Gnutella works
  950. There is a drug that stops HIV completely. Really. It prevents the HIV virus getting into white...
  951. Since he's very kindly gone and plugged Gay Geeks.org, I feel compelled to point out Moz's new...
  952. An insightful and worrying article about the new McCarthyism talks about America's growing habit of...
  953. The sweetest, sickest, most disturbing thing I have read in a while: the Gashlycrumb Tinies. God...
  954. 3.5 hours in hair salon getting blue hair: £50 Blue lipstick, mascara, eyeshadow, eyeliner:...
  955. Everybody else is doing it: 100 short things about me Finally, a meme that involves the creation...
  956. "When it comes to our security, we really don't need anybody's permission." In other news, the UN...
  957. So, USA Today has an article about how Americans travelling abroad at the moment can avoid being...
  958. Some random linkage for you, my all-time favourite random websurfer. First off, from a few days...
  959. The Glitter Ball 2003 was a great success, thanks to my friends, who are way cooler than anyone you...
  960. Oooh, retro futurism at its best.
  961. Far be it for me to ignore one of the most fascinating über-forwards to be seen in a while. It was...
  962. Arty! Sarky! Intensely disturbing! Surely, pleix.net was designed expressly with Matt Elton in...
  963. This blog is increasingly becoming a superset of my other two blogs (gay geeks and free Trinidad,...
  964. Update 6pm: Going to the glitter ball? [Partially cross-posted from Gay Geeks...] Encomium has...
  965. The upcoming war continues to produce great art. Apart from the picture below, I invite you to read...
  966. A look into my twisted mind, and my bizarre design method. To make up for lack of short-term...
  967. The BBC has an article up about blogging from your mobile phone. The idea is not really news, but...
  968. Margaret Thatcher would be spinning in her grave, if only the old bitch would actually die, at the...
  969. All that needs to be said about America's domestic security: me: I was wondering where the...
  970. Oh, today is a Very Good Day™ so far. I did my french homework, didn't fall asleep and miss the...
  971. In-jokes: you know you love them really For no other purpose than the amusement of myself and...
  972. Yuck! BBC News has a new look and it's awful: too busy, lots of headlines with no detail behind...
  973. Random for today (I should be coding...): Go on: cook my sock. Oh yeah. In honor of Valentine's...
  974. 404: WOMD not found. Meanwhile, Slate is still hawkish. So Blix can't find weapons, and the US has...
  975. Oh. My. God. Listen to this US Congressman rag on France over their blocking the defence of Turkey;...
  976. Thanks to Beardy Ben for forwarding this to me. The original parody is by one John Robbins, but the...
  977. That poor shuttle. If it was this bad on the ground, what must it have been like up there? I'm not...
  978. Those of you who've spoken to me about it will know that Africa's AIDS pandemic depresses the crap...
  979. Part 2 of the Bumper Blog Backlog is today. Once again, there's too much to do a song and dance...
  980. No mega-blog today; I'm busy. But one thing for you: A British think-tank thinks the best way to...
  981. Time for a big 'ol link-dump, I feel; it's been far too long so these are going to go waaaay back,...
  982. Michael Jackson's career: RIP. I feel sorry for Michael Jackson. Really I do. I grew up watching...
  983. The end of an era?
  984. Hoo boy, is the US military dumb. You know .mil domain, used for sites like Pentagon.mil? Well,...
  985. Okay, so I've finally come up with a proper ending and finished polishing off Spree. Now tell me...
  986. Although I am well-known for my self-effacing and humble nature (ahem) I feel it necessary to point...
  987. The poetry section is a bit broken. When it's fixed, I'll put this there. Until...
  988. You know the old chestnut about what would happen if Microsoft made cars? Well, now they do. And...
  989. I got in touch with Amy Phillips of the excellent 50 Minute Hour and asked for her opinion on the...
  990. All Your TV Presenter Are Belong To Us Britain has a paedophilia problem, and it's time it was...
  991. President Bush today jumped into the affirmative-action debate in the US by challenging Michigan...
  992. Why I love this university, and never ever want to leave: Last night, I went to Top B. Top B is a...
  993. This could be big. A company called There Inc. has just launched a new online world. As the article...
  994. We should definitely bring the word quidnunc into popular usage: One who is curious to know...
  995. Back at Warwick! First blog of the year; not much to say except "Aaargh, I have too much work to...
  996. Happy new year, you bastards! England will be getting this 3 hours early, Trinidad six, and the...
  997. As the US moves ever closer to the fundamentalist police state it supposedly dislikes, on top of...
  998. Back from four days in Tobago, the even-more-tropical, even-more-paradisical sister island. I...
  999. First, read this article in the Register to find out who Elliot Spitzer is. Then read his speech to...
  1000. You know what I did today? Today, I woke up around mid-day. I had a liesurely breakfast of bacon,...
  1001. Not that I want to distract anybody from checking out Spree, but this is interesting: Ever heard...
  1002. I have written another play, tentatively titled Spree. This one is very firmly aimed at Freshblood...
  1003. I'm not really online at the moment, being in Trinidad and all, but a few things have been brought...
  1004. Woohoo! I'm in Trinidad. It's hot, it's sunny, and my tan is only just beginning. As I type this, I...
  1005. See? Sometimes I blog before midnight... Last blog before Trinidad, woohoo! Bring on the tropics!...
  1006. In London today, a bus collided with a tree. One bus, with one tree. Interviewer: So, Mr. Britain,...
  1007. And so it's the final Monday of term... I sit at Moz's computer in New Gaggle House, waiting for...
  1008. December! And as my first blog of the festive season, I would like to present a checklist of the...
  1009. 6.50am: Fire alarm. Uh oh. We've heard this tune before... 6.52am: And again. Thought...
  1010. How could I possibly resist? And if you want to pretend to yourself you're doing more than just...
  1011. God bless Scott Adams. From the Dilbert Newsletter 44.0 ("A little ray of bitter...
  1012. Fog is like rain that has been caught in the act. It hangs there, motionless, guilty, waiting for...
  1013. 'Tis the season to make money. And what better way than to play my current candidate for...
  1014. I really love the Economist (thanks for the subscription, dad!). Apart from being amusingly...
  1015. A funny thing happened to me today. I was reading this article about President Bush, and for a...
  1016. Okay, I just had to blog this. Entitled US Youth can't find Iraq, an article from CNN reveals the...
  1017. "If Sharon and Bush are men of peace, we are also men of peace" Al Quaeda makes a good point.
  1018. The world is in safe hands, courtesy of Melton :-) And it's good to see Bush's supporters are not...
  1019. Living on campus again is a unique and fascinating experience, which leaves me filled with...
  1020. Hey, America! Getting a bit chubby? Maybe 1 in 3 of you are obese or something? No problem! Why eat...
  1021. Brain-dead text editor
  1022. Oh all right then, I'll blog, if you insist. Things to check out today: Those clever people at...
  1023. Old lady gets weepy, nation goes apeshit with in-depth analysis of what might have made the Queen...
  1024. And so, after a long hard struggle, the battle is over, and democracy has lost. President Bush has...
  1025. I love sitting 6 inches from a window when I'm at my computer this year; it's almost like going...
  1026. Calling Mr. Sharon... we haven't even started the war on Iraq yet; is it really necessary to start...
  1027. Brace yourselves, it's time for another one of those semi-meaningful all-about-me blogs... November...
  1028. This is what it look like in Trinidad right now. I hate winter. Veering randomly to a totally...
  1029. And today's We Are Amused™ prize goes to BBC News Online for "Moodiest Picture of a Mouse and...
  1030. Hey, I'd switch just for him. Does the sexy geek come with the sexy computer? His name is Jeremiah...
  1031. I'm beginning to buy into this whole CNN-makes-the-news conspiracy. People were beginning to get...
  1032. You assholes! The way to resolve a hostage crisis is not to lob nerve gas into room full of 700-800...
  1033. In possibly the wittiest bit of American advertising I've ever seen, a new campaign points out how...
  1034. Congratulations to Scott Adams for continuing to push the boundaries of being the biggest sell-out...
  1035. So, you're the police chief, and a mysterious sniper is running around several states randomly...
  1036. Download your mind to silicon by 2040. What else can I say? How about YES, YES, HELL YES! BRING IT...
  1037. Okay, it's time for big old backlog of links, since I didn't get to post much recently. First up...
  1038. Can't Forgive You (Natural structure)
  1039. Bright feathers
  1040. Fire alarms should not be allowed to go off at 5.30 in the morning when it's below zero outside....
  1041. Boy, did I get a lot of complaints about Tuesday's entry. Here's the ideal solution to raising the...
  1042. In case you were wondering, my tooth still hurts. A lot. But probably not as much as this did...
  1043. Fuck that woman rescuing her worm, my face hurts and the world sucks. Ow ow ow. The dentist says...
  1044. Until about 2 minutes ago, I was having an unbelievably shitty day. I went to bed last night with a...
  1045. Living in the US is so exciting! Suicide hijackings, anthrax in the mail, hideously overpublicised...
  1046. Now available: fog screens, as last seen on SeaQuest. (Y'know, Lee was right, the SeaQuest font...
  1047. So it seems we've discovered a new planet. It has the funkiest-sounding name ever; well done there...
  1048. I work in tech support these days. Also, I think you know you're living in an excessively litigious...
  1049. Been busy with -- gasp -- real life recently, so not too many interesting web finds. LindowsOS is...
  1050. Anyone fancy a new ice age? I thought it was cold yesterday...
  1051. Back at Warwick! Living on campus rocks. Being the tech support for the campus network rocks not...
  1052. Last day at IBM Hursley today; back to Warwick! Woohoo! In other news, there may be life on Venus....
  1053. There's not been a whole lot of blog this week, because I've been working really hard. So you'll...
  1054. Top of the mornin' to ye. I've been browsing Freshmeat a lot recently (word to the clueless: it's...
  1055. Microsoft TNEF file decoder
  1056. I love the Weekly World News. Stories this week (all exclamation marks theirs): The sun will...
  1057. On compulsory English speaking as a requirement for British citizenship: My probabily ill-advised...
  1058. Enjoy the inaccurately-named tribute to Ray Harryhausen; how often do you get to see Skeletor...
  1059. I hear you, brother. Just had a fabulous birthday weekend in London, thanks to all who turned up...
  1060. September 12th is officially "take the piss out of September 11th" day. So share their pain as...
  1061. I have been long in searching. There have been many pretenders to the throne. But finally I have...
  1062. I'd forgotten these guys existed, and this is way out of date now, but I'm still amused. What do...
  1063. Heeeeeeere's bloggy! I took Friday off, and went into London. Joy. There I met up with Lee, and...
  1064. Your alarm clock may annoy you, but at least it doesn't make your heart stop. Totally unrelated,...
  1065. The Dow dropped an amusing 355 points yesterday. Raymond, Ed, Martin and basically everyone else...
  1066. My birthday is coming up.
  1067. Okay, I'm amused. Those fine people in charge of Harry Potter merchandising came up with a great...
  1068. I find it difficult to express how disturbed I am at the contents of this article from the...
  1069. So this is what the BBC has to say about Trinidad. I've already sent them an e-mail pointing out...
  1070. The great joy of the Internet is that the size of the audience means that any niche market, no...
  1071. Today, my pretties, I adjust my monocle, stroke my white persian cat and present you with two...
  1072. Retro-futurism reaches its logical peak: VW is bringing back the camper van, this time with a...
  1073. Ah well, I suppose I really should credit Matt Elton for directing me to When Office Supplies...
  1074. Everyone, and I mean absolutely everyone, needs to have a go IMMEDIATELY on Celebdaq. A...
  1075. Aw, fuck. Just when I was forgetting.
  1076. The gifts that keep on giving: cows. The Masai people of Kenya gave the city of New York nine cows...
  1077. Okay, no funny links today. Today, I'm going to indulge myself and write a totally self-involved...
  1078. This guy exists for the sole purpose of making me jealous. Yes. Yes he does. Also, this is very...
  1079. Come, spend hours browsing the ad graveyard -- don't be fooled by the really tiny "[more]" links,...
  1080. A fairly random grab-bag of items have been occupying my consciousness in the past 24 hours. Last...
  1081. Roll on the space elevator. In 15 years time, low earth orbit will be a four-hour elevator ride,...
  1082. Yet another story indicating that Yasser Arafat is gay. Coming on the heels of this earlier story...
  1083. I was quite interested to find today that, contrary to my expectations, Google has in fact indexed...
  1084. The Dow's been climbing for the past 3 days in a row -- triple-digit climbing, mind, none of this...
  1085. Okay, I have to admit it: I have gone from horrified fascination to being really quite enthralled...
  1086. Oh, and the news today is that, um, yeah, UFOs are probably real after all. The US military has...
  1087. Far be it from me to let a good meme go unnoted. So go, everyone, and watch the Lego men build a...
  1088. So there I am, being my usual cynical self, and then I hear about Gander, a town in Canada,...
  1089. I wish the upcoming recession (I tell you, it is going to happen) would just get it over with, so...
  1090. I can't believe FARK reported this story as real. Yes, diving humour can be funny, folks: you heard...
  1091. Ah, the Dow: my favourite spectator's sport. What will it do today? Will it plunge downwards again,...
  1092. Second blog for the day, WOW I'm slack. But work today has actually been a lot better: I actually...
  1093. In the news today, it seems that British children are officially banned from having fun in any way,...
  1094. Ten Commandments 2.0
  1095. Mass Transport Rant
  1096. Saturday night's all right for fightin', and for not a great deal else, apparently. Yay for living...
  1097. Interesting links today include a story about invisible comets, coming soon to an extinction-level...
  1098. Okay, so it's amusing to think that the ex-dictator of Sierra Leone is broke and living with his...
  1099. Okay, day 3 at IBM. I'm at the office now -- my accommodation only has dialup, and I haven't set it...
  1100. Oooh, pretty-looking crop circles.
  1101. It's official: the US is sick of hearing about Afghanistan and the Middle East again. So it's back...
  1102. Yeah, I know, two in one day. I'll stop soon, I promise. But I just had to point out the joy that...
  1103. Last night in New York, spending it like I have nearly every night here: hanging out in Ed's...
  1104. Well, day six in New York. I've seen Central Park, the statue of Liberty (from a significant, 9-11...
  1105. Hey, I'm in New York! And it's surprisingly like a bigger, slightly cleaner version of London. It's...
  1106. Okay, so as of this week, thanks to the brilliant state of corporate finance, it would be a bad...
  1107. I am so tired of this shit happening every bloody day. On the lighter side, an query on Google...
  1108. I was reading this MSNBC article (surprisingly critical of Microsoft for a company owned by MS)...
  1109. Hmm, maybe everybody spoke to soon about that economic recovery... the markets are in freefall....
  1110. Some encouraging -- and extremely surprising -- news from the Evil Recording Industry People:...
  1111. Well, 2 down, 9 to go, but unfortunately my brain's also gone which is going to make the remainder...
  1112. The Scientific American Web Awards are really quite good. Among my favourites are the Living...
  1113. Yes, so I've been avoiding revision by reading more SatireWire. In particular, finally a good...
  1114. More random entries from the Great Blog Backlog: What do you get when you send inner-city inmates...
  1115. You always wanted to know, really: the lyrics to Duel of the Fates. In sanskrit, naturally. Other...
  1116. Mondays suck, especially when you have to revise. All that revision is why there's not going to be...
  1117. Saturday, and I'm supposed to be revising. To amuse yourself, I invite you to read all about the...
  1118. Well, I think I've finally got the weblog back-end working -- I've been too busy to work on it. But...
  1119. Anywhere but Here
  1120. Who and Why
  1121. Better than U
  1122. Why I hated my school
  1123. (I like Shield best, but isn't it already the name of some kind of superhero group from D.C....
  1124. The arena was vast, and dimly lit by the rays of the dying sun reflecting as a velvet haze from...
  1125. Shy
  1126. Drama Queen
  1127. Lonely Woman
  1128. Slut
  1129. The Lad
  1130. Pretty Boy
  1131. Second Kiss
  1132. Neurotic
  1133. Humble Girl
  1134. Crazy boy
  1135. Model Child
  1136. Advice
  1137. Winning
  1138. New Title
  1139. Snow
  1140. Raypist
  1141. No reason to Hide
  1142. Inspiration
  1143. Growing up
  1144. Good Enough
  1145. Cliches
  1146. Another chapter
  1147. Wrong
  1148. The Hardest Fall
  1149. Shallow
  1150. Random
  1151. Feeling sort of Blah
  1152. Why so down?
  1153. The Beauty
  1154. Soul music
  1155. Sideshow
  1156. Cruel
  1157. He's sitting there thinking
  1158. My Inner Self
  1159. The River's Course
  1160. Like Me
  1161. I Miss You
  1162. Can't Forgive You (Alternate version)
  1163. Three Years On
  1164. Dirty Little Secret
  1165. Dance, Dance, Dance!
  1166. Connection
  1167. World Peace
  1168. Why Microsoft must be stopped
  1169. Stages of computing expertise
  1170. Ever had a sitcom moment?
  1171. Why Science and Religion will never agree
  1172. Why Science Fiction is the only kind worth reading
  1173. Recloseted
  1174. Philistines
  1175. On Stimulation...
  1176. Nature versus Noise
  1177. Me versus God
  1178. How to be happy
  1179. Friendships
  1180. Buggy Browsers
  1181. Hey, Slashdot posted a story I submitted! Yay.
  1182. Okay, my unsorted-bookmarks list has got long enough, so it's time to blog. In reverse...
  1183. I notice that I quietly let the one-year anniversary of this blog slip by nearly two weeks ago. But...
  1184. Still working on an update to the site... it's looking quite nice, if I can be bothered to finish...
  1185. It's been a quiet week of Easter vacation so far, verging on mind-numbingly-dull. There have even...
  1186. The Great Blog Backlog, Episode 2: I rediscovered Oasis Magazine, which I first read when I was...
  1187. Easter vacation has begun! Yay! It's my first day off with no deadlines around the corner that I've...
  1188. Another week without sleep, another deadline met. Having caught 14 hours of sleep to make up for...
  1189. And in other IMHO history-making news, the UN security council formally backed the creation of a...
  1190. I've noticed that recently BBC News Online seems to always have the same three types of article as...
  1191. Evil corporations can be funny! Watch as the Coca Cola Company spews propaganda on every possible...
  1192. Maybe it's just me, but did you ever wonder where it is science writers for magazines and...
  1193. I've done rather a lot of blogging in recent days, but what the heck, it's not like anybody reads...
  1194. So, some friends and I were having a discussion, and it seems to us that there is a very strong...
  1195. My favourite news site, Slashdot, has recently mortgaged a little bit more of its soul and...
  1196. For sheer sad-git comedy value, you don't get much better than Planet Timmy. Check out the...
  1197. Thanks to Timothy for the link to the definitive penis size survey. Go on, you know you want to...
  1198. Home on a Saturday night. Z is a bloody evil language; a recurring theme with languages I've had to...
  1199. Fab! More webcams of Warwick's campus! Check out what's currently going on in Cholo and the cooler!...
  1200. I recently discovered the video for Do the Evolution. The song's lyrics are excellent, but the...
  1201. This timeline of the future is a pretty interesting read, especially when you consider that the...
  1202. My second blog for the day, I'm trying to get up to date. I was amused by a controversy that...
  1203. You heard it here first (unless Raymond, who recommended it to me, told you first): Alanis is back....
  1204. Hmmm, I need sleep. Yay for the one-click personality test (which I found surprisingly accurate),...
  1205. Okay, so I slept for like 45 minutes last night. Which isn't good. But I did finish my HCI...
  1206. Second blog in two days! Can you guess I have an exam? A combination of sleep deprivation and...
  1207. Okay, so I haven't been updating this at all. This is because I've been busy, okay? But I've been...
  1208. Partly because it's funny, and partly to motivate him to update the damn thing, I'd like to point...
  1209. A pretty good article from BBC News about the Tories changing their attitude to homosexuality. Now,...
  1210. Apparently one of my lecturers, Alexandre Tiskin is evil. Be warned. That is all.
  1211. A word about my weakness... I'm totally addicted to bass.
  1212. It's Sunday, and I should be working, so it's time for a blog update! It's all very technical this...
  1213. End of week 1, term 2, year 2. Finished my assignment on time, so yay, and also managed to visit...
  1214. Okay, so this is a little bizarre: according to astronomers, the average colour of the universe is...
  1215. The wonder that is Memepool has supplied me with the neverending stories of Sam the goat. Hint: Sam...
  1216. England and Warwick! It's not as cold as I expected it to be, thanks to all the fog, but I haven't...
  1217. Text-mode Quake 2! Okay, so I don't play Quake and I seldom use text mode, but it's still a cool...
  1218. Merry Christmas eve! I probably won't post for a while, so I should get this in now. No...
  1219. Asperger's Syndrome and autism are rising sharply in Silicon Valley because the same genes that...
  1220. Get 'em while they're hot! Your number one site for Anna Kournikova bestiality pics (scroll down....
  1221. This is worth mentioning: Google Groups (the web-based USENET service from Google) has now expanded...
  1222. Yay for Darren's 21st birthday party! Talking, dancing, drinking, puking and much merriness,...
  1223. Hilarious. As reported by Slashdot and Wired, KPMG says you cannot -- must not -- link to its site....
  1224. Sadly, it looks like the web-enabled etch-a-sketch is no longer around. But fear not! Coming to...
  1225. It's nearly Christmas. Do you feel Christmassy? Are you in debt yet? Are you stressed out? Or do...
  1226. Perspective please, people. Okay, so one of the less-popular members of a pop group that split up...
  1227. Think you know how big companies are? This list of who owns what will surprise you. Okay, so you...
  1228. Scary chart of worldwide HIV/AIDS cases since 1980. Aaargh! It's World AIDS day on December 1st,...
  1229. Thanks to Simon Miles for this link to GagPipe -- why bother with one satirical website when you...
  1230. Well, it's time for a bookmark dump. Things I've bookmarked recently but not mentioned here: A...
  1231. It's official, I love Beautiful Garbage. The first album was good, Version 2.0 was better, and this...
  1232. All hail the cut-and-paste grafitti artists of this world. Also, nobby the northern dinosaur's 50...
  1233. An interesting argument and counter-argument about how computer security should work. One side...
  1234. I had forgotten.
  1235. Wow, Ralph Nader has done something! In his first impingement on my consciousness since election,...
  1236. Okay, so a few random funny things. Firstly, Office XP apparently no longer has clippy, that...
  1237. Worrying: Osama bin Laden makes a televised statement, and five major US networks agree not to...
  1238. It's time for another round of Microsoft-bashing -- you know how much fun that is. It's been a bad...
  1239. Interesting things I've found or been pointed to in week 2 of fast Internet access... this quite...
  1240. A sign that things are getting back to normal: I read the Onion today, and found their WTC issue....
  1241. At last, the long wait is over! Forgive me for losing perspective somewhat, but we have ADSL and...
  1242. The RIAA is planning an offensive against the new crop of file-sharing services, including a PR...
  1243. This is my first blog post-WTC. I'll be posting a bunch about WTC and related items after a while,...
  1244. Goodbye, WTC. Goodbye, world as we know it.
  1245. Attention, all computer-using citizens of the United States. EMIGRATE NOW. Hot on the heels of the...
  1246. This is really quite good, if you have a stupidly fast Internet connection: Pig Brother. Yes, 5...
  1247. The next time you really need to insult someone, remember to say "You're nothing but a...
  1248. For those of you not from the UK, the Daily Mail is a staunchly right-wing newspaper. Now, without...
  1249. Hee hee! In case you didn't have enough reasons to dislike George Bush, according to New Scientist...
  1250. The first neuroelectronic chip. It's all very cool -- neurons grown on silicon, signals passing...
  1251. This kicks butt. Oh yes, indeed. A web-enabled Etch-A-Sketch! That's not an application that looks...
  1252. I don't know what's more sad: the fact that boxers are beginning to get into...
  1253. Buzz was funny today; Adobe has a press release about its new product, including a hilarious quote...
  1254. In between a surprisingly productive weekend, I finished reading Space by Stephen Baxter. It's a...
  1255. Long weekend! Woohoo! Now, if only I didn't have so much work to do, things would be fine. Some...
  1256. Never a truer word was spoken. Survey question: "Across the U.S. and on Capitol Hill, debate is...
  1257. I was interested by this page of global internet usage statistics. For instance, less than 50% of...
  1258. In the news today: the Onion, which you should really be reading every week anyway, presents highly...
  1259. Ooooooh. Can I have one?
  1260. Dammit, I'm being outclassed! Now more than one of my friends has a top-notch website being...
  1261. Ooh! Get in on this one quick. A new language called Curl, with Tim Berners-Lee (like, the inventor...
  1262. Semi-interesting and way too long article on the structure of the Internet. Executive summary: it's...
  1263. Day 3 of the new job is at an end, and things are looking very nice indeed. I'm learning oodles...
  1264. Okay, so it's my first day of work at the new job. So, why am I blogging instead of working?...
  1265. Okay, this is really getting beyond a joke. George W. Bush really need to be stopped. According to...
  1266. Hmm. Flat panel CRTs have been developed by IBM; just as cheap as the latest LCDs and possibly...
  1267. Okay, so I'm scared. The first arrest under the DMCA has been made. This was always a very scary...
  1268. Way to go with shooting yourself in the foot, Bill! Good news on the I-hate-Windows front at last....
  1269. Continuing my anti-Microsoft (who, me?) rant of recent days, here's an article about Kodak being...
  1270. Told ya. People are complaining about the new product activation feature in Windows XP. So MS...
  1271. Hooray, exams are over! Now I'm unemployed again. Oh well. Job Hunt 2001 (TM) is now on, and I may...
  1272. Aaargh, aargh, arrgh! Exams are evil! And very depressing. But not as depressing as my bank...
  1273. Sadly -- especially from the standpoint of my revision -- I am once again addicted to Big Brother....
  1274. An interesting article on Reason (as always) asking why is polygamy illegal? True, it's kind of an...
  1275. Are these people really smart, or really dumb? Scientists created nanotubes in well-ordered arrays,...
  1276. There was also a mildly interesting article about dinosaur robots that really walk and talk. Well,...
  1277. I had an interesting lecture this morning by a guy from Intel about the Pentium 4, the Itanium, and...
  1278. Cool! Play a clone of Risk online. Thanks to Nigel for sending me the link. The game looks pretty...
  1279. It has recently been suggested that the content of this weblog is a subset of the content of...
  1280. Die, XBox, die! Microsoft's new gaming console crashes during a demo, revealing a PC-like boot...
  1281. Revising is boring.
  1282. An amusing page about why Titanic was a bad movie. What's amusing is the fact that the movie was...
  1283. Depressing. Douglas Adams has died of a heart attack, suddenly. He was only 49.
  1284. Told ya. Microsoft changes to three-year licensing plan. You no longer own your copy of Office,...
  1285. Thanks again to wondrous Ed for the very amusing stick-man kung fu. Clearly, this guy has too much...
  1286. A fairly amusing article in the otherwise dull Telegraph about the town of Telford being destroyed...
  1287. Hooray, non-corporate news! IndyMedia appears to rock; I will investigate further. Continuing in my...
  1288. Such a pity. I was all geared up to spend the day rubbing my hands and giggling as bearded...
  1289. I hate getting access from the Computer Science building at uni. I have to do all my online...
  1290. Back in London for a weekend, what joy. An amusing link comparing Microsoft Tech Support and the...
  1291. I am just about better now, but without in-room internet access thanks to the ever-clever IT...
  1292. I am grievously ill, and back at University. I will probably not be posting for a few days as a...
  1293. My acquaintance (he would probably object if I called him my friend) Matt Elton has put up as...
  1294. The Economist has an interesting article about Silicon Fen, the Silicon-Valley equivalent in...
  1295. COLUMBINE RANT
  1296. Fame! I'm gonna live forever, etc.. Hot on the heels of my Dilbert-newsletter fame, I have finally...
  1297. Fantastic news! (Thanks to Ed for pointing it out). Apparently, laziness is good for you. This may...
  1298. Next generation fibre optics will be hollow tubes filled with air. And it only took them forty...
  1299. I need to get into the habit of posting all the articles I find interesting here. Here's one from a...
  1300. Today's articles of interest include another Wired article on big media in the US, a fairly good...
  1301. More on the possibilities of plastic transistors, one of the ingredients in the flexible displays...
  1302. I am under the impression I should be posting to this a lot more than I am. Four days is a rather...
  1303. Should you ever have to, as I am now, work with a database in MS Access, this place is a pretty...
  1304. Also, I may be in love.
  1305. Fantastic article on Kuro5hin (a sort of Slashdot clone, but more general in scope) about the...
  1306. Have found another pretty good site for text messaging -- free SMS, costs 5p per message if you...
  1307. Reason just rocks. Journalistic intelligence in its purest natural form. Rocks rock rocks.
  1308. Fame at last! Kinda. A few weeks ago, my housemate Simon exhibited a better-than-average display...
  1309. A really interesting new concept: Extreme Programming. A bit of a misnomer, it's actually a new set...
  1310. Okay, so this one's worth mentioning... a black-hat hacker's diary on ZDNet: they paid two...
  1311. Hilariously, if you know the people involved, a management coup has apparently been attempted at...
  1312. I've stopped posting interesting stuff I read on SlashDot for two reasons: It's all interesting,...
  1313. I got a new mobile the other day, the ubiquitous Nokia 3210. I've been having fun with custom ring...
  1314. Well, after two weeks of unemployment (I'm on vacation, and need money to avoid going into the red)...
  1315. There's just no excuse for not using The Bat as your e-mail client if you use Windows. No Outlook...
  1316. There's a brilliant article on AlterNet about America's attitude to school shootings: namely, that...
  1317. Goodness, I'm all blog-happy! Hopefully I'll write some longer ones soon. But I just had to include...
  1318. I said it two years ago, and I'll say it again: look out for polymer displays! They've actually...
  1319. I've set up my own blog. Hopefully this will help keep my content current, and avoid the...