September 2011
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“But with Mike’s departure, the gonzo spirit that first drew me to TechCrunch —...”
– Paul Carr is a self-important tosser. Contrast this quote with this post by Fleet Street Fox which succinctly points out that journalists, real journalists, never allow themselves to become the story. There’s honour in the latter approach. I see no honour in the former.
The wave of public...
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in the fade: Some real shock and awe.. →
frageelay:
I didn’t watch the debates last night, but the further askew the far right pulls us, and the more mute—or should I say ‘dumb’—the left remains, the less I recognize the country I love.
I’m not convinced that the left remaining mute is the problem. When the left do speak up, at least from what I can see over here in the Old World, they counter the rhetoric of the far right, the...
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Mobile data in the UK
Three’s rates are ridiculously cheap. We have friends of Danielle’s from America staying next week so I had a quick look to see how much it would cost to get them some basic cell service for their visit. They have HTC smartphones of some type, although I don’t yet know if they are carrier-locked. Hopefully not, so I can just swap their SIM card over to a UK one when they...
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We spent the entire weekend in the kitchen
Yesterday, I made a bacon and mushroom frittata for breakfast and paprika chicken with pasta for dinner. Today was bacon sandwiches on fresh-baked bread for breakfast and roast chicken with mashed potato and gravy for dinner.
In that time, I’ve also put 2.5 kg of beef brisket into brine to make salt beef; made 1.25 litres of bourbon BBQ sauce; and made 6 portions of tomato-butter...
Brick (2005)
Brick is really, really good. It’s a gritty noir thriller about a classic gumshoe-type investigating his ex-girlfriend’s disappearance, except all the cast are high schoolers (so instead of ratting people out to the police, they go to the principal). Despite that seemingly ludicrous setup, it’s played straight. Sounds weird, really works. Has some great quotes too (e.g....