Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

It’s great to see that W3C are hosting their WWW06 conference in the UK this year, Edinburgh specifically.
I’m chairing the two sessions on the Impact of the Web on Media & Entertainment. With an interesting collection of speakers put together by Daniel Harris of Kendra, the discussion after the presentations should be good.
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I remember back in the 70’s seeing a full-sized telephone (bakelite style) in a car, probably an old Rover P5. I was hugely excited and impressed that it could be possible to have a phone conversation in a car.
As we’re all aware, times have moved on a little now, so it’s hilarious to see notices […]

I’m going to make it a mission to have ttfn accepted as a normal AIM convention.
For too many times have I had to prolong ending an IM conversation after using ttfn to say goodbye with people asking what it meant.
You need a national stamp in an online text world.
ttfn.

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Putting this Scheme live was inspired by reading techChrunch talking about FlySpy. There’s tons of potential in making the picking of flights easier.
Don’t expect this level of frequency of Scheme-posting, I’m just understanding the process, what’s involved.

Self Defined Flight Search mp3
Self Defined Flight Search OGG Vobis

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Don’t expect an order to these idea falling out of my head. There will be no structure.
No Time To Blog - Talk Instead mp3
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I’ve often though the confusion through using T9 the SMS single-key-press word prodicter leads to some funny confusions.
A HolyMoly readers has produced a clever piece capturing this ….
Girls:
if you get a text from your boyfriend saying that he wants to kick your puppy and dual your aunt, take it with a pinch of salt as […]

Anyone who’s interested in earning money from on site advertising will be interested in this one.

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We’ve held our business banking accounts with Barclays for quite a number of years. It’s for historic reasons more that anything else as the level of badness of service is consistent across all business banking.
Needing to check the receipt into an account today I was met with the above message - ‘the service is unavailable’.
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Lighting rope - upper landing

Originally uploaded by Simon.

Having been in our new house for about four months, we’ve moved from the position of thinking that we know what we wanted to do with it, through the realisation that we didn’t really understand; returning to the point where […]

As I think I mentioned, I’ve switched back to Apple for my main machine, after about 20 years of PC usage, following my original Mac Plus period.
I bought an 12″ iBook laptop rather than a Powerbook. The reasons were sound.

Anything bigger that a 12″ machine isn’t as portable as I need - even at that […]