Bollocks

I swear i did not know!

I just went to check my email and found Rich Ord had asked me for permission to repost selected threadwatch threads at WPN (along with zawodny,rubel,et al) lol!

So, should i do it? I like Rich, but that's no basis for a decision like this. I guess what im asking is if this is a good move for Threadwatch or not, and what the implications, if any, are.

NB: Nick W changed the title :)

The global web blog community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers.

This BBC report reports

and the spin is from

The odd thing about this article is that there is a lot about "The Committee to Protect Bloggers" but little about the whys and wherefores of the two guys reported to be in prison.

In the end I draw the conclusion that its more about promoting the said committee than trying to free the imprisoned bloggers.

It's been a tough day today - i've had a very tired (crochety) friend on my hands all day - one of those situations where it doesn't matter what you say, you're in trouble. All of you know this situation right? It's where you dread answering even the simplest question in case you give some opening to argument...

Once upon a time I would have dealt with this by (figuratively speaking) brute strength, and argued right back, but more fiercely and more ferociosly, but these days im more inclined to try to kill the problem by solving the issue...

What the hell do you do when you don't know what the bloody issue is?

Some weeks back, a friend asked me this question in IM - I had to ask exactly what he meant before answering: How do you visualize the internet? What do you see it as?

He told me of a few folks he's asked the same question: Answers varied, and some were truly amazing. So, now, i want to ask you, 'cos i think it will be fun :)

How i see the net
I don't visualize well, in fact, i find it very hard to visualize anything - i have very poor sight so maybe that's why. However, i feel the internet.

To me, it feels like the universe looks: Millions of stars, all connected. Isolated, loosely conneced, clusters, hubs of activity - the universe....

Come on, it's Monday tomorrow, tell us how you "see" the net?

Well, another weekend with only the hardcore online :)

I've been busy with the redesign today again, wanna see the progress so far? NB: It is NOT complete - but i would appreciate opinions on the direction im headed with it...

In other news...
Bailey had an operation to put in a new ligament in her leg on wednesday. She is expected to make a 100% recovery, but must be on the lead for 6 weeks! - Sheesh, she's half lab half boxer and only 2 and half so you can imagine what she thinks about walking on the lead whilst Sam runs around having fun!

Still, it's not dampened her spirits. Wearing one of those awful collor/hoods to stop her biting out the stitches, and hopping around on 3 legs she's still running to get her toys and wanting to fight sam... Poor girl.

Tell us what you're up to...
You know the drill, talk about whatever you want. Bore the arse off the rest of the Threadwatch boys and girls and tell us what you've been up to this weekend, or what news you have from the week. It's not as if anything else is happening out there ;-)

Nick

or MS teach leet speak.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx

Hilarious !

One of the things that really drives me up the walls is a call centre

A BBC article shows, surprise that we do not like call centres and are becoming more petulant when we have to use them

How to clean your mouse.... (This actually works pretty well)

To recalibrate your mouse, click and hold on the S. Then drag the S toward the K. If it doesn't work, you might want to clean your mouse.

Stop fucking about and do some work

Ok, this has been bugging me for weeks now. What is it with this sudden trend amongst SEO's to post prolifically in forums about IR (information retrieval) - im not talking about discussing how to get better PR, or whether that actually matters. Im not talking about discussing whether a certain technique works or not, and im not talking about general speculation on what may or may not be playing out in Search algorithms.

What i am talking about is

1. Calculating PR to 13,344 decimal places
2. Posting purely to link to huge amounts of theoretical papers on algorithms
3. would Dr Numpty's WTF algorithm combined with Prof. Strumpets OMGYW thesis of time traveling turdburgers improve a pages temporal distortion in the causality of the Search time continuinuinuiniunum thus allow us to make bigger tits of ourselves?

er.. got a bit carried away on that last one heh..

You must know what i mean though right? This just seems to me to be preaching to the choir, yeah yeah, it's all very interesting "Mr im so gutted im not a phd" but how exactly is this helping you rank your sites?

I just know someone will say, "to understand future algos you need to look at what may come" - yeah yeah, clearly, however this self trumpeting phenomenomom goes way further than that and if, as i suspect, it's goal is to make everyone else on the forum think your real clever, it's not working with me.

It makes me think your a prat.

For those with nothing better to do, and who have a sense of humour, have a look at his thread at WMW (assuming you have not been banned and do not have anon proxy)

Started by Mivox with the complaint

after a recipe for rabbit was locked on the grounds

Mivox lists 10 threads from the last 10 days at WMW that have not been cut including one on Startrek by BT himself.

A discussion follows. Mivox

A post from BT tries to justify his moce. But Woz is not convinced

Good stuff, if you want a little light foo!

I do and I just thought I would pass this on. Not as funny as ponalize but may get you out of the shit if you happen to forget

Create your own loveheart

A blatant rubbish post but what the hell, Nick can always nuke it.