Andrew Chant sent me a link to an article Notorious nobodies at the Times Online. It’s a great piece about Web 2.0 and how the user generated content revolution is changing the world. Well worth the read I thought.
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
Alas, from a high of 3rd, I’ve slipped to 12th place on a search for Callum. Being number 1 for Callum Macdonald is no longer enough, now I must also dominate the world of Callums. If you’d like to help me, please post a link to my lovely site and entitle it simply Callum, for like Madonna or Bono, I need no further introduction…
I was at Emma’s last night. She’s house sitting while her parents are in Aviemore, looking after the cats and the Nintendo Wii…
It’s the first time I’ve used a Wii, possibly even the first time I’ve seen one up close and personal. The device itself is rather unspectacular. It’s a square box and the controllers look like old fashioned, square remote controls.
However, fire the thing up and start using it, it’s a whole different story. The controllers can sense which way up they are, you can use the controller to literally point at the screen, they can sense movement, and all sorts.
For games like boxing, you can literally punch and the character on the screen punches. Playing tennis you literally swing the controller like a racket and it hits the ball on screen.
I don’t know if it has the graphics power of the xbox 360 or the Playstation 3, and it may not have the range of games, but personally, it’s the most impressive games console I’ve seen in a long time. Top marks Nintendo. They have delivered the biggest innovation in home gaming I’ve seen in a long time.
Now I’m working on convincing my family to get one… 
Thanks to James for introducing me to the Govan Law Centre and their Unfair UK Bank Charges information. I’ve taken up the fight. I’m writing to Smile demanding the refund of £430 of charges and to Bank of Scotland demanding the refund of £110 of charges.
If they are unwilling to refund my charges I plan to take them to court in 14 days. This is war. It’s on. Bring it…
Note: I have not provided links to the aforementioned banks websites because I believe those banks suck and I do not wish to offer them any sort of web-recognition!
I installed Scuttle a few weeks ago to take my bookmarks online. I logged in for the first time in ages and discovered I’ve been spammed. I’ve had hundreds of user registrations and a bunch of links submitted. After a little database cleansing the spam has now been removed and the registration closed. No more Scuttle spam I say.
In my view, spam has reached a new low. I now receive fake e-cards with a generic message like “You have received an e-card from a family member, click here to see it”. If the click here address starts with an IP address (a bunch of numbers) I delete immediately.
I’m also getting spams with PDF documents attached. The email is blank, but the PDF contains the spam message. I opened the first one out of curiosity, now I delete immediately.
It’s getting harder and harder to separate genuine and spam emails. Particularly as some people are not very precise with email (blank subject lines, irrelevant subject lines, and so on).
My advice is thus, please use BCC instead of TO when mass emailing. I think this is the single, simplest thing people can do to cut spam.
I was in Oxford over the weekend for the wedding of my good friends Alex & Claire. The wedding was a great success, it was a great day all round. I was the master of ceremonies and people were generally where they were supposed to be, when they were supposed to be there, so I think I did ok!
Both Alex and Claire have decided to change their names, so they’ll be Mr & Mrs Rennie-Lis (they’re currently Lis and Rennie respectively). I think the tradition of women changing their names is ridiculously outdated, I’m really impressed by their decision to join names. Although, I can’t help but wonder, how will it work if their children decide upon the same idea Mr & Mrs Smith-Jones-Rennie-Lis?
With my little camera being on the blink (aka, the screen is broken) I’m not carrying it any more, and so I don’t have any photos of the happy couple to share. If anyone would like to donate to the “Buy Callum a Camera Fund” please contact me and I’ll send you my PayPal details!
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