So, waiting for our delayed flight back to London seems like a good time to post. Leaving the desert heat of Las Vegas to the east we flew to beautiful San Francisco. Actually, leaving Vegas was a little more eventful than usual as after waiting in a long security line the guard took one look
Vegas
Las Vegas was cool. We stayed at the Bellagio, which was nice. Every casino on the Strip has its “thing”; Caesar’s has statues that come alive and move and talk and wield flaming swords, the Venetian has an indoor/outdoor canal complete with gondola rides under the Rialto Bridge, New York New York has a re-creation
Los Angeles
Yesterday morning we departed a slightly damp Heathrow airport and approximately ten hours later we landed in sunny southern California. As they say, nobody walks in Los Angeles so we collected our hire car from the massive Hertz lot and headed out onto the famous LA freeways. Once I’d got over that initial weirdness that
Rube Goldberg
I’ve just got back from the fourth straight (long) day down at the colo and this is about all my brain can handle at the moment:
Napoleon Dynamite
I just watched Napoleon Dynamite. I was expecting the usual crappy teen movie (a genre I kind of like anyway) but it turned out to be a genuinely entertaining film. The film has a plot so thin it’s barely there but the real interest is in the characters. The eponymous Napoleon Dynamite, played by Jon
Seeqpod
Seeqpod is cool. Basically, it’s a music search engine and flash-based player. Apparently they don’t believe there are any copyright issues as they don’t host the tracks themselves but just link to them. It works really well. For example, I really like the music on this cool Sprint ad, so I loaded up seeqpod and
Another Austral concert
I’ve decided to put on another Austral Sinfonietta concert. A break of nearly five years must be long enough to dull the memory of the stress and expense these things cause. The concert is on September 6 and I’m at that scary stage where things have been booked, money has been paid but I’m still
Me as a Simpson
The Simpsons Movie opens next week. There has been some great promotional activity for this film including transforming a number of 7-Elevens in America into Kwik-E-Marts selling Squishees and Krusty-Os and a doughnut-brandishing Homer Simpson painted next to the giant on the hill above Cerne Abbas, Dorset. On the Simpsons movie site you can create
Zen ADSL
I just found another good reason to like Zen ADSL. I logged into my customer portal and discovered that I can change the reverse mapping of my static IP address through a simple form on their website. I’ve been using Zen for years now and I can’t see myself changing in the near future. Certainly
Bad customer service is everywhere
Guy Kawasaki blogs about how he was charged by AT&T for a DSL service he never ordered and had to go through customer service hell to try and get it canceled. His experience sounds familiar. The iPhone is released in the States today and the only network it is available on is crappy AT&T. My