This either a) makes me rather sad; or b) marks me down instantly as a child of the 80s, but my first iTunes purchase was Def Leppard’s Hysteria. And there aren’t nearly enough “are you really sure you want to add to an unfeasibly large credit card bill by buying this track”-type of warnings before you do the deed.
Archive for 15 June 2004
High on the list of my current diversions is house-buying, timed nicely to purchase at the top of the market just before the incipient crash. Which means that as well as carting all our worldly goods from one side of the town to another, I’m going to have to sort out shifting my broadband service. Broadband is higher on the list of required features in a new property than doors and windows, believe me.
The only slight snag in this is that I haven’t yet found a way of guaranteeing that the new place will be able to actually get broadband prior to buying the place and moving in, short of persuading the current owners to order it before we complete. There must be some other way…
Love it or hate it, you can’t get away from Powerpoint – so for those who are stuck with it, beyond bullets is a new blog from Cliff Atkinson covering “new ways of using media to help you relate better to other people”. Interesting material, some ideas in which we’ve tried in the field, and our impressions are pretty positive.
I could claim that the reason this site has been up and down like a whore’s drawers these past few days was down to the problems at Akami, but I’d be lying. It was all my fault, my hand-rolled DNS unravelling.
Although I’m still waiting for the miserable failure to declare the ‘problems’ the work of Al-Quaida and launch a pre-emptive attack on Telehouse…
