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[reddragdiva]

• NewsTechnica: Facebook pressured to change from old style to old old style; Google adopts new "Do, however, be stupid" policy.

Today I went to Camden to buy long-sleeved T-shirts. I didn't find any I wanted, but I did get waylaid by Resurrection Records and spend £22 from the discount bin. (Two EBM compilations, an Eden EP, a Peter Murphy album and a Marc Almond album.)

I haven't written any NewsTechnica in a few days. I need to get back into the groove on this.

I have, however, prompted by ciphergoth's probings into the issue, been working on a RationalWiki article on cryonics. I was neutral-to-positive on the subject before researching the article; now I'm pretty much convinced that, although it's not physically impossible that some day we'll be able to freeze and revive people, the present-day cryonics industry is made of wishful bollocks and is about as effective at preserving people for future resurrection as the ancient Egyptians were at preserving the pharaohs for future resurrection. Do feel free to dive in.

(And if you want to argue cryonics here, please read the article and talk page and Paul's blog first.)

Saturday morning is the Open Rights Group election count, meaning Friday is a quiet night in. I'm an election shitworker, because I'm Australian so I'm not utterly confused by preferential voting systems. (I wrote the worked example.) Hopefully it will be very dull. I now have an ORG sticker on my laptop, courtesy katieastrophe, who I think has been charged with papering the world with them.

In the wake of the Buzz privacy car crash, Google says they've defaulted to not automatically telling your violent and abusive stalker where to find you and have put a Buzz settings tab into Gmail. Hasn't shown up in mine, but I killed Buzz as utterly much as I could. Can you see it in yours?

Work continues. Currently trying to build CruiseControl such as to work with our obscure proprietary version control system. I know it can be done because it's running on the old box. Bloody Java. I have taken Friday and Monday off work for the weekend of my birthday.

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[katieastrophe]

I now have an ORG sticker on my laptop, courtesy katieastrophe, who I think has been charged with papering the world with them.

Not quite; at least, it's not in my job description - but geeks like schwag and it promotes ORG's name, so... :-)

[loom.livejournal.com]

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20100216/google-buzz-security-flaw/

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Which Marc album did you get??

[reddragdiva]

Vermin in Ermine. Haven't played it yet.

The Pete Murphy album is the one from 2004 on some obscure label, haven't played that yet either.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

*grins*

I found that on vinyl the other day. Has some lovely stuff on - esp "Tenderness...". How much was your CDs, and were there any left?

[reddragdiva]

£5 and no :-D The chuckout bin at Resurrection is mostly dodgy German EBM compilations with an admixture of other stuff. I was really quite surprised to find the Marc in there.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Unshattered?
It's an album I hardly ever listen to. I expect it would be his worst ever, but I heard some of his recent cover songs and that must surely take that particular cake.

Which Eden EP? I'm going to guess one of the later ones since I'm guessing you must have picked up Gateways on vinyl aeons ago. I'm guessing Earthbound (which was excellent) or ... whatever the next one was (Stonecat? Maybe? It had an orange cover) which was when they went ever more psychedelic.

[thefon.livejournal.com]

Need any help with the ORG stuff?

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

End of an old batch, I guess. Yeah, I've found the odd good thing in there in the past, but 'odd' is probably the operative word! Nice find.

I really need to find some time to rip all my vinyl to MP3s soonish...

[reddragdiva]

I've only been saying that for two years now. Mind you, I now have another 3TB of external USB disk, I might have somewhere to put it.

[reddragdiva]

Nah, it's been thankfully dull :-) A few people who hadn't kept their address up to date so didn't get a ballot paper and got upset, that's about it.

[reddragdiva]

"Stone Cat" - Heartland Records HL08!

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

I've been told you're a good person to ask about this, generally. Do please let me know if you complete the project, I'm genuinely interested in how it goes.

[reddragdiva]

I'll tell you when I've actually finished transcribing a few records ;-) It's possible to get VERY audio-nerd about it indeed, though not too expensively (turntables are cheap these days).

[redcountess]

Happy Birthday!!! :)