God, I’ve blown my load in the last post. I’m sure the Suicide fans will be here to rip me a new one in due course. I’ve plaintively asked elsewhere for education about what makes them legendary. I suspect it’ll be along the lines of “they invented the genre”, in which case, all credit to [...]
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I am not sure why, after so many years of going to gigs, I persist in turning up so damn early. Maybe it would be an excusable thing if I were attending with friends, it’s nice get a chance to get some beers in before the main event. In the case of Grinderman’s gig this [...]
I occasionally have a look at the stats for ni.chol.as, since it’s fun to see how people come into the site, what they read and the search terms they might use. I don’t get massive traffic, but it’s still something to sate your curiosity now and again. One of the best things is the incoming [...]
Update 9th April 2009: Fantastic news from Royd in the comments. Sony Ericsson has seen the light and is now offering an iSync plugin for their phones. You can go to the site and download it from here, authorised, free and supported. I bought a new phone to replace my godawful Nokia N80. It’s a [...]
Twittervision
05Jun07I stumbled across a rather neat interface for viewing Twitter posts earlier on. For those not on the ever-so-trendy edge of web2.0 social networking sites, Twitter is an er… hmm. It lets you make short updates to your status. Updates like “I am about to murder my postman, he didn’t ring the doorbell again!” It [...]
The phone rings in a darkened room. The glowing digits of the bedside clock read 08:50. An arm reaches blindly, searching for the handset to stop the infernal ringtone. The arm’s hand clutches the handset and pops it open with a click. “Nic Walker,” the owner of the arm says, trying not to sound like [...]
