My subconscious has stolen the car keys of my personality

[hirez]

Use of the word 'mashup' outside of musical endeavour grates quite badly and makes the user look like the chaps holding their crotches in the relevant bank advert.

Yes, messrs. bOing^2 and allied webloggers, I'm looking at you. We'll have no 'getting down with it in a web2.0 stylee' round here, thank you very much.

(That's two mentions of Eclectic Kettle on my FL in a fortnight. That'll be one of them sign things, or yanno[1], coincidence.)


[1] Well done, Ms. chiller.

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[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Preach it, brother.

[tails-redux.livejournal.com]

Fancy popping along to the next Eclectic Kettle?

Hope the Easton Mashups don't grate.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That's the vague plan. amanda_pink has coughed to DJing at the next one (Feb 3?) and I need to get out of the house more, so...

Pie & mashup != what I'm on about. You'll know it when you see it.

[tails-redux.livejournal.com]

Champion ... here's to getting out of the house more ... give me a nudge closer the time.

Bah .. cynical about all this web 2.0 business ... seems like another opportunity for big business to mine information and 'suggest' more products you should buy. Then again I'm not a very technical fella.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

MUAhahaha! I pwn your "yanno" and your square bracketed footnotes!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Wilco.

True that. As usual, a lot of this malarkey is jolly fine if used for good. I rather like being able to buy specific s/h books on a whim. It's also good to beetle down the shop for a browse; you can't easily browse on a webshite, no matter what they call the tool you use.

On the other hand, I get a bit worried when Amazon email me going 'We notice you bought Uncle Fester's Guide To Making MDMA (I did), we think you'd be interested in (random list of books) OR GOING TO JAIL YOU DRUG-FREAK'

That would be bad.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

:p

The bracketry is pure Usenet, but you do have an infectious way with worms.

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

Yes, I blame you for my use of that word as well. Grr.