Chris Garrett’s Personal Blog

Still recovering from birthday over indulgence. Simpsons movie, all you can eat curry buffet and lots of beer…. *burp* #
@technosailor darren did one for the olympics #
Found a link to more British culinary delights for @dnorman http://www.effingpot.com/food.shtml #
@dnorman British cuisine is world renowned … or perhaps infamous #

License payers (IE. the television tax) now need to pay an additional tax to get the full benefits of the programming we already paid for … to Microsoft
BBC Corrupted | DefectiveByDesign.org
From today, you will need to own a Microsoft operating system to view BBC programming on the web. This is akin to saying [...]

Just checking email then logging off - it’s my Birthday :) #

They don’t really want you to play ‘Free Bird’. They’re just heckling you #

Here are the links I had on my website in 2002 … wow am I a geek or what? … Of course there are broken links, it isn’t 2002!

Star Wars Episode 1
TheForce.Net
Aint It Cool News
Hotwired/Webmonkey
Suck
BBC News
QuakeWorld
Circlemakers
Popcorn
Prehensile
Powazek
Spacegirl
Urban Insect Evening Theatre
Flaunt
Anthology
GNOME (*The* user interface for Linux)
GIMP (a photoshop-alike for Linux)
Linuxberg (Linux software site)
A Mark [...]

Back a year and a bit ago I had a similar idea but I have to admit AideRSS is not half bad, in fact could well be better than what I had in mind. Put in a feed URL and it will show you only the good stuff.

Kinda funny + cheesy

My birthday just a few days away, perhaps about time I grew up and got a real job? #
@mattpallatt - don’t cheek your elders, I will be a spritely 33 #
I love the fact it’s July but I just commented about Christmas trees http://tinyurl.com/yskfec #

Excellent video on taming your inbox

I keep reading about second life. Friends mention it. It’s funny, the same pressures that got me to try facebook are not working to get me into this virtual world. I am glad for people like Darren Barefoot who provide some much needed perspective, check out his latest post
The article later suggests that [...]