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One line thoughts of the day.

Giving the excellent Occupying Forces by Halo Blind another spin. One of no fewer than five excellent albums from the York scene so far this year.

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Tim Hall | 4 Comments

I am liking the new Robert Plant album “Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar” a lot. It’s the best thing he’s done for years, with a fire that’s beem missing from his last few records.

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

You can tell you’re a tester if you go to the pub and all the conversations are about ISO29119. The consensus that the reason the online testing community is overwhelmingly anti is that the pro-ISO29119 camp are just too boring to be on Twitter or write blogs.

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

The context was actually Manga, but the advice from a convention panel goes broader than that. “Be thick-skinned. you need to be able to take both good and bad reviews“. Because, to quote Serdar Yegalulp, “Sometimes praise can be as damaging as insult, and the damage is not always as palpable“. This is just as true with music, especially in this social media age. I’ve seen artists surround themselves with sycophants, and it’s all too easy for them to lose their edge as a result.

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

When Things Just Aren’t What They Seem, a very moving and very tragic post from Michael Larson. It’s quite long, but really needs to be read in full.

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

Apparently the closest nail varnish colour to Stroudley’s Improved Engine Green is “Nude Bronze”. This piece of utterley useless information comes from a thread (registration required) on RMweb.

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

If you’re seeing a banner ad just under the menu, it means you haven’t left any comments on this blog. I’m testing some code to inflict ads on people who wander in from Google without annoying my regular readers.

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Tim Hall | 1 Comment

If I find myself leaving snarky comments against risibly pompous and patronising articles served up by LinkedIn (Really, there was one that suggested your career depends on driving the right car!), then perhaps I really need to get back on Twitter…

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

If a Dalek’s immune system is lots of tiny Beholders, are there little Gelatinous Cubes inside every Cyberman?

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

I wonder what the internet would have looked like had micropayments for content been the default model rather than advertising? Had that happened, then I bet spam would have been far less of a problem.

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Tim Hall | 2 Comments