Will post more shortly – such as what features will be adding. My new project is called Wists. Have a play, mail me If you like it or don
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I am moving to New York at the end of the month, to continue working on a product which I hope to launch next week. The product is somewhere between Flickr and delicious and, amongst other things, will build upon the concept of tagging, to allow ‘metatagging’, where anyone can create their own types of category: restaurant, location=ny etc. While I’m really looking forward to it (I am still an architect at heart and NY is an architect’s wet dream), I will miss San Francisco. For me, San Francisco is a model of a 21st century city, it is at the heart of an area which is the world capital of both science and liberal thinking. As such, it is one of the few places where engineering is taken to a truly creative level, becoming an art as much as a science.
One of the most memorable things that I have done since living in San Francisco is see Jimmy Smith play at Bimbo’s, with my good friend Nick Rossi, who is also an awesome Hammond B3 player. Jimmy Smith was a true genius, taking an instrument normally associated with church services and inventing a sound worthy of its spiritual origins. R.I.P Jimmy Smith. Jimmy Smith dies
There was an ad on my site today that read: Iraq Visiting Iraq? Compare hotel prices, reviews, maps travel.yahoo.com There is one genuine looking review from an aid worker, where the Palestine Intl. Hotel in Baghdad, gets one star: “Nice swimming pool, otherwise a dump Service and food were terrible, bed was uncomfortable, dirty. The pool, however, was clean and very nice.”
If you are at a loose end for something to do in San Francisco this Saturday, you could register for the 2004 Masturbate-a-thon. A Massmasturbate I guess. Half off if you’re participating in the Bay-to-Breakers! Masturbate-A-Thon 2004: Come for a Cause!
Playlist from April’s Casanova lounge session: Uppers | Nick Rossi and David Galbraith @ The Turnaround, April 2004 Anyone welcome to show up for the next scintillating installment.
This weekend I had the pleasure of seeing Steve Malkmus at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland. This dance hall has one of the last remaining sprung floors in the US and was built at a time when the Tango was illegal in Portland. A city ordinance proclaimed a standard dance position be adopted so that ‘no undue familiarity between partners shall be permitted’.
Things to love about the US: seeing Hammond B3 legend Jimmy Smith play ‘back at the chicken shack’ at Bimbos last night. Smith, Jimmy Sermon at CD Universe
Why is it that in IM conversations some people stick to you like flies to the proverbial crap? New to IM Person: OK we’ll meet there Other Person: Cool, bye. [conversation is over in theory] New Person: Cheers see you then – its at 6 right?[nope, its started again. Rule 1. do not end with a question] Other Person: Yup, Cheers New Person: what do you think of Swedenborg’s Arcana Coelestia? [it was over, you should have stopped and you’ve started again. Rule 2. look for hints] Other Person: I think its total bollocks, gotta run New Person: Yeah I guess so, BTW, did we say 6?[GOTO line 2340, please sod off now. Rule 3. don’t ever read philosophers, they can’t write and they create more questions than people can answer – a bit like some people on IM] etc, etc.
The New York Post “panned Victoria’s singing career and said David was the star of a sport that, in America, ‘is largely played by young girls’.” Headline news from Sky News – Witness the event