Skin of Stars

Machines, Media and Miscellanea

by Kevin Carmody

Blog Entries

High drama.

Oh the excitement of the internet! Drama at every turn. It seems ram-skate has declared that he won’t post again on Cliff Richards blog over a furore of loose lips. What is Tricky Dicky going to do now??? Especially now he’s admited to being the most infamous president of all time, surely he needs his shady associates to help gather … Read the remaining 38 words

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Every morning, same routine.

I hear a god awfull noise. I ignore it, it should go away. It doesn’t. I’m roused so I lean over and click it, that’ll make it go away. It works for what seems like a couple of seconds (9mins). Repeat process until suitably late for any appointments.

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Webcasting on oonagi

I know it’s popular to call webcasts podcasts nowadays, but I’m not tempted to jump on the bandwagon. For a start, I don’t own an iPod and I never play them on iPods (I usually use songbird, a neat open source media player). I’ve also found that other people think you need an iPod to play them. So I’ll tick … Read the remaining 251 words

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Planning a pub crawl?

I just found a rather useful site with a directory of all the pubs and bars in Thanet, put together by the Thanet Camra Association. I’ll see you all on the streets for lager-vomit spotting. Bottoms up!

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My computer got a cold.

As a nice treat this evening I picked up a worm for my computer. I was on a public wireless network, but only visiting safe sites; bbc, blogger etc. Bit of a shame really as it meant I had to do the decent thing and disconnect from the network and scan my computer to remove all traces. Internet security is … Read the remaining 446 words

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Bit of an update.

Well, here I am at work. It’s a hard life. Though I’m not sure what I’ll do when the laptops battery runs out as I’m just sitting in the corridor and there are no power points. I’ve updated the sidebar bit of this blog, seeing as I’m getting a bit more attention than I expected. Additions include:Thanet Life, our alternative … Read the remaining 174 words

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Status Updates

JS Oxford tonight. Who's coming? [skinofstars]

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The new Twitter Android app is so bad, it's helped me kick much of my Twitter addiction. [skinofstars]

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Ice skating disco! [skinofstars]

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I love that the Scots kicked Farrage out of their country. [skinofstars]

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RT @eoghanmcdermo: Justin Bieber got 100,000 retweets for tweeting "Live life full". That's just 3 random words. I'm going to try now. Ni… [skinofstars]

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Finally watched the new Total Recall. It was a pale shadow of its namesake. [skinofstars]

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Feel like my stage is style is "wayhey, JavaScript!" *swig*... Such a brogrammer. [skinofstars]

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Beauty of Twitter are retweets. Don't have to think of anything yourself. #heardaroundthehouse [skinofstars]

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