Greg N Baker

Women & Guns

Greg — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:18:24 +0000

Two console features that would kill PCs | News | TechRadar UK
1. To experience the glory of the female form in as direct and convenient a way as possible.
2. To be able to shoot things and watch other people shooting things for those times when I am temporarily tired of the female form.

So what is needed, then, clearly, is a console that plays games but also connects to Amazon, Tesco.com, iTunes, eBay and a selection of high-quality adult sites.

Bundle that lot into something like a Wii for £200 and then see how many people still bother with Windows.

Lifestream + Retaggr

Greg — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:37:07 +0000

As you may have spotted, I have a Lifestream set up on this blog as a place to keep track of all my web activity, plus a way for me to archive said activity. I thought I’d explain step 2 of this ‘aggregation’ by reviewing a rather cool service I’ve started using called Retaggr. From their own site, Retaggr is among other things a highly customisable ‘web 2.0 business card’ that unifies your online presence. By choosing to display it in many different ways (widget, button, email signature etc) you can provide links to all your online profiles easily and quickly. You can see mine my clicking on the blue ‘i’ next to my name at the top of this post or here. (Here’s the card for one of the founders, Nicholas Smit.)
As you can see, it provides links to all my inserted web profiles, plus room for biographical information and a photo. I can’t emphasise how easy it is to set up and becomes even easier if you have a FriendFeed account as by providing your FF username Retaggr can import all the relevant accounts.
There are various options for sharing your Retaggr information, including a Wordpress plugin which is installed on GregNBaker.com. There are as well all the usual widgets, buttons and an email signature to ’spread the love’.
There are far too many features to go through but here’s a demo page from Retaggr. One final point is the new URL ClickToAdd.me which gives you a quick address to hand out or email to people.
As for support, it’s fast and quick! The guys are quick to add favicons and other services (for example CellarTracker which I added last night).

Planet of the Grapes Annual Tasting

Greg — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:21:29 +0000

New London Wine Bar at Planet of the Grapes | UKWinesOnline
- Innovative London specialist wine and spirit merchant Planet of the Grapes announces it annual tasting over 3 days. POTG has also opened a Wine Bar which offers an impressive range of over 450 wines, plus wines by the glass.

Shortstat wierdness

Greg — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:35:35 +0000

I’m not quite sure what is going on with my ‘hits’ today….

“Star Wars” - An ‘a cappella’ tribute to John Williams

Greg — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:22:56 +0000

“Star Wars” - an a cappella tribute to John Williams. It’s incredible, found on Be The Signal.

Timeline by

Greg — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:16:31 +0000

See the Timeline page for a rather pointless but cool timeline/archive using MIT’s Simile java app…haven’t worked out font sizing yet. Good tutorial on Freshlabs.de.

World Philosophy Day

Greg — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:02:49 +0000

It’s World Philosophy Day, the BBC have some questions to make your brain hurt (apparently).

Pictures of Gadgets

Greg — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:25:41 +0000

Today’s Dilbert is inspired. And also depressingly true.

40% off ALL wine

Greg — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:54:33 +0000

40% off ALL still and sparkling wine at Threshers, Wine Rack and Victoria Wine until 2nd December. Voucher HERE (pdf)

Teenage Tortoises

Greg — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:16:10 +0000

No slower human movement has ever been officially recorded than that of two umpires sludging towards each other to confer over the light, like a pair of amorous teenage tortoises unsure of whether to make the first move, or two unhappy commuters trying to miss the same train. — Andy Zaltzman at The Confectionery Stall on Cricinfo. From The Masterplan