May
27
Posting will be less frequent for a while as I prepare for the impending arrival of iPhone 2 my child. In the meantime here’s a video of pictures taken with my iPhone set to music.
May
11
My high school is being torn down in the summer as the power that be have built a new school. This means that there’s a reunitation type event taking place in June so that misty eyed ex-pupils can see the place before it is no longer there. As part of the events they’ve asked that any pupils with old photographs share them so that memories can be jolted and happy times remembered. I can find only one picture that depicts my school days and it’s the one below.
I can’t speak for the nine others but as soon as I saw this picture again I was transported back to the heady mid to late 1990s when Oasis and Blur fought it out a the top of the charts and clearly I couldn’t find a barber. I married one of the people in this picture and I’m still good friends with one other. That leaves seven people. Two are Facebook friends but the remaining five are no longer on my radar. To be fair Donna (bottom right) and I fell out before we finished school for a reason I can’t really remember. My bet is I said something mind blowingly insulting/stupid* to her. The fact that I don’t have a clue what the other five people are doing now shouldn’t really be a surprise as this was taken in about 1994/5 which is only 14/13 years ago. I wonder if sites like Facebook will put an end to this and we’ll know people for much longer than we used to. Even if ‘knowing’ them means seeing when they post a picture or talk about their new life, etc.
We were responsible for some of the finest student TV ever - FACT
Friday World
A’genda
Summer Fair
Talent Contests
Eventful Place
Anything that required a presenter/filming/sound & lights
* A talent I retain to this day.
May
09
Well parked?
Originally uploaded by chrisbrennan
Why would you do this? I couldn’t leave my car here for fear of some self-righteous git taking a picture of if and putting it on the Internet. At least it wasn’t a disabled spot.
May
09
Travelodge
Originally uploaded by chrisbrennan
Living in a Travelodge is very, very dull. It’s a bit like an open prision (I assume).
May
09
Joanne in B&Q
Originally uploaded by chrisbrennan
Shopping for towel rails is very exciting!
May
07
Is it still the £2 special then?
Originally uploaded by chrisbrennan
May
07
that the person sitting next to you in the office might not actually know who Steve Jobs is… Chances are most of the people around you probably don’t know who he is either. They probably don’t know who Steve Ballmer is either.
May
07
Apple has spoken out about the rumours that they were selling Final Cut but they haven’t said a word about the Piestar clone. Weird. One story is grumbling along in a smallish circle without escaping the video/Mac press and the other is getting worldwide attention from loads of places.
Why hasn’t Steve Jobs paid the Piestar people a visit with his ninja fruitarian friends and crushed them like a grape? Perhaps it’s because they’ve moved offices so often. That or they’re really not going to do anything and erm… well, leave the customers they don’t actually want* to the rest of the industry.
To the best of my knowledge** the legality of a EULA has never been robustly tested in a court of law so Piestar might not actually be doing anything wrong at the moment but for Apple to go so long without saying anything makes it all the more fun. Has Schiller told Steve his Mac is at the repair shop and kept him away from the Internet for a couple of weeks for fear of Mr Jobs throwing an eppy and killing everyone who: makes, buys, uses, lives near, smells like or looks like the clone? Don’t think Steve can’t have you killed. All he has to do is type Killalldick in to a Terminal session and then your user name. Jean Louis Gassée turns up with a copy of BeOS and that’s the end of you. So if they’re not going to kill Piestar with legal red tape it can’t afford to defend rather than any actual point of law what are they going to do? I reckon they’re going to ignore it publically and then if the shit storm lasts longer than six months send in the fruitarians in.
*If you want a really cheap Mac then Apple doesn’t want your business. Sorry to disappoint you but Steve Jobs thinks you’re too poor to bother with. Why should he spend all his time making beautiful products for people too dumb to earn enough money to justify buying something because it’s pretty. Of course, if you are an Apple customer then that makes you a whole other shade of dumb but hey we all have our cross to bear.
** I’m a bit of a divvy