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Right, it’s that time of year. Radios, shops etc are all playing a selection of music that’s seasonal, and, with honourable exceptions like my former employers, you can’t get away from it all.
So, in the spirit of the season, I have selected a selection of lyrics from those Christmas songs I deem to be not awful. Your mission is to choose the best lyric.
Oh, there’s also a ‘help Mat make a silly decision’ question tacked on so I don’t have to do another post…
Lyrics from here, which also has a WAV sample. In memoriam of a great singer.
One of the best things about having Wordpress installed on a domain is actually the Planet Wordpress feed. There’s always something there that’s interesting. Today? Via PhotoMatt (that’s the guy who made Wordpress) I followed a link to Firebug, a new Firefox extension from ParaKey.
So, you ask? Well, ParaKey is the company set up by the guy who started the Firefox project. Firebug is a bit like the Web Developer Toolbar combined with DreamWeaver. Which is sort of like saying a Porche is a bit like a Skoda with a decent paint job. I’ve been playing with it for the last half hour or so. I think I’m in love. With a Firefox extension.
I think I need to get out more. Oh, wait, that’s what I’m moving to London for, right?
Just looked up a quote to add to a comment elsewhere; I first heard it in a lecture by Bill Tupman[1], and then read it when I got Salmon of Doubt. Given it’s one of my favourite “life” quotes around, I’m posting it. Douglas Adams - Wikiquote:
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
The closer I get to thirty-five (less than three years now, ouch!), the more true it becomes. Mobile phone ringtones? Just wrong, damnit, phones should RING. The Internet? Bloody marvellous, I’m making a career in it. I hope.
[1] Bill was the admissions tutor that let me into the course at Exeter. He was also the regular who propped up the bar in the Jolly Porter when I lived there, and a top bloke: great company and always worth a chat in the evenings. It was his course, with the ‘assessed website’ element that got me to learn the basics of coding and prompted me to register my first domain name. It was also, of course, his module that I failed to complete, leading me to get the BA without the (hons). Figures, doesn’t it?