Aquarionics

I don’t care what the marketing people mean when they say “Web 2.0″.

I don’t even care when you tell me it’s about slight gradients, rounded corners, whatever.

Because what I mean when I tell *you* about “Web 2.0″ is this:

Memes! That’s what I can do!

Stolen from Carrie, incidentally.

So, the rules of this one are:

1. Load up all your music.
2. Stick it on shuffle/random

1. For each question, answer with the next track that plays.

   I was planning on cheating for this, but in the end I really, really didn’t need to…

   How does the world see me? :

   “Left me for dead – Rob Dougan”

   You didnt stop to look round
   You were gone before I hit the ground
   You went on your way
   And no prayer was said
   Ah, you left me for dead

   Will I have a happy life? :

   “Will I? – Rent OST”

   Will I Lose My Dignity
   Will Someone Care
   Will I Wake Tomorrow
   From This Nightmare?

   What do my friends really think of me? :

   “National Brotherhood Week – Tom Lehrer”

   But during National Brotherhood Week
   National Brotherhood Week
   New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans
   ‘Cause it’s very chic
   Step up and shake the hand
   Of someone you can’t stand
   You can tolerate him if you try

   Do people secretly lust after me? :

   “Friscko – Skullfuck”

   How can I make myself happy? :

   “Ski Sunday (Drum & Bass Mix) – Diffusion”

   What should I do with my life? :

   “Please Shut Up – Mike Spencer”

   That is the message I deliver to little kids
   Your gonna become famous and never know what talent is.
   Of course they gonna like you, of course they do!
   Your like a cartoon version of Ricky Schroder on Silver Spoons!

   Will I ever have children? :

   “Bob the Builder vs Eminem – Diffusion”

   What is some good advice for me? :

   “Son of a Gun – Yazbek” (Originally The La’s)

   If you want I’ll sell you a life story
   About a man who’s at loggerheads with his past all the time
   He’s alive and living in purgatory
   All he’s doing is rooming up in hotels
   And scooping up lots of wine

   How will I be remembered? :

   ”(I’m always touched by your) Presents – Syd Straw” (Orig: Blondie)

   Was it destiny
   I don’t know yet
   Was it just by chance? Could this be Kismet?
   Something in my consciousness told me you’d appear
   Now I’m always touched by your presence dear

   What is my signature dance song? :

   “Gaudete – Mediaeval Baebes”

   Gaudete, gaudete
   Christus est natus
   ex Maria Virgine: Gaudete
   Tempus adest gratiae, Hoc quod optabamus;
   Carmina laeticiae Devote redamus.

   What do I think my current theme song is? :

   “No Matter Who You Vote For (The Govenment Always Gets In) – Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band”

   Noises on the radio
   Megaphones on cars
   Sermons from the Street of Shame
   Know-it-alls in bars
   Posters in suburbia
   Experts on t.v.
   Don’t let them disturb-i-ya
   They’re just the powers that be

   What song will play at my funeral? :

   “An Angel Returned – Trans-Siberian Orchestra”

   It was the glow of a light
   It was the heart of a song
   It was the tear of a child
   Where they never belonged
   It was the wish of a soul
   On an old neon light
   And the Lord smiled at him
   On that cold winter night

   What type of people do I like to date ? :

   “Convoy – C.W McCall”

   Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
   In a Kenworth, pullin’ logs
   Cabover Pete with a reefer on
   And a Jimmy haulin’ hogs
   We ‘as headin’ fer bear on I-One-Oh
   ‘Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
   I sez Pig-Pen, this here’s the Rubber Duck
   An’ I’m about to put the hammer on down

   What is my day going to be like?

   “Dirty Business – Dresden Dolls”

   She’s the kind of girl who looks for love in all the lonely places
   The kind who comes to poker pockets stuffed with kings and aces
   She’s the kind of girl who only asks you over when its raining
   Just to make you lie there catching water dripping from the ceiling

Over christmas I stopped checking Google Reader for a little while. Until, in fact, January 6th or so. And then there was work, and unemployment, and reemployment and such.

Am now, for the first time in 2007, completely up to date on my RSS feeds.

Okay, bored now.

I’ve moved house. Again.

And so a series of things happen, meaning I’m now living in Walthamstow. Fortunately, I am a member of Walthamstow Pool Hall already, and I have friends here, and it’s close to the tube, and stuff.

The house has been without the tubes of tinternet for a couple of weeks, including the week or so I’ve been here, but now they are back.

I went to Pub Standards on Thursday, which I discovered by stalking Natalie Downe via the wonder that is Twitter. This eventually involved a nice pub, an amount of beer, and the discussion of jokes about breezeblocks with the internet’s Dean Edwards. Do not ask me to tell you the breezeblock joke.

New design of AqCom is happening. I’ve got a better idea of what I want the site to look like now. Elements of this, bits of that, and some magic of Ajax. The design is now on paper. Next stage is colour, then mock-up in PSP, Photoshop, or something. Then cut up and CSS/HTMLify, hack Epistula to do the things it needs to do that it doesn’t do already (Epistula’s coming up to five years old now, and there’s very little I actually need to change from the original basic design. Apart from the lack of proper templating, which I should have done properly the first time. One day I’ll have another two months free to rewrite it…)

First week at work has been fun, with gunfights and tea and monitors and laptops and meetings and code and designs and jam. I’m unlikely to specifically start talking about exactly what I’m doing – at least not for a few months or we get a company blog or something – but the results of some of the stuff I’m doing may get refactored and turned into articles. Possibly.

The company as a whole has Clue, which is nice.

But yes, I have Moved. That is this place here is now Home, and that place up there is now Away. At some point soonish, I’m going to shift the rest of Away into my new Home (Having moved from an entire two bedroom house into that studio flat, I’m perfectly sure I can now fit it all into a single room in a shared house. Oh yes). Today me and Brother The Second wandered up to Bedford to pick up the pile of cushions I laughingly refer to as a bed and shift it down here so I can stop sleeping in the living room.

The world continues apace.