May 2009
25 posts
Mitsubishi offers free goat with ute →
MITSUBISHI Motors in New Zealand is offering a free goat with every Triton ute sold before August in a novel effort at correcting the economy.
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Goats improved farm productivity by defending against weeds, were cheaper than toxic sprays, and there was no risk of goat flu affecting the tourism industry, he told NZPA.
For those of you who don’t know, a ute is roughly...
Tumblr TOS Chilling Effect - James Duncan Davidson... →
“Tumblr will have a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable right, under all of Subscriber’s intellectual property rights, to copy, cache, publish, display, perform, distribute, translate and store such Subscriber Content and to allow others to do so.”
This I hadn’t seen before.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-24) →
The Shins (37)
Jack Johnson (34)
Bon Iver (33)
Botanist (32)
Coldplay (22)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-17) →
The Shins (69)
Bon Iver (39)
Jack Johnson (36)
Coldplay (32)
Architecture in Helsinki (21)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
It takes me around 20 minutes on the train to get...
These 20 minutes are a blissful piece of breathing space before I attack the day. Something about sitting here, surrounded by people and yet in my own world, is theraputic.
I finally set up my Behance Network profile →
I’m not sure if I’ll gain anything from it, but there it is, for your enjoyment.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-10) →
Coldplay (69)
Botanist (48)
Sufjan Stevens (35)
Broken Social Scene (35)
Derek and The Dominos (32)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
With these two new jobs...
…I’ll be coming into some money. That may mean I finally get a chance to upgrade my camera kit. Depending on cashflow, I think I’ll be looking at at least two new lenses and maybe some investment in some film gear as well…
Medium format here I come?
Tumblarity isn't about you.
For those of you who are readers and not Tumblr users, feel free to skip over this one. I just thought I’d share this fairly sane interpretation of the new “Tumblarity” feature on Tumblr.
alaskamiller:
It’s never about you. Well, actually it kind of is. Measuring users is the number one priority of every major website out there. All the big companies have entire departments...
The last few weeks have been interesting.
A lot has happened, I’ve started two new jobs and that’s pretty hectic. I’ve also started going out with an amazing girl and that has been very cool. After six or so months of feeling like I was floating, suddenly there’s this rush of forward motion. It’s kind of scary.
In the meantime, that’s meant I’ve neglected my blog. Apologies for that, I hope...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-3) →
Coldplay (26)
Calexico (24)
Sufjan Stevens (24)
Broken Social Scene (24)
Lykke Li (19)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz