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Pierre Boulez RIP

simon gray — 2016-01-06, 13:14:59 - 32 words

Composer Pierre Boulez has sadly died; his daughter Patti is said to be distraught. Inheritance of the royalties for the Planet of the Apes novel series is yet to be decided.

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simon gray — 2016-01-06, 00:28:08 - 24 words

'I've made 10 albums and none of them match up to Never Mind The Bollocks - and I'm an arrogant bastard, seriously'. Class.

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simon gray — 2016-01-05, 09:07:29 - 36 words

It's mildly irritating having to walk all the way round to get on to Selly Oak station platform from the park and ride. Especially as one sees a train pulling in to the station. 

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About The Perfect Curve

simon gray — 2016-01-02, 06:01:28 - 314 words

Barely a month goes by without me seeing somebody get all riled up about the latest change to Facebook's or Twitter's design, functionality, privacy settings, advertising policy, or myriad other reasons for people to get all riled up.

At the same time, we as online communities have willingly given over our digital identities, our online presences, and the online discussion space from systems which were distributed and owned by nobody and everybody to a pair of private corporations, with single points of failure, accountable to nobody - not even in any real sense to their advertisers and investors - and immune to challenge or boycott.

The Perfect Curve is a response to this; it is here as an alternative to those who object to the way other social media and social networking sites operate corporately, and here as a place where people who just want to talk to other people using text and pictures can do so without other bloat getting in the way.

The aspiration for The Perfect Curve is for the code to be Open Sourced, for the site and its operating policies to be owned and governed by the community of users, for infrastructure of the site to be funded [...]

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Parking

simon gray — 2016-01-01, 14:52:15 - 19 words
Person parking at service station with many pullthrough spaces available still makes a meal of reversing into a space. [...]

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Slow news day

simon gray — 2015-12-31, 21:26:02 - 41 words
It's a sign of how little UK news there is this evening as for most of it all the UK news channels have near exclusively given over their coverage to footage of a hotel which is burning down in Dubai. [...]

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The code behind this site is a bit of an abandoned project; I originally had lofty ambitions of it being the start of a competitor for Twitter and Facebook, allowing other people to also use it turning it into a bit of a social network. Needless to say I got so far with it and thought who did I think I was! Bits of it don't work as well as I'd like it to work - at some point I'm going to return to it and do a complete rebuild according to modern standards.