BrucieWeb

Arrived on Friday afternoon – survived the weekend on my desk. Full review this evening or tomorrow! Might even do some unboxing pics!

photo by brucieweb

Check out the new National Geographic store on Regent Street. Very high concept.

July 1863. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. “John L. Burns, the ‘old hero of Gettysburg,’ with gun and crutches.” Burns, born ca. 1793, was a 70-year-old veteran of the War of 1812 when he was wounded in the Battle of Gettysburg, having volunteered his services as a sharpshooter to the Federal Army. He died of pneumonia in 1872. Wet-plate glass negative by Timothy H. O’Sullivan.

The inspiration for this portrait lies with Col. Frederick Gustavus Burnaby

as discussed in The Times

Sitting in Stroud when I found out. Fucking disapponted. What on earth
were they looking for?

Bruce.

Another domain I have owned forever – I used to have the dot com, but lost it to this wanker a MobileMe site, on redirect – sob! Where to begin!

Anyways, it was always going to be a depository for all the weird and wonderful stuff I found on the net, but never got around to it.

Well, I discovered Tumblr (what is it with ‘r’? Flickr, Dopler, and many more I should imagine) and within less than 30 mins, had set up a site, added most of my feeds from other sites (they only allow 5) and changed my A-Record to point to their servers, and I had a fully hosted, self updating depository for all the weird and wonderful stuff I find on the net.

So easy these days isnt it? Scary easy! I am thinking Tumblr is a much better option for WhatBarackDid – no redirect and a nicer interface, esp the callendar type view template – perfect – will change tomorrow.

I am sure it will be a question many people will be asking – so I thought I would start this up to answer it:

WhatBarackDid.com

I am going to try and set it up so that it is quite self propagating, with various feeds, and my own comment – I won’t be able to post a round up each day, though to be a success and an internet phenomenon, that is prob what it needs.

I have been struck this evening how quick you can have an idea, buy a domain name, start a blog, write a post and add in a few feeds and have a fully functioning web site in a few minutes – that used to take hours and hours and hours.

Alas, WhatObamaDid.com was taken by a cybersquatter. I got my hands on WhatObamaDid.co.uk | WhatWouldBarackDo.co.uk | WhatWouldObamaDo.co.uk

Lets see if anything comes of it. Sorta inspired by When Obama Wins, by Jason Kottke

I loved these posters during the campaign, needlless to say, I wish I had bought one at $50 back in January!

Hope – the image that is already an American classic