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Actually, on the subject of Santa, I do have an Amazon wishlist .

I mention this for no other reason than that information wants to be free.

–c.

…I have been extremely good this year.

How’s about a hamper?

Thanks,
–c.

“Amy Winehouse was booed by fans as she delivered a shambolic set on the first night of her UK tour in Birmingham.”

Look, I’m sure she’s had a bit of a time of it, what with the sudden riotous fame, the addictions all clamouring for attention, and the press hounding her every move, but Hey! Amy! You’ve got one thing to do, so how’s about doing it?

You know, these people are your fans, and they paid to see you. They also are the only reason you are lucky enough to be able to afford all the booze and dust you seem to (allegedly) enjoy so much.

–c.
PS. Internet Jesus was also pretty unimpressed.

This is the 500th post here on clivemurray.com.

It’s not the one with an id of 500, that went long ago, but lots of posts have been deleted or whatever, so the numbering system is out of whack there, and according to WordPress this one right here what you are currently reading of the nowtime, is #500 Fo Real.

Thrilling, huh?

The archive goes right back to March 2003, and covers posts produced by least three blogging engines. Greymatter and Pivot were useful at times when my hosting situation dictated certain constraints, but now with the emergence and dominance of the mighty mighty WordPress, everything is handled by that. EVERYTHING, mark you.

We’ve covered my solo gigs, the joining of Claytown Troupe (and recent discovery that I’m no longer in the band), and the emergence of Little Monkeys through to their transformation into Crashstars and almost immediate shelving. I’ve changed jobs a couple of times, I’ve dyed my hair, broken a tooth, grown a few beards and taches, moved house, got engaged, been on a few holidays, bought a car, sold it, Flickr’d several thousand photos, posted a buttload of YouTube videos, embraced the LOLCat phenomenon, balanced cans, I’ve told you about my books, my CDs, my movies, my friends, my original music, my cat, my code, my inner self, I’ve bought guitars and sold them, I’ve cast pods, I’ve ranted, I’ve raved, I’ve Opened Letters, I’ve kicked faces, I’ve shuddered, I’ve gone NNNNNG and Errrrr…, I have rocked and I have been rocked, London has burned and the sun has set on Camden.

Thank you all for reading, and coming back for more even when I’m being hateful. I’ve had a personal website full of stuff for over 9 years now, since before the word “web” got glued to the word “log”, since the place was wild and free and not driven by advertising revenue and clickthrough rates.

I’m not going anywhere, so settle in for another 500 posts, why don’t you?

Cheers,
–c.

OK, this is one of the promo/poster images used for the (allegedly excellent) “Ocean’s 13″.

Something about that poster irks me immeasurably. Have another look and see if you can figure out what it is.

…

Got it? Well the title of this post is a clue, actually. It’s the dice in the top left corner. Someone has mentally tied together in their head the casino/gambling motif of the films with the titular numeral 13 and thought “Hey, thirteen is a one and a three – I can show that on the poster by using dice showing a 1 and a 3 on the faces. That would be cool.”

NO, YOU FUCKWIT. A 1 and a 3 on two dice makes FOUR. It always has and always will. You can’t just bend a convention like that purely because it fits the name of your film.

Twat.
–c.

Awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome!

Awesome?

–awesome.

iTunes 7.5 – don’t do it.

If you haven’t already upgraded, think twice about it. On my work PC it was fine, but on my home machine it has eaten its own arse. I’m trapped in a cycle whereby any of these actions:

• trying to start iTunes
• trying to repair iTunes installation
• trying to uninstall iTunes
• trying to reinstall iTunes

produces the error message: “iTunes cannot run because some of its required files are missing. Please reinstall iTunes.”

Which means I’m fucked. This thread on Apple’s support fora claims to have the answers, though nothing has worked for me yet including removing Quicktime 7.3 (I uninstall it, then try to install 7.2 and get told that a newer version is still installed. Yes, I rebooted. Yes, I did an MSI search.)

So in case you were wondering where the next podcast is, it’s on hold until I can fix this. Yes, I could use Winamp or similar to listen to tracks for the show but that’s just ignoring the problem rather than fixing it.

Bollocks.
–c.

UPDATE 12.15pm: Sorted it now. Did the same as mentioned above and in the support thread, but this time managed to properly excise QT7.3. Reboot, install QT7.2, iTunes now works. One problem remains though – I bought a little piece of shareware to sync my MP3 player with iTunes, and that now will not work. Heigh ho.

Best Facebook status update I’ve seen yet:

“Indigo Down is eating Kinder. He also realizes that this sounds sinister in German.”

It does, too.
–c.