this years Princeton commencement speech

The guy who founded Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, gave this years commencement speech to the new students. The full text can be found here, its called "We are what we choose" and one of the things he mentions is that it is harder to be kind than clever, which i quite like - he goes on about the differences between gifts and choices, (clever=gift, kind=choices) and how gifts are easy really, but that making the wrong choices can often be to the detriment of your gifts. Ive not really done it justice, but its worth a read..


(from kottke - i figured i should start putting links to other sites/bloggers that i find this random stuff from, as they do the harder stuff in finding it in the first place)

Kof - Fire It Up

So last summer, during two weeks I had off on my own (my wife couldn't take the time off work and I had to use up my annual leave), I wrote a tune, which has now been used as the basis for a track by upcoming independent artist Kof (from Urbeatz).

So I should have co-writing credits on the tune for the original track, but it was re-produced and spruced up by a talented chap called ChartStalker.

Also rather excitingly, it features established brit mc Wiley (of "what you call it", Roll Deep, dizzee rascal fame)


Its gonna be the first single from Kof's upcoming single and you can check the video below:





its getting lots of play on radio including BBC 1Xtra so feel free to request it on your local station!

Facebook the movie

Film about Facebook (based on the book the Accidental Billionaires) called Social Network is expected to hit the cinemas in autumn, and the trailers have started to hit the net..

I know that Facebook really was groundbreaking, and at the time it was crazy the rate at which it grew (now eclipsed really by Twitter/Zynga et al) but you can't help but laugh when the climatic part of the traler is "it got 22 hundred hits in the first hour? ...no... 22 thousand!"...

I mean, really? thats hardly edge of the seat thriller stuff is it?

(footnote. I will probably still go and see it though, and having been reminded I may even go buy the book before my holiday this summer)

Back to the Future III

well, i've done two so why not a third.. might as well go for the trilogy - someone has done a video syncing up Back To TheFuture video clips with a song called Tik Tok by someone called Ke$ha, which is pretty entertaining..

Encrypted Code in US Cyber Command

The American military has a new Cyber Command unit, responsible for all things webby and hi-tech, and as you would expect the department has its very own logo, but the neat part is the logo contains an encrypted code message! (look closely at the inner circle surrounding the eagle)


You can read more about it here in Wired, but I will have to have at least a try at this later!

Great Scott Marty!

You know, when I started writing this blog, I really did not expect to blog a single Back to the Future post, but it seems the fate has conspired in such away that we are having two in as many months!

Some of you may have seen alot of buzz about the twitter-sphere about the fact that yesterday was the day the doc travels to in the future in the original film.. but it turns out they were wrong, and we actually have another 5 years to wait untill the fateful date, for those dedicated enough there is a video on youtube with all the dates..