There’s a massive amount of noise about social networking sites at the moment. I just can’t figure out why. I’ve got profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn and haven’t had any interaction, social or otherwise, on either of them.

I’m perfectly happy to accept that I may be doing something wrong, but I don’t think so.

If you are as confused as I am about global warming/climate change then you’ll welcome an interesting piece in this weeks New Scientist…very readable, higly recommended.

To keep tabs on the whole issue the RealClimate blog is also worth keeping tabs on too. It is rather technical (the writers are climate scientists), but makes fascinating reading nevertheless.

Signed up to LoveFilm.com a couple of weeks ago. So far I’m impressed. When you live in the back and beyond like Otley, your access to top quality films is a bit limited. The local library has a collection, but it isn’t extensive and it doesn’t change very often.

Last night I watched Dark Star as recommended to me by my colleague Denis. A funny piece of low fi, mid seventies sci-fi by John Carpenter.  Not the kind of film that I’d be able to find around here.

I’ve also seen the latter two Matrix films, Matrix Reloaded & Matrix Revolutions as well as Kill Bill 2.

If you are sick of the same old films, sign up for a DVD rental by post service…they aren’t expecially expensive and you’ll love the films.

Had to share the most touching blog post I’ve ever read.

I often get the feeling that a lot of well known people are, how can I put this nicely, complicated.

Whenever I have read any of Kurt Vonnegut’s books I always got the impression that he was a really nice guy.  And by the looks of the blog post alluded to earlier I’d say I was right.

I love shops that are a bit different, shops that can surprise me. One of York’s best kept secrets is Aligator Wholefoods, an organic shop on Fishergate. Fortunately, it is on the way between my parent’s house and York city centre. So I get to walk past it most weeks.

I get all of my tea from Aligator, plus a rather excellent range of Source Food’s organic miso. I am a big fan of miso, especially miso soup. Quick, tasty & easy to make food is always a hit with me.

They’ve got a line in organic tofu too.

If you live in York, check Aligator out…you’ll love it!

Great piece of advice from Seth Godin about financing a new business. We went 15 months without any money coming in to myself and my co-founder Denis. It was tough, really tough. Hawking my CDs down at the 2nd hand record store wasn’t much fun. I’m sure the store clerk thought I was a druggie. But, it does give you a real focus. You can’t think of anything but your company and how to get money in. It absolutely dominates everything. Which is a good thing.

Now, our company has money in the bank and we can invest.

I’ve worked in a VC funded company and I hated it. People behave very oddly, spend money in ways they never would in a regular company.

We spend money like it is the most precious thing ever. Any money we spend must produce a real tangible result.

Hey guys at the Open Management Consortium, you’re email system is down. I emailed you from a couple different places and both times the mail was bounced.

Kinda hard to contact people when their email is down

I’ve got a .Mac account, mainly for historical reasons. I used to have a Mac so the .Mac account is kinda a leftover from that.

One of the things that really winds me up about technology companies is following buzzwords without any regard to customers.

Apple have certainly got a big dose of Ajax with their .Mac mail service. Problem is that Ajax doesn’t add anything to the service I as a paying customer receive. In fact, it makes it far worse.

I’ve not signed into my .Mac account for a week or so. I’ve got around 164 mails to delete. But, because the Ajax code has a huge bug in it I can’t multiply select emails to delete them enmasse. So, I’ve got to go through all 164 emails deleting them one by one.

The .Mac mail service worked perfectly well pre-Ajax and by Ajaxing it up they have added precisely nothing.

That winds me up. Tech companies do this kind of thing far too much! Still, at least all of the .Mac engineers have Ajax on their resumes/CV so that’s all right then

I’ve created my first lense on squidoo. Everything was great until I tried to view my lense. Then the blumin’ great yellow arrow appears and I can’t get rid of it. Folks, you need a ‘X’ button on there so I can get rid of it.

Maybe it is some kind of intelligence test and I just failed it. Bummer! Seth, you’re making me think…never a good idea!

I’m back…batteries fully charged. Now I’m back off my mini break I realise just how burnt out I was. I will have be careful…I can’t afford any time off through illness.

When was the last time you had some time off? More than 3/4 months ago? You need to take a break!

One of the things I need is a camera. I kicked myself whilst I was away because I couldn’t take any pictures. I will not make that mistake again. I know nothing about cameras so if anybody can recommend one please let me know.