Muse, as usual, were utterly incredible - their sound is pretty much ideal for arenas and stadiums these days, even though Wembley clearly have some work to do on their sound engineering... (Great pyro and set, too).
Biffy Clyro were very impressive - lot of energy, and having a lot of fun!
My Chemical Romance - teenygoth angst wank. "don't commit suicide" - well, get off the stage then before you drive me to it!

Edit: photos - http://flickr.com/photos/samizdat_thom/sets/72157600390330522/

In your opinion, what has President Bush’s greatest achievement been?

For me, the answer is easy. He beat terrorism at home and abroad. But some might say his deft handling of the economy, or his commitment to moral values, or his restoration of decency to public life.


http://blogs4brownback.wordpress.com/

NiN + Very Small Church == Win.

http://www.dailymotion.com/popular-week/video/x12565_beatbox

http://www.d-n-i.net/lind/lind_1_23_07.htm is a pretty interesting viewpoint...

so today is our final brand launch at work, and we're pretty stoked to announce Joost.com, although it does mean we lose out on all the inquisitive "what the hell does The Venice Project mean?" questions.

(I apologise for the exceptionally geeky title - it's 7am and i've been up for an hour and a half...)

Subject: You Won eBay Item: NINE INCH NAILS x 1 TICKET AMSTERDAM PARADISO, 21/03/07

Current Mood: bouncy

I was just interviewed by a reporter for Wired. No idea if /anything/ I said will be used - he was writing a fluff piece on Work - but hey, how could I not be famous? ;-)

Current Mood: cynical

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/11-01-2006/9488-condoleezza-0 is a bit special.

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=13742

it's kinda fun watching people write stuff about the company you work for :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI

http://www.gotmorr.com/blastwave/index.php?cid=1

Not really a dilemma (i'm pretty sure I know which way I'll go) but i thought i'd throw this one out. Bowing to pressure, I went to see some friends of mine in $europeanCountry for a job interview that turned more into them doing a selling job. So I now have two jobs on the table.

Company A (the one i talked about previously):
pros:
more money.
new york would be fun.
a lot of latitude in setting up systems.
cons:
america - visas, the political climate, etc
not a very brain stretching role long term
looking likely there'll be lots of non-tech and semi-tech stuff to go with the tech stuff

Company B:
pros:
shiny tech, lots of astonishing people
not an operational role - no on call
$europeanCountry is very nice indeed
flights to most places in the UK take less than an hour
cons:
somewhat less money
i was quite looking forward to new york
I will be the village idiot. (not really, but it may feel like it some times)

So it seems that I should give some more detail. The company I'm gonna be working for is Mochila; I'm going to be their sysadmin (their first one, which should be entertaining!). The job will be based in New York; until I get my Visa I'll be working from London with trips to San Fran (where their developers are) and New York fairly often - as a contractor I can spend up to 3 months at a stretch in the states.
I won't actually be leaving for a while all up - it's thought that the first visa slots won't actually open up until Oct/Nov of this year.

Current Mood: content

I handed in my notice yesterday. So, of course, we had to celebrate. I feel somewhat the worse for wear now - as you'd expect after 5 or 6 pints of leffe on an empty stomach...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefness84/102557906/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/28/goat_wedding/ ... brings a whole new meaning to getting your goat.

There seems to be something of a Last.fm meme for favourite artist A-Z, so I figured I'd indulge: http://www.last.fm/user/ThomMay/journal/2006/01/15/59657/

http://www.planetarytramp.net/wankers.jpg

Beer on a school night considered suboptimal.
Wonder if bloodmakesnoise broke any pillows last night, to continue her fine tradition?