http://www.claytonnash.com/blog I want to be different, just like everybody else... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:24:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.claytonnash.com/blog/archives/166 Nick Clegg is on tv right now saying it's unfair to saddle future generations with our debt. What he seems to forget is that this isn't 'our' debt - it's britain's debt. If the future generations don't like it there are plenty of other countries to move to. http://www.claytonnash.com/blog/archives/164 Pintxos on westbourne grove is really cool. They have these little snacks which you just collect and then pay - by the stick - for at the end. http://www.claytonnash.com/blog/archives/163 Updated the iPhone to ios 4.0.2 this morning and discovered along the way that iTunes kindly keeps a copy of every old version I've ever installed. Poking about in my library folder under iTunes I found about 3 gigs worth of old system images. Now gone, my free space looks ... http://www.claytonnash.com/blog/archives/161 More and more I'm using Tumblr to post things and this blog is falling into a state of disrepair. http://www.claytonnash.com/blog/archives/159 Chrome seems like a nice browser and almost ready for prime time. It's probably as stable as Safari was 6 months ago. It's not yet as pretty as Safari - the tabs interface in particular is not too well thought out. I often have 30-40 tabs open in Safari and it ... http://www.claytonnash.com/blog/archives/158 Trends are a massively destructive force. They've taken us from horrifically expensive computers stored in buildings to wasting compute cycles to animate the album covers on my iPhone. Disk drives the size of fridges with enough storage for 2 mp3s to the Terabyte disk I just bought off Amazon. ... http://www.claytonnash.com/blog/archives/131 Instapaper is totally blowing my mind. Finally something to replace my insane scheme of keeping 20-50 tabs open in Safari to make sure I catch up with web content that looks interesting. I've been using the free version for about 2 weeks and I'm just now downloading the Pro edition. ... http://www.claytonnash.com/blog/archives/153 Cory Doctorow seems to have written a short essay I've been meaning to write for some time. In short, metadata sucks. The semantic web, as embodied by Twine and the like seems like a nice idea at first. If only all that messy information on the web was nicely categorised then ... http://www.claytonnash.com/blog/archives/151 John Hughes, director of 16 Candles and the ever classic Ferris Beuler's Day Off is dead at 54. http://www.claytonnash.com/blog/archives/150