December 2004 Archives

Dear America,

This is why we hate your news media.

The World

After some template-oriented dexterity, TypeKey authentication should now be working. This means that if you have a TypeKey account (it's free to get one, and it'll serve the same purpose across many other weblogs), then you can completely bypass my lazy and increasingly infrequent moderation of the comment queue. Your comment will appear immediately, I'll have less work to do, and real, lag-free comment discussion will ring out across trioptimum.co.uk, bringing joy and colour to the world once more.

Anyway, I think it all works now. Give it a try.

Chris Morris spreads a little festive cheer. (mp3, 200K, from On the Hour)

So here's something different -- an audio post. In the mp3 I explain my reasons for trying this, and talk -- sounding somewhat more paranoid than I intended -- about a website I saw the other day.

I'm not yet totally convinced of the usefulness or convenience of this form of blogging, but it's got to be worth trying at least once, right?

mp3

Q. Why does Kaylee from Firefly only ever give 'yes' or 'no' answers?
A. Because she's Jewel Staite.

Say it out loud.

Then kill me, please.