Miscellaneous ramblings

Proper Search – From Google, Even

17 November, 2011
By Raphael Fraser
Proper Search – From Google, Even

I’ve blithered before about Google sodding up search, personalising it and “correcting” your input and so forth. I just want to enter search terms, and have a search engine search using those terms. Call me weird, but when I type something into a search box, it’s because I want to search for that word...

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Gursky, Critics, and Art

16 November, 2011
By Raphael Fraser
Gursky, Critics, and Art

Artists are bad enough. Art critics – and art collectors – are worse. Andreas Gursky just had a photograph sold for $4.3 million. Srsly. Oh, and this is the photograph: Again: srsly. I could whine about how aesthetically bland and completely devoid of meaning or interest it is (indeed I have done so), but that’s not what...

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My iThings don’t make me stupid

10 October, 2011
By Raphael Fraser
My iThings don’t make me stupid

This: There’s a blog on technologizer about how Apple products != jails I’m sick of the smug insults delivered by some people at Apple users – simply because we *choose* to use an Apple device. So we can’t hack it and play around with the source code and … Good. I’m glad. I have no desire to...

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YouTube comments

26 July, 2011
By Raphael Fraser

There are some real twits on YouTube (take me for instance…) … or the latest commenter on my All Along the Watchtower video: someone called Multishades complains about my hair movement, & the guitar – which s/he says is totally wrong … but says I sound great … but that I should “move on”. I...

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Pride of Place

6 July, 2011
By Raphael Fraser
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I’ve rearranged my iPad’s home screen again. When I first got it, I had a couple of apps on the home screen itself, and the rest were in folders (I have a lot of apps). After a while I decided that I should put the apps I use most (after those on the dock) on...

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