Category Archives: media

stumbleupon

11 Thursday Oct 2007

Posted by in blogging, media, miscellany

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I re-stumbled upon Stumbleupon this morning . . .

I actually signed up there last July but never got around to doing anything with it, mostly because I wasn’t keen on having another toolbar on my page. But today I had another look at it after I found a ‘referrer’ coming from there, and it looks like it could be fun. Like yeah, as if I don’t already spend too much time online. f_whistle.gif

Anyhow, one of the first things I stumbled upon was this great web-radio thing called Musicovery … which now means that I’m going to have to attach some proper speakers to SB. But some of the music there is fab!

So I’m still quite a Stumbleupon novice. Can anyone give me any tips on how best to use it? Or even how you use it and what your experiences there have been like?

My Stumbleupon name is azaharSevilla.

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the west wing

11 Tuesday Sep 2007

Posted by in home, media, politics, television

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The latest television series addiction at casa az. f_bigeyes.gif

But before we go any further … no spoilers please! Nog and I are about half-way through season two at the moment.

What I was mainly curious about was what US citizens think of it – though all opinions are welcome, of course. I know it won tons of Emmys, mostly for the writing (which I think is fabulous), but how did people feel about seeing the president and government presented in that way? I mean, having an intelligent, caring and principled president and a support staff that seemed to know their elbows from their arseholes. Too pie in the sky, as in … it ain’t never gonna happen? Or what?

murder, he wrote

06 Thursday Sep 2007

Posted by in books & writing, life stuff, media, weird

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Polish author jailed over killing he used as plot

A Polish pulp fiction writer was sentenced to 25 years in jail yesterday for his role in a grisly case of abduction, torture and murder, a crime that he then used for the plot of a bestselling thriller.

The real story sounds way more intriguing than the fictional one he wrote. And if it weren’t real it would almost be hard to believe. And anyhow, how stupid was this guy to think he could get away with it, that nobody would clue in?