Posts by Russell Brown
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Water is dripping from the ceiling, with the drops looking lovely when caught by the strobe while descending through the fug.
One of the nicer things I've ever seen was was light drizzle falling through the light of an outdoor strobe at a huge Mutoid Waste Company party in London. It was like a constant shower of sparkly glitter. Well, that's how it looked at the time ...
Actually, that was a completely amazing party. The Mutoid Waste Company has been responsible for two of my Top 10 nights ever.
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Of course none of this implies a "cure" whatever that might entail, but certainly diagnosis is very important in terms of identifying children who are going to need a different kind of education.
Yep, the CTAG study actually looks like a pretty major step - made possible because a lot of disparate studies finally shared data.
Hopefully we're seeing the beginning of the end of the mercury-in-vaccines canard and the various "cures" embraced by vulnerable parents. I had to explain to a mum of an aspie child this morning that as far as I could see, the mercury theory had no basis in fact. That's quite a hard thing to tell someone's who's been chelating their child for the past two years and thinking they've been doing something good.
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From the not-entirely-serious paper linked to by Stephen:
100% used ketamine on a daily basis
Er, what?
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You really are a pathetic cretin. Why don't you take up a new hobby, like self-immolation.
Um, okay, so Ross becomes our first ever struck-off user.
I've been wondering about it for the past of couple days: trolling the way he has been changes the tone of discussion and makes everyone focus on the troll, which is the road to the hell of certain other blogs.
He also seemed unable to debate sensibly, and the personal abuse above seals the matter. You might say that he generated the production of useful information by others, but I'm over it.
He might be able to post if he's still logged in but he won't be able to log in again.
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Ah, I think Russell can look after himself there Morgan.
Actually, I have often relied on Morgan's volunteer work as a proofreader ;-)
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Actually I don't really agree with that. Pop aside, the celebrity playlists online are largely seen as a failure on the likes of iTunes.
Yep. They're bollocks, by and large. But I often make use of the user playlists on emusic. They're a really handy path to follow.
I simply can't see the likes of the Pin Group having legs online, perhaps selling a few dozen although it should be available.
It wouldn't make sense on iTunes, or most other services. But, again, Roy Montgomery's solo albums seem to sell steadily through emusic, and the customer reviews are knowledgeable. If you put the Pin Group there, it would sell too - not a lot maybe, but enough to cover your fairly minimal costs.
This was the point of the column I mentioned in the original blog post: Warners is hobbling itself because it won't put the back catalogue in the place where it has a shot at an audience.
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RB, I think you deserve your own (well paid) gig on TV.
You may well think so, but I couldn't possibly comment.
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There is definitely some interesting stuff in there, but packaging it in an explicable fashion for public consumption would be pretty difficult. There's an enormous number of different considerations in there.
I think the MoH played down the possibility of adverse reactions more than was wise. Our older boy was knocked sideways by every shot - the sickest he's been in his life.
It made more sense once I found the MedSafe data sheet online. I blogged about it (and consequently and somewhat reluctantly wound up talking to Linda Clark on the radio):
http://publicaddress.net/default,2201.sm
http://publicaddress.net/default,2204.smI thought it had been worthwhile after I got this from a regular reader:
I agree with what I think is your main point - that the information we were given as parents was poor and left us unprepared for what happened following the vaccination.
We took our 3 1/2 month old son in for the first vaccination last week. I asked "what are the likely side-effects" and was told that on that day there was likely to be a bit of a temperature and maybe some grizzliness, but that's all.
Until I read the Medsafe sheet you linked to, we didn't link the vaccination to the subsequent inability to sleep for longer than 90 minutes (after having started sleeping 9 hours), and the severe irritability. This all lasted about five days and we had all manner of things checked out - ears, flu, etc. But if we had known the side effects, we would have been less concerned. We would still have had him vaccinated, but we would have had a better week as we would have understood what was happening.
Oh, and Riddley, much as I enjoy your contributions, your taunting of ross is in danger of breaching the spirit in which these forums are supposed to run. Best addressed in a kinder fashion, I think.
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Have passed the link onto a friend who has aspergers and is really into their IT stuff. I'd expect that you'd already know her though.
Thanks - no, I don't know her but that's a very cool blog. The two most recent posts reiterate the idea of how beneficial it is for people on the spectrum to get their heads around who they are and how they're different.
Another reader passed on the link to this beautiful clip featuring the amazing Amanda Baggs, a non-verbal autist with a hell of a lot to say:
It sad but interesting that a number of commenters refuse to believe that the narration is hers. Because, well, someone who looks like that can't possibly have thoughts ...
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With respect to the ethics of using adblock. If your site has flash ads, and I'm at home browsing it with dial-up, they will be blocked. At work, it's not an issue.
Sam Morgan has been quite good value on this issue. TradeMe has a high percentage of dial-up users (PA's audience is much more broadband) and they took the approach of rejecting advertising that didn't load promptly over dial-up. But you can do that when you're TradeMe.
Flash as an ad format lets you do more interesting things than just wink and blink at people - we could run an RSS feed straight into an ad if someone wanted it - but people don't tend to.
In my earlier rant I forgot to note that we have secured changes in specific ads by forwarding reader complaints to the agency. The most notable example was Orange Election Man in 2005 - his stretch-and-squeeze wobbling was curtailed across the campaign thanks to PA readers. The odd thing was that the agency that was doubtless paid oodles to come up with it couldn't guess that people would find it annoying to have an ad that moved a lot and never stopped doing it.
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