23C3 Reloaded

Some of the talks from the 23 rd Chaos Communication Congress are now online. I watched a couple at work this morning. Download them here.

Read a very sad article about John Draper. Living In The Trash Draper was the 13th employee at Apple but is better known for pioneering blue boxing. I met Draper in 2004 and talked to him quite a bit. He is a brilliant man but his head has been fucked by all the LSD he took. Don't do drugs. Drugs are bad. I mean it.

Ordered the second Dengue Fever album, Escape From Dragon House from Amazon. It will be sent out from New York so it will probably take at least a week to arrive.

Didn't leave work until 8:30 pm. 11.5 hours is really too much for me, even though things weren't too busy.

TV's own Mitch Altman will be on Off The Hook tonight. I'm very much looking forward to it.

It's Cool For Cats

Had a very long and depressing bath. Amazingly I didn't drown myself. I emerged clean but close to tears.

Met Richard and Henry in the city centre. We ate organic vegan cake and discussed arrangements for going to Notcon tomorrow.

My parents returned from their week-long trip to the Lake District. They had come back via Scotland to see my sister.

Listened to a best of Squeeze album. It included "Cool For Cats", which is very good, "Annie Get Your Gun" and "Up The Junction", which is one of the greatest tracks of all time. Up The Junction also has a great video consisting of the band playing in someone's kitchen. "Alone here in the kitchen/ I feel there's something missing/ I'd beg for some forgiveness/ but begging's not my business/ and she won't write a letter/ although I always tell her/ and so it's my assumption/ I'm really up the junction". Genius.