Got my Wave invite today, courtesy of Dave. First impressions? Hmm, well it’s not revolutionary, I mean you can do stuff and edit stuff live which is pretty good. It’s a bit like a cross between Google Docs and an email client really. So for Google it’s not revolutionary but for anyone that hasn’t used collaborative online tools it will seem like it is.
Will it replace email, IM, etc? Not until it’s opened up a bit. Imagine you could only email other people using the same ISP, it’s like that at the moment – you can only contact people with Google accounts (and at the moment Google accounts enabled for Google Wave).
Still it’s a bit limited right now as I only know 2 other people on it and i’ve not been given any invites.
October, 2009
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Say Hello Wave Goodbye
October 7, 2009 by Daniel
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Glastonbury 2010
October 5, 2009 by Daniel
Glastonbury Tweet - Screenshot credit to Andrew Jackson
Ah that time of year again. I say again but I haven’t been to Glastonbury since 2005, which seems a lifetime ago now. At that time I bought the tickets in a mad dash while I was at my parents house on the Internet. At the time I thought my now wife Kate was doing the same but alas she didn’t manage to get tickets. They sold out in two hours that year. Hindsight says why didn’t I buy 2 tickets? Well who knows, I should have done and I don’t remember why not, money probably.
But it was a different process then, the Internet is a different place now (or at least I know a lot more about it now), and yet the servers still have a bit of a meltdown. I’d love to learn a little about what kind of data centre setup these places employ.
But you have to preregister for tickets these days which in itself is quite involved, you have to upload a passport picture of yourself. But you can opt to pay with a deposit and pay of the rest later (albeit it has to be in one lump or not at all, in which case you get £40 of the £50 back).It’s a little bit annoying (can’t get that Kevin Bishop sketch out of my head whenever I say that now) too that these days you don’t know what the lineup is when you get your tickets. You just have to have faith.
In the end, the tickets sold out in just over 12 hours. Nothing like 105 minutes in 2007 but faster than 24 hours in 2004. I don’t know yet many others going but I’m looking forward to it. I’ve only to sort out the worry of us moving house first and how to get the ticket delivery address changed afterwards. Apparently you can just email them about change of address at glastonbury@seetickets.com – so we’ll see how that goes.
Some pictures from 2005′s Glastonbury (oh yes it was wet).
Which reminds me, need to get a camera sorted out (Xmas anyone?!)
Update Some angry comments on this blog about being unable to get through to buy tickets.
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Baddies
October 1, 2009 by Daniel
First saw them with Reuben on the twobythree tour and EP, their songs have being going round my head ever since.
Finally they’ve released their album, my copy is on it’s way. Saw a decent review in Drowned In Sound.Category personal | Tags: | 1 Comment
