So, Rage Against The Machine's song Killing In The Name Of beat the X-Factor's Joe McElderry who has released his version of the Miley Cyrus cover Climb. And beat it by 50,000 copies, selling half a million copies and raising money for the charity Shelter.
My short story Reboot has been published by the webzine Short-Story.me.
Here’s how it starts:
A quantum worm uncoiled itself out of the machine being restored, suddenly collapsing into a specific state and wreaking havoc within the operating system. Alarms sounded and the graphs scrolling across Tom's screen spiked wildly. His laptop was plugged into a large black box of qubits, the liquid hydrogen coolant vented slowly in quietly dissipating clouds. Inside, beneath the desperately stylish matt black metallic exterior, beneath the ultra-cooled chamber, inside the electron traps, sat a countless number of electrons, reduced to acting as quantum bits. The qubit box was plugged into the local network, copying its state carefully in a safe, isolated, two-phase restore of the destroyed machines.
Go and read it and tell me what you think.
Today I went to a music shop, Dawsons to be precise. They're a chain and sell all sorts of musical instruments. I knew exactly what I wanted and had done research for prices online. I made a spreadsheet. I took a printout of the spreadsheet into the shop with me.
I've been listening to Frank Turner's music ever since I first heard Long Live The Queen on Radio 1. Because I loved that song so much I bought Love Ire & Song which has some truly wonderful songs on it. Frank's latest album is Poetry of the Deed which was less instant than the previous album, but still great.
So here I am blogging.
- I want to talk about what I've just done and use the photos I've just taken and the photos are still on my camera and not on Flickr.
- It's easier to just Tweet.
- I wasn't sure anyone would miss it if I stopped.
I haven't posted in a while, but thought I would share with you all, unless you have already seen it. If you read the blurb, I can see totally what they are talking about, but there is also something very "unreal" about this too. Its a little disconcerting in some ways and until they perfect the human image, we are going to be bombarded with off putting and strange characters like this. Don't get me wrong, its all very, very impressive and extremely interesting, but I am not sure I like it..........
Fascinating stuff though.......
I hope everyone has a fantastic and wonderful New Year.
Not seen this before and not that familiar with Joe's later work, but I need to hear the Coldplay song to hear......
This isn't the first time that someone has thrown plagiarism accusations at Coldplay is it? Makes you wonder......
More experiments and practice.....
These images are from a set called "Chairs"....which got turned into "Sofa" by me........we were told at class that we could interpret "Chair" anyhow we like........so I did!
Hope you like them!
