November 2008
3 posts
Big Brother is watching you. And has added you as... →
There’s a longstanding myth that you can see the Great Wall of China from space. Now you can add Facebook and, arguably, Kim Kardashian’s fat ass to that list. The only thing we can say for certain is that both are in heavy use.
Nov 24th
1 tag
Knowing meme, knowing you
Quick question, pop quiz fans: What do I have in common with Rick Astley, Snakes on a Plane and a golf club-wielding fat kid? No, it’s not that we’d be terrible company on a long-haul flight (I may look like a terrorist in all my hirsuteness, but I couldn’t hijack a second bag of peanuts). The answer is, we’re all subjects of Internet memes - a sort of web 2.0 inside joke,...
Nov 20th
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"It's a small world..."
Welcome, if it works, to version 2.0 of my website. To quote Barack Obama (quoting Sam Cooke), it’s been a long time coming, but tonight, change has come to sansharma.com. And it very nearly didn’t. I’ve switched domain registrants and web hosts so many times over the last few years that I found myself in an infinite loop, unable to remember usernames, passwords or even the...
Nov 12th