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Tag Archives: ego
Words, words, words
“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.” Continue reading
Conan the Wikipedian
One could almost expect Wikipedia to have an article on just about every conceivable subject and topic by now — depending on “notability”, of course. Continue reading
Prolific Performer Profile Provider
One of the more journalistic, serious and most certainly interesting aspects of discogs.com is the oft-underrated task of researching and “profiling” the people, bands and indeed record labels/companies behind the music that appear in the database. Continue reading
An uncomfortable past, or the inconvenient truth?
One of most frustrating tasks of being a discogs moderator is having to put up with the nonsense of the wanna-be rich and famous in their own bedroom in the music arena. You see, fame does not necessarily equate to a reasonable degree of intelligence or skill, nor does having a record out exclude the quasi-famous from having to abide by regular rules. Even in the realms of humour, folks sometimes don’t take too kindly to their names appearing alongside some rather vulgar and questionable sexual “practices”. Continue reading
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Tagged discogs, ego, internet culture, responsibility, vanity
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The test results are in…
“Generally detached from social relationships, and shows a narrow range of emotional expression in various social settings.” Obsessive-compulsive? Superficial? Nerdy? Bah, humbug! Continue reading
Word Warrior
Spam aside, every so often you receive a totally unexpected and pleasantly surprising email. No, it wasn’t that darn elusive lottery win; this one we triggered ourselves. Continue reading
Welcome to the blogosphere!
There… ’tis done! The HMVH Corporation BBS Online is now a blog, as threatened and promised. Continue reading
hmvh.de.vu News
So, what does the future hold for the HMVH Corporation BBS Online (as we’ve taken to calling ourselves again)? Continue reading
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Tagged busy, ego, jokes, personal, progression
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