I am Ashley Elsdon

someone who's doing some things

Month: April 2016

And now there’s an ‘app store’ of sorts for bots

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I’m sure it won’t be the last either. It seems kind of flaky at the moment and the site doesn’t always load. There isn’t a huge amount there at the moment, but no doubt it will grow. I’m sure that’ll happen, probably a lot after today actually. If you’re interested you can find botlist here.

So, bots, that’s a thing now

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I’m trying to get my head around this bot stuff at the moment even though in theory I’ve built a couple myself, but not like the things that people are saying will come to the messenger platform (is that ever one overused word). But I am interested to see where this stuff goes and how it will be used, or more likely miss-used, as is more likely the case. Allegedly more will become clear on the messenger side today, which could be interesting.

We’ll see.

A belated happy birthday to Peter Davidson

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A happy birthday to the 5th Doctor. I think he was a very good Doctor actually, and whilst I didn’t watch all of his episodes, I’ve very much enjoyed his stuff on Big Finish, so it was very nice of them to put some of his stuff on sale for the weekend, and I picked up a few new stories.

And new things coming from Mr Arthur then!

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It’s good to hear that Neil Arthur is doing even more music. Hot on the heals of the latest Blancmange album ‘Commuter 23’ (I’m still listening to it and thinking about how I feel about it), he’s into a new musical exploit called ‘Near Future’. I just missed out on getting a signed CD of their first single, which was annoying. Never mind. I’ll have to wait for it to come out later in the month.