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Warm leatherette (Spontaneous Vehicular Combustion)
Ok, in a week where it looked like nothing unusual was going to happen, something finally did.
Busy busy busy
Well, letting the side down again I’m afraid—things are getting a bit frantic at work (which is good). Just crankin away at my “to do” list… Ok, I’d better provide a link: just had a slightly surreal conversation ...
Get your war on
I can’t believe this was posted almost a year ago and I never came across it. There’s fourteen pages of it too:-)
Where are the lawyers
My uncle Jim stayed in Paris for a year and came out with a new mantra, “where are the lawyers?”—he would spend hours watching crazy French game shows where contestants performed acts that fear-of-lawsuit would ba...
Woo-hoo, I’m gonna be on TV
Have just been interviewed by Aline Pestana, a very nice lady from the International Herald Tribune TV station (from Rio, actually) - she’s interviewed Tom Coates and now me! (we are not worthy, grovel grovel) - a...
The Guardian
well, if you are in the UK and you read blogs, you’ll have heard about the Guardian’s “best British weblog” competition. Well, the competition closed last Friday, so the judges are hard at it right now.
More milestones
Took CU-1 to her first swimming lesson yesterday. Nick walked up and down the pool with her in various positions and she seems to like it. Keep this up and we’ll have a wee swimmer in no time :-)
History (Pay attention, George)
Well, it’s just gone midnight here in London and I thought I’d scribble few thoughts about 9/11 before going to bed.
Just because you’re disabled
doesn’t mean you can’t be an evil swine. Billy discovers this (with full history and gory details re Blunkett)
Fambly stuff
Dear family members, CU-1 is now officially too big for her carry-cot. Her proper cot was moved into our bedroom yesterday, and her carry-cot has been folded up and put away (for the next baby?)…
Oils, hard, wood, boards, breasts
well, I’m not sure what CU-1 made of the Rubens… I still can’t get over how bright and clean it is. In some sense this makes it seem more of a fake, but the Delila figure is so obviously his, I’m going to side wit...
Sunny day
We’re off to the National Gallery to show CU-1 the disputed Samson and Delila. Recently, a work was attributed to Rubens and sold for a huge pile of cash. Ever since then, the experts have been haggling about the ...
Security by obscurity
And on the topic of airport, this is unbelievable, a piece of software with security by obscurity actually built in
Cigar ash in my keyboard
Scaffolding is gone (woohoo). What a week… am at this mo typing via 802.11 on a blanket amongst the weeds in the garden :-) I’m chewing on a very moist montechristo number two (the torpedo roll) and have just crac...
Doonesbury
You know, when I got my first job in advertising, Mike was being asked to sell Reagan to Black America. When Mike starts a small new media business, I was starting a small new media business, and darn, now that I’...
The stuff
I thought should stick around for a couple of minutes before disappearing down the cronological listings:
Blood from a stone
This from the MGI-Talk list (Thanks, Joe) this guy is invoicing Verisign for his wasted time:
Sashinka’s dietcoke bigmac AOL speak?
I am so incredibly busy today so why do I keep posting this nonsense? And dude, you have to read this. It’ s like, totally.
Leslie Harpold
Woo hoo, I’ve just donated twenty bucks to Leslie’s fund I say “woo hoo” as I’ve never used my paypal account before. It was kind of exciting (yes, I will get out more)…
Kottle memory prod
It’s funny, I was thinking: God I’m glad no one wants me to do javascript rollovers anymore. For some reason, I’ve just stopped using them—they’re a nasty, cheesy hack and I’m desperately trying to stay away from ...
Hoopla.com
Leslie has put together a legal defense fund and is going to try and reclaim her hijacked domain hoopla.com. Find out more. And yes, I am about to make a donation.
Chewy toys
well, next step on the long and rocky road to university admissions: teething. Of course CU-1 is only 13 weeks old (her birthday was yesterday) so by rights shouldn’t be teething yet. It’s just that she’s started ...
The Pepsi challenge (coffee)
Just had a latte at Costa’s on West End Lane. I can’t believe I used to drink Starbucks coffee. I’d tried it the world over and no matter how many italian-ish words I used, no matter how I attempted to explain how...
Paediatric osteopathy
Nick and I took CU-1 to The Osteopathic Centre for Children this afternoon. There’s nothing wrong with her, it’s just that as she was ventouse (French for suction-cup—sez it all) delivered, the word on the street ...
Search engine referrals
Hadn’t checked my search engine referrals in a while. It’s always interesting to see what’s on peoples’ minds. In order of popularity:
Fuck Verisign
Just got a note from verisign telling me the pumpernickle domain was about to expire. This is interesting because I’ve now started the long slow painful migration away from the servants of Beelzebub and towards th...
New car
I recently bought Nicki a new car. Or more precisely, some faceless financial institution is letting me keep a car that Nicki uses as long as I promise to give them money every month for the rest of my life;-)
Dean Allen and adventures with cable tv
Just thought I’d better tell Dean that there is an unmissable film on Canal Jaune at 22h45 (quarter to eleven) \t It’s Claude Lelouche’s unmissable Un homme qui me plaît which showcases the talents of Farah Fawcet...
Summer hols etc
I was going to say I’m now back at work and describe hols etc etc but i just found the following in my inbox from Jed, my father and I thought it kind of did the job:-)
Alan Watts (on WFMU)
I recently started listening to WFMU again thanks to the miracle of adsl. Can somebody tell me what it is about Alan Watts that make his lectures so impossible to switch off? I know nothing of Buddhism and am not ...
Scottish information architecture
Robbie Bushe is a life-long friend of Billy and one of the most amazing artists I’ve had the pleasure to know. Of course, he makes his own websites and his navigation is as rich, complex and textured as his work i...