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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...
24
Right—watched 23 last night and have just finished watching 24. I just have to say I still think it’s rubbish. …don’t let them connect you to Germany oh so Nina is working for some shadowy organisation in Germany?...
24
Billy has chimed in to the 24 debate;-) The offshoot of this email correspondence is that I’m kicking myself for not having sat through the penultimate episode. I guess I’ll just have to pay attention when the “pr...
Re Stupid design rip-off
An open letter to Ian Robson, the guy who put his name to my work. He has apologised and wishes to make amends. Here is his note and my reply.
Man, this is one angry page
Just re-read this blog page… Yes I am going to get out more, yes I will up my hypericum levels and yes I’ll consider anger counselling from Ren and Stimpy;-)
The value of trust is $35
Well, it had to happen — Verisign has handed over one of my domains to some nasty little cybersquatter:-( I’m trying to go on holiday (since yesterday) and shit just wont stop hitting the fan…
Stupid design rip-off
This fucking idiot has grabbed large chunks of the Pumpernickle site (including the basic XHTML template) both code and design and has ‘pre’ dated the stuff and claims it as his own. It’s unbelievable, he’s so bol...
Did you know
That Google is now configurable. It allows you to store useful preferences such as language. Google now reports my results in “Ewmew Fudd”.
Re -- 24
> > (snip) > > But the preposterousness of the series is part of > the fun… Some of it I agree goes a bit too far > (that whole memory-loss thing for one) but on > the whole it knows what it ...
24
Started watching tonight’s episode and just decided on the spur of the moment that this has to be the worst written show on tv.
Bush, Dawkins and ford
I’ve just had a few shitty connectivity days. First of all BT cut off my adsl line (yes, my payment was late, but I’m on a ‘business’ tariff and you don’t just cut off business users without a) a phone call b) an ...
Human endeavour is a beautiful thing
When i was a little boy of about seven or eight (I’m guessing) my father sat me down with his sample books and started teaching me letterforms. The one I remember most clearly was Poster Bodoni Italic. I loved the...
Say goodbye to NetSol / Verisign
When a registrar gives away your name to a fraudulent applicant and then refuses to do anything about it, it’s time to change registrars. I believe I put it like this in an earlier post…
Thank you Nicki
For buying me the most stylish shaving mirror I’ve ever seen. Ok, so she did it to prevent me installing my grotty old one in our lovely new bathroom, but is it not the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen?
Écoutez et répétez
I hadn’t heard this in ages. When I was a kid we used to try and learn all the words…
Just when you think you’re sad
Someone else comes along… This person really needs to get out more;-)
Nadinne and the bathroom
Well, in just two weeks, our grotty hell-hole has become a beautiful designer bathroom — In fact, it’s so posh I keep thinking that a guy is going to hand me a towel and expect a tip every time I take a slash, it...
Beer
Yesterday I had a pint in Kilburn for ?1.20 and a pint in Kentish Town for ?1.45 — so how come I’ve been drinking in the West End?
R1150GS
Well, the bike leasing guy (Paul Preddy) has gone off to make some calculations re my lease… posting from his desktop (is that rude? one needs to use all the connectivity one can). So in a few weeks, the big yello...
PGP designer-aid
OK guys, this isn’t that complicated. There’s a Macos X port on the go complete with binaries to download, and the chaps in charge are doing their best to make it understandable and usable for plebs like myself wh...
Spooky
Good opening editorial from NTK — I’m hoping for a grass-roots reaction. Might be time to finally figure out how to use gnuPG. I wonder how much it would slow things down if we encrypted (almost) every that left o...
Stupid (19k) background image
Sorry reader, I’ve been playing and the result is that the lovely barebones template now includes a goofy background image.
Flash and dhtml select lists
Had a little chat with Eddie Traversa over at dhtmlnirvana.com this morning and we got to talking about how some nice dom manipulation can give you Flash-like effects without the plugin. Or, in other words, how ma...
Italian spelling
Thank you enigmatic mermaid for pointing me at the aria database — perhaps not the net’s most useful resource, but fun, and v. cool :-) Try this text file for the aria that’s been eating me up most recently. Which...
Clever deathmatch chaps
Had a back-up :-) So all is well in deathmatch (trying to get enough to buy the warp drive).
Beer, art and sun
Had a very nice day yesterday kicking around London in the sun with Andrew Keith Ward
bash@local host# rm -rf all kiddies
arse. deathmatch has been hacked. As much as I like the idea of a secure internet with no open relays and exploit-resistant boxes those silly hackers (you know the ones, the ones that shouldn’t be calling themselv...
Been workin nights
I have been sleeping days all week. It’s the only way to be ‘fresh’ for use of the broadband connection without workmen hammering and drilling… I’ve developed a rash and am wondering when The West Wing’s Sam and A...
And as long as we’re hammering antiquity
with poorly framed art-historical references, here’s Pat the plaster hard at work in the bathroom. He does look fairly Herculean, no (or am I thinking Atlas…)? And what a smooth surface — months of practise and I ...
Nadinne
our bathroom designer is sitting in the kitchen weaving silver thread. I half expect her to pull out a golden fleece or pose with a six-legged lion (or was that five-legged, must check my Assyrian art history ;-)...
Flash
But if you have adsl http://www.spent2000.com/2002/ works well. I liked “It’s good to be here” (I would have provided a link, but hey, the whole site is a big swf so no links).
Chrimble the magician in a wardrobe
Clearly old Chrimble has too much time on his hands. His power rating in paranormal deathmatch (and he could afford the magic wardrobe) would indicate that the man has fought 4,761 opponents, taking an average of ...
The 5k
Is it just me or did the 5k disapoint this year? This year for the first time, most of the ‘cleverer’ entries don’t work on my machine. The fact that these same entries are often highly rated worries me. Mebbe nex...
Just put Nick and CU-1 on a train
They’re off to Scotland for the week as the bathroom builders move in this week. On the way home I dropped in on the Odeon and saw Minority Report - interesting film.