It was true in 996, it was true in 1999, and annoyingly its still mostly true today: Top-10 New Mistakes of Web Design (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox). Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
PASS ME THE BACON SANDWICH YOU FUCKING BASTARDS! OK, only joking. It’s going ok and tonights food de jour is spicy bean chilli. It’s going to be hot, and meat free, much like a turnip in a microwave. And I got Spaced series one on dvd for 7 notes. Bonza. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at [...]
I’ve just been invited to a meeting described “a global town hall call”. WTF does that mean??? Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
I’m counting last night as a half day, because I decided to do this, and then didn’t have meat for dinner. Today:Success:Didn’t starve or end up in a state of malnutrificationism. reakfast: Easy – I missed it. Coffee contains no meat. Lunch:Easy – M+S soups (roast punkin and butternut squash). Have deemed fish a meat [...]
..But, for me, it’s lying on the ground wounded. I wonder when the TV companies will take note and not suffer that same, slightly embarrassing fate of the music industry and start offering pay-per-view-micro-payment options? As discussed in Obvious truths for idiots in suits, I would have to agree. If could pay a quid per [...]
I’ve become facinated with watching digg labs / swarm.Everytime somebody ‘diggs’ something, the story get a swarm memeber. Very neat. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Heres the idea – if I post this up here, I might actually have to stick to it. Lots of people have been making me thing about food lots over the last few months. Mostly thinking about meat, in fact. Now I have made my views very very public at times, and I’d like to [...]
The man working across the desk from me is quite clearly a vampire. Pale skin (from a life in the dark) – Check, red rimmed eyes (from being up all night ravishing virgins) – Check, short groomed hair (including hair oil!) – Check, neat dark suit – Check, Eastern European Accent – Check. I would [...]
How cool is The Tridge. Almost as cool as Tridge himself. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Dear Lord, you cannot call it a “museum” if the majority of it has had to have been made on purpose. You can call it a “display” or possiblty “a total raving fantasy proporting to be the truth”. Grrr! Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH [...]
I’ve just lost at Scrabble to a couple who’s native language is Czech. Balls. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
7 hours ago I put a chunk of pork (about 2 kg worth), smeared in half a cup of english mustard, an ounce of grated ginger and a chopped birds eye chilli, into the over for a 12 hour roast. 12 hours. roast. I will report in on how good it is (or bad). Photos [...]
Here is an interesting idea – what would happen if you removed all the road markings, traffic signals and other “safety” devices? Would people be more safe because they had to look out? Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Yes – even Little Old Ladies in “knee-length skirts, white shirts or blouses and carrying shoulder bags” are as capable as hoodie wearing youff at theft. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Last night, after some false starts involving a celebrity hairdressing salon program, I drunkenly watched Inside John Peel’s record box on channel four, after being promopted it was on my my old flat mate (and all round top bloke) Big O. And it made me cry, again, about John Peel having died. Possibly Related Posts: [...]
Bored? Why not Create a Homemade Roller Coaster. Yes thats right – build your own rollercoaster. Your own. Yours. With you having built it. I get nervous hanging things on the clothes rail I made – never mind my own fucking roller coaster. Fucking hell. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing [...]
normally I end up finding Bob Dylon being the voice of the words I can never find, but today it would seem to be Paul Weller, a man I’ve paid very little heed or creed to before this year. Song: You Do Something to Me Lyrics You do something to me, something deep inside I’m [...]
Dearest Pete – you were our great hope, a man with a soul and a voice and a talents, but it all seems so long ago. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Are you aa geek? Are you a manager? Are you a geek manager or a manager of geeks? The have a good read through Mastering the Three Worlds of Information Technology from Harvad Business Online, I’ve only skim read it (when do I do more?) but it was making a lot of sense. Possibly Related [...]
Processing 1.0 (BETA) is a brillant development environment for knocking up wuick and eay programs which graphical output. It is focused around a “sketch pad” and makes putting a dot on the screen as easy as “plot(20,20,34) ” (and thats a dot in three-dimensional space!) It is why I didn’t sleep lasyt night and am [...]
New Project (like so many Abandoned Projects) has a tube map theme. Thus rodcorp: What colours are the different lines on the London Underground? was dead handy! Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Couldn’t sleep – got to work early, have been reading interweb, including the wonderful:fredmiranda.com: Specialized in digital cameras, photoshop actions, and digital darkroom and circuit bending video cardsi, The Curious Furniture of Ned Troide,The photos of fred eerdeker as well as shopping on exergia – new energy shop. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah [...]
Tonight I’ve been on a wikipedia bender, learning about Philly Morris,Craig Charles,John Cooper Clarke ,Cocaine,Takeshi’s Castle,Henry Rollins,Sid Vicious,Rat Scabies and Bob Harris. And now I’m tired. I have also watched Miami Vice(crap, with wonderful cinematography and Ordinary Decent Criminal. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH [...]
Isn’t it nice when you put a name to something you’ve known about for ages. You can see the influence of El Lissitzky in so many things, but until today, I’ve never known his name. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
This should definatly not be as funny as it is but Obese Celebrities!!!!!!!!!! made me snigger, especially the Tomb Raider blowup. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Now I’m all for higher levels of safety in our schools but bulletproof books are not the answer. I’ve shot a few heavy books, and they make excellent backstops for bullets. Excellent. A phonebook will happily stop a .22 and I imagine higher calibre bullets too. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp [...]
2 things make you out at a cock. a) Bluetooth earpieces. As pointed out at a comedy club this week, it’s the equivalent of walking round with your nob out, because you’re too busy to unzip. b) Ponytails Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? [...]
So – it’s been a wierd couple of weeks (week even – it seems that long!) Here it is, broken down by strange catagory… 6 weeks of planning: So, I left the house up north knowing I was unlikely to be back before nearly Christmas. It’s going to be about 6 weeks, and that means [...]