11.30.06
The truth hurts
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).
11.29.06
Vegitablearianism Day 2.5
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.
Corporate mumbo-jumbo
I’ve just been invited to a meeting described “a global town hall call”.
WTF does that mean???
11.28.06
Vegitablearianism Day 1.5
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 too so usual sushi and salmon sandwiches are out. Stick from work mates = +5 (”You can’t eat that very berry muffin - it’s got pork in”).
Dinner: Harder - not allowed my most favorite sausage and blue cheese pizza when out for leaving drinks. More stick from werkmates - “real ale is made of beef”.
Post dinner drunken snacks - easy. Onion rings and potato waffles, grilled until burnt. Perfect.
Day 1.5 = easy, even if i missed salmon sandwiches with pickled onion crisps inside.
11.27.06
TV is not dead yet….
..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 episode of Buffy, I would.
Meta data never looked so pretty
I’ve become facinated with watching digg labs / swarm.Everytime somebody ‘diggs’ something, the story get a swarm memeber. Very neat.
If you’re going to do something stupid, do it in public
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 think that most people can see where I’m comng from, even if they don’t agree, but thanks to J. and S. and J(another) and Skip, I’ve decided to give vegitarianism a highly timed trial. I shall eat no meat, if possible between now and December the 8th. Why the 8th? Well, it’s roughly two weeks, and it means that I’ll have to deal with it in a few different circumstances. It’ll be away for one weekend, in Scotland no less (not a hot bed of food racialism), and I’ll be at home, where virtually all meals revolve around meat.
There are some get out clauses (I’m not going to turn down meat cooked for me when away for example, and anything thats in my fridge will get eatten, but thats very little).
Why am I trying this? It’s an experiment, like most things I try.
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Of and this will include no Fakin’ Bacon, Tofubeef or any other silly imitation products. If I wanted bacon, I’d just eat it, and not have to suffer the withering stares in Tescos as I buy something thatclearly is as fake as the meat in hotdogs.
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11.23.06
Vampire!
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 be scared, but I cook saag aloo with a bucket of garlic in last night, so I should be safe for now.
Or he might be a secuirty consultant form germany.
Creationist’s museum ??
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!
Food Experiment Day One
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 possibly to follow.
11.20.06
Unsafe is safe?
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?
11.16.06
Grey Theft!
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.
John Peel made me cry (again)
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.
11.13.06
build your own rollercoaster???
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.
Normally it’s Bob Dylan but…
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 hanging on the wire for a love I’ll never find
You do something wonderful then chase it all away
Mixing my emotions that throws me back again
Hanging on the wire, I’m waiting for the change
I’m dancing through the fire, just to catch a flame
an’ feel real again
You do something to me somewhere deep inside
I’m hoping to get close to a peace I cannot find
Dancing through the fire just to catch a flame
Just to get close to, just close enough
To tell you that…..
You do something to me something deep inside.
11.09.06
Once in a life time
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.
Mastering the Three Worlds of Information Technology
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.
Easy programming for people who want shiny things qickly
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 this tired and grumpy today.
