19th May 2004, mid-afternoon | Comments (28)
About four times a week I get an email from someone keen to know how I coded my blog archive page — the headings and nested lists approach seems to be a decent way of presenting the information, and people wonder how the page is constructed. I usually reply to these emails saying that it’s a bit too complicated to explain, but today I’m relenting…
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16th May 2004, early evening | Comments (19)
When I was a child the newspapers were always filled with stories about excesses in EU agricultural production: Butter Mountains, Milk Lakes, and Grain Hills were a part of everyday news reports.
San Francisco, it seems, has a similar problem, but in this case it’s with shoes. They might not put it in their guidebooks, and you sure as hell won’t see Governor Schwarzenegger talk about it on TV, but take it from me, this town has more shoes that it knows what to do with…
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14th May 2004, late evening | Comments (27)
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
13th May 2004, early evening | Comments (15)
Trackback is an interesting thing. Sometimes you get nice comments from it, and sometimes, as in this post from Mena at Six Apart, you get your arse handed to you in a sling…
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12th May 2004, the wee hours | Comments (25)
It’s midnight. I’m standing in the kitchen of my temporarily-rented apartment, clad in nothing but my underpants. I’m watching the Chicago DVD on my 17in Powerbook, and repeatedly lifting a kitchen chair above my head for exercise.
If you want, you can touch me; some of the glamour might rub off on you.
10th May 2004, mid-afternoon | Comments (9)
Location: Film set, Los Angeles, early morning.
Scene: Directors pep-talk before the day’s shooting commences…
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9th May 2004, evening time | Comments (15)
The last three days, in brief:
8th May 2004, mid-afternoon | Comments (27)
I would like to know:
The posts can be funny or serious, long or short, technical or prose; just as long as they’re your favourites. If you like, take some time to explain why you chose what you did.
8th May 2004, mid-afternoon | Comments (29)
You may or may not know that I have no sense of smell. None at all. Because of that I also have a very limited sense of taste; the two being closely tied together. These litle quirks have been coming up a lot recently, what with meeting new people and all, and a common question I’ve been asked is, are any of my other sense heightened to compensate for this lack of olfactory prowess? Am I perhaps blessed with canine-like hearing? Thundercat-like sight-beyond-sight? Or, you know, like, really sensitive fingers?…
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6th May 2004, mid-morning | Comments (34)
Here’s a funny thing. You know how Americans and Brits have common words that mean different things in each language? Like ‘fanny’ or ‘bum’? Well it turns out that ‘hello’ is another one.
It’s true, I swear…
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6th May 2004, mid-morning | Comments (14)
You know that SMS-messaging has taken over the world when you walk into a public toilet and two of the three guys using the urinal are sending text messages while peeing. Women take note: men can multi-task when it suits them.
2nd May 2004, the wee hours | Comments (51)
So, what’s it like, moving to new city, to a new country? Being single. Being, frankly, awful at getting a girlfriend. But being fabulous at being a girl’s best friend?
What’s it like?
Well, I’ll tell you…
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A collection of miscellaneous links that don't merit a main blog posting, but which are interesting none-the-less.
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.— George W Bush (9)
Stuff from the intersection of design, culture and technology.(3)
A selection of blogs I read on a regular basis.