June 2003

More stats fun

June 17, 2003

One of the things that I really like about Blog City is that I get visitor stats. Not quite as comprehensive as I would like, but interesting nevertheless. Bizarrely, I keep getting referrals from websites such as Technorati who never seem to actually have any links to me on their site at all. Not sure […]

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Small computery things you can fit in your pocket

June 17, 2003

The new iPod. I really shouldn’t have looked. I’m such a sucker for small computery things. I bought a Philips Velo a few years ago. It was the only pda at the time that had a full keyboard big enough for me to touch type on. I loved it. I used to take it with […]

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Old, but good

June 16, 2003

Joel Veitch’s stuff always cracks me up, even after repeated viewings. The Angry Kittens doing The Vines was a classic. The Northern Kittens doing Elbow oozed sophistication. And now (well, er, three months ago) we have the Viking Kittens doing Electric 6, although frankly one of them looks suspiciously like a puppy to me. Another […]

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Matrix Reloaded at the IMAX

June 16, 2003

I just randomly checked the bfi site and guess what? The Matrix: Reloaded is showing from July 4th. I will so be there!

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Oops

June 15, 2003

Sorry about the sudden lack of line breaks last night. I fiddled with some options without checking what the result would be! They're back now though. 😀

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Bye bye Brunching

June 15, 2003

I'm quite sad to find out that Brunching Shuttlecocks has now closed its doors for good, although the archives are still up and worth reading. So many good memories of snarfing at my monitor in an otherwise silent open-plan office. So much involuntary snorting. And outright guffawing. Not to mention uncontrollable hysterics. Sad, sad day. […]

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Attacking the wilderness

June 15, 2003

I took my strimmer outside this afternoon, and introduced it to my garden. ?Garden? might actually be a bit of an exaggeration. If memory serves, the last time I did anything that could remotely be called ?gardening? was sometime mid Feb. Ish. The grass is now chest high and there are plants in there which […]

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Strange how things turn out, sometimes

June 14, 2003

Only last week was I saying how I would feel too much like the obsessive fan if I bought Matrix sunglasses, no matter how cool they look. *rolls eyes to the heavens* Now, that was just asking for the gods to play tricks on me, wasn’t it? This morning I had a very nice surprise […]

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Shameless link thievery

June 14, 2003

I just raided MorfaBlog blog for links to Welsh blogs, which now appear there on your left. No, your other left. I remember a time when Nic’s blog was the only Welsh one around. Then I started up the CMC blog, and now there are a dozen. That’s good to see. I should blog in […]

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So that?s today gone for a burton

June 13, 2003

It’s positively inhumane to be forced to attempt to work on a day like today. Hot, sunny, summery and a Friday the Thirteenth with a full moon (the rose moon) tonight to boot. Who can concentrate on a day like today? Who can sit down in front of an uninspiring beige box and shuffle words […]

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Seeing through the web elite

June 10, 2003

Something I’ve been thinking for a while is that the majority of blogs all link to the same sources. I had no real hard evidence for this – it’s just an observation I made that seemed to be true. Well, it is true, according to The Guardian. It seems that the internet follows power laws […]

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Matrix Boy left me for dead

June 9, 2003

Vast, sweeping orchestral lushness. The kind of music for which the word ?soundscape? is simply too small. The kind of music where the sky is deepest blue and far, far away, stretching horizon to horizon, and you catch your breath with the painful beauty of it all. Rob Dougan is Matrix Boy. He contributed Clubbed […]

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Stats strangeness

June 9, 2003

One thing I like about Blog-City is that they give me stats. So now I know that at least a handful of people are reading my blog every day. That's nice. I like to know I have an audience. 😉 However, I find it peculiar that the day I didn't blog (Saturday) saw almost twice […]

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Going Downhill fast

June 9, 2003

I found Downhill yesterday, although I can’t remember rightly where. In a nutshell, it’s Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon but with blogs. Enter two blogs and Downhill will find out how many degrees of separation there are between them. I was kinda happy to find five degrees between me and Neil Gaiman: There are 5 […]

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Reloaded – The Script

June 9, 2003

This is the shooting script, the one that they used to actually make the film. You might not recognise it at first, as it's a little different to what you're expecting, but read on. You'll see it all comes together in the end. Maybe.

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