April 2004

Still here?

April 22, 2004

I see from the stats that some people are still coming here for their regular dose of chocolate and vodka goodness. Sorry guys, but I've moved to Blogware for good. Please update your links, bookmarks, blogrolls et cetera with the new url. If you're still getting this RSS feed, then you really need to change […]

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Neil Gaiman's favourite word is…

April 21, 2004

…Oh, but that would be telling, wouldn't it? How about you find out for yourself? Via the horse's mouth.

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Just a little spit and polish

April 21, 2004

I finally got round to doing an edit of my screenplay, Tag, last night. As it's been some considerable time since I finished the rewrite, I was keen to see how it all hangs together. I had prepared myself for another rewrite, but bar a little shuffling of three or four scenes, it turned out […]

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That'll be a million pounds, please

April 21, 2004

Gapingvoid says: I've told this story before: My father went to Harvard Business School in the 70s. One of his professors, an eminent scholar, had studied the question of what was harder in business: to get one person to give you a million dollars, or to get a million people to give you one dollar. […]

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The unblogged blog is a blog not worth blogging

April 20, 2004

You know one of the worst things about going away for a few days? You get back to a whole backlog of blog posts that you want to write but which feel like they'll take forever so you put off starting them because you have work and emails and stuff to do first. Then you […]

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Back, busy catching up

April 19, 2004

Back from London late last night. Spent today trying to catch up on the gazillion emails that came in whilst I was out having fun. Lots to blog, but I guess it'll have to wait til tomorrow.

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A year ago today…

April 15, 2004

I had a business. I rented a two bed maisonette on the banks of the Kennet. I had strawberries and cream, a glass of Pimms and a new copy of the Pleasantville DVD. I also had a premonition: this coming year will be one of huge opportunities, including the chance to tip my life upside […]

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Submit to my superior power and intellect, pathetic chicken

April 13, 2004

Subservient Chicken (TM Burger King) says something scary about American culture, but I don't have time to delineate what.

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Galavantationing

April 12, 2004

Off to London tomorrow for the best part of a week. Highlights will involve seeing Duran Duran at Wembley on Tuesday night (yes, they are still going and yes, this is the original line up and yes, I will be drooling uncontrollably over John Taylor); being interviewed by the BBC World Service programme, The Big […]

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iCan… oh can you?

April 12, 2004

gapingvoid is pissed off with the BBC's iCan site. And y'know? I can't say I blame him. I'll elaborate when I've had time to cogitate.

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Kinja tell what it is yet?

April 12, 2004

When I wrote my Kinja post last week, I was starting off from a bias-free point of view. I?d really heard nothing about Kinja prior seeing it being mentioned in #joiito, and I had no expectations of what it would be or should be. The thing that really foxed me, having spent some time playing […]

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Finished culture

April 12, 2004

AKMA?s project to have all of Lawrence Lessig?s new book, Free Culture, read by bloggers and made available for free download is now complete. You can find AKMA?s posts about this project, in reverse chron order here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. My past posts about it are here and here. The […]

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Gmail gets a savaging

April 12, 2004

If you really want to see someone take a new service apart, try Mark?s deconstruction of Google?s latest offering, Gmail. And he only looks at it in terms of accessibility, without ever going into the privacy implications of having your email searched and catalogued by your email provider (particularly a provider that may already have […]

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Gmail gets a savaging

April 12, 2004

If you really want to see someone take a new service apart, try Mark’s deconstruction of Google’s latest offering, Gmail. Read the rest.

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Finished culture

April 12, 2004

AKMA’s project to have all of Lawrence Lessig’s new book, Free Culture, read by bloggers and made available for free download is now complete. Read the rest.

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