January 2005

Going Underground

January 12, 2005

An understandable reaction to the state of the London Underground. Not even slightly worksafe. (Via GeoffTech, thanks John.)

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Latest news from MacWorld

January 12, 2005

Just to prove that I don't have my head too firmly implanted in my lower intestines when it comes to all things Apple, I found this to be chortlingly funny. And true. (Via Badly Dubbed Boy and Dirty Dio Bach.)

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Tom on the radio

January 12, 2005

My good friend Tom was on the radio, in a discussion about bloggers who blog about work. You can listen to it in the BBC Radio Scotland archives – but click this link before Monday when the archive refreshes. Tom did a grand job defending the blogosphere in general and himself against the accusation of […]

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Finally, a solution for all those PC woes

January 11, 2005

A while back I saw some statistic about how many millions of dollars of time had been spent by geeks troubleshooting relatives' PCs over Thanksgiving. I don't remember how much it was, but it was a lot. If I were a computer-fixing geek, instead of a computer-drooling-over geek, I would by now have spent many […]

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43 Things

January 10, 2005

There are more than 43 things that I want to do with my life, but it might take me a while to get them all into 43Things. Still you can always grab the RSS feed and see how my list progresses.

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StainedBeauty

January 9, 2005

It is with no little delight that I would like to introduce you all to Kate, who has started blogging over at StainedBeauty. Kate's been a very good friend of mine for quite a few years now and I'm feeling very smug that I have finally managed to find a good reason for her to […]

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Not your average blogger

January 8, 2005

Earlier in the year I had the pleasure of writing for the inaugural edition of Design In-Flight, an online PDF magazine for designers. My feature, It’s not just all pretty pictures, took a look at how content affects web design, navigation and page layout and I'm happy to say that you can now dowload it […]

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Trivia, some of it true, some of it… maybe not

January 8, 2005

A while ago I was invited to contribute to a trivia-of-dubious-provenance blog and was only too happy to accept, as my head is full of the damn stuff. So every now and again I post to HeardSaid with trivia that might be right, or might be wrong – it's up to you to figure out […]

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Questionable Content

January 8, 2005

Best online comic I've seen in ages and ages. I suggest you start with the first one, and work your way through, rofling and loling as you go. Then, when you get to the latest one, you can suffer like the rest of us, waiting for the next. I do wish that Jeph Jacques would […]

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Link thievery 3

January 8, 2005

I really want to meet these native Latin speakers and businesses who need specialist Latin websites… With a team of specialist Latin translators, programmers, designers and localisation experts, Translation Express can localise your website from Latin to Latin or Latin to Latin or any other language from or into Latin. (Via NTK.)

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Link thievery 2

January 7, 2005

Every now and again I see an ad, or series of ads, that are just wonderful. The Observer Music Magazine's From Abba to Zappa campaign was one such series, with fantastically stylistic depictions of famous bands. It's only now I learn that these were the work of one Craig Robinson, whose blog is just, whew, […]

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Link thievery 1

January 7, 2005

Michael Paulus has drawn a most amazingly beautiful set of skeletons for cartoon characters. Really wonderful. (Via A Gentleman's Commonplace.)

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Fake British accents

January 7, 2005

Dan went to a Shaun of the Dead signing with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and accidentally slipped into a fake British accent. But he doesn't say which one. Would have been impressive if he'd suddenly started speaking in Brum. Still, I'm not jealous that he now has a nice, signed poster because we all […]

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Imagine, if you will

January 6, 2005

Half obscured by a swirling mist is Neil Gaiman, standing in a long, black trenchcoat, upon the flat, hard sands of a North Sea beach. The tide has gone out, so far out that no one is quite sure if it is ever coming back again. In the mist looms a Punch and Judy show, […]

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Some days

January 5, 2005

Some days I feel like a complete idiot. Some days I just am a complete idiot. Despite the fact that it's Wednesday – both my computers tell me it's Wednesday to it must be true – today has definitely been a Monday. It's had Mondayishness shot through it like silk spun from spider poo. I'd […]

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