May 2005

Ooh! Oh! Ooooooh!

May 21, 2005

I've been checking the iBook's status in Apple's order tracker, not because I had any faith that it would give me any information at all, but because I suffer from a terrible, crippling disease called 'blind optimism'. Thus was I suitably, and squeakily, surprised to discover that my iBook is allegedly now in Southampton and […]

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D'oh the technology, part the third

May 20, 2005

Nifty widgets that connect to the internet are only of use as a time killing device when there is an actual signal for them to connect to the internet over. I would like to take this opportunity to tell you that there is, in fact, virtually no signal whatsoever available for the duration of the […]

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All About Palm

May 20, 2005

I've been gnawing at my fingernails recently, desperate to tell you all about my new venture with co-conspirators Ewan Spence, Rafe Blandford, Dave Thomson and Jody Armstrong, but at last, today, I can! All About Palm does exactly what it says on the tin, covers Palm Powered smartphones and PDAs and discusses anything remotely related […]

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Sleeping with fireflies

May 19, 2005

Sometimes it seems impossible to convey an emotional reaction to something without falling into cliché. I froze. My heart skipped a beat. I caught my breath. I nearly dropped a full pint of water in my electrical leads box. let's go fishing for a dream let's find some place new somewhere we can be ourselves […]

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Y Beatles

May 19, 2005

Caneuon y Beatles yn y Gymraeg. Pam, Duw? Pam? (Diolch Richard.)

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Cute guys

May 18, 2005

Quote of the day: Me: Can I just say, *cough* is fucking cute. Why is it that he is also married? Him: Aren't the cute ones always married? Me: Yes, dammit. Him: Cute guys are like a link on del.icio.us: you have to find it first and get in there immediately, otherwise you're just going […]

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Hello? Apple? I am trying to give you money.

May 18, 2005

Apple suck. Macs are great, but Apple suck arse. They suck so hard they blow. Had I known that it would take 20 days to get my new iBook after ordering from their online store, I would have walked to London and got it there. It would have been faster. Hell, for £2 I could […]

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Lack of tracking data

May 17, 2005

Everyone else who orders from Apple seems to be able to track their shipment's precise whereabouts, but the tracking page for my order resolutely refuses to show me any information about 'activity', location, or date/time whatsoever. I've been to the TNT websites, and tried putting in all of the various shipping and tracking codes Apple […]

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Theatre Of The New Ear

May 16, 2005

I've never really been to the theatre much. I usually enjoy going, but I tend not to because I never know what is worth going to see. (I have seen some shit in my time, and these days I'd rather not waste the money on anything that might turn out to be crap.) But on […]

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From where comes this myth of rationality?

May 15, 2005

We are not rational beings. None of us. We like to think that we are, we like to point to logic and reason as our cornerstones, but still, we are not rational. We are emotional, passionate, illogical beings, and the sooner we realise it the better. The assumption that we are rational beings leads to […]

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Edge of Darkness, episode 1 at last

May 14, 2005

It was nearly two years ago now that I sat in my lounge in Reading, watching Edge of Darkness on BBC4. That time round I missed the first episode. Tonight I saw it. Twenty years is no time at all. Two years is but a blink.

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The connected life

May 13, 2005

Sitting on the steps of Eros at Piccadilly Circus with all the tourists and pigeons, waiting for a friend to arrive. Elliott Smith whispers to me, 'There's nothing wrong that wasn't wrong before'. The cool air is a relief after the stuffiness of the Underground. Blogging from the Treo feels completely different to blogging on […]

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A link for the scriptwriters amongst you

May 13, 2005

IMSDb – the Internet Movie Script Database. Don't know if I just missed this in my past searches for scripts, or if it's new. Either way, it's got Constantine so I'm happy.

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May 12, 2005

For of all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. – John Greenleaf Whittier

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The sixty four thousand dollar question

May 11, 2005

Given inflation and the state of the exchange rate, isn't a $64,000 question now worth about £2.50?

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