Mass games, Pyongyang. Photo: Lawrence Hudson. 1984 was one of the first novels I read that really grabbed me: I hit it at just the right age and at just the right time of year – a quiet teenager holding the book in a blowy spring that was full of bright cold days and peopleContinue reading “Domains of the strange, mad and sad”
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Digg and the art of the headline
[The entry has been cross posted from my work blog] When it comes to the web, there really aren’t many ways in which to gain readers for your site. Not that many practical and legal ones, anyway – sure, I could pay a dodgy bunch of Eastern European types to knock up a virus thatContinue reading “Digg and the art of the headline”
An online notebook
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I stopped link-blogging on this site – as I was using Delicious, everything I ever saved was getting posted here, which was both ugly and lazy. Delicious certainly had its plus points though; regular blogging is good, and using it made me think about the links IContinue reading “An online notebook”
Pownce invites up for grabs
A cat, ready to pounce, yesterday. Just a short post; I’ve signed up to Pownce, the Twitter knock-off/second coming from, among others, Kevin Rose of Digg. The best thing about it is there’s a lot of vowels in the name compared to most Web 2.0 sites, but I’ve not used it that much yet. Anyway,Continue reading “Pownce invites up for grabs”
There will be more, but before that, less
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I was considering making some changes to this blog. I’ve begun the tinkering; a lot of it has, so far, been behind the scenes, and has mostly consisted of doodles on paper, but some of these ideas are now going from the real world to this digitalContinue reading “There will be more, but before that, less”
Everything is back to normal now
Right, the site design is unb0rked now. I’ve also tweaked the design a little bit, as a very tentative first step towards this site’s next guise. Also, Barbelith.
links for 2007-08-23
Getting started with “Getting Things Done” | 43 Folders Yes, that’s right, I am the newest adherent to the web’s favourite productivity cult… GTD. Let’s see if it works for me…. (tags: howto gtd 43folders) Getting Things Done in VoodooPad at Trichech.us GTD + the excellent Voodoopad (tags: OSX gtd voodoopad) Introducing the Hipster PDAContinue reading “links for 2007-08-23”
links for 2007-08-22
funky duds: keep calm and carry on It’s a horrid rainy day here in London, so it’s clearly time for a couple of t-shirt links! This is a fine example of advanced British wartime strategy… (tags: t-shirts britain stiffupperlip) Sir Freelancelot And on this shirt, the famous Knight goes looking for a paycheck (tags: t-shirts)Continue reading “links for 2007-08-22”
links for 2007-08-21
Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source Fantastic story from the Onion; their precision is almost molecular (tags: onion art dada wikipedia) A Toot and a Snore in ’74: Lennon, McCartney and Stevie Wonder Fantastic line up for this bootleg –Continue reading “links for 2007-08-21”
The Wired Jester 2.0
Picture caption: The road to the future, yesterday. Lots of concrete and white light. No robots in sight. It’s been a while since there’s been a longer post on the Wired Jester, so I thought I’d drop one in, partly because I’m quite proud of the above shot at London Bridge and wanted to showContinue reading “The Wired Jester 2.0”
The Wired Jester 