These awards for the worst writing of 2005 make excellent reading. Some of my favourites Captain Burton stood at the bow of his massive sailing ship, his weathered face resembling improperly cured leather that wouldn’t even be used to make a coat or something.Bryan Semrow, Oshkosh, WI It was high noon in the jungles of …
27th September 2005 update I’m trialling a new piece of software called Caterblogger. It will add categories to any Blogger blog. You can register interest in it on the site. The original post follows below: Blogger is really ease to use and set up, and manages individual posts really well. It’s also useful to be …
I’ve just upgraded to the new Sony Ericsson K750i phone and am well pleased with it. It works well as a phone and is much more responsive and easier to use than my old Nokia 6600, but it’s all the extra features that make it really great. The camera takes pretty good pictures for a …
I wanted to publish my blog with something other than the .html extension and after some experimentation and hunting around I found this:Blogger Forum – Forum The way to do it is to change the main page extension (from index.html to whatever, e.g. index.aspx) and do the same with the archive page. Then you need …
This photo was apparently taken at Tower Hill tube station today and gives some good advice about how not to get yourself shot on the tube:
I went along to the Herzog & de Meuron exhibition at the Tate Modern this Sunday just gone. Although it was kind of interesting in terms of a ‘thought process’ kind of thing, it really didn’t explain much, and there was no clear train of thought to follow from concept to building which would really …
Got to love this story about Ancient phallus unearthed in cave on the BBC site. One of the best things about it is the fact that they didn’t know what it was until they found the last piece. ‘…it was only with the discovery of a 14th fragment last year that they were able finally …
I went for lunch at the restaurant in the National Portrait Gallery yesterday. I’d already been once before, towards the end of 2000, and enjoyed it then (not least because someone else was paying) and was looking forward to going again. We booked in advance, which I think is advisable at any time. The menu …
The antidote to the ‘we’re not afraid‘ site: I am fucking terrified. Mostly just a collection of images with amusing captions expressing various degrees of terror. I like the ‘why’ section: Terrorists cause terror. That’s why they’re called terrorists. If they didn’t cause terror, they’d be called something else – like ‘annoyingists’.
The War on Terror as run from the UNIX command line. Extreme geekiness.