Month: April 2001

A while ago I was talking about reading Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell – a savage graphic novel about Jack the Ripper. Featured as part of the book is the transcript of a letter purporting to be from the killer himself. In fact the book contains many dozens of letters written by the general public concerning the murders, each one claiming to be the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders. In the news today, one such letter has been made public for the first time: “The so-called Openshaw letter is littered with spelling mistakes and bad grammar in a “Cockney” style, and is signed by ‘Jack the Ripper’.”. The article is a fascinating read, and ever more so when you read Moore’s fictional account alongside it…

Helpful insight into my work-related quandary? [cf. yesterday’s post]

Meg returns, and with a new design to boot – plus a really long piece of writing about why she went away and why she came back…

Because you can never push an obsession too far: Thanks to Davo for this particular gem:

This ridiculous list of Tom-related nicknames is brought to you via Mo Morgan. It neglects ‘Tomato’ and ‘Tomsk’ which are possibly the only two that I remember having been called. Oh, and Thos (rhymes with floss) which is what my step-father called me for about ten years while I squirmed inside.

Today’s reading matter of choice: An Incomplete Manifesto of Growth. Learn well, my children.

So you are working in a start-up company around Regent’s Park, and you’re only going to be doing it for a month, and it’s a very male company, and you’re only doing it four days a week, and they keep talking about football and the merits of David Beckham, and you don’t really have a clue about that kind of stuff nor are you really interested in pretending that you do. Is it worth making an effort to get to know people?

Request: Now I’m looking for browser-emulation sites, if such things exist. Meg sent me dejavu.org, but while it is extraordinarily entertaining using all the browsers that I haven’t even seen in five years, I need something a little more cutting-edge. Do such things exist?

It looks like we will have Apple with us for a little longer at least. Defying expectations to the contrary, they have just announced their profits for the quarter – which are up to 11 cents a share. This is supposedly on the back of two of their newest and classiest products: the Titanium Powerbook and OSX. When I win the lottery, they are the first things I intend to buy before hopping on a plane to Bermuda for a few weeks to get some life perspective.

I sent an e-mail to Mr Big last night. It read, “So I was just watching TV and saw Simon Le Bon and Guy Ritchie and suddenly thought of you. You back yet?”. As usual I don’t really expect to get a reply.