Category: Random

Lunchtime quiz at work: “Are you a Fab Four fanatic?” produced these results:

• David: 2 (out of 15)
• Kit: 4
• Rebecca: 4
• Matt: 4
• Dean: 5
• Sue: 6
• Tom: 7
• Fran: 8
• Ros: 9

Only one result left to come…

The redesign at Netscape.com – designed to make the site look much like the soon-to-be-finally-released new browser – is, I fear, quite bad.

You can see that they sat down initially and thought, “Let’s make this simple, elegant and powerful”, and then somewhere along the way the simplicity was drowned in poorly laid out information, while the elegance started to look less like graphic-design restraint, and more … well, dull. I’ve only heard, so I couldn’t say for certain – but it looks like pretty much the same process has taken place in the development of the browser.

Anagram of Thomas Coates: Tea Hat Cosmos. Thanks to Meg for that one…

An extraordinarily savage and funny article in The Onion reads:

“Thus far, Benson has picked up several new skills outside of the bounds of his job description, teaching himself how to change toner cartridges, un-jam paper trays and replace the jugs on the office water cooler. He has sent out five separate intraoffice memos offering tips on how things could be done more efficiently, and has even brought homemade cookies for “the whole staff.”

“He should get cancer,” said Janice Mulroney, who two years ago, in recognition of her 20th anniversary with Williams & Broderick, received a gift certificate good for dinner for two at a local Red Lobster. “Every day I curse this hellhole.” “

OK: So I’ve bought the new Radiohead album finally, and I will have things to say about it over the next few days. In the meantime, the most interesting thing about it, as far as I’m concerned, is a little piece of text hidden in the credits which reads:

“The font we wrote the world ‘Radiohead’ in is made by B∏ro Destruct, Berne, Switzerland.”

Intelligent comments from Derek Powazek, that I try to follow, but suffer frequent lapses:

“My advice to anyone running a personal website:
Put your head down and don’t listen to anything anyone says about it. Ignore any dire pronouncements that include the words “genre,” “medium,” or “revolution.” Avoid referer logs, popularity rankings, and vanity searches at all costs.”

I take it all back. Someone has indeed given the new Radiohead album a good review. In fact it’s a ridiculously good review. Pointlessly so, perhaps. Somehow I don’t think I’ll be taking its opinion too seriously. [Thanks to Blue Lines]

Last night, Kate and Mella and I sat up for hours working out the plot for a low-budget horror movie. Kate says if she makes it, we can have credits. Possible credits: Best Boy, Catering…

I saw a t-shirt today which read the.internet.is.shit.cc, and for a moment, I was strangely elated.

Did anyone notice the radical change in the template for this page that occurred a couple of days ago? The whole thing is done completely differently now. I bet no one noticed. That’s bloody typical, that is.