Category: Random

The redesign is proceeding apace, and with it comes all the usual anxieties – that the new design isn’t as good as the last, that it isn’t as clear, that it doesn’t fill the page as well, that it basically just doesn’t have the spark of the last one. Of course I haven’t got the slightest idea whether or not any of that is true or not. How could I? I’ve been staring at it for hours. My latest attempt to acheive something exciting with it involves the introduction of a new colour. Unlike much of my other work, this page at present contains absolutely no orange. This must change immediately…

I’ll admit it. Even though I love Apple, I still thought that the iTari pisstake was funny. It’s not as good as the iBrator though…

It’s a site that has been all around the British media, praised almost without exception for its biting wit and foul mouth. It’s a site that takes a bastion of British life – the Radio Times – and then rips it to shreds, exposing the hypocrisy and pointessness of television in the UK and television in general. It’s a site that probably 9/10s of all British people have already seen, and which only 1% of the world outside the country will even vaguely understand. So why am I mentioning it? Because it’s bloody bloody funny…

So there’s this guy at work called Duncan, and he’s a designer with this large consultancy firm, but the poor love hasn’t had a web site for ages, which I thought was a bit lame really, because if you are a web-designer you really should have something that you can show people, or that demonstrates that you are committed to the medium etc etc. So I come in today, and he’s compiled this interesting interface to a small directory of interesting design sites.

You can always trust the opinions of someone who likes Hunky Dory.

Further to yesterday’s post, there is more about the legal difficulties of mp3.com and napster over at Wired news at the moment. I’m in the middle of discussing it with people over at alt.security.pgp as well at the moment. I don’t think it is necessarily the ideal place to have the discussion, but I needed to know if it was technically possible, and it looked like the best place to start…

My parents always used to go on really boring holidays. Their idea of a great holiday was to find a house with a pool two miles down a dirt track, which was itself 2 miles away from the nearest village. So, while I travelled quite a bit when I was a kid, it wasn’t until I was 15 that I actually went somewhere to see things. I went to Turkey with school. I was 16 when I went to Greece. I was 18 when I went to America, and 21 before I went back and did the parts of Europe I’d missed the first time. Mark’s done them all already. And he’s only 15. Bastard.

I’ve been really slack the last few days. I’ve been trying to recover from huge work stresses last week which set up shop in my mind and wouldn’t leave, no matter how many times I tried to evict them. I’m thinking of declaring this a themed week and going for that old stalwart, romantic love, as an appropriate subject matter – particularly after seeing High Fidelity over the weekend (interesting but slightly depressing). I don’t know, though. The whole thing seems a little cheesy.

Offensive/Weird Quote from Britannica.com:

“Psychosexual disorders: Homosexuality and psychosexual dysfunctions such as impotence are treated in the articles sexual behaviour, human and homosexuality. The following section is concerned with disorders of gender identity and with preferences for unusual or bizarre sexual practices or objects.”

It’s been a while since I talked about the new proposed top-level domains that ICANN are currently considering. There have been loads of articles about this recently (see below), but I have written up some of my queries on Metafilter for discussion.

• New TLDs Approved by ICANN but Doubts Remain
• ICANN names new TLDs
• New Top-Level Domains Near
• ICANN adds domains names, stores up troubles