Month: August 2001

I have a strange relationship to temping. Or perhaps it’s not strange at all. I’m doing some freelance work for a friend at the moment so I may be occupied most of the time, but the prospect of the money from two days temping still appeals to me. What doesn’t appeal is actually doing the temping, which appalls me beyond the counting of it. So I get a phone call from the temp company and I vacillate and I sound really torn on the phone, then they go away to check something and I don’t hear back from them.

Tired. Hot. Irritable.

Last night I went for dinner at Meg, Luke and Davo‘s Big Blogger household. Davo cooked a quite delicious salmon dish in the dishwasher. Don’t ask. Also in attendance: Mo Morgan, Paul Digitaltrickery, Ralph and Catherine. Funniest moment? Partial game of Articulate.

Via Darren, the Link Machine, comes an article on joint mortgages between friends, which I have to say had never even entered my head before now.

Dave Winer goes into details about the new Blogger API in an article called Connecting with Blogger. I’m not entirely sure I understand why this is such a revolutionary step forward, but I would like to know. Can someone explain it to me?

“Well I’m down on my knees again, And I pray to the only one, Who has the strength, To bear the pain, To forgive all the things that I’ve done. Oh yeah, Lead me into your darkness, When this world is trying it’s hardest, To leave me unimpressed, Just one caress, From you and I’m blessed. I have to believe that sin, Can make a better man, It’s the mood that I am in, That’s left us back where we began.”

Entertaining Ralph for a the last week and a bit has been extremely entertaining, but has left me hopelessly behind on the working front. I have a huge block of stuff to get done by four this afternoon. Huge.

More wisdom from Derek Powazek : Top Five Tips for Online Community.

Today on Barbelith: Planet of the 80s TV remakes – “Old TV series never die, they just bring out the film. It happened with the Flintstones. It happened with Scooby Doo. And now it’s happening – or so Dame Rumour would have us believe – with the A-Team. Whisky Priestess reports.”

All teen crushes are embarrassing I suppose. In the spirit of self revelation, here are links to a few of mine: Dirk Benedict, Steve Guttenberg and Patrick Duffy.