Year: 2001

I’m in a bit of a strange mood suddenly. I’ve been in such a difficult place over the last year that I’ve often not noticed what’s been going on around me – I’ve been strangely distant from many of my oldest friends. I guess I kind of assumed that they’d understand that I wasn’t able to connect with everyone as much as I’d like – that I had huge and terrifying things on my mind all the time. But now I’m beginning to think that they didn’t have that kind of patience and that I’ve been gradually fading in their heads. I always assumed that whatever else had happened, they would be waiting for me to emerge from the other side – not that I would necessarily be particularly missed, but that my absence would be understood as a temporary thing. But now I’m missing them. And I don’t think they even notice that I’m not there any more.

If this doesn’t put a chill right through you, then you’re barely human. A month and a half on, you can read the reactions of people as they heard about the World Trade Center as it happened.

If anyone can find Weezer’s “Blue Album” on Amazon.co.uk then could you let me know. I’ve been trying all morning and it doesn’t seem to be there…

Because other crackers are counter-intuitive:

Digging through the archives of Haddock, it’s amazing what you find… For example… Ex Sapient Creative Directors first web site…

Today I found myself bound by Godwin’s Law in a thread at Metafilter. Nearly eight years on the net and I’d never heard of it before.

I’m only linking to this because I don’t have time to read it properly at the moment and don’t want to lose it. Forgive me, loyal readers.

Several Haddock regulars, Cal and I spent much of yesterday evening talking to students about community sites, the public sphere, weblogs, issues of trust and representation. Some of the key sites we discussed over the evening included:

• H2G2
• Jason’s 9/11 page
• Blogdex
• Metafilter
• Slashdot
• Stand.org.uk
• Scripting News
• Blogger
• Fax Your MP
• Stop Esso
• Greymatter
• Movable Type
• Weblogs.com
• kuro5hin
• UpsideClown
• Feed
• TCN
• Popbitch

I’ve got a sweet tooth
For liquorice drops and jelly roll
Hey Sugar Daddy
Hansel needs some sugar in his bowl

I’ll lay out fine china on the linen
And polish up the chrome
If you’ve got some sugar for me
Sugar Daddy bring it on…

Just in case you didn’t know. It’s my weblogging second birthday today. I said it earlier in the day, but you might have missed that. First Barbelith and then plasticbag.org. Woo.