Soul-searching question of the day: Look into your heart. Would you shag the Sven Snooker Streaker?
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Year: 2002
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Ten things to do…
Rather than call someone a wanker, why not…?
1) Have a long, slow, luxurious bath! Perhaps buy some expensive body lotions or bubble bath. Make sure it’s nice and hot and just sink into it!
2) Why not get a back-rub? If you’re that stressed, a calming back-rub can bring the smile right back to your face for a very reasonable fee.
3) Treat yourself to something small that you’ve never been able to justify buying before. Something like a CD or maybe some expensive hair products. It’s ok to be good to yourself. It really is…
4) Book a holiday! Aggression just slips away when you know you’ve got a holiday coming up. Think of the beaches, or the nightlife, or the food! Don’t you feel calmer already?
5) Why not go for lunch with an old friend? Old friends always like to catch up with each other – and all that chat will bring you right back to what’s really important! Don’t your problems seem small and insignificant now?
6) And if you can’t go out – why not get some wonderful food brought in! There are many glorious places to order food from in London. Just because you don’t have time to appreciate them, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have time to appreciate yourself!
7) Just take the afternoon off. Work’s not everything. Perhaps you’d feel better about things if you just got away from everything for a few hours.
8) A walk in a park is a wonderful way of valuing yourself more and might help you slow down. Smell the flowers! Look at the view! It’s not quite a holiday, but it’s a good thing to do every now and then…
9) Or perhaps you could have a picnic with friends? That’s several ideas all mixed together. And it’s bound to make you feel more content and relaxed….
10) And the easiest and simple way to make yourself feel better, and calmer and happier with the world? Just drink a few glasses of water, find somewhere peaceful and have a glorious relaxing afternoon nap…
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Three things about Mulholland Drive…
Three things about Mulholland Drive, seen last night with Mr Webb, Mrs Webb, Mr Henderson and some bloke called Tom from UMS. Firstly (of course) The Barbelith Thread. Then the (I fear superior) Metafilter thread. And finally the medium-cool Salon investigation.
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Peeping Search Tom…
You dirty so-and-so. You love it don’t you… I know you do. Watching. Not typing. Oh no. Just watching what other people have typed. Mmmmm. Oh yes. That’s the stuff… Watching people on kanoodle type in ‘teen boy decorating’. Oh yes. Or leering at the WWF Backlash requests at Yahoo! Buzz. Stop stop! It’s too much. No more. Don’t stop! Tell me Jeeves, are they still looking for the popular bridal website ‘Martha Stewart Weddings’? And Metaspy – expose yourself to me! Show me people searching for diseases of the middle ages? Or Hank Azaria? And don’t … ever … stop … showing … me search.com requests for Country French, Hot Rods and Custom Muscle Cars! Eurgh. And I’m spent…
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From inside the BBC…
It’s weird being inside the BBC when something like this happens.
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Upgrading Movable Type…
In a frustrating hour at work in which I couldn’t really do what I needed to do because I hadn’t got the application that I asked for many many weeks ago, I decided to upgrade to Movable Type 2.0. And it didn’t take long to install. And it was of superb and elegant quality…
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Diary of the Plague Years…
Diary of the Plague Years, Day Five: After much careful analysis I can only note that the mysterious semi-liquid is gradually thickening as the days pass, congealing and becoming more solid. And as it does so, my consumption of cold-cure medicines and tissues appears to be declining in parallel. If this can be said to be ‘improvement’ then I must consider myself ‘improved’.
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"Blake's Seven" Books…
Reasons not to read any Blake’s Seven books (as written by members of the original cast – no matter how cool they might have been): Barbelith.
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Trabaca redesigned once more…
It used to be the staple of weblogging content – the announcement that someone (a friend / a company) has redesigned their site. Then everyone used to run over and point and critique the site in question and have a little think about whether or not it worked or not as a design and maybe make a few pointers. People don’t do that so much any more. I wonder why. Announcement: Barty Trabaca has redesigned!
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Responses to a small note…
VITAL: Read the responses to A small note from a patriot.