Year: 2002

Help debug plasticbag.org: Let’s face it, I’ve always depended on the kindness of strangers. And now it’s your turn. The site looks great and seems to work on IE 5+ on Macs and PCs, but there are problems with Mozilla and all kinds of other browsers. So I’m starting a short term mailing list – which I expect no one to sign up for – to help advise me on fixing the site up and making it accessible to as many people as possible. Join Plastic People today – particularly if you are a regular reader and Mozilla user.

Sharp-eyed observers may notice the addition of one tiny syllable to this site overnight. Yes, I’ve gone professional on your ass. First impressions of the upgraded Blogger are essentially positive. The post-to-future option is extremely interesting – and could be usefully used to help run a schedule as well as for more creative purposes. Draft posts is another useful feature – of course you’ve always been able to post something without publishing it – but this legitimately provides the possibility of developing content slowly over days or weeks before exposing it to the world.

Other than that, there are various odds and ends that I haven’t had the opportunity to play with yet – from title tags (I have yet to figure out what happens if you display title in the template when you have two years of posts without title tags) to the file upload feature (designed elegantly to allow you to specify where you want your files to go – although it would be good if there was an obvious place in settings where you could specify the default location). More interesting is the stuff to come – the return of the wonderful Blogger Search, archiving by post or by day etc. etc.

In the meantime – you can talk at greater length about the launch over at Metafilter.

Strange Collisions: Barbelith.com is a daily diversion at MSN.com: “Read Barbelith: Culture, subculture, the underground, and more.”

While the European webloggers nominated for Bloggies slowly relax in the knowledge that their brilliance has been quietly recognised, the real action is over at the Big Gay camp. While Sparky begs for your vote (so sad…), Ernie howls “Bring it on, girlfriend!” and Choire & Philo sharpen claws and freshen breath, it is left to my good self and redoubtable Jill Matrix to represent the cooler heads – the more adult and responsible side of the race for World’s Most Self-Indulgent Homo.

So whaddya reckon? Will it take me taking my clothes off, keeping my clothes on, a complete change of emphasis towards displaying pornography, secret weblogging gossip, or actual blow-jobs to get you people to vote for me? I wanna be the best damn poof in the whole darn world…

Song for a melancholy moment at home: “One day I’ll fly away – leave all this to yesterday. Why live life from dream to dream and dread the day when dreaming ends? One day I’ll fly away, fly fly away.”

And the charge went out across the land – “One of our own is being oppressed” – and her people woke from their beds and took to the streets all wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the legend, Free Winona Ryder.

And in fashion news… Diesel is over. Miss Sixty is last year. The future is Dorcus. Dorcus is where I get all my modern-day loungewear. And I’m not alone. Dorcus is the clothier of choice for Bond assassins and early sixties shady government types.

So you wanna see the first online screen-caps of Blogger Pro? Eh?

So my young Mr Massow has gone and done it again. Sometime he’s so cool it hurts. He’s tacked on a community aspect to his financial services site, and actually had the nerve to stick the main access point behind a great big picture of his face. And he’s got the hugest shit-eating smile that you’ve ever seen in your life. You’ve got to respect his nerve. Kudos!

From the new about page’s gallery, I present The George Bush Funeral Home.