Category: Random

I think my superpowers are my friends, who are lovely and wonderful and make me able to do all kinds of cool things that I couldn’t do by myself.

Awesome thanks to Denise for baking me this tiny pixel cake!

I’m rather overwhelmed by what’s been happening over the weekend, so I’ll just start by saying how happy I am, what wonderful friends I have and link to Meg’s account of Saturday night.

Omigod, I’ve just turned thirty.

Do you think the weblogging competition is kind of tacky? Have you said so on your site? mail me and I’ll link to the post!

• Life as it happens
• Metafilter
• NotSoSoft.com
• Mo Morgan
• kevan.org
• troubled-diva
• iamcal.com
• Copydesk.co.uk
• Grayblog
• TajMahal

The news of the day is that the Guardian are running a Best British Weblogger award, which I’m going to link to with the words ‘a bloody stupid idea‘ because then maybe that’ll get onto the front page of Blogdex.

Things to consider:
Would a weblog called ‘Everything the Guardian gets wrong’ be likely to win? Or how about one that wasn’t really a weblog at all, like b3ta? How about one that was completely made up – utter, complete lies? And what would happen if webloggia simply refused to take part (which is my secret hope)? There don’t seem to be any criteria for these things… More likely in time, each and every bloody site would turn into fellatetheguardian.com. And for the purposes of those of you who came in late What if you held a really big weblogging competition and nobody came?

Bigs news of the day has to be Steve Job’s Keynote speech. A world of monkish zealots turns New York-wards for two hours of self-congratulation and wonder. The chips they put in our heads are working better each year. Soon Steve will be able to talk to all of us through naught but mental telepathy.

There’s a hell of a lot to talk about in what he came up with today – some of which I’ll be talking about as the evening progresses. But to give you a flavour of my thoughts on the day – and to give you a laugh – the first thing I’ll do is put up a transcript of a keynote-paralleled AIM conversation held in real time over the two hours of the speech between four people with significant interest in our lords and saviours, Apple. More entertaining perhaps than strictly useful… [watch this space]

Idle thought of the afternoon – What if you held a really big weblogging competition and nobody came?

You know what’s interesting? That a few years ago everyone was emulating Amazon and Yahoo! when they thought about designing e-commerce and information directory-based sites – but nowadays everything looks so much better when it looks like Google.

For all those interested – this is what the weather’s like in Norfolk for the next five days.