Category: Random

I feel sick.

Yesterday was a bit overwhelming. I went for dim sum to say goodbye to Luke, met loads of geeeks in Soho Square, went shopping with Cal and a guy called Paul, returned to Luke in the pub where thousands of webloggers and Barbelites mingled, then Cal and I went to see Scooby Doo which we entirely loved, then it was back to the pub again for a few hours, before a trip for Cornish Pasties with Drunken Matt and Darren before returning to the pub again. So I’m quite tired today. I’m still digesting it all. You will never hear me speak of it again. Farewell Luke! And hello to Prol who was with us in spirit.

Another annoying top list of UK weblogging: Which UK weblogs are the most popular Internet destinations?

So it’s Buffy vs Osama Bin Laden – Round one, Ding Ding! Metaquoting from Metafilter: “Any structured intellectual approach to describing this situation ó and planning for it ó is so uncertain that a valid structure can only be developed as an exercise in complexity or “chaos” theory. I, however, would like you to think about the biological threat in more mundane terms. I am going to suggest that you think about biological warfare in terms of a TV show called “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” that you think about the world of biological weapons in terms of the “Buffy Paradigm,” and that you think about many of the problems in the proposed solutions as part of the “Buffy Syndrome.” [via prol’s linkmatic ubermind]

I found a neat little site this evening, with a few elegant little touches – become looks rather unassuming, but contains a full version of Connect 4, Pong, a rather elegant font called Feynman, and my favourite feature – the photo gallery that resizes the window to the size of each photo displayed… And the best thing is that I can’t tell you how I found the site…

I think I’m in love with the Google Link Browser. It’s particularly good fun when you’re playing with weblogs.

It occurs to me that the job at the BBC that I’ve just finished might very well have been the most satisfying working experience of my life to date.

Bloody Guardian Unlimited. Unlimited my arse. Limited. Limited in linkybloglove for yours truly. Link to every other bloody weblogger in the universe why don’t you. Don’t worry about me. It’s not that I’m a dirty link slut. Oh no. But really… PS. Congratulations to much-loved young up-and-comer Simon Minor 9th for being mentioned first!

Word of the day: Boremonger – being someone who in defiance of international treaties commits crimes against humanity of the order of resolutely producing offensively boring content designed to pulp the higher faculties of the brain.

Is there anything more stressful in New Media life than launch dates? I’ve been at the BBC three and a half months and Friday will be my last day working with Greg Dyke’s Making it Happen project. During my time with the project I have reorganised and redesigned a static version of their intranet site, developed (with Matt Biddulph) an internal, web-interfaced ideas management system for handling all the ideas about transforming the BBC that come into Making it Happen, and hopefully tomorrow the discussion and community site that I’ve developed with help from Cal, Denise and current site-editor Andrea Dashfield, will launch. Assuming of course that it’s finished. Hopefully we’ll get it all polished off before Thursday evening, so there can be one day of functional live excitement before I head off to another new job at Upmystreet.com. Not a lot in the way of rest at the moment…