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Not caring about football is a mixed blessing. England go out of the World Cup and of course it’s still disappointing because so many people you know do care about it, and you want them to be happy. So you have to try and identify with their pain anyway. Certainly you’re not allowed to smile while walking through London. You’re supposed to look miserable, or at least kind of flat. Everyone looks at you. Remind yourself – everyone else is kind of depressed. And you’re very definitely not allowed to be secretly relieved that the world won’t completely stop so that everyone can watch football every two or three days…

Via Obscure Store: Man who had bottomite sex with Llama gets three years in prison: “A weeping Brandon R. Eldred pleaded with a judge for leniency, saying he should be sentenced lightly for his crimes because he was remorseful, had found religion and had changed his ways.”

So Davo has arrived in Sparkyland and is now being looked after. Davo will be much missed. He was in London for a few days – just passing through you understand – and we all went out for a huge Chinese meal and then turned up late to a pub quiz at London’s unfashionable Retro Bar. Later in the evening back at my place, he and I and our mystery guest for the evening talk about crap and giggle at badly made soft-porn before fitfully falling asleep. Poor old Davo looked knackered. I hope Sparky looks after him, otherwise they’ll be trouble…

One month from my thirtieth birthday and finally the preparations begin…

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Stage one: The astonishingly cool UKBloggers Tube Map (which I maintain is unfinished). Stage two: The Ikea Game (which I maintain is unfeasibly cool). Stage three: Profit? We all love Cal. Particularly me. I think I love him most of all.

Exciting kind-of semantic web news of the day comes from Sifry’s Alerts [via boingboing.net], who have found a way through SOAP to add related Google articles to the end of any Movable Type weblog post. Find out more.

Update on the stand.org.uk campaign to stop firemen rifling through your phone logs… they’ve only gone and given in already!

It’s quite difficult for me to know whether or not I’m allowed to link to this page. I guess I should probably ask permission first. But I’ve sent them the actual text that I’d like to write about them. So hopefully they’ll get back to me soon and I can put up all my opinions then….

The first version of the presentation I gave yesterday is now online. Titled “Building new communities – Learning from Weblogs”, it’s about “How weblogs straddle personal and social spaces and the potential implications for developing new communities”. You can download the PowerPoint file here: Learning_from_Weblogs_final.ppt.