Interestingly, as far as I can tell, the article which revealed some of Ev’s plans for Premium Blogger (which was supposed to appear in the Guardian’s “Online” supplement) appears to have not been published after all. I wonder why.
You loved Billy Exorcist (1Mb), and you’ve watched me spin around on a mountain top, Sound of Music style (if you haven’t, the button’s over on the right). Now it’s time for more flash spoofs and movies from Sean Nadeau over at unfilteredfilms.com.
Aw. According to the Onion, the new iMac wuvs me.
I’m working to deadlines. Which is fun. As I’m sure you know. And as a result, I have a deal with myself not to do any work on the plasticbag.org redesign until after eight o’clock at night. Which is a shame, since the process of redesigning is – for the first time – an absolutely epic endeavour. I’ve taught myself the intricacies of some pretty hardcore CSS, I’ve collaborated with like a professional designer, I’ve talked with people who have custom build me odds and ends of javascript, I’ve been teaching myself how to use movable type. I’ve done huge amounts and the site still only seems to be about half finished. Will this madness never end?
So now Ivan Massow, an old friend of plasticbag.org has gone and done something else controversial. Presumably bored after converting from the Conservatives to Labour, unsatisfied by the controversy concerning the appointment of a financial advisor as Chairman of the ICA, tired of starting and stopping businesses – some successful, some not, bored of being interviewed by Attitude magazine, exhausted by the maintenance of the stream running through his kitchen (apparently) and (more to the point) frustrated by the lack of publicity arising from his resolute refusal to pay for any of the drinks on the few times I’ve met him out in London (even when I was unemployed), he’s now decided to slam conceptual artists. He’s a funny chap. Cute though.
An e-mail exchange with my darling little brother (16 years old), who is currently located at a boarding school near Peterborough:
Peter: “I am bored and have to do lessons and stuff because I am at Evil Make do work place. I also am bored because I have to have a Retest this afternoon because teachers are mean people who enjoy annoying people…….”
Tom: “I had to go to the Dentist this morning, and they’re going to take out one of my wisdom teeth and replace three fillings and put in three new ones. So consider yourself lucky. Am very scared.”
Peter: “HAHAHAHAHAHA that made looking after old people sound fun.”
Greetings from Framley… What ho! It was last Sunday that I went exploring in my little motor car – I call her Gertie after Great Grandma Jemima’s dog! Was travelling through the dang countryside with the top down and a nice pipe firmly wedged in my winsome cake-hole when I ended up at the strangest little town you can imagine… Blasted place looked perfectly normal, but on my arrival I gathered from a friendly barkeep that there had been a facist coup in the nearby village of Whoft! Leaving the public house, I saw my old friend Andy Garcia – apparently getting married to one of the local gels. But shortly before I got close enough to talk to him, he was swept away by the overflow from the nearby fluff floods in St Eyot’s. Recognising a clearly disturbed native population, I swiftly slid myself back into Gertie and whirred off into the sunset. I won’t be going back to Framley…
Apple do, on occasion, evidence a sense of humour. The fact that they have an entire page on their site (apple.com/myths) about how they’re really good actually and Windows isn’t really is probably not the best example of it. But they do have one. Honest.
My thoughts on the Google effect have been picked up by Dan Gilmour’s weblog on SiliconValley.com.