You’ve no doubt seen the bloody irritating ‘pop-under’ ads for this webcam. According to an article at the BBC the adverts were so intrusive and annoying that they had to set up a page to deal with queries about them. The most interesting part of the page? If you click here you won’t see those bloody adverts for another thirty days.
Saturday night in a nutshell: Funny days Saturdays. The last year’s been kind of difficult, so it was a delight to rediscover that I’m able to go outside and have an angst-free evening with people I really like. I went into town to buy a birthday present for a friend – wandered around the shops and met up with Davo before wandering down to meet Dan at the Retro Bar for the Big Gay Blogmeet (2). Many poofs were in attendence – I won’t go into too much detail about who could and couldn’t come. Everyone seemed nice and fun and up for a good time. Dan was a particular delight – a lovely, charming gentleman full of interesting conversation. If you can only choose one gay weblogger for your Christmas hamper, I would thoroughly recommend him.
Since I left that meet at around nine, I found myself very late for my cross-town birthday party. And I have to be honest – I was kind of dreading it. I’m not always the most sociable of people, and over the last few months I’ve got very used to, and comfortable with, my own company. But the whole party was a delight. Two of my old flatmates were there – neither of whom I was expecting to see. Plus Kate from my current flat. The Kitsch Bitch herself made an appearance. And Josh and Leon – two old school-friends of my host – were also present.
At this point I should probably mention that I’m extraordinarily washed out and am writing badly. If you want glamour and sex, you should probably go read NotSoSoft.
Anyway – as evenings go this one would be hard to top – there were balloons to blow up and assemble, large amounts of wine and vodka, occasionally more potent substances, really nice company and a lot of opportunities to catch up with some of my nearest and dearest. Thank god for friends. Here’s to you, Nick!
An interesting article that told me things I already knew only in a sexier way.
Omigod. I’m Britney.
Today’s anthem:
Gonna make my move, gonna make it stay!
Gonna make it last, never mind the past,
Living for today!
Gonna take my chance, gonna rock and dance!
Gonna hit the ground with a brand new sound,
Looking for romance…
Hey, hey – you know what you want me to say
Right, right, fight, fight,
We can start a glorious day!
Glorious children on my mind, glorious wastings of my time,
Glorious plans we make up, forcing things in line…
Gonna rock it out!
Gonna scream and shout!
Gonna do it right!
Standing in the light!
Perchin’ on the clouds!
When the BBC rebranded themselves as BBCi, they also relaunched their search facility on bbc.co.uk. They made it look something like this:
At the time I wasn’t very impressed by this arrangement and made myself fairly unpopular by mocking up a couple of cheap and easy alternatives:
That’s all…
Via Interconnected.org: Hofstadter’s Law: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
So Jason yet again tries to show the rest of us up by producing a totally practical, well-fashioned and elegant new design for Romenesko’s Obscure Store and Reading Room. It’s not revolutionary, but it’s beautifully simple. He’s truly dispicable and he must be stopped.
I’ve been ploughing through some of Mark’s old weblog stuff hidden away on The Wayback Machine. I miss gems like this:
“Top 10 Ways to Write Good
10. Avoid alliteration. Always.
9. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
8. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
7. Don’t use commas, that aren’t necessary.
6. And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction.
5. Don’t abbrev.
4. Its important to use apostrophe’s right.
3. Who needs rhetorical questions?
2. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
1. Stamp out, abolish, eliminate and avoid unnecessary redundancy.”
“William Shakespeare’s middle name was Colin! Ok, that’s a lie. But that’s the point! What a great idea… Lie of the Day! Every day, a new lie!”
I’m fascinated by the way that the Guardian Online’s editorial team’s weblog only writes about Apple products. Speaking of which, I’ve just seen my first iPod in the flesh, and while it wasn’t quite what I was expecting, it may actually be better. It’s smaller than I thought it would be, more fun, slightly weirder looking though. Lust is mine.