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How many times can you say the word ‘cool’ on a microsite without sounding lame?

A big Wednesday morning THANK YOU goes to out to Ash for getting me Steven Levy’s Hackers from my wishlist. You’re a star!

The first terrifying thing about the man bra, facial anti-baster, macho strap and the chat-up pamphlet is that they give a horrifying insight into the world of geeky teen comic fans in the late 80s. More terrifying still is that all these adverts were on the same page of the same issue. Need I say more?

Via Darren, the Link Machine, this morning I stumbled upon The Great Comic Book Ads. Which has inspired me to root around and see if I can find any cool ads of my own…

I can’t believe that Davo ponced off on holiday and left all the rest of us behind. What are we supposed to do without him?

Question: Why isn’t Chris Morris writing occasional articles for Time Out on Britain’s Best Bars?

So I’m sitting on the tube from Liverpool Street and I’m frantically looking around for a newspaper or something that someone has left behind to stop me having to read Premiere for the fiftieth time (note to editors – Elijah Wood is very cute and interesting, but he’s not hot-and-sweaty sexy, which makes pictures like this one less erotic and more, er, upsetting – like taking naked pictures of children – you know?).

Anyway – so I look around and I pick up a copy of the Wall Street Journal that someone had left behind. First feature I see? ‘Dot-Com Hubris Remains Undaunted’, which is basically an entire article about how weblogging is a way of networking and building career, concentrating on Dan Sanderson (I’d link to his site, but I can’t because for some reason it seems to be down) and tools like Blogger and Userland. You can’t go anywhere nowadays without having the American press talk about weblogs. They get it, even if their British cousins don’t. More to the point, it occurs to me that my weblogging experiences don’t seem to have got me any work. Bastards.

And now British Telecom appear to be cross with me for going away for the weekend. That’s the only way I can hope to explain the sheer level of connectivity problems that I’m just starting to have. Over the last twenty minutes I’ve been disconnected four times. That can’t be right.

Another month, and yet again more overusage charges for Barbelith. Looks like this month it’s going to be $25. Not a huge amount I suppose. That makes this month’s outlay on hosting $60. What’s that in real money? £40?

My computer keeps crashing today. I arrive home from Norfolk, sit in front of my computer turn it on – crash. I reboot, launch Outlook Express, wait a minute – crash. I reboot, launch IE and AIM, wait a minute. As yet no crash. I think it’s angry with me for deserting it for the whole weekend. I’m very sorry. Much as I might like to, I won’t do it again. Promise.