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The website for people who went to my school is an absolute piece of crap. More importantly it just doesn’t work on a Mac… I give you: Old Norvicensians’ Club.

Last night’s tremendous thunderstorm really feels like it has cleaned out the air. Everything this morning is much fresher and more pleasant. I would, however, like some sun back if at all possible. This doesn’t stop me, however, feeling exhausted by the amount of stuff that I have had to get through this week. I’ve had interviews, meetings, mock-ups to build, reviews to write, and I still have two substantial things that must be done before I go up to Norfolk this afternoon to help my family buy my brother a computer.

Disappointed much? “Channel 4 has pulled a one-off special of its highly controversial Brass Eye series which is believed to have centred on the media’s treatment of paedophiles.”

It is, as they say, enough to make you spit: BBC News.

I have just read with great interest Matt’s take on Jason‘s thoughts on ‘weblog as slice’. There are many things I feel I could contribute to the discussion, but perhaps the most important is that however ‘poncy’ the winebar was, it was young Matthew’s choice. Slap!

Preview pages from a Grant Morrison New X-men Annual? Grant Morrison is doing annuals? That’s something I wasn’t expecting… [via the linkmachine]

I may just have had the worst interview of my life over at the BBC. First came a whole range of tests – the vast majority of which seemed unbelievably simple. Then there was the interview proper where I somehow managed to talk absolute and total bollocks for thirty minutes, with the people concerned noting down each and every stupid thing I said. I find myself mildly depressed by my clumsiness.

Very nice, if strange, evening with Jason and friends taught me two things tonight – 1) there is such a thing as talking too much and 2) you will panic if you nearly miss deadlines for online job applications.

Let’s see. Tom strop of the day two. After IamCal pointed it out it suddenly occurred to me that there is something slightly strange about a panel on online journalism and weblogging in the UK not actually having any uk webloggers on it. That’s a bit dodgy, surely? And I’m not going to mention that someone – you know – who’s actually trained as a journalist might actually be quite good at talking about it too. Oh no. That would just sound churlish. Grrrrr.

Slightly depressing news from Apple – although it probably wasn’t the most successful concept ever, I am disappointed that the Cube, the world’s ‘coolest computer’ has been put on ice.