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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.

In a fit of insanity, Brain and Josh have shaved all their hair off. Oh the antics of the Big Brother house. I may expire from excitement. My favourite voiceover yesterday? “Dean and Brain are eating quiche. Elizabeth is going to the loo.”

How moody do I feel today? Moody enough to go and play with pinstruck digital voodoo again? Hmmmm. Let’s see. Yes.

Do the dumb things I gotta do: Pay in cheque, pay the council tax, send off completed form, reduce Inbox down from 300 unread e-mails to less than fifty, tidy room, produce site mock-ups for potential job. Sigh

Extremely useful for those of you that came in unbelievably late is this is aaronland‘s weblog theory and practice. Although it would be even cooler if the DHTML worked on a Mac. Sigh.

While waiting to see Shrek yesterday evening (not necessarily worth the effort – most notable for the ridiculously inappropriate soundtrack [more details on said fucked-up soundtrack]) I listened to a bit of Tricky’s new album Blowback in HMV. I used to adore Tricky, but he got more and more obscure as time passed. But this sounds amazing. Only heard a couple of songs, but it’s enough to add Blowback to my wishlist.