Today on Barbelith: The murderers of Jamie Bulger – “To take a life in cold blood is appalling in and of itself, but to take that of a child seems to go beyond that. And this time the crime goes still deeper. The child was killed by children.”
Bookmark dump: Being an unedited list of everything in my bookmark file, providing biographical insight and good linkage. Today: Toolbar Favourites: plasticbag.org,
WebMonkey Search Engine Secrets,
FilmFourExtra,
ThisIsLondon.com Jobs,
Chinwag Recruitment Consultancies,
SamSpade.org,
Scott London,
Tom on HotOrNot,
AOL.co.uk jobs,
Seethru Webzine,
Whois capitallive.com,
BBC jobs,
Barbelith Intranet,
Life Pic of the Day,
Fan Faves,
Lottery Central,
UBB support,
Q4music.com,
Project Gutenberg,
Jobserve,
TheCounter.com,
FilePile.org,
Jobs Unlimited.
We live in strange days. And they get stranger all the time. That feeling you get when you don’t know what’s happening – that sensation you get when you’re uncomfortable in a strange situation and you don’t know why – the pricking on your back – the spreading explosions of light behind your eyes as brain-elements fire and misfire – those spasms of discomfort – these things are natural to us now. They’re with us all the time, for better or worse.
Today on Barbelith: Echelon (I): History and Politics – “The first part of our Echelon series takes a look at the background of the top secret surveillance project that has the European Union in uproar.”
I am contemplating running a parallel campaign to the barbelith one. I’m wondering if I can persuade the world to contribute dollar by dollar towards getting me a G4 Ti Powerbook. I’m dribbling at the propect, but it occurs to me that I could be here waiting for it for quite some time…
Because of the sheer weight of running barbelith.com, I have decided to start to take donations from people for its upkeep and maintenance. 300,000 page impressions a month, CGI heavy-bulletin boards and up to 700Mb of bandwidth a day wasn’t quite what I had in mind when I started the site, but never mind – everyone seems to enjoy it.
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Can you guys find some pretext to link to http://simon.fneh.net ASAP? I linked to him and he bet me that he’d get less hits today than yesterday just in order to spite me. So now it’s a matter of honour that I find some way of at least doubling his traffic. All ideas gratefully received
So Simon’s redesigned minor 9th but wouldn’t beg me to link to him. So I have linked to him anyway, just to prove that having nerve is sometimes worth rewarding. As long as you all remember that you are all my bitches, that is. You’ve got that, right?
Mark’s new haircut makes him look like a Beatle. And he’s started posing more. Which is, you know, fun.
I remember saying to myself in March that if I hadn’t found a permanent job I wanted by my birthday, then I would seriously consider either mass slaughter or suicide. I’m no longer comfortable with the stresses and insecurities of freelance work. Well, one month from today, I turn 29, and while the industry does appear to be picking up slightly, I’m increasingly concerned that I’m not going to be in my dream job by that magical date. I’ve done some stuff during the last couple of months that I’ve always wanted to do, and I’ve done some stuff that I never want to do again. And while I’ve done a lot of good work (I think barbelith is coming together very well) I just don’t ever really feel able to relax and I’m always thinking about where the next work is going to come from. Tonight, I really do feel so very very tired.