plasticbag.org

He’s a serious Mister
Shake his hand and he’ll
twist your arm
With monopoly money
we’ll be buying the funny farm

So I’ll do flips,
and get paid in chips
from a diamond as big as the Ritz –
Then I’m calling it quits. [Source]

Thank God: The bloody tube strike has been suspended (or at least postponed for a couple of weeks). [more] This means that vast tracts of potential social life have been suddenly freed up. Now, what shall I do tonight?

At work at the moment I am using some version control software called Visual SourceSafe Explorer. I’ve never used this software before, but one of the coolest things about it is that when you ‘check in’ a file you’ve been working on, you are asked to put in a comment about what it actually is that you’ve done. Endless files fiddled around with equals endless comments to be inserted. And each one makes you want to be a little more imaginative. Which brings me to this:

Version Control Haiku:

costs.html
there was a link to it here
but now it has gone

The emphasis tags
Should not be on the menu
So I removed them.

The Validator
Found the problems to be few
But I fixed them all.

The text is corrected
But nasty errors remain
in the depths of code

I changed some copy
Making one full paragraph
Into two small ones

Adjusted bullets
That aligned incorrectly
They now work ok.

Inserted comma
That is all I accomplished
This is now my life

Health Warning:“Always read the label. Do not mix with alcohol. No purchase necessary. The value of your Tom™ may fall as well as rise. May contain traces of nuts.” [Courtesy of Davo ]

Work It Harder Make It Stronger
Do It Faster Makes Us Stronger
More Then Ever Hour After
Hour Work Is Never Over

Explore-london.co.uk is a guide to London that comes complete with a list of London weblogs, which includes my good self. There is, however, some kind of weird pollution in the meme-stream as they manage to spell plasticbag.org incorrectly (along with about five other sites I’ve been to recently that specialise in the misplacement of the letter ‘L’).

The things I thought I’d miss from Time Out are, it seems, exactly the things that I do miss – Matt, Fran, Rhonda, Richard and David. I went out for lunch with most of them today at the restaurant under Habitat on Tottenham Court Road. The food was pleasant, the company even better. And they even look indulgent when I explode into expletives. What more could you ask for of friends?

President Bush announces ‘Son of Star Wars’. This is actually quite a fascinating speech rhetorically and heavily illuminates the way in which completely opposing view points can be made to seem equally reasonable. It’s a thin line to between building a world community based upon trust and diplomacy and building one based upon superior weapons technology. Let’s hope he treads it carefully.

“Our highest ideal was — and remains — individual liberty. Theirs was the construction of a vast communist empire. Their totalitarian regime held much of Europe captive behind an iron curtain.”

We are Big Brother Spy on your fellow citizens, or extend your vision across the country, the hemisphere (or indeed the world) with camvista. “A camera on every street corner, in every home, in every head.”

Apple release the new iBook, and frankly i’m a bit disappointed. It’s looks, well, pretty much like a laptop to me. And a fairly clunky one at that. Still, it’s reasonably inexpensive, and its specifications are relatively impressive…