Archive for January 2002

Goddamn! Finally got round to finishing another episode of Troy: the Comic tonight, and Mr Troy and Mr Cortina have given it the official thumbs-up. Huzzah!
On an unrelated note, the theme of loony Americans continues…

Not much to say as I’ve had enough of computers for one day. Particularly Microsoft products. And transferring international bloody domain names. I can’t even be bothered to comment of Liverpool’s exit from the FA Cup yesterday. But my nomination for ‘Amusing TV Programme Listing of the Day’ goes to The Guardian’s Guide:
Channel 5, 9pmFILM [...]

Simon phoned me earlier to say that actor James Nesbitt (of TV’s Cold Feet fame, not to mention last Sunday night’s excellent and disturbing factual drama Bloody Sunday) had just been interviewed on telly, and he’d mentioned the Blue Mountain Cafe and Blue Brick Cafe, both round the corner from me. Apparently he lives in [...]

It’s been far too long since I’ve featured a ’stooopid rightwing US Christians’ story, but here’s one that caught my eye — $14 million Kentucky center will present creationism as science. From the LA Times article:
The Creation Museum & Family Discovery Center will offer all the classic science museum exhibits, but with a twist. Each [...]

Manchester United 0, Liverpool 1. Could this be the turnaround in Liverpool’s title-chasing fortunes after a rather dismal streak? Probably not, but it certainly feels great to have had the fifth consecutive victory over Utd.
Wonders never cease… not only did Liverpool win, but according to the Guardian, Amazon has made its first profit since being [...]

Matthias Gutfeldt’s put together a rather useful page on Doctype Switching, complete with tables outlining which browsers/doctypes trigger quirky or strict interpretation of the (X)HTML. Er, in English :)

Courtesy of Technoerotica is a nice little page with links that take you directly to the “opt out” feature of some of the major advert servers. Clicking the links should stop the advertising from those adservers, which is nice.
A sort of related link is the one to doxdesk.com, who have a cool little javascript which [...]

Just catching up on the mailing list backlog I’ve built up this week, and read something interesting about BlueYonder, the ISP that UK cable company Telewest’s customers use. Allegedly, BlueYonder has been so slack at cracking down on spammers using their service that now it has had a blanket block put on their IP number, [...]

Seems I left more things at Si’s after Christmas than I actually brought back. To date, the list of forgotten items includes:

a bath towel
a t-shirt
bottle of shampoo
my watch
my house keys
some ‘talcum powder’
a briefcase containing £10,000 in unmarked notes

(One of the above items is a lie, but I’m hoping Si won’t notice, and will feel obliged [...]

Oh dear, as Rob has just pointed out, I was a bit bladdered when I wrote that last post… sorry m8 :) Perhaps a new category is in order — pissed ramblings!
The reason I haven’t updated this page all week is that, just when I thought I’d knocked my cold on the head, it returned [...]

Of all the places I’ve lived in my 30 years on this planet, this current spot is definitely the best for kebabs. I’ve just spent a night enjoying my first alcohol of this year, and decided a large Donner was in order. Marvelous stuff. Just wonderful value for money. Mmmmmm… And HELLO ROB YOU BIG [...]

So far I’ve only really skimmed through the Design for Community book I received for Christmas, but from the bits I’ve read I think it’ll be an interesting read. When I first unwrapped it, I thought the style of the illustrations on the cover were familiar, and it turns out they were done by Claire [...]

Hey, nearly half-time, and it’s Cardiff City 1 Leeds Utd 1, and Leeds have just had Alan Smith sent off! Ha ha!
Update: Hard to believe, but Cardiff, floating mid 2nd Division, ended up beating the Premiership leaders 2-1! Fantastic.