Year: 2003
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She blogs. She blogs…
…(paraphrasing Ricky Martin). Juliet, who is my wife (and – some of you will remember – the author of the near-legendary proto-blog ‘bird’ back in about 1996), is blogging –…
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A work of art…
…if you ask me. Michel Gondry’s video for The White Stripes’ The Hardest Button to Button (helpfully ripped from TV by Ryan Cerbus because all the official versions seem to…
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Paul drew me, which is a good thing
Enigmatic Paul Murphy has drawn my portrait from a photograph he found on the Internet. I think there’s a reasonable chance that this isn’t a drawing at all but just…
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I dreamt this
If you dial 1471 from a BT phone you can find out the last number that called you (you can get the last five numbers now, in fact). If you…
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Should I buy a Tivo?
Never shy of jumping on a bandwagon nearly a year after it closes its UK operation, I’ve been bidding on Tivo PVRs (‘Personal Video Recorders’) at eBay. Do you think…
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places and camphone privacy
Camphone hysteria is building. Gadgets with built-in cameras are being banned all over the place. Looks like we’ll see an arbitrary patchwork of camphone rules emerge ??some will ban them,…
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How strange are the Electric Light Orchestra?
Juliet asked me to download some of their stuff so that she could be fifteen again for a while so I did and now I’m speechless at how we let…
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Looking for Laurent
Laurent Byford (or is it Bayford?) used to work at a web design firm called Designercity (now defunct). I need to contact him urgently on some another.com business. Do you…