October 29, 2005 • 2:47 am
Today in Boots I happened to notice vitamin C supplements for kids that were in the shape of gummy bears. I wondered to myself about the various pros and cons of marketing vitamin supplements as sweets for kids, and I asked myself, “Which health scare will win?”
Will it be A) That too much vitamin C [...]
October 28, 2005 • 6:10 pm
Today was a very good day! I went into my temping agency to hand in my work record, and they told me that the promotion agency I had been working for (selling newspapers in the supermarket) had put me in the top 4 of all sellers during the promotion, and that I was in the [...]
October 24, 2005 • 6:53 pm
Magazines these days Part II
Today, on the cover of one of my sister’s magazines I saw the headline “My boob exploded on the beach”. Glancing over the article quickly I saw the heading “Oozing pus” and decided not to read any more.
Delicious conjoined twins
Me and my mum picked up a bag of jelly babies today, [...]
October 22, 2005 • 7:08 pm
Working, as I did, in the newspaper section of the supermarket today, I had a lot of time to look gormlessly at the various magazines. In amongst the usual “celeb diet secrets” (because of course if these secrets were ever known by the general public the entire celebrity industry would crumble) and promises to change [...]
October 21, 2005 • 6:31 pm
I have learned one important thing about selling newspapers. It’s terrible. Sales is a funny thing, you have more mood swings in the space of 8 hours than you ever did in your whole teenage existence. Not that getting customers to accept your paper doesn’t give you a high-octane rush (more a feeling of complete [...]
October 21, 2005 • 12:45 pm
I have a friend called Steven Jensen, and you should all go and visit his site. Especially the animations bit. Go to www.stevenjensen.co.uk, click on “Portfolio”, then “Animation” and enjoy. He has an extremely wonderful sense of humour, and I’m currently trying to get him to share some of his excellent cartoon drawings, which I [...]
October 20, 2005 • 11:53 pm
Curious about the new design? Check out my latest progress: a screenshot follows.
This will be applied across all pages when it’s finished.
October 20, 2005 • 10:43 pm
How, exactly, to distinguish between these two excellent French cheeses has always eluded me. They are, in fact, very similar but there are important differences. In this very important and completely not pointless post, I’m going to give you the facts!
Brie is made with more butterfat, making it oozier and creamier.
Camembert is made with Penicillium [...]
October 18, 2005 • 8:29 pm
Well, today I turned on the TV to catch the credits of today’s Neighbours episode. What should greet me but about a million past members of the cast! It certainly was a blast from the past. (May I just point out how utterly boring this post is). Anyway, caught the actual episode in the afternoon [...]
October 17, 2005 • 10:33 pm
chrispederick.com/photos/2005/13/7/#photo
This is so cool!
Chris Pederick is the maker of the Web Developer toolbar for Firefox, which is invaluable if you make websites.