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December 26, 2006 • 11:12 am
I was doing some last-minute Christmas shopping the other day (i.e., all of it) when I saw some of those novelty mugs that are produced by Penguin, the book publishers. These mugs have the same design as the covers of certain classic books: plain, with the title and author. You can find them by Googling [...]
December 23, 2006 • 4:13 pm
I know I keep doing these four-sentence blog posts, and I’m sorry — but here comes another one.
Doesn’t the young Bono (currently seen all over the promotion for the U2 singles collection) look a bit rat-like? I also think that his skin would be vinegary if you touched it. Anyone else with me on this [...]
December 19, 2006 • 12:09 am
Recently (i.e., over the last few years) I’ve been noticing a new form of humour. Maybe it’s always been around and is becoming more fashionable, I don’t know. I’m not really someone who likes to take creative things completely to pieces to look at them, I think it’s disrespectful somehow. Find out how they work, [...]
December 15, 2006 • 12:16 am
A few days ago I got back from a trip to London for the weekend. And I literally mean the weekend, we arrived Saturday and left Sunday. It was a whistle-stop tour. Oh my goodness, it’s impossible to avoid clichés, isn’t it? I mean, ‘whistle-stop’ — done to death.
Anyway, London was fantastic. We saw The [...]
December 11, 2006 • 1:08 pm
Microsoft’s genius was to get a computer into everyone’s home. Apple’s genius was to make everybody love their computers like they love their pets.
December 07, 2006 • 1:45 pm
Caught the tail-end of a programme called Supporting Acts as I was eating my lunch today. It focussed on 2 people working “behind the scenes” in TV. The first was a set builder, who enjoyed his job immensely, and the second was a stunt woman called Daniella Da Costa (who also enjoyed her job immensely).
The [...]
December 05, 2006 • 12:43 pm
I love it when I get emails from “john smith” or “nicola phillips”. Where are the capital letters?
Who cares for informal emails, but what if you were writing to an employer or something? It doesn’t look very good. Learn to use the shift key, it takes the least amount of effort when you’re setting up [...]
December 04, 2006 • 1:43 pm
Why is it that Thunderbird can’t make up its mind about whether or not to send email in plain text or HTML? I would have thought that practically all email clients these days have absolutely no problem in displaying an email sent in HTML format. It seems extremely silly that it still asks you what [...]