Miscellany 2003

It Was A Good Read

December 29, 2003

While I will miss the disappearances, they are – of course, just blips in the workings of the web. What I find sad is that, in time, it is likely that all this content will disappear from servers as the owners stop paying for the space that houses the sites. It would be like burning every copy of a book you had read – vanished. It’s part of a shared history that disappears.

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Happy Thanksgiving

November 27, 2003

In some parts of the world, today is a holiday.

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Movable Type Pro, Soon?

November 20, 2003

Luckily, I don’t get any spam on the pages that I have allowed comments on this site.

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Halloween

October 31, 2003

Trick or Treat?

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Effect Xmas

October 27, 2003

I never knew I didn’t know this.

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Phones and PDAs

October 26, 2003

I have spent the last few days trying to decide if I should update my ‘phone with Orange and today I have decided against.

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Disappointing Frustrating

August 15, 2003

Why is it that it’s always the small stuff in life that is the most infuriating?

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Silly Pop Stars

August 13, 2003

Blue’s Lee Ryan has been charged with drink-driving. I should file this under silly popstars, shouldn’t I?

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Another Russian Birthday

July 27, 2003

Another year has passed and it’s my Dad’s birthday again. Last year he was somewhere in Russia – actually he’s in Astana which I know isn’t Russia – and I was asking if anybody knew Happy Birthday in Russian.

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Pride 2003

July 26, 2003

For the first time in many, many year, the Pride festival took place in Hyde Park and I was there.

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Elsewhere: Blitzed! The Autobiography of Steve Strange

April 5, 2003

In some respects it’s a fascinating tale of fame and hedonism. If, however, you’ve read biographies of other Eighties pop stars then you’ve heard a lot of it before. The story seems to have been repeated: humble beginnings drive creativity which lead to fame and then there is a some-kind of fa

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Piccadilly Circus, March 2003

March 28, 2003

I acquired a new mobile ‘phone earlier in the week and it has a tiny camera in it which I used to take a picture of Piccadilly Circus at night

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Small Screens Look Good

March 26, 2003

You know, I am really impressed by the new version of Opera (which has always been a browser I have used).

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To Be A Politician

March 18, 2003

On Iraq, I believe that the prevailing mood of the British people is sound. They do not doubt that Saddam is a brutal dictator, but they are not persuaded that he is a clear and present danger to Britain.

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Dreams of the Downsized

March 10, 2003

Today I understood how the internet was built up and how it failed to deliver on those dreams for many people. What was sad were the changes that have happened to the online group over the last year. Gone are the product managers, most developers and many of the other staff. They are now much, much smaller than they were.

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