Month: June 2002

bookmark_borderDOH!

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Not sure where you start surfing from but I’ve got a local webpage listing around 80 blogs and a myriad of other sites (news, music, sport, tech, work related etc etc). I’ll usually take a couple of days to get through the list of blogs, but it works for me. Except when I screw up…

I recently reorganised this page and somehow managed to comment out one of the links to one of my favourite sites (and I can’t rely on my memory – see below).

So it was with great suprise that when, moments ago when adding a couple of new sites, I realised I’d commented out Blogatelle. So I rush over to find she’s redecorated (so radical is the overhaul I actually double-check I’m at the correct site).

But I am and it is lovely, classy, and still bitingly sharp!

bookmark_borderPinky Thinks

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Ohh god, it seems I’m ‘quite cool’. Now I’m worried that:

a. I have a ‘rep’ to live up to
b. I’ll need to improve to be consider ‘hip’ (or do I need to get worse?)
c. my age is showing. I’m not 24 (which is the age most of my brain thinks I am until that annoying bit reminds me that I am, in fact, 28).

Still if someone thinks I’m quite cool, I’m MORE than happy to go along with it.

BTW – does listening to Eminem and The Streets make me cooler?

Memories
Mine sucks. My wife on the other hand can remember that tomorrow is Pauline Curry’s birthday. Pauline went to school with Louise, and other than a few hello’s in the pub, we’ve not really seen her since then. Louise can remember the birthdays of most people she went to school with, and most of the people I went to school with as well (different schools I should point out).

I struggle to remember what I’m doing at work tomorrow.

Anyone got a memory upgrade for Brain 1.0?

bookmark_borderPrivacy Law

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“As most of you will already have heard, the government has backed down from the RIP s22 Order that would have given access to traffic data to dozens of government departments. We thought you’d like to know that this U-turn was largely down to you. “

RIP Order: Sometimes, you win.

bookmark_borderFight Club

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First it was Carey, and this morning I heard two guys in the gym chatting about it. Has it just been re-issued or something? Have I been in a timewarp?

Overhead:
Guy 1: “Yeah watched it again, actually looks like a fun way to workout”[laughs]
Guy 2 (said seriously): “Do you think so? I don’t think they’d run a class on it here though, do you?”
Guy 1: “Nah probably not, probably be some legal reason or something that they’d use to say no”
Guy 2: “Yeah. [pause] Of course we could set something up ourselves..”
Guy 1: “Yeah we could, but we’d have to get the philosophy right.”
Guy 2 (laughing his head off): “Yeah, philosophise this!!” [punchs other guy on the arm]

[cue neanderthal chortling]

I should point out that I a member of a very nice gym, populated, on the whole, by young and middle aged professionals.

I should also point out that this conversation freaked me out a bit, and I half expected to see the two aforementioned gentlemen ‘having at it’ in the car park when I left the building.

It’s a bloody good film though..

bookmark_borderStupid Spam

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No spam is wanted, however some spam is clever, some spam is stupid:

“Here is my website, I hope you would like it.”

No link to a website, so no hope that I could like it even if I wanted too… sorry.

Hang on, why am I apologising to spam?

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