100th Window
Picked up the new Massive Attack album today. Hugely disappointing on a first listen, lacks the power of Mezzanine, or any of the wonderful melodies from either of the first two albums.. what a shame.

Moan, moan, moan
Here’s me worrying about a site redesign (note worrying, not doing) and Tom is several miles ahead of me worrying about the comments interface, accessibility and the like in Three small site changes…

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An aside
In the midst of my redesign funk last night I managed to find some inspiration. I found a site which I think is quite nice, not that it’ll stop me in my quest to redesign this site but well it’s nice to notice these things.

[Update: My subtle sense of humour appears to have fooled poor old Lyle, yes I was being sarcastic… 😉 ]

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Reading habits
I’m a voyeur, I’ll happily admit it, I bet you are too. So sitting on the train on the way home tonight I glanced around the carriage, a woman reading some soppy book (pink cover, dead giveaway), another woman marking up a powerpoint about financial analysis, a few people reading Metro or the Evening Times. One man was reading a glossy magazine, high quality paper and cover, so must’ve been expensive. The article he was reading had a diagram, looked like a step-by-step kinda thing, of how to open a tin.

I’ll pause and let that sink in.

(A tin of what? tin of paint? tin of beans? tin of worms?)

Think beans. Think old fashioned tin opener. Think staring at the page for 20 minutes.

Frustratingly I didn’t manage to catch the cover so I will probably never know what it was he was so engrossed in… the fine art of tin opening? the succulent, post modern lines of a tin of beans? or the manufacturing process that hones rough material into a thing of exquisite design? Whatever it was, oh that I could take such deep pleasure from something so, seemingly, simple. A lesson to us all I think.

[removes tongue from cheek]