On being upbeat...
A more upbeat weblog than normal...
I have a scheme... So I am currently working on a cunning new project that will unite all the various strands of the barbelith collective into one handy sized micro capsule of joy. The new venture is to be called "Microlith".
This is the way it works... I construct a pocket-sized easy to update mini-Barbelith, which will include little extra barbelith-esque treats - a sample from the Xenolith weblog, a random "Invisibles" quote machine, which will pump out elegant Morrison bon-mots and a "Dice Man" decision making machine. This micro site will be viewable in a tiny window about 150 x 250 pixels in size.
Now here's the clever bit. Those of you who are interested in daily interesting content will put a little code onto your pages. When people come to your pages, a pop-up window will appear (like those really annoying ads on Tripod and Geocities). Except THIS pop-up window not only has interesting content (see above), but also works as a form of web-ring, because every site that includes the code will also be listed in the members section of the micro-site - thus improving inter-Invisibles communications on our burgeoning micro-community.
I have been scheming this scheme for ages, and I think the novel combination of interesting content, webring and advert could really catch on. I'll hopefully have it up and running by the end of the week (at which point I am hopefully undertaking a second barbelith redesign in line with my new starker aesthetic). The Dice Man should follow shortly afterwards.
I went to see The World is Not Enough yesterday, and am horrified to report that I slept through a good third of it. Probably the only interesting part (that I saw) was the scriptwriters move from evil arch-criminals to the unlikely pairing of anarchists and uber-capitalists. The stuff that I did see didn't seem particularly up to par, but because of my abbreviated viewing I don't think I can really be expected to epinion it.
I got an e-mail from Tracy Scarpino about my writing on epinions and the xenolith weblog. For some ungodly reason she is getting a kick out of hearing about my family and my love life. So I thought I'd indulge her and reveal a few more crumbs about my little brother.
He's 14 (as of a couple of weeks ago) and attends a boarding school in Northants. He's called Peter and is by far my favourite relative, being decent and intelligent. Initially I was really anti- this whole boarding school thing, but if any kid is going to get the best out of it, I think it's him (I hope that he'd tell me if he hated it - he hasn't done yet). He is a great fan of the Simpsons, loves Cricket, the new Volkswagen Beetle, and (if the history file of his browser is anything to go by) is also quite the young male fan of Jennifer Aniston as well.
As yet there is no news on whether or not he is a proto-revolutionary punk anarchist, but I guess time will tell.
More examples of astonishing web design tomorrow....
