Archives for January 2000

On "Browser 2.0" (January 31, 2000) A while ago there was a book called "Browser". Now there is Browser 2.0, and it's great. I was wandering through it in Covent Garden's Waterstones the other day and was amazed by some of the quality of the sites...

The first IRL meeting of the Nexus... (January 30, 2000) ANNOUNCEMENT: The first multi-national IRL meeting of The Nexus will be taking place this coming Friday (4th February) at various locations across the globe. Check The Nexus for details of local meetings. For those of you in London - many...

Bomb was on TV... (January 28, 2000) So The Bomb was indeed on TV last night. Slightly bizarre seeing my work up on the screen. Certainly not unpleasant, but strange nonetheless. I have about a thousand links that I have been building up over the last week...

The Bomb's going to be on telly... (January 27, 2000) So an incredibly cool thing might be about to happen to me. Channel Four have a late night slot called 4 later. On this slot is a TV program called Disinfo Nation which is hosted by Richard Metzger with whom...

Introducing Mark... (January 26, 2000) The net gets younger and younger. Riot Hero is still at school (15! 15!) and is producing an above average weblog dripping with interesting little tricks and techniques. It's enough to make you feel practically octogenarian. He's never even eaten...

An interesting day... (January 25, 2000) Interesting day - I met up with a guy I knew MANY years ago at Bristol. Very interesting day indeed. This is a brief quote from the weblog at the beginning of November: "So - everyone on the Nexus hates...

In the middle of a redesign... (January 25, 2000) Hey kids - look! I am in the middle of redesigning The Nexus....

Typical Max encounter... (January 24, 2000) I'm not normally one for this kind of thing, but someone suggested I have a look - and what do you know - it looks just like BARBELITH. I have decided to have a policy in which I suggest links...

Reviewing Trompe Le Monde... (January 23, 2000) Shit. Tom wasted a morning writing a review of The Pixie's last album Trompe Le Monde....

Post-Millennial Fall-out... (January 23, 2000) I am at home today writing epinions and thinking. It's been a funny month/year/decade/century/millennium so far - in fact in many ways it has been downright unpleasant. A lot of my friends are reporting the same feeling of being lost,...

Sick of bad news... (January 20, 2000) So I got a note from my Landlord: "An old friend has been calling me over the past couple of weeks saying that he desperately needs accommodation as soon as possible. He has asked me if I have any space...

First hateful e-mail... (January 18, 2000) I got my first incredibly offensive reaction to the weblog today: "Please shoot yourself now. You should be ashamed of the shit that you put on this site. I know people that could do a much better job of it...

Understanding people is too hard... (January 17, 2000) Hey look - barbelith's non-corporate art poll was clearly such a spankingly hot idea that it has been liberally appropriated by Vitaflo's gorgeous site [HREF section]. In personal news, having decided to get over ex (Max) and thrown myself vigourously...

More epinions... (January 16, 2000) I accidentally wrote some epinions of: Moby, Play / Roswell High / Empire Strikes Back. Sorry!...

Nick and the suit.. (January 16, 2000) First of three things to talk about today is a bit of an announcement. There will be a gathering for anyone who hangs out in The Nexus on February 4th at Popstarz in London. More information as I have it,...

The horror of Saint Valentine... (January 14, 2000) How sad is this. In one month exactly it is Valentine's Day. Every year it is a strange time for me, as I always find myself either tense about the relationship (or otherwise) that I am in, or feeling bad...

Popstarz Plans... (January 13, 2000) Tomorrow night I am thinking of going to Popstarz in North London. Now all I need is to find someone pliant to take with me. SKY: Friends, ER, Roswell High, Veronica's Closet, The Simpsons. I swear - I'm in television...

Minor Traffic Spike... (January 13, 2000) I don't mean to be churlish, but how come for the last week barbelith has been getting about 150 visitors a day, and then yesterday suddenly gets over 300?! There's no evidence in the referrer log. What on earth is...

Went to see Head On... (January 12, 2000) Went to see Head On again this evening. It's a strange film - sexy but laboured (if that is possible). I was hoping to meet a friend for a drink afterwards, but the various people I had in the frame...

Classic Coates... (January 11, 2000) I have been looking over sites that I built nearly a year ago now, and I can't help thinking that they were rather better than the crap I am building at the moment. I mean The Bomb looks pretty hot,...

A classic Time Out review... (January 11, 2000) Time Out's reviewers have reached new heights of perfection. The new Pet Shop Boy's single "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You Are Drunk" is described as: "More dirty grunting fuckpig pop from the leathered-up and greased-down mule-bucket...

AOL buys Time Warner... (January 10, 2000) As far as I am concerned, the only news of the day is AOL buying Time Warner. A few months ago people were talking about how large media companies would be buying up Internet companies, but now it looks like...

Catch-up time... (January 9, 2000) Let's see - what have I been up to over the last week that I haven't told you about? I finally got off my fat arse and wrote an epinion on Dogma. I flirted (no more) with this guy called...

Top Ten Simpsons... (January 8, 2000) Under strick instructions from Jason Kottke I went and checked out Matt Groening's Top Ten Simpsons Episodes. I don't agree with a couple of them - Frank Grimes was appalling - but there are some classic moments here. "We have...

Best site on the web? My ass... (January 8, 2000) What kind of advice is this: Mystery Meat Navigation: An Introduction. People are always asking me, "What's the best site on the Web?" My response is "There is no best site because the best site is the one that as...

My first experience of a G4... (January 7, 2000) British Telecom finally did something useful with the web. I know it is a shock, but it's true! No longer will I be paying 50p a shot for directory enquiries when I can go to www.bt.com/phonenetuk. Yesterday a new G4...

What's the point? (January 5, 2000) The point of weblogs is to talk about other weblogs - actually no, that is completely not the point. Still - never mind, eh? Metajohn thinks I am nice. Drat Fink has said in response to yesterdays ravings (and I...

Internet Time (Part Two) (January 4, 2000) I am back at work, and thrilling it is too... I am really taken with the way that metajohn has incorporated the date information into his blog. I may be forced to steal valuable sexy ideas from him. INTERNET TIME...

Internet Time (Part One) (January 3, 2000) Mr Blair, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, has given his approval to the creation of GeT Greenwich Electronic Time. The site for this is incredibly boring, and I can't help feeling rather misses the point. I mean of...

Where were you at midnight? (January 2, 2000) Powazek has politely pointed out that he has written two new pieces for sf stories. I am an idiot. While we are at it, why don't you tell the fray where you were at midnight......

The future is dull... (January 2, 2000) Dull as it seems, my resolution for the upcoming year is to "do more gay things". I have decided that I know altogether too many straight people and far far too few gay people. I mean, am I not in...

On Millennium Eve and how dumb it was... (January 1, 2000) I wanted to get a new relaunched barbelith up today, but the site is so far away from being completed, that I just can't. Which is a pity. Happy new Millennium people. Use it well. Last night in a nutshell:...