Archives for April 2000
Being on-message... (April 29, 2000) I don't want to get too off message at the moment, so I am going to keep my personal commentary log pretty brief over the weekend. Regular viewers will find normal service resumes on Tuesday after the Bank Holiday, after...
Grant mentions Barbelith... (April 28, 2000) "If you missed the Secret of the Universe the first time around, do what Gideon says on page 8 or go to www.barbelith.com where all those cool eggheads and stoner motherfuckers will do their best to "explain" it to you....
Oh Messy Life explains The Invisibles... (April 28, 2000) And if you haven't got the slightest clue what I am talking about, or what the attraction of the Invisibles is, and how I am going to feel about the fact that it has now ended then go and talk...
The board is mentioned in the Invisibles... (April 27, 2000) Very frustrating. People tell me the Nexus is mentioned in The Invisibles this month, but it's a day late arriving in the shops. In the meantime, some people have been asking how they can get their hands on Fortune Hotel,...
We climb the mountain because it is there... (April 27, 2000) Mark at Riothero doesn't half make life difficult for himself. I mean what possible reason could he have for dedicating his weblog for the last couple of days purely to the examination of the value and function of women? Whatever...
Exhausted but Euphoric... (April 27, 2000) I'm exhausted but euphoric as things finally seem to be coming together. I'm moving in to my new flat on Saturday, finally catching up on work, and I got some sleep (my first for ages). And it's sunny! But still,...
What now? (April 26, 2000) You build a website for a comic book, and then get the logo of the website in the comic book and then get the website mentioned in the comic book and then the comic book ends and you think -...
Web Queeries (which I write (April 25, 2000) Web Queeries (which I write for occasionally) has been named blog of the week over at Blogger. It's a particularly worthy one because it actually offers a useful journalistic service with an entertainingly personal spin....
Grant, Gid, Sam and Sleep... (April 24, 2000) Yesterday In A Nutshell: Leave voice-mail with Grant Morrison (author of Invisibles, Doom Patrol, Lovely Biscuits, Animal Man, JLA, Arkham Asylum, Zenith, er ... Zoids) confirming location of the Nexus meeting in central London for 6pm at Point 101. Get...
Well designed weblogs are a (April 23, 2000) Well designed weblogs are a particular fetish of mine. And riothero has gone and found me another one. Mark describes it as a mix of powazek and barbelith, which is rather decent of him. Introducing: sja......
I have about fifty minutes (April 23, 2000) I have about fifty minutes before I have to head into Norwich to get on a train back to London. Tonight is pretty hectic - it's not easy to prepare for a meeting with a hero who you really want...
Six months of weblogging... (April 23, 2000) The 1st of May (next Sunday) will be my six month anniversary of weblogging, and I find myself confronting the same questions and situations now as I did when I began. My first entry came together at the beginning of...
Today is one of those (April 22, 2000) Today is one of those weird days where you blog after midnight (ouch - how Gremlins is that?) and you don't feel like it is really Saturday at all because you haven't slept yet, but it is, and you know...
I'm a bit perturbed by (April 22, 2000) I'm a bit perturbed by riothero. I mean his "Top 10 Things That Would Be Different If The 12 Apostles Had Been Gay" is clearly well meaning and occasionally very funny ("The water at the Wedding Feast of Cana would...
Ah... Those scamps on the (April 22, 2000) Ah... Those scamps on the Nexus - look what they've come up with now! A way to pity barbelith......
How many times do I (April 20, 2000) How many times do I have to tell you? The Web is all about ME. Seriously, though, about a year ago I got really pissed off because a friend of mine said out of the blue: "You do realise I...
No good idea goes unexploited, (April 20, 2000) No good idea goes unexploited, they say, but there are worse people to do it than the Guardian, who have just launched their own weblog. Quite how much it has in common with the kind of things that I do...
It's been a difficult day (April 19, 2000) It's been a difficult day - exhausting, stressful, and for a little while more at least, I don't have my own home, or my own bed, to look forward to. So that must explain why it is 9pm and I...
"Hi, my name's Tom. I'm (April 19, 2000) "Hi, my name's Tom. I'm ringing ... this is quite hard for me ... ok ... right ... I'm ringing because ... I have a sad ... ridiculous ... teenage crush on ... Wes Bentley. Can you help? ... um...
On writing about one's partners... (April 18, 2000) So I am sitting in my new office, everyone else has gone home and I have a few things to get done before I can go drinking with Nick and friends. I've got the Sex Pistols playing on the G4...
The Web is All About (April 18, 2000) The Web is All About Me - or so you might think from looking around this morning. But before I even get around to that, I have to make it clear that riothero has just stepped his design up one...
I'm one of rumpus.net's Cute (April 18, 2000) I'm one of rumpus.net's Cute Boys on the Web!...
Touched by the hand of (April 18, 2000) Touched by the hand of camworld: "Someone has been submitting barbelith.com through my submission form every couple of weeks for the past few months. And every time I visited, the site just didn't grab me. I don't know if the...
On work equipment... (April 18, 2000) What does it say about ones proto-revolutionary zeal when one is excited about finally having a direct phone line at work. I've moved offices and now have a sexy (possible) G4 with DVD player and Mac OS9 as well. If...
Frustrating Flirtation... (April 17, 2000) I've been having frustratingly brief flirt-mail all day from Sam in Cambridge. He's busy building models out of whatever it is architects build models out of, and his hands (apparently) are covered in cigarette burns, superglue, sawdust, pen marks and...
Calling all Londoners - Your City Needs You... (April 17, 2000) "Calling all Londoners - Your City Needs You." Or at least that is the message that is being broadcast 24 hours a day as the contest for the new position of Mayor heats up. There is a substantial site for...
Barbelith mentioned in Powazek interview... (April 17, 2000) It just goes to show, flattery will get you everywhere! I don't think you can even guess how thrilled I was that Barbelith was mentioned in Powazek's Latest Interview. It's an interesting article quite apart from the reference to me...
On the male competitive arena... (April 16, 2000) So I went out for lunch today with a group of friends and their friends and was disturbed to find myself feeling defensive and edgy which dragged me back about ten years to gawky teenage years of perpetual embarrassment. I've...
Some bastard bought reptilebrain.co.uk... (April 16, 2000) Cause for horror today. Someone went and bought reptilebrain.co.uk [who is] which fills me with absolute horror since I had just resolved myself to the fact that I could buy it even though it wasn't a .com (I am afraid...
Touching sentiments indeed from The (April 16, 2000) Touching sentiments indeed from The Rumpus Room: "On a totally unrelated note, has anyone ever seen any other pictures of the Barbelith guy? That one blurry little picture on his site suggests to me that he's quite the cutie-pie, and...
Hmmm. Popular opinion seems to (April 16, 2000) Hmmm. Popular opinion seems to be that I do indeed have a boner for Zeldman. In his honour therefore, I am planning to spend all my available time worshipping at the altar of the mangod: The Jeffrey Zeldman Fanclub. Thanks...
Tactless Advert of the Day (April 15, 2000) Tactless Advert of the Day From Zeldman comes the astonishing Hoboken BrewHaus advert. Hmmm - spot-quiz: "Does Tom Have A Boner for Zeldman?". I don't think I do, but I've been talking about him a lot recently....
Insightful Thing of the Day (April 15, 2000) Insightful Thing of the Day I stumbled upon the current Good News/Bad News special feature at k10k today, and frankly, it was great. All the pent up frustration that we all sometimes feel about the net along with all the...
Gripe of the Day Today's (April 15, 2000) Gripe of the Day Today's gripe comes to you courtesy of i2design.net. My problem with this otherwise beautiful site is in the irritating lack of cross-browser compatible CSS. I'm using Netscape on a PC at the moment and the text...
Best News in Ages So (April 15, 2000) Best News in Ages So I probably have a flat! About bloody time as well. Let's see - left old flat at the end of February, spent the first two weeks of March wandering around Norfolk and LA, and then...
Microsoft make me laugh... (April 14, 2000) Does anyone else find this funny? Microsoft gleefully cite Zeldman about IE5 for Macs: "In this candid review of Internet Explorer 5, Web Standards Project leader Jeffrey Zeldman gives us the low down on why it will help the Web...
I got an e-mail from (April 14, 2000) I got an e-mail from Kerry today. I don't think he'd mind if I quoted him on this: "Popped into www.venicebeachcam.com and saw that it had pix of what we SHOULD'VE seen (had it been a better day). It's gorgeous...
Ooooh. More Bubbles. (April 14, 2000) Ooooh. More Bubbles....
Ooooh. Bubbles. (April 13, 2000) Ooooh. Bubbles....
Interesting how this might seem (April 12, 2000) Interesting how this might seem to be a confession - I smoke. Observations on Smoking and Being a Smoker: I have smoked on and off for nearly seven years now. I smoke the evil Marlboro Lights, because everyone knows that...
Is it just me, or (April 11, 2000) Is it just me, or does Blogger work really strangely on IE5 for Macs?...
I'm in a much cheerier (April 11, 2000) I'm in a much cheerier mood today, but I still can't really focus properly - everything I try to write spirals out of control. So (as you can probably see) I am restricting myself to short snippets of interest (ooooh...
I got a charming e-mail (April 11, 2000) I got a charming e-mail today (thank you Txiki). It directed me towards glassdog.com and the Lifechange Cardwrack. Very cool indeed. I'm familiar with glassdog of old, but this new aspect... Very cool indeed....
Yet another Tiny Tom Time (April 11, 2000) Yet another Tiny Tom Time Out Microproject. All you Londoners, win tickets to MTV's Five Night Stand....
I keep being reassured, but (April 11, 2000) I keep being reassured, but this still alarms me: "If you become too indispensable to a specific project, then that is likely to be your project forever. If you get bored with that project, too bad. If you want to...
Today I feel jittery, unable (April 10, 2000) Today I feel jittery, unable to concentrate, prone to extraordinary mood-swings, exhausted, claustrophobic and wired. I have no idea why I should feel so awful, although I am currently researching Sleep Deprivation. If you do a search on Yahoo! for...
Slackness in the weblogging front... (April 9, 2000) So I have been a bit lax on the old weblogging over the last couple of days, which frankly is unforgivable. But all that is about to end. I stumbled upon the Guerilla Banner Project today, and I haven't been...
Never been so exhausted in (April 9, 2000) Never been so exhausted in my life. May have found a house in Arsenal of all places. Completely gorgeous little place - only problem is that one of our number has to sleep in a half completed loft conversion....
Ever more Hard Includes.... (April 7, 2000) Ever more Hard Includes. Will the madness never end?...
If I told you that (April 6, 2000) If I told you that I had spent today with my co-worker starting the process of changing 16,000 separate web pages to work with new banner and button ad coding (requiring around 165 separate hard includes), would any of you...
Angling for links? (April 5, 2000) If this isn't unabashed.com angling for links, I don't know what is: "i'm not sure i'll ever get many people visiting my site... i'm not into that whole 'blog everybody else' mentality. i don't want to post that someone else...
I was a late-comer to (April 5, 2000) I was a late-comer to haughey.com, but I really enjoyed it when I found it. But with its recent redesign has shifted it into another gear. Very much to be recommended. And I had a lovely evening last night with...
Barbelith goes metalogic... (April 4, 2000) .Barbelith goes metalogic: Who links to me? I hadn't even noticed that you could search blogger until today. The best thing is that you can see when other webloggers linked to your own site. It's self-indulgent, but then, you know,...
So I had lunch yesterday (April 4, 2000) So I had lunch yesterday with the guy I met at Popstarz, and it really was quite enjoyable. I don't want to foul things up, so I won't go into details - except to say that I'm probably seeing him...
Admin Notice: Regular Nexus people (April 4, 2000) Admin Notice: Regular Nexus people and the like - Hadalis is holding a post-finalé bash in Winston-Salem, NC on May 26 -29. If you are interested, the e-mail address you need is: Hadalis@gateway.net....
*spark (April 3, 2000) Another month, another issue of *spark. This month, the features include the intoxicating (virtual morality), the revolutionary (hacktivism: the new protest movement?), and the inspirational (surfing towards bethlehem?). I am taking the way *spark operates as a form of model...
Very tired of being homeless... (April 2, 2000) I am becoming very tired of being homeless. Yes, that's right - I am STILL homeless. A friend has given me permission to crash at his place for a couple of nights (with a break in the middle so that...
A couple of announcements... (April 1, 2000) Before I get going, I have a couple of annoucements. Mark has clearly finally lost it - his exposé of the evil Jason Kottke makes that abundantly clear. And while we are at it, is it just me, or are...
Two anecdotes about clubs... (April 1, 2000) In order to maintain the record of the week, I decided that I should go drinking directly after work last night. And (I suppose inevitably) this resulted in a few of us ending up at Popstarz. Which led to: TWO...
