Archives for May 2004
Lunatic Tebbit blames "buggery" for fatness... (May 29, 2004) The new caring version of the Conservative party doesn't inspire that much faith in me. I know they're all multicultural this and "ooh happy gay people" that, but all it really takes is someone like Lord Tebbit to pull back...
Better design through simplicity... (May 24, 2004) From a relatively old article (at least in terms of webloggia's attention-span) comes some pointers on improving design through simplicity: Heed cultural patterns. The iPod, for instance, succeeded not just because of its sleek form, but because, in conjunction with...
My blood is unclean... (May 23, 2004) I couldn't agree more with this piece on gay men being banned from being sperm donors. The same thing happened a few years ago with the blood transfusion service. They're desperate for donors and yet the rules say (in the...
Where the police pretend to be secret agents... (May 22, 2004) Yesterday evening, after a few too many cocktails with lovely people from work and an emergency Italian meal, we walked back towards Charing Cross to catch the tube only to see a van full of police officers looking weird and...
Earthquake 10.5 is Bunk! Bunk! Bunk! (May 22, 2004) The TV miniseries Earthquake 10.5 is just airing in the UK. It is - bluntly - an unmitigated pile of shit. Interestingly if you search for it online, pretty much the first thing you get is a long page by...
Informal request for assistance... (May 18, 2004) Apparently some people using IE6 are having trouble logging into Typekey via plasticbag.org and as a result can't post comments. Most other browsers seem to be working OK - certainly all Mac browsers that I've tried - but obviously this...
Legal gay marriages in the United States (May 17, 2004) Massachusetts has become the first state in the US to allow same-sex couples to get married. Whether it will last or be crushed under the weight of a Constitutional amendment I don't know, but it's bloody wonderful in the meantime:...
The tarnish is the flag... (May 17, 2004) It's probably evidence of the good that a couple of days off work can do to a man that I suddenly find myself able to write a brief post about politics - a subject that I'd normally handle with kid...
More on the Typekey upgrade... (May 16, 2004) So my installation of Movable Type has never been the simplest of things. I've had to use cgiwrap to avoid some of the more arcane problems with pair's process throttling and I've got MT installed in a completely different directory...
Bring it on, spam wankers! (May 15, 2004) First impressions of the new MT are generally really positive. I'm still having the same problems with incredibly slow performance that I had before, which I'm now assuming are to be laid at the door of my $140 a month...
I never knew relaxation was such hard work! (May 15, 2004) If you've tried to comment on the site in the last few hours then you'll probably already have noticed that I've upgraded to MT 3.0 and that I've turned on most of the draconian comment features. In the last couple...
And relax! (May 14, 2004) Wow. What a couple of weeks. I've been working so hard that at times I swear that my keyboard fingers have been getting cramps. Certainly my brain has. A succession of twelve-hour days, plus travel (including weekends) has left me...
On hearts in the faeces of virtual insects... (May 5, 2004) Strange, arcane shapes are starting to appear in the landscape of the breedster eco-system, carved out of the faeces of insects (map):...
Social Super-Orders? (May 3, 2004) Really briefly, there's a fascinating and short post over at zephoria called Social Technology from MPD to Aspergers in which Danah says: I have a funny feeling that social technology is back to developing software based on disorders and instigating...
What can I say - I'm behind, okay? (May 1, 2004) So basically what can I say - I'm behind, okay? I'm not doing all the things I want to do as effectively as I like. And yes - there's a lot of procrastination in there as well. It's not like...
