By ‘eck, something interesting at Kuro5hin: an excellently-written explanation of Cornershop’s Brimful of Asha.
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One of those weeks
I’ve spent the whole week trying to complete task A: fretting about not having done it, making a start on it, being interrupted by tasks B and C, having task D take far longer than seemed reasonable, doing a bit more A, having to go back to B, then D, and so on.
By the end of the week, I was frantically trying to finish B (which was now quite urgent), and D had been and gone and was more-or-less OK but not, perhaps, entirely done with, while poor A hadn’t gone anywhere at all. And it was driving me nuts. I have to do A! I have to do A! Arghhh!
Then, this afternoon, A fell apart completely. If I had done it this week, everything I’d done would have been a complete waste of time.
So all’s well? Alas, no. For some reason, I find this turn of events even more irritating. Curious.
Anti-mob
Mike and I are staging a flash anti-mob at 10:30am this morning, outside John Lewis’ in Glasgow.
Feel free to join in by not attending. We won’t see you there.
Design Awards
The PerversionTracker Design Awards 2003.
Just when you thought every Mac OS X applications was a thing of great beauty, PvT steps in and highlights the utter dreck that accessible development tools and the metal interface inspire. The awards will be presented in four categories:
- Best In Show
- Best Torture of Users
- Best Misuse of Technology
- Best Use of Real Ultimate Power
Submissions by September 15th. Perhaps I should finally make a start on CocoaPlant. [story c/o Brent. I do actually subscribe to the PvT feed in his software, but sometimes it’s quicker just to read his blog…]
[Edit: comments on this entry are now closed. Since they’re all bastard spam comments anyway. Apart from iMark’s. I’d never describe his comments as ‘bastard spam.’]
What a difference a day makes
Last night: pork loin roasted with peaches, garlic, thyme and white wine.
Tonight: beans on toast.
Not quite what I was looking for
Sometimes, domain names baffle me. Internetweatherreport.com, for example, sounds obvious enough. Er… no. What I was looking for was internettrafficreport.com.
Installing Windows
Mark Pilgrim has reinstalled Windows. I note this partly because it made me laugh, and partly because there are some terrifically useful links in the comments/trackbacks. I’m a supposedly cross-platform user myself (yes, I have a WinXP box), but in practice I’m utterly clueless about configuring the thing. While I have no real desire to spend time on the matter, I need to know more than I do currently.
DAV? What are you doing, DAV?
Oh joy, oh bliss!
A couple of months ago I asked my hosting company, Dreamhost, if they had any plans to support WebDAV. They said ‘no – sorry.’ Fair enough – it’s still niche technology. But late last week they enabled it anyway, for all of us.
Another small step to integrated electronic nirvana. Now to install php iCalendar…
Mail from Mena
Much as I’d love to receive mail from the Trotts because I’m famous (or something), it’s actually because I just paid for Movable Type. Top software: if you want to run this sort of thing yourself, check it out. If you want to have it run for you, take a look at TypePad, which launches tomorrow.
Life
Clearing out the back of the kitchen cupboard tonight, my flatmate/landlord Patt Markin (not his real name) said: ‘This is like seeing my entire life in sachet form.’