I’m putting together a little portfolio site as kind of repository for the hundreds of designs I’ve done over the years. I guess it’s more of a businesslike site. I haven’t done any design work on it yet and am using a stock Movable Type style for the time being. For those of you who [...]
Published on October 30, 2003
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It’s my birthday on November the 2nd. I’ll be the grand old age of 25. In order to celebrate this fact I will be heading for Southampton on friday for beer, bowling and pub crawling with my old partner in crime, The Deans. If any old mates etc are in the area, get in touch [...]
Published on October 29, 2003
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Deathbru will release the long awaited new album by Christmas. You probably don’t believe me since I’ve been making promises of a new album since two years ago. Originally it was going to be entitled ‘Subway to Venus’ but I’m not so sure about the title now. So, any suggestions? Post them here.
The album will [...]
Published on October 29, 2003
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Shay and I continued our season of watching weird David Lynch films by settling down to the vertible audio/visual feast that is “Lost Highway“. This had to be the weirdest of the bunch so far. Having already sat through Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive we were prepared for the freakiness of Lynch’s direction. Yet this [...]
Published on October 24, 2003
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Film
We thought we’d had problems with our Punto. But we’ve been relatively lucky to only have faulty power steering, rusty engine, knackered exhaust and terrible brake fittings. Below are 29 problems taken from the user reviews on Parker’s website. We too have experienced terrible Fiat customer service and now have a second car for long [...]
Published on October 23, 2003
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I completely forgot to mention that Helen and I had a great four-day break in Cornwall last week (as detailed here and here). We stayed at a beautiful stone fisherman’s cottage in a small villiage near Saltash and thoroughly chilled out. We visited Looe, Plymouth, Seaton, St Austell, The Eden project and on our way [...]
Published on October 22, 2003
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According to todays todays Sun, the two girls who look like school-yard bitches want to kick out the good looking scouser, Heidi. They already bullied the previous singer, Siobhan into leaving a few years ago and now they’re at it again. Despite their evilness, the new track ‘Hole in the head’ (this week’s No.1) is [...]
Published on October 21, 2003
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The Lynx effect - view your site as it would be viewed in Lynx thanks to this handy favelet from Girrin Interactive.
Published on October 20, 2003
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Web design
Have you converted from Mac to PC and miss the old mac bar? You need WinMac - make your PC look like a mac!
Published on October 20, 2003
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Apple - iTunes is now available for Windows PCs. It’s a free download and looks exactly the same as the mac version. It only seems to support the iPod mp3 player at the moment but hopefully there will be support for my Creative Zen in the near future.
Published on October 20, 2003
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