Writing
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The Poetics of Space
I was unexpectedly disappointed by Gaston Bachelard’s book, so I’d love to know why it’s so highly rated. Enlighten me!
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National Theatre vs Burning Man
How did Denis Tricot’s fire scuplture at the National Theatre compare to Burning Man? Well, they had poi…
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This year’s non-resolutions
Things I hope to do more of in 2004 that really aren’t resolutions at all, oh no.
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And then the bar code reader breaks
‘Seinfeld’s Newman on the mail.
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The Sky at Night
Three old white-haired men in bow ties! On TV! It’s crazy!
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Bolero, Houston, R&B, The Office and Pop Idol
Stumbling across great radio and TV, and ending up in tears.
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Richard Herring on his new watch
The [Timex Ironman digital watch] comes with a box about the size of a pack of playing cards that…
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Jame Oliver’s new site
I just helped set up Jamie Oliver’s new-look weblog, er, I mean diary. It has a fantastic cookery question and answer section.
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Its true
Greil Marcus quoting John Humphrys in the Sunday Times quoting Lynn Truss’s Eats, Shoots…
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Ideas Bazaar redesign
I’ve just done a redesign and build of the company’s website, which I found enormously satisfying.
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Vito, Michael and Henry
In ‘The Believer’s September 2003 issue, Jim Shepard compared the “honourable” morality of the gangsters in Coppola’s ‘Godfather’ films with the destructive selfishness of those in Scorcese’s ‘GoodFellas’, and, all too briefly, likened the latter to the world of Enron and Bush’s government.
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Statement of a Photographic Man
An excerpt from Henry Mayhew’s 19th century ‘London Labour and the London Poor’, in which a photographer describes one of the many scams he pulls on people with this new technology.
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Marching
Yesterday’s Anti-Bush march, and thinking of ways to make such protests have a larger impact on those who don’t take part.
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Action Energy
I spent a couple of weeks copying and pasting text into the redesigned site. Even though it has a content management system.
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Extendaword
The project I’ve been working on recently, a word game for the Financial Times, is finally launching.
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Semi-public events
Wondering how to create a distributed calendar system for inviting friends along to events without showering them with emails.
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Moneydance
A personal finance application for the Mac (and Windows and Linux) that seems to work. Yeah! Rock’n’roll!
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T610 calendar having problems with winter
The Sony Ericsson seems to screw up appointment times in its Calendar once British Summer Time ends…
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A question
If you insure your CDs, what is it you’re actually insuring?
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Teachers
“There’s only one thing I hate more than a sore loser.” “What?” “You.”
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Felicity on ITV2
In the dead of night, ITV2 is airing the best US teen angst drama.
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Geolocational link dump
A collection of URLs scavenged from two months’ worth of unread Geowanking mailing list emails. Maps, wikis, GPS, Flash, RSS, RDF… the usual.
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Delancey and 2nd St
Eddie Morton, ‘The Sound of Vaudeville’, and my photo of his neighbourhood.
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Changing jobs
The Guardian’s special report on changing jobs, and how great it is to hear about people making the break…
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Looking as cheerful as any man could do…
“I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.”