After work this evening, I ventured into the greenhouse that is Milton Keynes town centre to feed my recent unhealthy fascination with 80s heavy metal band, Iron Maiden. When Seamus let me play on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City I heard ‘Two Minutes to Midnight‘ for the first time in at least ten years and [...]

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Warmth (Web)
Why do I love this design so much? It’s just so warm and inviting… and consigned to the big net dustbin in the sky. Oh well.
Still, Jason seems to have got the whole stereographic image thing down to a tee now, having made a mess of it yesterday.
Ride the C64 (Games)
In honour [...]

Currant bun
For the last couple of days here at the Open University I’ve been getting a really poor quality copy of my daily rag of choice – The Sun. Some would argue that the Murdoch flagship is poor quality every day. I would have started to agree up until last week when Rebecca Wade took [...]

This site has been up and down like a yo yo over the last few days. Our host, Domain Domain have been undertaking a ‘complete infrastructure upgrade’. Out with the old, in with the new. Technological transitions are never as easy as you think they’re going to be and I’m actually quite surprised that [...]

White Teeth
Just finished reading Zadie Smith’s ‘White Teeth‘. I had originally avoided the novel due to the massive amounts of hype it received in the press. It’s been out a while now (I always wait for the paperbacks – hardbacks dig in the my wrist RSI). It’s a big old bugger of a book – [...]

Stephen’s website got hacked
today. Whoever it was put the word ‘Coooooooolllllll!!!!!!’ on his site and a link to ‘www.dickcam.co.uk’ (you might not want to go there!). Anyway, luckily Stephen managed to delete the offending text just as soon as he could access his site. Let it be know that I’m on the same server. If [...]

Take the Guardian Unlimited Morality Quiz and answer questions like this:
You do a sponsored swim for the charity Help The Very Smallest Children, swim 20 lengths and collect £100 from your sponsors. On the way to the charity, you notice that French Connection has the jacket you have always coveted on sale at the bargain [...]

For the last couple of months I’ve been maintaining a separate web-design related weblog called ‘funkydung’. The basic idea was that most people who visit this site will not be that interested in the geeky workings of web design related guff. However, I’m a lazy git and can’t bothered to maintain two blogs. So I’m [...]

Despite the endless cheese during the 80s, The Bee Gees were always exceedingly talented songwriters. Dip into their earlier work before they turned in the Chipmunks (I believe that’s how it was spelt) and you’ll find some real gems: New York Mining Disaster, Run To Me, I started a Joke etc. They’re mostly remembered for [...]