May 2007
24 posts
Why 'My So-Called Life' was so ace
Rayanne: You wanna have sex with him.
Angela: Who?
Rayanne: Who. Jordan. Catalano. Come on, I'm not gonna tell anyone, just admit it.
Angela: I just like how he's always leaning. Against stuff. He leans great. Well, either sex or a conversation. Ideally both.
“I was being derided for not doing something I don’t do, and because I got upset...”
– A serious post about something meant to be funny. Anna Pickard on the perils of having both a work, and a personal blog
Scott Matthewman: Shock - Jeremy Paxman called Jon Stewart rude! Yes, that way round! http://tinyurl.com/2uhd4q Must watch The Daily Show on More4 tonight… (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
“I agree the Gentlemen in Buffy were truly scary. I think it’s to do with...”
– Gareth McLean
Scott Matthewman: I want to go on holiday with Victoria Wood, I’ve decided. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
“While there are many publishers selling PDF’s, no one is doing it with the...”
– PeepCode Press Manifesto. Some great sentiments on e-publishing here.
Scott Matthewman: Meeting James for the first time since he left to work for Broadcast. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Friday at last. Need sleep. And alcohol. Not in that order. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Seriously impressed with the new Google Analytics. Clean and elegant - and yet, still very un-Google… (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Feeling a bit blue. Maybe pizza and the Daily Show will cheer me up. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Probably not a good idea to try and debug a yahoo maps api application on the train, with no internet… (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Made the mistake of watching the new News 24 stream. God, it’s like Blair’s died. Still, at least it cuts down on “news” from Portugal. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
“I used to watch Doctor Who and Star Trek, but they went PC — making women...”
– Patrick Moore blames women for falling BBC standards. The whole article makes Moore come across as a festering misogynist, which he may well be — whatever, I’ve lost some respect for him.
WatchAmazing 11 Year Old!!! Video (via wendyboswell) She needs some training to find her own style rather than mimicking somebody else, but still a phenomenal voice
Scott Matthewman: Relocating the bedroom aerial. Now have access to twice the Freeview channels, but only half the wardrobe. Not a great swap… (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: I forgot that Dr Who producer Phil Collinson was originally going to be Alexander in QAF (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Given up on BBC Parliament’s 1997 election coverage. Watching Queer As Folk DVDs instead. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Ugh. Third evening on the trot where I’ve ended up in the pub. Not good. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Met with various Doctor Who people. Made some good contacts, I hope (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Off to the Fitzroy Tavern for Doctor Who drinks (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
“When a “robots-nocontent” tag is used to mark a section of content...”
– Yahoo! introduces a way of eliminating page cruft from search indexes. Hurrah — let’s hope other search engines follow suit.
Scott Matthewman: In the pub. If anyone’s near Bermondsey Street come in to the Woolpack and john us! (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Glorious sunny day. May work in the park this afternoon. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
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What childish behaviour. Both ‘Guido’ and Iain Dale are happy to put themselves up as “political blogging experts” to any TV programme lazy enough not to look further, but point out any of their numerous flaws (as Tim and his colleagues have done) and they throw their rattles out of the pram.