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Posts for November 2003 (14 entries)

Shhh, it’s a secret

28th November 2003, late at night | Comments (16)

So, I had an idea. I don’t know if anyone else has had the same idea, but then (as you’ll see) I wouldn’t. That’s the point…

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Googley woogley

27th November 2003, the wee hours | Comments (16)

My parents are good people. They’ve always looked after my brother and I, made sure we had the best of everything (or the worst, depending on which character trait they were building in us that week), and they’ve always backed us in all that we did.

I used to think of them as well-rounded people, more interested in our happiness than how we’re fairing in the rat race. But recently I’ve noticed a mercenary glint in my mother’s eye…

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Javascript image captions

25th November 2003, late at night | Comments (6)

I’ve been going a bit Javascript-mad recently. Usually I steer well clear of the stuff, but since the blockquote incident I’ve rather had it on the brain.

Along the same lines as the blockquote script, I came up with the idea for presenting title data as captions for images…

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Talking of Daisy

25th November 2003, early evening | Comments (1)

I was just having a nose through the Web, as is my wont, when I stumbled across a comment I’d left at a friend’s site…

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Come on England

22nd November 2003, early morning | Comments (4)

Brickwork

18th November 2003, early afternoon | Comments (3)

http://www.michael-simmons.net/

There's not really anything on this page, but purely as a piece of design, I like it an awful lot.

Email revisited: Tucson, Arizona (22nd April, 2002)

18th November 2003, lunch time | Comments (5)

I hate being alone and having to go to bed. I don’t want to pack up, lie down and shut out the light in my head. A day done. Opportunities passed. Doors shut that can’t be reopened.

I hate it.

In the bathroom, as I get washed, I’m listening out for a phone call or a door bell. I look in the mirror and clean my teeth, I lean in and stare at my eyes, look at how my forehead wrinkles when I raise my eyebrows, turn side to side and see that I look much better head on, when you can’t see the shape of my nose or my chin or my lips.

And as I look and turn and look again, I always have half an eye on what’s behind me in my reflection. Half my mind hoping the door will open and something will walk through that’ll push the end of the day back, that’ll shove me back into a brighter world than the one I’m about to leave for the night.

But no-one ever comes through the door, and the phone never rings. And each night I grit my teeth as I climb into bed, because it’s another day gone by and I’m still not hers and she’s still not mine and it makes me miserable.

What’s playing

18th November 2003, lunch time | Comments (0)

Some songs I’m enjoying at the moment…

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Neutralising spam

16th November 2003, lunch time | Comments (15)

Last night I read Mark Pilgrim’s thoughts on the futility of trying to combat comment spam on blogs. I know practically nothing about past fights against spammers, so it was good to get an insight into just how much oomph these shifty-eyed swine have behind them…

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Opera and its Small-Screen Rendering technology

11th November 2003, lunch time | Comments (5)

A nice man at Opera just told me about very neat feature in the latest versions of their browser…

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Leigh village press up record smashed

8th November 2003, lunch time | Comments (0)

I just did seventy-two press ups in one go! That's eight more than I’ve ever done before, and twenty-two more than my usual limit.

Well done me :o)

Musica

7th November 2003, early afternoon | Comments (4)

Two bands for you to go check out:

1. Joss Stone: ‘The future of blue-eyed soul lives in a 16-year old girl from Devon, England.’ (Home page | Album | More info)
2. Tenacious D: Jack Black and Kyle Gass are ‘The Greatest Rock Band the World has ever seen.’ (Home page | Album | More info)

Visual oddness

3rd November 2003, lunch time | Comments (1)

This is just plain odd…

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Allergy testing

1st November 2003, lunch time | Comments (9)

By this wednesday, after exhausting every other option under the sun, I was down to three strategies for dealing with these darn mouth ulcers…

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