Archive: October, 2002

The Pumpkin Queen

Not only does Jessica carve a scary looking Jack O’Lantern, she also makes a mean roasted garlic pumpkin bisque with herb potato dumplings.

Thursday, October 31st, 2002 9:14pm

PodNews 3: Your iPod's best friend.

What do you get when you take two great things, the iPod and RSS, and combine them? You get PodNews 3.

Wednesday, October 30th, 2002 11:20pm

Despair, Inc.

Are you sick of those "inspirational" posters with pithy sayings presented underneath pictures of cute animanals and/or sweeping landscapes?

Wednesday, October 30th, 2002 9:33pm

Apple - iMac

The deed is done. I just placed an order at the Apple store for a 17 inch iMac.

Tuesday, October 29th, 2002 12:41am

The Chimera Project

I’ve started surfing the web with a new browser. It’s called Chimera, a Mac OS X browser from Mozilla.

Saturday, October 26th, 2002 10:35pm

Direct Marketing

Don Henley improves his street cred:

Saturday, October 26th, 2002 12:19pm

Friday Fun

3D Pong.

Friday, October 25th, 2002 7:59pm

West Pier Pictures

Here are some truly excellent pictures of the West Pier here in Brighton.

Thursday, October 24th, 2002 7:12pm

Transmit 2

I’ve just upgraded to Transmit version 2. Very nice it is, too.

Thursday, October 24th, 2002 12:25am

The Han Solo Affair

The funniest piece of Lego animation I’ve seen yet.

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2002 10:26am

RSS Validator

Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby have released an RSS validator. This coincides nicely with the fact that I’ve just updated my RSS feed from using version 0.92 to version 1.0.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2002 7:22pm

The ElectriClerk

Remember those wonderfully retro computing devices from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil?

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2002 8:50am

Stop the Patent Process Madness

Wired has published an excellent article by Lauren Weinstein on the ludicrous state of Intellectual Property patents:

Monday, October 21st, 2002 8:03pm

The Morning News - The Opposite of Sex and the City

What if Sex and the City had been written by Beckett?…

Monday, October 21st, 2002 7:03pm

Guess the Dictator or Sit-Com Character

This is a scarily accurate online version of twenty questions. It didn’t take long for it to guess that I was thinking of Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties.

Monday, October 21st, 2002 8:24am

Hayden

I’ve just come back from seeing the Canadian singer/songwriter Hayden playing at a local pub. He was rather wonderful.

Sunday, October 20th, 2002 12:43am

At the closing of the day

It’s the end of another working week spent with the fine folks over at Metal Dragons working on a site relaunch.

Friday, October 18th, 2002 10:34pm

Ryan Adams not amused to be called Bryan

Poor Ryan Adams. I guess the joke has worn very, very thin for him:

Friday, October 18th, 2002 8:58am

Opera Software

Following close on the heels of Wired News, another site has switched over to a valid XHTML/CSS layout.

Tuesday, October 15th, 2002 1:21pm

Salter Cane

If you’d like to hear the fruits of last week’s labours in the studio, the song is now available for download from the band’s website.

Sunday, October 13th, 2002 12:26pm

Lost in Translation

I bet these guys would have loved to get hold of Jessica’s other domain name.

Saturday, October 12th, 2002 5:36pm

podLob

A beautiful site with some fantastic DHTML widgets to play with.

Saturday, October 12th, 2002 11:53am

More Wired News

Following up my last post about the redesign of Wired News, here’s an interview with Douglas Bowman who led the development team.

Saturday, October 12th, 2002 12:42am

Wired News: A Site for Your Eyes

Wired News has switched over to an all-out XHTML/CSS layout.

Friday, October 11th, 2002 1:07pm

Googlefight

Ha!

Thursday, October 10th, 2002 7:37pm

More pierced buildings

I spotted another modified building on my way out of Brighton station yesterday.

Tuesday, October 8th, 2002 1:03pm

huh?

The huh? corporation:

Monday, October 7th, 2002 5:02pm

Pea throwing

Today, by happy chance, I found myself in Lewes.

Sunday, October 6th, 2002 5:42pm

Body art meets architecture

Somebody is going around piercing buildings in Brighton & Hove.

Saturday, October 5th, 2002 5:14pm

Busy, busy, busy

Sorry, can’t stop - people to be, places to meet; no time to blog.

Friday, October 4th, 2002 9:02pm

Eric Myer Photography

Fun with faces.

Tuesday, October 1st, 2002 7:34pm

Edward J.Funkuncle

Set aside some time to look through the wonderful Funkuncle website.

Tuesday, October 1st, 2002 7:32pm

Dive Into Mark

Hot on the heels of my blogging anniversary, comes this anniversary from Mark:

Tuesday, October 1st, 2002 7:11pm

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