archive for October, 2003

M-M-M-Monster

Me Monday 27th October 2003

Went to the fantastic Monster Mash on Forest Road in Edinburgh the other night. Very friendly, good food and great value for money. Highly recommended.

Monster Mash Cafe

 

Cut Chemist

Music Monday 27th October 2003

Cut Chemist is playing at Honeycomb in Edinburgh!!
Cut Chemist does most of Jurassic 5’s turntable wizardry and producers lots of their stuff. He also teamed up with DJ Shadow to do the infamous Product Placement mix cd and the genius that is BrainFreeze. In other words, rather good on the ones and twos.

 

Arrrr!!!

Links Friday 24th October 2003

Headline news from Sky News – Witness the event

 

I Have One Of These

Me Friday 24th October 2003

 

whAt Is thE pArty

Me Thursday 23rd October 2003

whatistheparty.co.uk

 

The List Is Back!

Design Thursday 23rd October 2003

Thanks to brad for pointing out that A List Apart is back up with v3 of their site. A cracking bunch of new articles aswell, the css image tabs are pretty amazing. Check it out.

 

White Suit

Work Tuesday 21st October 2003
I was working at the Martin Bell event last night for work. Very nice guy and an excellent speaker (well, he is a politician). We had someone from Forth 2 doing the talking up on stage with him, it was all nice and informal. It was a pretty good turnout, probably just shy of a hundred people. Plus, Queen’s Hall is not huge so it looked ‘full enough’. He stayed to sign all of our stock aswell, about 120 books, which was very nice of him. The question and answer session was nice and active aswell with forays into scottish politics, the Kelley affair, the scottish parliament etc. All in all, a good night. We even sold some books!
 

Urban Edinburgh

Edinburgh Tuesday 14th October 2003


Updated the Urban Edinburgh gallery with some new photos.

 

Comment Spam

Meta Tuesday 14th October 2003

Recently the spammers have worked out that they can target blog comment systems to spread their rubbish. This is incredibly annoying not to mention tedious when I have to remove all the links to porn sites and penis enlargement pills. Anyhoo, the very nice Jay Allen has released a plugin for moveable type to block all these bitches. Aha! smacked-down!

 

Words That No One Uses Anymore

General Tuesday 14th October 2003
CyberSpace
 

Links.net

Links Monday 13th October 2003

justin’s links.net – I can spend hours browsing this website.

 

Crap Towns

Books Monday 13th October 2003

 crap towns book cover

Just got this depressingly-funny new book in at work.
Guess what? Billingham is in it! (thats where I’m from). Rated as the 35th worst town in Britain it mentions the Stalinesque architecture of the town centre and the high death rate from heroin addiction. Ahhh, no place like home.

update:

Heres the original article from idler.co.uk. A slightly different one actually appears in the book.

And, a Billingham resident stands up for the town (why oh why?).

 

He Emerges!

Books Wednesday 8th October 2003

Rare interview with the mysterious Neal Stephenson: TCS: Tech Central Station

 

Back To School

University Tuesday 7th October 2003

Started back at university yesterday, finally into fourth year! woo-hoo! Yesterday and today were all introduction lectures where we get a chance to choose which modules to take. At the moment it looks like I’ll be doing:

Term 1

  • Computer Networking
  • Computer Graphics
  • System Level Integration Project

Term 2

  • Computer Security
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Visualisation

…and amongst all that I’ve got to do my dissertation/project !

 

Ninja++

Links Wednesday 1st October 2003

Adam has just joined the ninja hosting family, with his very catchy domain cle.me.uk.

 

Cheeky Scamsters

Links Wednesday 1st October 2003

BBC NEWS | UK | Car stunt shocks newlyweds