Aug 13
Today started much like any other. The evilly sequenced set of alarms clattered into life. Each leaving sufficient time for me to return back into a dreamy doze before blowing the whistle to urge me over the top. The morning evolution begins. Hunched simian gives way to an upright and scratching Australopithecus. A large stretch reveals something more hominid in form...
Read MoreAug 12
They might come? The world of Internet traffic generation has changed a lot since the days when I were thin. Used to be that you were worried about SEO, meta-tags blah-di-blah-di-page-rank-bobbinstm and, while much of this is still relevant to some degree, there are many more fun ways than the painful wait for your site to appear on page 10 of Google. Yesterday, I...
Read MoreAug 10
Where do you start? Or, perhaps more importantly, where do you end? Let’s get the obvious things out of way. The plot revolves around a TV presenter (Daniel Autueil) and his wife ( Juliette Binoche ) who are being sent VHS tapes (wrapped in alarming child-like drawings) of themselves being watched and their subsequent quest to find out who is doing it. Also...
Read MoreAug 07
If they made a film of your life what songs would you have in the soundtrack for which scenes? It was a sunny Friday drive to work today and the Shuffle Gods chose Mornington Crescent by Belle and Sebastian. It seemed to fit perfectly. Albeit the lyrics didn’t quite work, I’ve not got a job for a Senegalese (nor, indeed, am I in nip). No matter. Had I...
Read MoreAug 05
An interesting night was had on Twitter last night. @canongatebooks and @davesimps0n organised a “world’s first” Twitter based interview with former band members of The Fall to promote Dave’s book The Fallen. It started slowly but got into something of a swing. The idea was to use the hashtag #TheFallen to control the ebb and flow of...
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