Mar
31
Vital Statistics
March 31, 2003 | 3 Comments
Not being one who does subscribe to the ‘blogs as popularity contest’ school of thought, I don’t tend to pay a great deal of attention to my traffic logs. I’m occasionally intrigued to see my referrers, and search terms are always good for a laugh, but the actual numbers don’t hold much interest.
However, I […]
Mar
31
Absolutely Fucking Outrageous
March 31, 2003 | 1 Comment
I’ve been generally quiet on the subject of the war since it started, feeling unequal to offering judgements on much of what we’re seeing, and also increasingly unable to view the situation with equanimity owing to family circumstances.
But….
Today’s Sun carries a front page story (massively) headlined ‘Proof’, which details the destruction of an ‘Iraqi terror […]
Mar
30
Blogshares - WTF?
March 30, 2003 | 6 Comments
Okay - am I just the only one who didn’t know about this?
My blog is apparently trading at $177.61 today.
Blogshares appears to be a system that allows trading in, well, blogshares. I’m in their system, though I don’t know why, as are Dave, Lisa Jane, Stuart and Kenny (all of whom allegedly have links […]
Mar
30
Sexiest In Sci-Fi
March 30, 2003 | 12 Comments
SFX Magazine have published a supplement showcasing the finalists in their ”Sexiest Sci-Fi Stars” award for this year. Generally-speaking, all terribly predictable, but the lists are below - anyone like to state a preference? I know what mine are :-)
The Men:
Viggo Mortensen (LOTR)
Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man)
Tom Welling (Smallville)
Orlando Bloom (LOTR)
Elijah Wood (LOTR)
Ben Browder […]
Mar
30
The List
March 30, 2003 | Comments Off
Alison and I have this list of films that we’d like to go and see. In the last couple of months, it’s been getting longer as more we want to see are released, at a quicker rate than others drop out of being on release. This is compounded by the fact that we’ve […]
Mar
29
Gridlock
March 29, 2003 | Comments Off
I don’t often post links to games, but I thought I’d make an exception and share Gridlock with you. Getting the blue block out of the box is frequently a lot harder than you’d think. It’s curiously addictive for such a relatively ‘unexciting’ game. [Via diamond geezer]
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Mar
29
Northern Lights
March 29, 2003 | 4 Comments
Having discussed the South Bank Show on Philip Pullman a couple of weeks ago, I resolved to read his His Dark Materials series. I managed to get started on Northern Lights this week and I was very impressed with it. In fact, I was also a little surprised that it was a children’s […]
Mar
28
Categorisation
March 28, 2003 | 6 Comments
Earlier in the month, when I was putting this new look together, for the first time I set up Movable Type so that I was categorising my postings. The categories aren’t displayed, because I haven’t decided how I want to use them, and I can’t imagine ever wanting to do a ‘list by category’ […]
Mar
27
From The Guardian
March 27, 2003 | 1 Comment
Courtesy of trips to meetings and the joys of the AvantGo Guardian channel, I’ve actually managed to do some reading of the thing today, so I thought I’d share a couple of items.
“Last month Stephen Downs was handcuffed and arrested after refusing to take off a Give Peace a Chance T-shirt in a mall in […]
Mar
26
Forum
March 26, 2003 | 2 Comments
I’ve mentioned it occasionally in the past, but here’s an unashamed plug. Comic writer Mark Millar (The Authority, Ultimate X-Men, The Ultimates), hosts a forum on his website, and I seriously recommend it. As well as comic-related discussions that manage to rise well above the “Everything Marvel/DC/Image/Dark Horse/CrossGen (delete as applicable) publish is […]