We’ve been thinking about wills. Which leads to some very strange conversations. “So what happens if there’s a huge explosion at a wedding and we both die at the same time as all of our beneficiaries?” “How likely is that?” “It happened in Dynasty” (OK, well it didn’t go quite like that, but you get… Continue reading Mortality
The Matrix
So this weekend was Matrix weekend. On Saturday I rewatched The Matrix and watched The Animatrix on DVD and yesterday I went to see The Matrix Reloaded. Overrated. It’s all horribly overrated.
Cool Photos
Julian Cash is a very cool photographer who, for the past few years has set up a temporary studio at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention where he takes lots of photos that make everyone look really cool and interesting. He’s just put online a set of his photos from OSCON 2002. A number of Open… Continue reading Cool Photos
A New Pleasure
A generally disappointing day was turn around completely on getting to London Bridge station and finding that Vanilla Coke has finally made it to the UK. Yes. I’m easily pleased.
londongeek.org
Over a year ago I was with a group of friends in a pub (the best ideas always come from pubs) when we decided it that it would be a good idea to start to make a record of our memories of the late 1990s Dotcom Boom in London. It’s taken a while to get… Continue reading londongeek.org
Dangerous Ceilings
It was going to be a quiet weekend. My parents came down to see us. They were sleeping in the spare room which is right next to ours. At 5am we’re all woken up by an almighty crash. A patch of ceiling in the spare room has decided that it is tired of being a… Continue reading Dangerous Ceilings
Writing
Writing is fun, but finishing writing is better. Just sent off the first draft of my[1] new book to O’Reilly. That makes me feel good. [1] OK, not strictly my book. I’m one of three co-authors.
Tautology
I just got some spam advertising “Male Penile Enlargement”. I’m struggling to come up with any other kind.
Faraway Places with Strange-Sounding Names
I’m in the centre of Tunbridge Wells today and pass two elderly women sitting on a bench, sharing a bag of crisps. One woman starts reading the packet. “Oh look,” she says, “they were made in Denmark.” “Never mind,” says the other, “at least it’s not Morocco or somewhere like that.” You couldn’t make it… Continue reading Faraway Places with Strange-Sounding Names
X2
I saw X2 on Saturday. I’ll put a review up when I get some spare time, but a quick question for any fans of the X-Men comic that might be reading this. In that final shot, when the camera is panning over the lake, did you half expect Jean Grey to come flying out out… Continue reading X2