|
|
|
|
|
|
- Once in a while, when I feel like I know what I'm doing (or it's a special day like today - St. Davids Day, patron saint of Wales etc.), I'll occasionally dare to utter a sentence or two in Welsh instead of English when speaking to an appropriate person who would understand what I'm saying. And then I'll get th impression that I sound a tad pretentious, presumptious and silly. After all, if someone dropped a Chinese phrase into a mostly-English conversation, my head would jerk back and I'd be mildly annoyed or piqued. |
|
|
|
- Just get Sky to outbid the BBC for the rights to the Oscars, and then pretty much ignore the entire awards ceremony, in favour of: - constant plugs for the Scissor Sisters and Elton John - not coincidentally, Sky's pathetic presentation of the Oscars is brought to you from Elton John's party - The most exciting thing about the Oscars this year was that Chris Rock was presenting it. So what do Sky do? Cut down his witty bits to a three-minute opening prologue, and leave him out of the rest of the show. - have presenters who are far more obsessed by the parties and the costumes than the films and the awards - put Amanda Byron on the pink carpet for the party, and have her ask all the actors and actresses what they're wearing. |
|
|
|
- (Yet another bloody meme about compiling the greatest album list of all time. Although of course consuming music via albums is merely a commercial/technical hangover from the 1950s-1990s. We're all now getting to grips with an era of consumer choice when we can get just the song we want for 79p each - hell, I just showed one of my computerphobic but muso-obsessed friends the power of iTunes UK. There won't be a similar list circulating the galaxynet in 2047...) Anyway... |
|
|
|
- I am paying very serious attention to the idea of going to the United States between 11 and 24 March, mainly to get rid of all the leave I still have outstanding. I've already been quasi-invited to San Francisco and Sarasota to see some old friends (well, not that old) ... but if you're feeling bored during that time period and want to hook up / offer me your sofa to sleep on / go for wild nights on the town / offer me marriage (or anything really), then please please feel free to let me know :-) |
|
|
|
- Never mind global warming, the war on Iraq, the rise of religious fundamentalism or the fact we'll all be under house arrest soon. UK Star Trek fans are planning to hold a rally to try and save Star Trek: Enterprise. Even though it's already been cancelled for good reasons. Even I stopped watching it (that theme tune really got on my nerves). |
|
|
|
- One of the things drilled into me (not by choice) during my Louisiana State University journalism course was that for a feature story, an opening paragraph should ease you into the article in a warm cozy manner, emphasising the human interest angle. To me, that comes at the expense of the story itself - or "burying the lead" to use the American media parlance. This CNN.com story shows what I mean. (Spotted via Boing Boing) There's a huge 2,000-ton pile of cow manure in Nebraska that self-ignited and has been burning for three months now. |
|
|
|
- It was just another normal dull Sunday afternoon. I'd come back from Cantonese class, and was making a stab at the washing-up, when suddenly the doorbell rang. Outside the door was a long-time e-friend, who I shall name Arizona Gal. I was delighted to see her, and knew she was in the country, but obviously wasn't expecting to see her. Especially in Cardiff. |
|
|
|
- Thanks to the UK Weblogs Aggregator, I occasionally skim past the latest entry from Smoking Women Are Sexy, about the exploits of a "non-smoking teenager trying to get to grips with my (his) smoking fetish". He'd occasionally sneak pics of women smoking via his cameraphone, and upload them onto his blog - which of course leads to non-hilarious consequences when he gets caught, never mind the moral/ethical implications of what he was doing. Usually, I'd catch the latest entry, smirk snobbily at the boundary-less limits of human sexuality and fetishes thanks to the Internet, and move on. It's now the blog's first birthday and he's managed to do something that somehow doesn't work for me - he got a date with a smoking woman via the blog. She even let him light a cigarette. |
|
|
|
- During the occasionally-traditional Friday night drinks, I end up at the award-winning Toucan Club at their Welsh-language music evening, watching The Gogs doing their energetic head-moshing rock thing. And watching the crowd, because I've had way too much drink at this point (4 pints, probably) to do much but observe. At one point, a short girl with shockingly pick bouffant hair comes in. Which makes a huge change from the uniform of skinny dyed-blonde-hair girls with handbags and boys with short hair, shirts and trousers at the club. (Not that I'm any different of course). |
|
|
|
- It'd be nice to think that in this new all-design millennial era, the archetypal pony-tailed square-spectacle-wearing ice-cool (blue, naturally) designers of the world would conduct their flamewars with a little more class. My mate has finally made it into the hallowed halls of the CSS Vault Gallery for his contribution to design. A tad minimalist, but it does the job and I'd probably rip off research his CSS code to find out how he does a few tricks. If I knew how. Amusingly, however, it wasn't long before his entry got encumbered with a flame war, and insults like "Rich you're a twat... |
|
|
|
- They've released the first proper trailer for The Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy. On first glance, it looks suitably insane, zany and downright weird with fantastic special effects. It's going to be a good month for British sci-fi fans, what with this and Doctor Who later this month. Anyway, watch the trailer (legally via Amazon or a dodgy Quicktime version, and in the shot with the alarm clock, you'll see a BBC pass lying on the table. Nice touch! |
|
|
|
- Being a total Flickr fan (so much so I might even pay for a year's subscription soon!), one of the great things about it is the way you can tag photographs to designate them a certain category, in much the same way that you can do that with Gmail. Naturally, you can also give photographs multiple tags. I've just downloaded Picasa, a new bit of photo management software. It's got lots of pretty features, but the main reason I'll use it as opposed to my existing "throw the pics into a specific folder in Windows and hope my memory copes" method is precisely the ability to multipally tag pictures. |
|
|
|
- Once in a blue moon, I'll go and see a film without having read any reviews. I went to see Assault on Precinct 13 (2005), hoping for an action film that was slightly above the norm. Nope, it was absolutely average in every way, shape and respect. The main character had to have some extra motivation, the main enemy would be likeable, and it followed the three-act structure to the letter (just like Speed, in fact). None of the so-called action sequences were exciting and was just dull, dull, dull. |
|
|
|
- After having forgotten a friend's birthday, I really need to find a service that'll email me when it's close to someone's birthday. An easy-enough service you'd think, but it's fraught with problems. Especially when I want one that'll let me transfer the data around - the rest are so protective. Plus one that I can trust to actually email me, and ideally one that interfaces with my Nokia phone. So far, I think I've got various birthday and anniversary reminders dotted with Yahoo, Plaxo, BirthdayAlarm and Mozilla Calendar. |
|
|
|
- Popped out for a dimsum Sunday lunch yesterday. On the way back we bumped into the defacto Chinese dragon dance ritual that's inflicted on Chinatowns everywhere about this time. The interesting thing about this one is that, as far as I can tell, there wasn't a single Chinese person involved in the ritual - they were all white. This is either: - a fantastic example of Welsh multi-culturalism at work - Cardiff is a city where nobody is interested in their own culture - Chinese people in Cardiff are bored with Chinese-ness - it's another way of meeting the sexy Chinese girls that seem to entrance a particular brand of person - it's been like this for years and I've only just noticed |
|
|
|
- I found that my blog is no longer listed on Ian's weblog. /me sulks Hah. No, I admit it, this... |
|
|
|
- Reference: 1106. Category: Information Systems. Duration: |
|
|
|
- Bikini Contest galleries. badgirlsblog. com/bikini/03/ Tera Patrick and Friend galleries. badgirlsblog. com/terapatrick/03 |
|
|
|
- Xax posted this little hottie yesterday and she was too cute to pass up. |
|
|
|
- Howard Stern's Playboy girl Jillian Grace selling infamous green skirt on eBay tinyurl.com/6fhwd |
|
|
|
- TrimQuery - TrimPath - TracLightweight GPL open-source component that lets you have the power of SQL-like queries while running in a web browser.- javascript dev code library JavaScriptTemplates - TrimPath - TracLightweight APL / GPL open-source component that lets you have template-based programming (like PHP/ASP/JSP) while running in a web browser.- javascript dev code library |
|
|
|
- slashgirl writes "'Last November's broadcast of the Second World War film Saving Private Ryan by ABC did not violate indecency guidelines, the U.S. federal broadcast regulator has ruled. The Federal Communications Commission ruled Monday that despite the fact that the Oscar-winning movie depicts soldiers using expletives, "in light of the overall context in which this material is presented, the commission determined that it was not indecent or profane."' Rest of the story here. |
|
|
|
- Anonymous Patron writes "Iranian President inaugurates new National Library: President Mohammad Khatami on Tuesday inaugurated the new building of Iran's National Library in the presence of cultural, scientific, political officials and foreign guests." |
|
|
|
- ???????????? ????????????? ??????????? ?????? ? ??? |
|
|
|
- Once you're at the autoresponder review site it's a simple matter of selecting the exact product or service you want to purchase. Nothing to it really. Whether you're just looking for information, or you're looking for something to buy right now, we've got the links to the exact autoresponder review website you need. As you can tell from all the effort we've put into building our autoresponder review site, it's something that we care about. You can be certain, when you follow one of the hyperlinks in the middle of this web page, or click on the pop up which might have appeared when you entered our site, we've chosen the best site about autoresponder review for you to go to. |
|
|
|
- Bouygues steigert Nettogewinn 2004 auf 858 (450) Mio EUR (zwei) Das EBITDA der Sparte Bouygues Telecom sei um 17% auf 1,17 Mrd EUR gestiegen, hieß es weiter. Die EBITDA-Marge des drittgrößten Mobilfunkbetreibers ... |
|
|
|
- Jayne O'Donnell, Barbara Hansen, Anthony DeBarros and Robert Davis of USA TODAY examined fatal car accidents involving teenage drivers, finding that "more than two-thirds of fatal single-vehicle teen crashes involved nighttime driving or at least one passenger age 16 to 19. Nearly three-fourths of the drivers in those crashes were male. And 16-year-old drivers were [...] |
|
|
|
- Sumitomo Mitsui FG plant Kapitalerhöhung - Asahi Shimbun TOKIO (Dow Jones-VWD)--Die Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc (SMFG),Tokio, plant eine Kapitalerhöhung. Durch die Ausgabe von Vorzugsaktien ... |
|
|
|
- J.M. Kalil of the Las Vegas Review-Journal used local property records to find that the grandson of a former Las Vegas mayor has been able to quickly profit from land deals that may have involved inaccurate appraisals. Scott Gragson "has obtained a total of 104 parcels in 20 land exchanges with the county. In each [... |
|
|
|
- Jerry Mitchell of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports that the Hinds County judicial system "at times resembles an elephant balancing on toothpicks. A yearlong investigation by The Clarion-Ledger has uncovered many long-term problems that have not been addressed." The county had fewer prosecutors and fewer indictments in 2004 than similar-sized cities. "Between 1998 and 2003, the [...] |
|
|
|
- ??? ?? ????? ??????? ?? ??????? |
|
|
|
- This was the helmet hair I had after finishing Chilly Hilly 2005. While I'm not complaining about the visual distortion suggesting there's more than I really have, the snippet is representative of how the rest of my body felt at the end of the ride. Tired. I know why, too. By ride time last year, I had accumulated 500... |
|
|
|
- woah, delete. forgot I was logged into my old nochay account! Dane |
|
|
|
- Der Einzelhandel hat im Januar deutlich mehr umgesetzt als im überraschend schwachen Dezember. Zum Vorjahr stieg der Umsatz vor allem von kosmetischen und Pharma-Produkten. |
|
