Archives for March 2000
Student Clubs for Time Out... (March 31, 2000) Another little micro-design-project for Time Out: Student Clubs Competition. Very tight deadline on this one. I think it worked out quite well....
Brief Life Summary... (March 30, 2000) Brief life summary: DRINKING TOO MUCH BEER AND VODKA. This will be the third night in a row that I have ended up in Point 101 (Tottenham Court Road tube, under Centrepoint). I am going to get a disgusting beer...
Moving domains... (March 30, 2000) Barbelith is going to change. Because a few people have sent me money to get the Nexus going again, I don't feel comfortable having personal content on the domain name. So I have decided that over the next week or...
Theatre of Cruelty... (March 29, 2000) I'm in love with this story from zeldman: Theater of Cruelty: Our friend Mark was freelancing for a client we'll call Roger. They had just completed their project and were sitting in Roger's office. After a long, uncomfortable silence,...
I went to the doctor... (March 29, 2000) I went to the doctor about my mad gut and digestive complaints and he told me that it was a combination of a mild infection, lack of sleep, a bad diet and a considerable amount of stress. Great. Can't see...
Raising the bar... (March 29, 2000) I tell you, just when everything appears to be running smoothly, powazek raises the bar again. His new design is, simply, lovely. Clean colours, a web-friendly open feel with legible text (not using Verdana - a shock for me). It...
I'm a poll-starter, twisted poll-starter... (March 28, 2000) Can't chat - in a hurry, but I just thought I should say that I have started a couple of polls over on the TemporaryNexus about the relaunch of the Nexus and what happens when I move the weblog... You...
Ceiva Internet-Enable Photo Frame... (March 28, 2000) Possibly the most futurist gadget I have seen in months is the Ceiva Internet-Enabled Photo Frame. It sounds like a ridiculous idea, but I honestly believe that it might become a must-have purchase not just for web-geeks and their families,...
Oscar 2000 Moments... (March 27, 2000) Oscar 2000 Moments Billy Crystal combining the shower scene from American Beauty with the shower scene from Psycho. Jack Nicholson being in every single reaction shot, leering like an octogenarian lech. That weird woman who ran through the auditorium at...
Is that an accent? (March 26, 2000) The question I was asked most often when I was in the US was: "Is that an accent?". To which the answer of course is ... "no". One of the weird things about the US is that, perhaps because of...
Exodus 8:2 "If you refuse (March 25, 2000) Exodus 8:2 "If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs."...
I'm homeless, goddammit! (March 25, 2000) I got another e-mail today asking why I haven't been updating the bomb. Just to clarify to newcomers, I am homeless at the moment and have been for over three weeks now. As soon as I can find a flat...
Why don't we write it down somewhere private? (March 25, 2000) Can I ask you all something in complete seriousness? Do you REALLY think that Mark is more suave than I am? I mean, really? Jason has been talking about the difficulties in writing about personal things on the web. This...
Difficult days... (March 24, 2000) The last couple of days have been (as I am sure you can understand) more than a little difficult - a sudden huge bill out of the blue (it now looks like the nexus uses around 80% of barbelith's bandwidth)...
Awesome response to my crisis... (March 23, 2000) The response to my crisis yesterday has been pretty incredible. I've had many many suggestions about where to be hosted, and I am edging towards pair.com. If anyone has any good or bad stories about them, let me know... The...
$220 in excess bandwidth! (March 22, 2000) Netnation has just charged me $220 for excess bandwidth over the last two months. As of this moment, the nexus is closed completely. They are going to charge me a similarly ridiculous amount for this month as well. Frankly I...
On giving gay people guns... (March 21, 2000) There are benefits and there are horrors to staying on people's floors. Benefits include not having to pay rent, seeing more of your good friends and getting to know local geography. Horrors include continual exhaustion, sometimes uncomfortable bedding and making...
Adieu Reptile Brain... (March 21, 2000) My plans to move the weblog to a new domain have been rather scuppered by someone having registered it four days ago (damn, damn, damn). It just goes to show - farewell reptilebrain.com [whois]....
American Beauty in ASCII (March 21, 2000) I saw this ages ago but completely forgot to link to it. So here I present: American Beauty in ASCII....
SXSW / WXW1? (March 20, 2000) Two things before I get down to the serious business of complaining about stuff. 1) Derek Powazek has put his SXSW photos online. There are some great ones - particularly of Jason and Mark. 2) I am too jealous to...
On Moving... (March 20, 2000) In about an hour I have to go and meet my prospective new flatmates (in the process probably missing an old friend's birthday party) to discuss their anxieties regarding the flat in King's Cross. I can't help but think that...
Living in King's Cross? (March 19, 2000) I don't even know where to start today - there is so much that I want to say. After a week back in the UK, sleeping on people's floors, I finally think there may be hope on the horizon. Kate,...
Being John Malkovich... (March 19, 2000) I went to see Being John Malkovich yesterday afternoon with Liz, Katy and Rhonda. I can't tell you how excited and inspired I was. I think it has been years since I saw such imagination and playfulness on screen -...
QuietRiot... (March 19, 2000) Mark at Riothero is having a pretty weird time at the moment - not that you would know it from the main page of his weblog. If you want to read some of the most heartfelt and occasionally painful writing...
Describe your weblog... (March 19, 2000) I've just decided to join weblogs.com. I've been putting it off for weeks because I was stumped by the question "Describe your weblog". I always find those questions both alarming and absurdly difficult - it's like those bits on CVs...
Design critiques... (March 19, 2000) Andy at Dlog has responded to people's criticisms of his weblog design reviews (including a slightly savage one from the real world). His reply is well considered and good reading. I was particularly gratified that he decided to clarify his...
A final thought... (March 19, 2000) As a final thought - a bizarre Invisibles Preview has appeared on ebay. Does anyone know anything about it? If so, let me know....
How did I miss haughey.com? (March 17, 2000) Before I get down to business (as it were), can someone explain to me how I have missed haughey.com after all these months of weblogging. I can't even remember how I found it today. Very much worth a visit....
A day without blogger... (March 17, 2000) A day without blogger. And a difficult day it was too. My complete inability to update the site at lunchtime or before work has been profoundly frustrating. In general this has been a pretty weird day, and one that cannot...
Ah... Symbolism... (March 16, 2000) Today began with a very sad event - a direct result of my vagrancy - somewhere in all the move I crushed one of the pairs of sunglasses I bought in LA. If I was of a more morbid disposition...
I'm still at Chris' place... (March 16, 2000) I'm still at Chris' place which is nice because he doesn't expect me to go out and entertain him all the time and he likes watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which is ultimate escapist entertainment. Tomorrow I'm on the move...
Weird queries... (March 16, 2000) One thing I really need to know - does Darren of timemachinego go to the EasyEverything on Tottenham Court Road? Because if he does, I'd like to wave to him one day from the balcony at Time Out. Which reminds...
I respect honesty in reviews... (March 16, 2000) If there's one thing I respect it is honesty. But it's a dangerous thing - particularly when the question you are answering is loaded. Take for example Oh Messy Life's DLOG (presumably is to Designlog as blog is to weblog...
On the epic saga of The Well... (March 15, 2000) Any regulars to barbelith are familiar with the nexus - the anti-establishment post-counter-sub-cultural discussion forum. Recently there has been rather more in the way of conflict and flame-wars than normal - so much in fact that I have been sent...
Temporary plateau of weirdness reached... (March 15, 2000) Temporary plateau of weirdness reached. Things remain weird, but have ceased to get increasingly so. Chris has said he will put me up for a couple of nights, which is really decent of him and means that I can now...
Guide to Planetary... (March 15, 2000) Trash culture purists only: A comprehensive and interesting site on the comic book Planetary....
A bitchy question borne of frustration... (March 14, 2000) Can someone explain to me how it is possible that I can cross the world and crash on someone's floor in LA for nearly nine days, but when I return to my home country and home city, almost none of...
There's a party in Austin and you can't come... (March 13, 2000) "Hey Tom, there's a really big party going on in Austin, but you can't go." SXSW fever is running rampant through the webloggers. And those of us stuck five thousand miles away can only pine for what might have been...
Radio Barbelith is back... (March 12, 2000) Radio Barbelith is back on the air. Every day over the last week that I haven't been able to update the site I have felt more and more anxious - what if everyone got bored and wandered off? I mean...
Sporadic Travel Diary... (March 5, 2000) This is more of a sporadic travel diary at the moment than it is a weblog - but I don't suppose I can really do much about that - it's not as if I have much time for surfing at...
On the way to LA... (March 4, 2000) Thursday was a very long day. Not one of those long days where you feel like someone has grabbed each end of the day and stretched it, but one of those days when someone actually HAS. And not only that...
8am wake-up call... (March 2, 2000) OK. It is 8am, and I am about to be driven to my train, from whence to another train, and so to the airport, and so for an 11 hour flight to LA, arriving around five-thirty pm. Wish me luck.......
