so what do you do with the first warm weekend of spring?
have a picnic, of course.

the recently web-homeless hwee yee has moved in with us!
not long now before vegas and having fat elvis marry us. that is, unless we decide to fight to the death for kat’s hand in marriage (i’ve known her longer, back off!)
so today i fell in love with wordpress a little bit more. i spent the [...]

it was certainly an interesting film, but it didn’t grab me like i hoped it would. in fact, the strongest response i had to it was a sudden desire to dig out and listen to all my dj shadow albums.
which, verily, upon arriving home, i did.

i have a confession to make. one of the reasons i haven’t been here much is because i’ve kinda sort of started seeing another content management system. there’s been some wordpress flirtation happening of late, and it may be getting serious.
it began as a casual thing. i’d noticed it round the internet once or twice, [...]

we emerged from the cinema craving caffeine - and in my case, nicotine as well. so in an attempt to distract me from the latter, we overcompensated with the former.
whilst consuming giant bowls of latte, we decided that jim jarmusch captured quite nicely every permutation of coffee drinker (including those who prefer tea), [...]

god bless colleagues who randomly wander into my office and open conversations with: “did you know that this sunday is international talk like a pirate day?”
who then, after watching me fall off my chair in delight, email me with the following information:
The plan is:
Meet at the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel at 2pm dressed and talking [...]

“Another flaw in Microsoft software has surfaced, with a graphics file now able to crash the security gates of Windows.”
“The flaw, in the JPEG imaging technology, is so broad that using the Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to view web pages could be risky, security analysts say.”
antidote: firefox.

from catch-up session with a family friend i hadn’t seen in about 3 years, about his work assignment:
as the program gets built, so does the name:
TCIE: Thin Client Imaging Engine
UI: User Interface
CIA: Common Interface Architecture
TUF: TCIE UI Framework
CUTT: CIA Using TUF/TCIE
CAT: CUTT Authoring Tools
(me: so what’s it called now?
he: god knows. i left for another [...]

i came into work this morning, and saw that someone had put this up:

here’s the url.

i’m at the mcdonald’s in kingsford, waiting for a ride home. i’m sitting at one of the tables outside, nearest the road. soon i notice that the staff who are walking about clearing the tables are giving me funny looks. i pat my nose to check that it hasn’t fallen off. no, still there. it [...]