May 2008 Archives
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Following in Dylan's footsteps, Lou Reed gets his own radio show
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On tv early next year.
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'Dutch things pressed for your pleasure'
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My favourite bottled tea, no sugars or sweeteners added.
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"a user script that lets you hide Twitter tweets from a definable list of users without actually unfollowing them"
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Hugo and Oliver on their invisible kick scooters.
Total number of books I've owned:
500+. I've been trying to get rid of them. They take up too much space, all my shelves are double stacked.
The last book I bought:
Here's the thing. I'm not buying a lot of books anymore because I'm not reading a lot of books anymore. Two reasons. I no longer have a train commute, which was the only time of the day I could read. The second reason is the fact that since (and for some time before) I got diagnosed with diabetes, I tend to fall asleep the minute I start reading. Whether on public transport, or sat on the couch, my eyes close very quickly. I used to read in bed for hours, but I can't do that anymore either.
Other than that my main reading material these days, believe it or not, is comics. I've got a subscription for all issues (and all covers) of Dark Horse's Buffy Season 8 and IDW's Angel - After the Fall as well as the Firefly/Serenity comics. I've also been reading Marvel's Runaways TPB 1-7. I never thought I'd be reading comics, but some of the characters from the Jossverse have stuck with me and I want to know their story. (Unfortunately, my favourite characters aren't the ones the focus is on.)
The last novels I bought are still sitting on my shelves, unread: Robert Little's The Company, Pullman's Northern Lights, H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights.
The last book I read:
Today I picked up Angel - After the Fall #7 and Buffy - Season 8 #14 and read them at A-Fusion, a Chinese bar/restaurant I go to a lot. It's two doors up from the comic shop. I don't remember which novel was the last one I read. It may have been John Banville's The Sea, or Marc Almond's In Search of the Pleasure Palace. I know I never finished Adriaan van Dis' De Wandelaar. The last book I really enjoyed reading was Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife.
Five books that mean something to me:
I enjoy books, but they don't really 'mean' a lot to me other than 'that was a bloody good read.'John Banville - The Untouchable.
Ursula LeGuinn's Earthsea series.
J.J. Voskuil - Het Bureau series.
Roger Zelazny - Amber series.
Can't think of #5.
Tag five people and request they fill it out on their blogs:
The last time I tagged people nobody did anything with it, so I'm going to save myself the embarrassment.-
It's a Twitter newspaper, of sorts.
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Was going through old photos, came across some GF shots Dolph Cantrijn shot for me in 1990. I can't for the life of me remember how I met the guy.
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Impressed me on Jools
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Better read up on this since we're going there later this month.
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Band G's seeing this week.
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'Federally subsidized subsitinance.'
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"If you want to stir your audience on a rapidly growing community site, take advantage of what we learned—hire a community manager. Or two."
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One of the very few Dutch authors I read.
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Gorgeous picture of vines
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Erwin Blom visits John Peel's family. He thinks Peel's vast collection of albums and his ratings should be put in a recommendations engine. Peel 2.0.
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Redesign completed. Please Mr Google, respider my site.
The redesign is based on a rejected 'heart' design for a poster promoting the 'Ich Liebe Dich' shows in Dublin a few years back. It's a really cool graphic, but the cross of the heart sticks out quite a bit which makes it heart to design around. I'm still not happy with the design, it is a bit of a compromise, taking into account feedback from friends, the client and my coding limitations. I am not keen on the font used for the 'gavin friday' header, or of its placement on the page. I think it would look better with a less ostentatious one. I also think there's too little connection between the homepage and the rest of the site.
And there's still much to do. Mr client was happy and I thought we were ready enough to launch, but I still got years of archived stuff to add to the database (Blogger export wouldn't work and it needs careful filtering and rewriting anyway.) and lots of other things to add and improve.
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Considering leasing a scooter.
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Map of wifi-enabled places to work
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At long fucking last.
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"if you want to make interesting technology, be an interesting person."
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Jim Fitzpatrick's taken some great pictures of Sinead over the years
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Elmo continues her Kiss obsession with a piece on Gene Simmons' Family Jewels show. I watched most of the first season of this and it was great. Must find more of it.
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"this is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter. inspired by wefeelfine and drawing data from summize, hand-crafted by amy hoy and thomas fuchs."
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Great pictures and art depicting New Yorks Chrysler Building