March 2008
Post-Hon, brain whirring into event organisation mode. Now getting ready to enter the pod and record tomorrow’s Guardian Tech Weekly.
The rules of murder →
Sunday night: time to plan a robofest.
I’m going to buy a lump of steak as big as yer head. So there.
WARNING! This synopsis contains spoilers →
Feeling groovy.
or, if nobody’s there, the fountainhead. Yes, I’m disorganised.
going to the foundry … see you there?
Drinkers! I’m lazy, so somewhere in North Laine would do me… only a couple though, I’ve got some doped-up kittens to look after.
Twitterfolk of Brighton! Anybody up for a drink this evening. I’m feeling thirsty already…
Just dropped the kittens off with the vet for a pre-weekend slice of surgical barbarism.
TV’s Tanya Byron (TM): eminently sensible, but it feels as if she’s just run a talking shop in order to set up another talking shop. Still..
Ministers *very* cagey about actually spending money on the Byron review’s recommendations.
Today’s Metro splash sounds like a twisted tribute to South Park.
Heading off to the London… long day ahead interviewing Tanya Byron http://tinyurl.com/2ss5am and also Neil Thompson from Xbox UK.
Neil Thompson grilling done - asked some enjoyably uncomfortable questions. Now off for a personal briefing with Lady Byron of Teeveenia.
The right answer →
Addicted? Not quite. →
It really is a Very Small World, isn’t it?
Trying to find somebody who doesn’t want to be found.
I don’t want to live here →
Thanks to all who’ve mentioned my Billy Bragg post - Why Mike Arrington’s not just wrong, but dangerous http://www.bobbiejohnson.org/?p=1208
irritated by a colleague who’s not only rewritten a story I did last year, but also killed another I’ve been working on in the process.
Goodbye to the little guy →
Anybody know why Delicious has started adding backslashes in all of the URLs I ask it to post up on my blog?
links for 2008-03-24 →
Thanks to the hive mind, but I shall not be gracing the airwaves this evening after all - over to you, @billt
Considering what I might say about “internet addiction” on the radio tonight. Are you an internet addict? Is it even really possible?
Joining team Praxis in aristotlewar2008 !!!
Striking a pose →
Magnum Blog / Philip Jones Griffiths 1936-2008 →
I seem to have grown a mullet overnight.
wikinear: what's notable near me? →
Billy Bragg: the Royalty Scam →
links for 2008-03-23 →
“If we change the spatial orientation of the orange…”
Today’s random urge: to play Amiga.
No comment →
Made of stars. And sleep. →
Wishing the new iPhone ad would go: “If you love Facebook so much… THEN WHY DON’T YOU JUST *MARRY* IT?”
Riding the rails.
Joining the office in annual ritual of filing overdue expenses. They should just give me a bottomless account and be done with it.
Sorry, we’re closed →
RESIST THE JARGONAUTS!!!
Anybody got the Civil Serf blog archived? Perhaps in RSS or in their browser’s cache?
“Working from home” is the great expectation-confounding euphemism of our time. More work, not less.
Has nobody considered that Clarke, Minghella and Capn Birdseye may all be the same person? Truly, Fishy, Ody. (Ssey).
Magazines I like #1 →
DRIVERS - Do not forget to drop the Pantograph!
Radio 4 says `1968 - fact or fiction?`. I’m pretty sure it was a fact.