2008

Aug

Finding lots of little administrative tasks to fill the very few hours before I go on holiday!

Lunching with @booksquare

mmmmonmouth street coffee.

「住宅都市整理公団」別棟:公団渋谷二丁目団地

Foul mood. Sauteing chicken livers with a fury.

“In 1969, the 14-year-old Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape recorder, snuck into...

“These are for children, they’re not for the...

dbreunig: Photographer stumbles across NASA trailor in the...

“I had no intention of buying a rug on our trip to Turkey in...”
— PILOTed: What I Learned Buying...

Where’s the damn lemsip?!?

feeling ill, children intolerable - I have threatened to abandon them and check into a hotel if they...

tired, achy, spent half the night awake composing angry letters to my bank.

“‘If you send a Tweet on Twitter, and nobody is around...”
— Smithereens: Productivity,...

Where: Chicago Prints

energised by my Barclays weekly hate - today I told them that I hated their bank TO THEIR FACE.

El Cerrito Steel on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Just had my nails painted by my daughter. I look elegant. Trashy and elegant.

Wondering where in London is a good hangout for stationery fetishists?

looking through the moo minicards a friend just gave me. 100 memories of my wedding :-)

Flickr Photo Download: Ambition

explaining contextual advertising to a 5 year old after a pantene ad was played before Kung fu panda...

Kevin Kelly on the future of books and reading http://bit.ly/1GQK1k - much more interesting than...

“I have experienced soul-data through silicon. You might be...”
— Kevin Kelly — The...

Off for raw fish with the Right Hon Hon Bros.

Silicon roundabout, just like i pictured it. Skyscrapers and ev’rything.

Wondering whether there is a good caff, with wifi, in the vicinity of, er, Silicon Roundabout.

Standing on waterloo bridge in the sun, beer in hand, waiting for my ride home.

Signing the petition to save Bletchley Park http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/BletchleyPark/ - my...

Jul

Sanlin Building on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Oh barclays, why must every interaction with you be an exercise in frustration?

OK twitter - Challenge No2. Help me contrive a worky reason to go to tokyo. I’ve spent months...

Phillip Toledano - Days with My Father

Wondering if any of you smart folk know of any specialist children’s web/interaction...

NeubauLaden Produkte NBGrotesk 35-55/Set™

Bucolic English countryside, complete with Llamas.

Sitting in a country pub garden drinking English white wine.

About to drop kids off at their grandparents so that we can properly celebrate our 1st wedding...

George Costanza Tribute (via adayinthelife)

Seedmagazine.com | A Place for Science | Labs At Night

OK two projects funded, two to go. Time to get bizzie.

I now have 4 projects ‘under consideration’. If all come off I’ll have to get some...

Little Yellow Man on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

2680212119_1f691db095_b.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024x682 pixels) -...

phew that’s both kid’s parties done for the year. July has been exhausting.

Having my flickr account hijacked by a five-year old who is disappointed at the lack of Ben 10...

kottke.org :: home of fine hypertext products

wishing there was a way to post images to ffffound on my iPod touch.

Star Wars vs. Saul Bass (via bhilmers)

By Pressing on a Special Key it plays a little Melody.

By pressing down a special key it plays a little melody beep beep bleepity bleep.

It’s taken me 7 years to find this track online, now let’s go back to 1993, to the Wag,...

Koochie Ryder - Freaky Realistic I’ve been looking for this track for years - I still have it...

Is wondering why it took me so long to encounter Kraftwerk’s Computer World?

Wow - a whole blog, just about pencils. The 21st century is...

The bait is on the hook, the line is cast, will the fish bite?

Is this the world’s worst website? Quite...

Loving Tag Galaxy (tip of the hat to The Knitware Blog)

OK - I am luv luv luvvin this http://10ways.gettyimages.com/

Tweaking proposals.

Anybody going to the Edinburgh Interactive Festival? Whassitallabout?

“Would you like to go to the cinema? Shall we see what’s...”
— SMS Text News »...

sister married, dances danced, drinks drunk, family and friends hugged

getting ready for lil sister’s wedding. My little sister is all growed up :-)

Ok supermonkeyball is go!

hmm - excitedly download itouch update and some apps (including supermonkeyball!) - now when i...

All sorts of hyperactive craziness at the school summer fair.

mmmm just discovered http://flowingdata.com - one for geeks and designers (@benterrett - you might...

when/where can I upgrade my ipod touch? I want supermonkeyball NOW.

Western Spaghetti by PES (via PESfilm)

Just caught 20mins of @paulcarr. Hope if hasn’t missed his train as a result.

hustling for a dongle.

Ancient chinese prophecy say “counter shitty weather with hot and sour soup”

Some great urban shots here

Flickr Photo Download: Urban_11

First purchase for my Nintendo DS has arrived! Space Invaders Extreme. I might have to leave work...

“Firefox is now running in safe mode” wtf???

I’m Not Here to Make Friends! (via Andrew Baron)

Ordered some new spectacles. Get ready for a whole new me!

Just put up our tents on the welsh hills.

I woke up with a glass of whisky by my bed and now I am listening to @benterrett ‘s country...

Off out drinking in ye olde london town after wife expelled me from home so she can talk DIY without...

Anyone else getting ‘Invalid Pin’ message when using twitter over SMS? I have reset...

“But – and this is the most depressing reason – the truth is...”
— Nick Hornby on books, readers...

Wow. Son’s 5th birthday began with him dropping my macbook on his toe splitting it open. I was...

I need to demonstrate the charm/power/joy of twitter at work. I have failed in all my attempts to...

Poking around at poke.

A Move to Make a Silent Air Terminal Hum Again - New York...

“A good logo provides the pleasure of recognition and the promise of meaning” - Paul...

Jun

12 Country Greats @ http://jeremyet.muxtape.com/

I sang this to my kids when they were babies. Now it’s on a muxtape…

preparing for a five-year-old’s Ben 10 themed birthday party.

The Demon Hot Atom — Control Room

Really enjoying Michael Beirut’s 79 Short Essays | New...

BLDGBLOG: London is swimming

BLDGBLOG: London is swimming

I have found a place that is worse than the post office. Citylink cricklewood it is you.

just presented ‘the bright shiny ebooks future’ to 100 Penguins - now off to pick my boy...

giving a shout out to @raffers and all involved at Penguin for their NMA win for...

Thinking about the Book of Books, the metaBook, the urBook…

parent::child()

Le Corbusier - Villa Savoye: A LEGO® creation by Matija...

Pointing a video camera at Geoffrey Boycott.

Walking across waterloo bridge in the sun, jamie t on the ipod, loving london.

James Houston’s prize winning degree piece (as seen at Interesting2008)

Anyone have any strong opinions about Picnic in Amsterdam? Worth going to?

My Wordle-ized CV

Turntablism Interesting 2008 style

They were very very loud

it just got louder

so loud my trousers are vibrating.

wearing my steward issued earplugs in anticipation of my bloody valentine.

ahem and now My bloody Valentine. Ace day.

Interesting, beer, Thai a

Good beard to spectacle ratio at interesting.

10 MINUTES OF MAYHEM. But that’s football!

chomping on root beer flavoured sweets.

Wow. Just wow. (Via Thomas Hawk)

Kids have been charming tonight (“Dad - can I smell your teeth?”) and pizza is baking....

I have been awake for 37 of the last 40 hours. Time for a whisky and then some zzzzzzz.

Car to airport took 10mins instead of 40. Changed to earlier flight. Epic win.

Heading to airport. Hello madrid bye bye madrid.

About to watch @rubypseudo talk to telefonica.

At heathrow at stupid o’clock for a 10 hour trip to madrid.

really liking wordle.net

The spore creature creator is really a 196mb download for a Mac? For real?

Spending the next 36 hours discussing digital bizniz - i an here for the lulz i think.

Reading a japanese/english phrasebook over a shoulder. Sample “his bad breath is...

The calm before the storm of the week..

Nicholas Hughes

Now this is my get up and go music - the KLF with the sarajevo orchestra from the warchild album

ripping my newly acquired DVD of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? for ipod delight. One of my all time...

playing with flock while a chicken roasts.

Anyone remember an old video game where you had to shoot big bubbles which then burst to form...

have brought daughter into work for father’s day ‘event’ - she is beta testing...

NOW THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!

I think the question we all have to ask (re the apprentice) is what would Jack Bauer do? What would...

hmm - can anyone think of a scent that has actually been ‘experience designed’ - is...

Wondering which is the more interesting, games or play? And wondering whether it is even an...