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Entries Tagged as 'Marginalia'
Politics
April 1st, 2010 No Comments
It is wrong that it would make me more likely to vote Labour if they actually used this as a campaign advert. But it probably would. Edit: From the Grauniad’s April Fools Day joke here.
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Weeknotes Edition #2
January 15th, 2010 No Comments
Testament went well on Sunday. The players-only website for it, less so – I underestimated the complexity of the task I’d set myself, and have been hacking some fairly nasty javascript in spare moments all week to make it work. And even once I’ve got that done, that’s essentially just the player-relevant side of it [...]
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Weeknotes Edition #1
January 8th, 2010 No Comments
For those who haven’t heard of them, weeknotes are exactly what they sound like – a roundup of the week. They’re a moderately trendy thing for the better class of design studio to engage in – a listing of various projects, of progress made and activities accomplished. I thought I’d try and adapt them for [...]
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Decade
January 4th, 2010 No Comments
Over the last few days, a number of clever people of my acquaintance have been espousing contradictory views about whether or not we’re in a new decade. One group has been pointing out, quite rightly, that the millennium and the century both started on Jan 1st 2001, and it hasn’t been a decade since then, [...]
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All Quiet On The London Front
December 30th, 2009 No Comments
You will have noticed that I stopped the 30 days thing on Christmas Day. The things you have missed are a detailed recap of my week, month and year followed by my hopes and dreams for the future, followed by closing with another dose of whatever took my fancy. While I’ve tried to be relaxed [...]
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Complete
April 28th, 2009 No Comments
As of the end of today, I’ve been off the drink for a month. I’ve also been single for slightly over a year. (It has not escaped my attention that I appear to be willing to give up certain human interactions for longer than I am willing to abstain from strong drink, but we’ll gloss [...]
Suburban Interlude
April 19th, 2009 No Comments
“The past, whether Renaissance Italy or ancient Egypt, is reassimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonise past and future. “ — J.G. Ballard “The Atrocity Exhibition”. He was a clever bastard, and it’s a shame he’s gone.
