‘This football club will be without doubt the biggest and best in the world. People don’t like to hear it but I’ll make no excuses for saying it, and I will never stop saying it because I truly believe it with the resources and capabilities that we have - and when, not if, we’re at Wembley having beaten Man United yet again !’ Gary Cook - Mad Hatter Saloon, New York, 22 January 2010. ...
Some of the varied and bizarre keyword searches leading visitors to this site merely confirm this blog is the ramblings of a confused madman. Here is a selection from the start of the year ‘dyslexic blog’ - curiously spelled correctly. ‘crucifixion blog’ - listen United are in debt and suffering a dip in form but don’t do anything hasty now. ‘why linux will never’ - come on, you simply can’t leave me dangling like that. ‘breasts chessington’ - hoping your mates didn’t publish that photo of you, on the log flume, flashing your assets. ‘brightside software enterprises friendorfoe’ - stealth marketing finally starts to pay off. ‘famous captive animals’ - Skippy (the bush kangaroo) and Lassie. ‘handsworth exoctic escort’ - there’s absolutely nothing exotic about Handsworth, trust me. ‘hoax messages on friends reunited’ - the ghost of the cruel, heartless Janet Oldsgate strikes again. ‘how can i get back my lost virginity’ - please send an international money order for £250 to PO Box 729. ’life has dealt me with a cruel card’ - don’t tell me, hang on. Was it the ‘8 of Diamonds’ ? ‘my car keeps cutting out and the bonnet is steaming’ - stop blogging immediately and call The AA. ‘pubsubhubbub is a lot easier than it sounds’ - easy for you to say. ’the balls of allah explosive underpants’ - priceless. What a superlative name for a blog/album/house/dog ! ‘what do you think is the most important decision in our life’ - Will these underpants last another day ? ‘fucking overlapping partitions when im installing linux’ - language, Timothy. Nice assumption that the swear word would be included in relevant posts
Sometimes your faith in humanity is restored. The DEC Haiti appeal has raised over £25 million just from the news coverage alone. This exceeds the £20 million raised by last year’s Children in Need campaign which (while still a worthy cause) is mercilessly peddled and trailed by the BBC for two long weeks. Don’t forget to mark your donation as ‘Gift Aid’ which allows DEC to reclaim 28p for every pound given.
‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs So very true. Via a comment on an interesting blog post comparing Tumblr to Posterous. Ironically, this short post would have been better suited to a one liner, throwaway post correctly labelled and nicely formatted as a quotation on a service like, well Posterous or err, Tumblr but I am trying to consolidate all my efforts into this blog.
‘This country is shit. The food is shit, the government is shit, the weather is shit, the transport system is shit, education is shit, life is shit, death is shit, I am shit’. As this country grinds to a halt yet again after a light dusting of snow, a timely and apt quote from Arthur Smith whose autobiography ‘My Name is Daphne Fairfax’ I can highly recommend.