Recently noticed a couple of additional HD channels now available on Virgin Media. C4 - not that much of a bonus. ESPN - will broadcast all the football matches previously screened by Setanta - in High Definition - at no extra cost. Superb. Slightly irritating that Virgin Media can send me a fun packed newsletter (via email) but don’t have a blog or sensible way of communicating this useful information to me.
Mum and Dad Having cool time on Crete (geddit ?) with Bazzer, Nobby, TenBob, SickNote and the three ‘S’s. Sun = wicked. Sea = wicked. Sex = wicked (geddit ?). Loadsa Brits out here. Able to get The Sun delivered. Happy hour - all day long (nudge, nudge). Last night, I asked a bird if she fancied a ride on my very own ‘banana boat’. She slapped me (just like being back at home :-) then she poured sambuca all over me balls. ...
This is a quick test to check that Habari is no longer adding additional paragraph tags and random line breaks for people consuming this blog in a feed reader. Both of you. Many thanks to arthus (possible pseudonym alert) aka Morgante Pell (additional pseudonym alert) for creating the plugin that made this possible and the death of autop().
Garry Tan, a developer for Posterous (a simple but powerful blog platform), wrote a brilliant post about product design. Are there any questions? I said yes – one last one: “When do we decide to remove features?” In a similar vein, Amit Agarwal asks ‘What’s Common Between an iPod and Google ?’ Answer: Simplicity. If I had a cube, I would print both articles out and pin them up.
As we meandered our way through Western Australia, we took a taxi from the rather mediocre accommodation provided by ‘Ocean Lodge’ to Broome airport to fly back home via Darwin. As we turned a corner on a deserted road, an Aboriginal woman and her daughter crossed the road in front of us. They looked up before crossing and walked quickly across the road towards a school. It would have been courteous for the taxi driver to have slowed down but he maintained his speed and turned to me in the passenger seat: ...