There’s a nice thing. My walk to work (sounds like a 1930s soviet/1940s UK slogan – Walk to Work! – accompanied by picture of Stakhanovite male striding into picture) is becoming a theme of these posts. One of my two routes takes me across a pedestrian iron bridge that’s almost as wide as it’s long.…
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Blog, blog, blog. It is an odd position to be finding yourself in, when your back’s no longer to the wall, and yet the day job is still meant to be in a state of panic. That said I’m utterly exhausted now, and yet its bonfire night. I should be wandering around in undknown muddy…
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One frickin piece of freelance keeps coming back to haunt me. Didn’t have time to do it properly, and now every few seconds I get flashbacks to it. Such a hideous piece of work, the game and the copy I was forced to write. S’called Far West, and I plead that friendly bombs come and…
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Title Impossible Creatures Not since “Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties”has a game inspired such diabolic cackling in the PCF offices. But in a good way. Web System Requirements: Body 550 words Microsoft normally find themselves stereotyped as monsters by the online community, for twisting every little thing to their ultimate profit. It’s nice to see someone…
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Terror of a day now graying out behind me. I frickin hate getting things quite that wrong – reminds me of university days, and my lackadaisical attitude back then. Not that I’m any better now, but it’s lazy with self-knowledge this time around.
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Oh I’m knacker’d again. Everything feels like I’m swimming through fog, my memory fails me every other second, I find myself lost thoughtless just standing or sitting. Another late night of mind-blocking work – an excellent way to stop all the thoughts that rush in when work everyday, the million things I ab-so-lutely have to…
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Publisher Wanadoo Web www.wanadoo.com Price £14.99 Save Yes Link-Up No Out Now Extreme Ghostbusters: Code Ecto-1 Those withered types who follow the media hype will have noticed a touch of fuss around a game called BMX XXX. This bravely attempted to combine the seemingly opposed genres of cycling and sex, without mentioning saddle sores. Extreme…
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Signs of a bad hangover (no. 195 in a continuing series of alcoholic diasters) : Dinner consisting of canned tuna in brine and mushy peas – mixed. With Guinness as an apertif. Eesh.
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Sci-fi idea – future world where everything filtered to end user – houses filter visitors, phone calls filter/alter conversations based on preferences (that become implicit as you grow up in world) – siftware – great theme to bring up standard epistemological question – end panglossian society protected from outside world – crux of course is…
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Pure moments of embarassment §16,970 Sat at desk, with dictionary of quotations open in front of me at completely inappropriate section for computer magazine, with web page open on computer “how to make lysergic acid in the home”, and big chunky headphones on spewing out the bonzo dog doodah band’s “we are normal and we…