My once mighty notebook – a “Moleskine” no less – seems to have been reduced to a container of drivel. A real-world twitter account. Notes in passing. There was a time when it – or it’s ancestors – carried deep thoughts, observations, drawings, and various other brain dumpage.
I just finished watching “Little Children” – Kate Winslet is lost, unhappy, and lonely – living in picket-fence middle America, and finds herself pursuing and becoming involved with parent from the playpark in a similar situation. The voice-over between major scenes of the movie reminds me of a modern fable; it is calming and unsettling at the same time. The story draws you in early in the movie, and then systematically messes with your head. It pulls at the loose threads of your personality.
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While talking with my cousin earlier, I realised a blog had not left a computer by my hand for several days. I'm not suggesting that some great wrong might occur somewhere in the universe in response to my inaction, but I don't really want to tempt fate either.
Blogging is of course serious [...]
Anybody who has read my personal blog recently will be aware that I have ditched the iPhone in favour of a Blackberry. The Blackberry is somewhat better at one key thing than the iPhone was previously; communication. It's existence about my person this weekend has resulted in several far flung friends finally being able [...]
It would appear that Avatar – one of the best science fiction movies ever made – is under attack from all directions.
Right wingers are criticising it for it’s anti-imperialist, anti-military stance
The politically correct are accusing it of being racist
Anti-smokers are complaining about one of the characters smoking
The Vatican is complaining about it promoting paganism and [...]
or the past few weeks I have been investing a little more effort into the words and pictures I contribute to the world you and I know as the blogosphere. It has reminded me why I used to love blogging – and indeed writing.
I like to finish things. I might not finish them immediately, but there is some weird, screwed up part of my head that likes things to be orderly – in the right place – tidy. Perhaps it’s the same character fault that makes me put things away, wash up, and become insanely wound up by [...]
I was going to title this post “To blog, or to microblog”, but I’m not quite sure if “to blog” is grammatically correct or not (if it is in the dictionary, I will headbutt the table rather theatrically, and make disgusted murmurings about the erosion of the English language).
While life and work have recently conspired [...]
I headed out to watch “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” last night with a good friend.
“Half Blood Prince” is the sixth book, and sold itself on the rumour that somebody important died at the end. Back when the book was released, the text appeared on the internet a few days before the book [...]
Sitting on the train, en-route to Birmingham once again. Woke with a start at 4:55am, and lurched out of bed. Espresso at home, and a capuccino at Maidenhead have kick started my body enough to deal with the early start.
Some foolish experimentation with viral Twitter tools yesterday filled my morning email with follows from strangers. [...]
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