Well, that was odd. I fell asleep at 11:15pm and woke up at 4:45am. I hope there was fireworks, and singing and all the stuff you wanted at midnight.
Happy New Year everyone. Here’s to 2010.
Archive for the ‘The World’ Category
Merry Christmas
Posted on in The World.Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you all have a good holiday and don’t forget the most important thing – Doctor Who is on tomorrow!
Very True Mood: 
cheerful
cheerfulVery True Music: "nothing later than 1964" christmas songs
My Decade Meme
Posted on in Blogs, Memes, My Life, The World, WWW, Work.2000
At the start of the year I was working Wicked Web in Clerkenwell, living in West Norwood and had been going out with ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
pink_weasel for six months. We went on holiday to Boston and Tennessee. WW moved office to Old Street in the spring. I went to Las Vegas for Andy’s stag weekend.
2001
I took Lettice to Budapest for her birthday. WW started laying staff off towards the end of the year.
2002
WW went into liquidation and hence I was made redundant. I became self-employed and started freelancing for many ex-WW clients. Went to the south of France with Lettice’s family – first time I’d ever seen the Mediterranean.
2003
I spent the first part of the year working on a site for the BBC. Towards the end of the year I started doing contract work via an agency which meant that I got a large refund from the tax man, eventually. I went on a falconry day and flew a Harris Hawk. I asked Lettice to marry me.
2004
I started this blog and spent several months working for the Home Office.
2005
I gave up freelancing and started work at Visit London. I started cross posting this blog to LiveJournal and joined LibraryThing and Last.FM. I moved house to larger flat, ten minutes down the road from the old one, and Lettice moved in. We got married and went on honeymoon in Canada. 
2006
I learnt XSLT. 
Lettice also started to work at VL. I joined Flickr
2007
Relaunched visitlondon.com with a new CMS, clocking up a stupid number of days off in lieu in the process. I did jury duty. I joined Facebook. We went to Dublin and Amsterdam.
2008
We went to Venice. I learnt JSP and jQuery. I joined Twitter
2009
We went to Barcelona and tried to buy a house. I grew a moustache for charity.
The Value of Nothing
Posted on in Books, The World.Oook!
Posted on in Sport, The World.Do you like hairy, sweaty Essex boys1 making themselves even hairier and sweatier?
Um. Let’s start that again.
Do you like gorillas?
Then check out my idiot colleague good friend Chris who is running in this year’s Great Gorilla Run and sponsor him
[1] Though if you do, Chris would probably like to hear from you and an introduction could be arranged.
Photos
Posted on in The World.Robot Zoo
Plasticine Garden
Losing Interest?
Posted on in My Life, The World.The interest I’m getting paid on my savings account (Yes I agree that I’m f**ing lucky to have some savings):
| 14 Oct 2008 | £38.32 |
| 14 Nov 2008 | £37.20 |
| 14 Dec 2008 | £25.15 |
| 14 Jan 2009 | £17.86 |
| 14 Feb 2009 | £13.04 |
| 14 Mar 2009 | £9.82 |
| 14 Apr 2009 | £10.55 |
| 14 May 2009 | £10.32 |
Not quite sure what happened in April. Did the Bank of England forget to cut the base rate or something?
The good news is that the government is getting £2 instead of £8 each month. Which means they have less money to give back to banks to pay me less interest. Hang on, surely this can’t be the way out of the crisis?
Quiz like it’s 1997
Posted on in Books, Films, Games, Music, My Life, Science, Sport, TV, The World.So I found this file, last modified 10 June 1997, on a set of back ups and it’s a pub quiz that I ran in Balliol bar. In fact considering the date I suspect that this is the night that pink_weasel first clapped eyes on me and thought “nice guy, shame about the jumper”.
People on facebook and twitter said that they wanted to see the quiz, so here goes.
Read the rest of this very true thing…
ERANU
Posted on in Media, My Life, The World.I don’t normally do the celeb spotting thing, but I’ll just point out that today I passed Vic Reeves in Forbidden Planet. And it was only two or three years ago that I sat next to him in Yo! Sushi at Victoria.
Two people who live in London cross paths twice in busy public places. Shock.
Phrase of the Day
Posted on in The World.“Brand Passion Pyramid” from the people who previously brought us “Content Tsunami” and “Market Speed”.
Good product, good people, good advice, dreadful (but memorable) neologisms.
Very True Mood: chipper
chipper