Timing
Posted: Thu 7 July, 2005 Filed under: News, Thoughts 10 Comments »Is it just me who’s wondering whether there’s a hint of coincidence between London winning the Olympic bid for 2012, and 24 hours later a bundle of bomb blasts in the city ?
And particularly when the G8 conference is going on up in Edinburgh too?
2012
Posted: Wed 6 July, 2005 Filed under: News 2 Comments »Oh buggery, London hosts the olympics in 2012. Arse.
Still, it gives me plenty of advance warning so I can be off somewhere else during that month. Preferably in a little hole in the desert where I don’t have to hear about the bloody thing at all.
Custard
Posted: Wed 6 July, 2005 Filed under: News 3 Comments »Did you know that on Channel Five (sorry, five) at 8.15am, they show the ace kids cartoon Roobarb? And that once they’ve shown the original episodes, there’s going to be 39 new ones? I didn’t. Happy, happy day.
Plod
Posted: Tue 5 July, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts 2 Comments »I must admit, I can’t help being impressed by the Chief Constable of Manchester Police, Michael Todd. When he came in to the position, he spent the first couple of days (and I think, though I may be wrong, that he actually did some of this before his official start date) visiting all the police stations in Manchester, and meeting the people he would be commanding/ representing. That’s a pretty strong thing to do – and something that a lot more bosses should do when they come to a new place.
Anyway, today he’s in the news again, having allowed himself to get shot by a Taser gun. This is a man whose attitude comes down to “I want this to be in the frontline police force, but I can’t justify doing that, or saying it’s safe, without having experienced it first”. Personally, I’d like to see more people with that kind of attitude.
Subscribing
Posted: Tue 5 July, 2005 Filed under: D4D™, Thoughts 9 Comments »One idea that was suggested over the weekend in Norfolk was that d4d™ should have a section (or, indeed, an entirely seperate site) that was passworded, and possibly also needed a subscription-type effort in order to get the password. This subscription would be something probably paltry (Maybe £10 per year, or something) more to show willing than anything else.
Content would most likely be far more ranty stuff, sweary, and generally things slanderous, libellous, and not meant for general consumption.
So – what do you think? Would it work? Would you read it?
Bunny
Posted: Tue 5 July, 2005 Filed under: Photography, Thoughts, Work-related 1 Comment »
One thing that’s great about doing mock-ups and screen-examples for a new website is that you can add in your own favourite images, rather than having to necessarily worry about copyright etc.
For the work I’m currently doing, I’ve opted to use this image, just to amuse me, and probably to do the same for other people when they look at the screen examples etc. It’ll never make it into the final version, but for now it makes me smile.
Is that sad?