Writing
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Lorca: A Dream of Life by Leslie Stanton
I scanned a couple of biographies of Federico Garcia Lorca to look for information about Blood…
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Classic travel
Paul Theroux on why he travels, and Levi-Strauss’s definition of “mana”.
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Europa and Hackensack
The sadness of two “boy loses childhood girlfriend who then becomes famous and successful” songs.
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Royal Mail spam
I like the Royal Mail a little bit less every time it shoves its junk mail through our letter box.
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Acting classes
Last year I began taking a few acting classes. This is why.
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Ten days of Tiger
After ten days of use, a few initial thoughts on Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4, and whether it’s worth upgrading.
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First time floating voter
Because I can’t face voting Labour, I’m now a floating voter. I’m trying to decide who to vote for.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide movie
I thoroughly enjoyed the revamped, high-production familiarity, but I have no idea if it will work as a film for people who don’t already know it.
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Holidays and urban spaces
We went to Avingon, Orange and Montpellier. The latter has a nasty modern development which isn’t a patch on its older parts as a pleasant environment.
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Piano Notes by Charles Rosen
Fascinating insight into the world of professional piano-playing. I think you’d get even more…
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Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb
Finally got round to reading it and wasn’t disappointed. Very dense with interesting nuggets.…
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Vote for me and Jamie Oliver!
JamieOliver.com, which I built with Poke, is up for a Webby award. So go and vote for it!
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HTML wot I wrote
I spent a lot of time doing the HTML/CSS templates for a new version of Wood Mackenzie’s site (although you’ve, justifiably, probably never heard of them).
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With great audiences…
At what point does an amateur weblog become professional? And what responsibilities does that entail? In sticking to its amateur style, I feel Boing Boing may be shirking some responsibility.
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I don’t understand
MG Rover’s directors and the profitable but crap Thameslink train service confuse me entirely.
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Flickr article for BBC News
I wrote an article about Flickr for BBC News Online last week, and it reminded me how different writing professionally is to all this personal publishing stuff.
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Guardian Review, 19 March 2005
Ian McEwan on how one person taking someone else’s boots leads to the collapse of society (well, almost).
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London Review of Books, 5 March 2005
Science should reconcile first and third person accounts of the universe, and novels written in free indirect style do just that.
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American passports and Mexican food
Two old posts of mine that have generated disproportionate quantities of coomments via Google.
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Moving virtual house
A week ago my sites moved to a new server. There are a couple of outstanding problems, but it mostly went OK. Here’s my exhaustive task list for ensuring a smooth move.
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Server moving…
Gyford.com (and Byliner, Overmorgen and Pepys’ Diary) is moving to a new server… so there may be some broken things around over the next few days. Sorry about that.
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May the Government be damned for it
An awesome, possibly final, speech from Brian Sedgemore in yesterday’s Prevention of Terrorism Bill debate. Why are people like him the exception rather than the rule among Labour MPs?
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Contextual signage
Two newish things I like, which together are worth a post, a new sign at the Barbican and one of the new Channel 4 idents.
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Top Tunes of 2004
Making a CD of your favourite music and giving it to friends is naughty and illegal and the cause of global terrorism. But if I was, perhaps, to make one of my favourite music of 2004, then it would look like…
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Ten years on
I’ve been online exactly ten years. It’s been amazing, but I don’t know where I’m going from here.