On Blogging

In a moment of distracted boredom earlier this afternoon, I stumbled across this article from the Guardian back in April, in which 3 bloggers talk about why they do it. Ignoring for a second the slightly surreal but probably-seemed-better-in-context-in-an-issue-edited-by-Franz Ferdinand quote at the bottom, “Franz Ferdinand say…”, the article is worth reading if only for the following quote: “What tends to happen with me is that I’ll meet up with someone I haven’t seen for…

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“Everything Involved in Travelling is Bad”

Reading the Independent travel supplement over the weekend, I couldn’t help but notice their interview with French designer Philippe Starck. I supposed he’s entitled to his opinions, but he doesn’t half come across as a bit of a twat. Apart from telling a travel magazine that “the secret to travelling is to never read magazines – they wash your brain and depress you”, “everything involved in travelling is bad”, and “only stupid people travel”, he…

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Hooray Henley

Despite our distance from the finish line creating the slight sense that we might just perhaps have been in one of the cheaper enclosures, on Saturday I increased my English-posh-quotient by several points by attending this year’s Henley Regatta along with a gaggle of unruly Aussies (actually, perhaps not by that many points after all). Rather like being at a sporting event in the US, any actual sport taking place seemed somewhat peripheral to the…

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Comment Spammers: What a bunch of Wankers

Last week, I was forced to remove the guestbook from this website after it was repeatedly spammed by mindless idiot comment spammers, who try to boost the page rank of their sites by posting links to them on the comments systems of other websites. Now, they seem to be attacking the blogs: yesterday I had to delete over 100 comments from across both blogs, and block the IP addresses. This morning, it seems to have…

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