Just between the two of us
Are you using Microsoft's Internet Explorer? No need to be ashamed, everyone does, they just don't talk about it. It's perfectly natural.

Now grab your mouse and try highlighting a word or three. Careful! You've gone and got it everywhere!

Anyone know how to fix that? (It's beggining to bug me)

P.S. This much I've figured out, it has something to do the the position: absolute tags in the style sheet.

Fear and loathing on the infobahn
Miaow!

It all started innocently enough with Evan Williams posting this job offer. Wouldn't you like to work for Pyra, the coolest media company of 2002, as a customer service representative? To be there, day and night, helping Bloggers; to hold their hands and weep with them; to share the pain of yet another 503 error? Think of the love, people, think of the love.

Jack Saturn thought of the love, and quickly fired off his application letter. You see Jack felt himself uniquely qualified to fulfil this role, having being let go (unpaid, along with all the other staff of the company) from a very similar role only last year.

Get bitter with Jack, baby.

Strangely cool site
Believe it or not, I found this site by clicking a Blogspot banner ad on this very page. Imagine that! I never click banner ads. We all know that that way leads to madness (and endless pop-up ads, right?).

The crazy thing is that this stuff looks very cool and I think I may actually buy some of it. Whoa, maybe this is a sign of the apocalypse. Or that the ecommerce revolution has come full circle. I'd read stories about online advertising rates picking up, but little did I suspect that I would be the on the bleeding edge of this trend.

It's Kate!
Whodathunkit? All of us, really!



Too pretty, too sweet, the signs were there from day one. If there's a male in the UK who doesn't have a thing for this woman, I'll be very much surprised. Three and a half million people can't be wrong.

Unexpected insomnia cure
I'm a big fan of director Wes Anderson, and so I was very happy when The Royal Tenenbaums DVD recently arrived in my mailbox. I love the film, and the DVD (produced by Criterion) is full of wonderfully bizarre extras, like footage of one of the actors spinning plates, and an entire spoof talk show devoted to some of the minor actors in the film (you see a snippet of the talk show in the actual film).

There are also slideshows of storyboards and artworks related to the film. It all looks great, but I wouldn't know for sure, because every time I sit down to trawl through these artworks I fall asleep. Twice now I've woken up after an hour or two with a DVD remote control in my hand.

I honestly can't explain it.

P.S.Save Alex!

Send in the clones (they're already here)
Not enough hours in the day? Ever wish you had an extra pair of hands to lighten the load? I know I do. And so it is my pleasant duty to pass on a great big thank you to Mark for pointing me towards this terrific piece at The Register, which deals with the very issue.

It seems that now, thanks to the caring souls at Clonaid you can pick yourself up a beginner's cloning kit for a cool $9,199! Money may not be able to buy you happiness, but with the RMX2010 it can buy you Mad Scientist street cred.

"With this new and revolutionary device you will achieve significantly lower lysis rates and much higher fusion Rates!"

Whoo hoo! All you need now is the secret laboratory and the maniacal cackle.

Clonaid was formed by everyone's favourite snail-eating, UFO-loving, freak of nature, Raël. If you visit his site and wait a few moments, you will be treated to a sublime multimedia presentaion of his first meeting with his alien overlords. Oh boy! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! It just doesn't get any better than this.

Make sure you have your speakers turned on.

P.S. Save Alex!

Kids today...
Have you ever seen the movie Ruthless People? Do you remember Danny DeVito's "I love wrong numbers!" scene? At first glance, the IM transcript below appears to be the online equivilant of that scene. Only meaner.

The guy is obviously a pretty nasty piece of work, and what he is trying to do is pretty horrible. But ask yourself, who is the real sucker here? Personally, I find it hard to believe the girl hadn't figured out what was happening. I think she is totally aware and is playing along. So, is she playing him, or is he playing her? Either way, you probably shouldn't click here.

I bookmarked this link a while ago and I honestly don't recall where I found it. The site hosting the file is in Danish, so it's unlikely I got the link from there.

P.S. Save Alex!

Anyone know a good shrink?
Sorry for not posting quite so much lately. I know I've been slack. No real excuses, just lots of little things happening, nothing too exciting. On Monday, for instance, I had plans to write a longish piece about the security guard at my local Sainsbury's supermarket. Oh, it was going to be a laugh riot, but just as I sat down to write, the mail arrived with a whole bundle of DVD goodness for me. The second eleven episodes of The West Wing were finally in my grimy little hands. So, of course, I had to sit down and watch them. All three DVDs. All eleven episodes in one hit. And, of course, I had to watch them all again last night.

I love that show. A bunch of good looking people wandering about being clever, witty and compassionate by turns, and all at break-neck speeds. Why isn't real life like that? Why isn't my life like that? Why don't I know any stunning, long-haired blondes with endless legs and well thought out political opinions? I don't care if she's a Fascist or a communist, just as long as she cares deeply about something other than the latest Eastenders plotlines or which clubs are cool in Ibiza this year.

P.S. Whatever happened to Mandy? She just seemed to disappear. Did they ever explain what happened to her?

P.P.S. Save Alex!

Kieran is angry
I don't believe in the death penalty, I'm totally against it, but for this guy, and his sicko friends, I'm willing to make an exception.

P.S. Save Alex