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That NetVibes let's you create your own page title?Cool huh? They really let you type a lot of stuff in there. That's very nice of them.
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Here's a first. This post has a soundtrack.The reason this post has a soundtrack, is because this mp3 is a recording of the music I was playing with my band on the weekend, when I came to this...
View ArticleThat's SO Raven.
You know how it is - You're busy working , trying to get your startup to beta.Then Little Headed Simon pops up and posts you some link he saw on boing boing.And then he says that the link isn't really...
View ArticleThis life
I haven't seriously written anything here forever. I was re-reading some old posts, and realising that I really liked reading them. So, in the interests of posterity...Living in America for the last...
View ArticleThinking of Illinois
I sit, pensively leaning over my keyboard, stilled for the first time in an hour.The lilting piano music had caught part of my conscience. I stare out the window at the Virginia sunshine, fading in the...
View ArticleMoney the money money
This Financial Crisis on Wall Street thing started me thinking.Since we arrived in the US, I've been contemplating how strange it is that America seems more concerned with money than it does with...
View ArticleFor Keith
A friend of mine died today. He wasn't a particularly close friend, or even someone I had spent a long time with. He was a work colleague - we'd worked together at TOWER Software. To Me, Keith was a...
View ArticleThis Is Just To Say
I have eatenthe plumsthat were inthe iceboxand whichyou were probablysavingfor breakfastForgive methey were deliciousso sweetand so cold - William Carlos Williams
View ArticleGord's Ukulele Ringtone for the iPhone
Late last night I picked up my Ukulele, where it had been lying neglected in the corner of the office, under a small whiteboard covered in work scribble.And as I was reading the work scribble, and...
View ArticleBuzz - I wonder why it does
Apparently web based social services need to be named after animal noises. We have Twitter and now Buzz, so that's the birds and the bees covered. Hopefully Microsoft or Yahoo can get in on the act...
View ArticleHey, look at me, I'm a Business Jerk.
In a crowded hotel room, hastily assembled, the desks arranged in a U shape. Business people are seated sedately, all wearing collared shirts, some with ties, listening to a discussion about the grant...
View ArticleOne Day by the Sea
This post is in honour of my father's twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. I couldn't be there in person this year, but I was there in spirit. And as one of those solemn and awkward blonde kids, I hope...
View ArticleDark Galaxy
Dark Galaxy was a web based strategy game that in early 2002 became a huge time sink at the software company I was working for. I can't actually remember the point of it, or how the whole thing worked....
View ArticleMeta Mutter
The late morning sun lights up the slats of the wooden blinds, casting striped shadows across the floor of the room. The winter solstice just passed, and the wind behind the pane of glass shuffles the...
View ArticleHigh Noon in Port Moresby
Squatting down on the cement pathway, huddled amidst the short shadows of the passers-by, is a small child. As people stir past him, ambling on their daily chores, he watches them pass...
View ArticlePearly
I found myself, standing in the entrance to a massive building, being guided by an unknown force that was far too big for me to resist or even to question. As we herded into the alcove, I could see up...
View ArticleNot The Story
So, I’m Momo. What? Why’s it say “So, I’m Momo?” What? What are you doing Dad?(laughs)Dad, just go back, back, back back.Delete, Delete – Dad! – You’re not meant to be writing this, Dad.Dad!Dad!!Back...
View ArticleGood Morning, Cockroach!
The cockroach, like all creatures, is a miracle of evolution and adaptation. It's unique segmented body design, and it's hardiness and durability are legendary among popular parlance. It can survive in...
View ArticleSo this is the New Year...
We spent New Years in time honored family tradition, on the beach under a glorious clear sky, with the Western Outer Orion Arm of the Milky Way luminous and scattered above the warm summer waves.This...
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Introducing Musichord
I've always fancied myself as a writer for Rolling Stone. Living a wild reckless, rock n' roll lifestyle, touring around with no fixed address, being all edgy and drug addled and fuck-you...
View ArticleThe Man who lived in the Sea
At the edge of the world, where the sand meets up against the crystal cylinders of the rolling blue windswept ocean lived a simple and humble man, who had forsaken the land and his family. He stayed,...
View ArticleRoyalty
I awake in the quiet of the morning, reclining on my bed, made by the finest mattress-makers in all the land, filled with natural fibres and customised support structures, designed to ensure that I...
View ArticleBlessed are the ListMakers
This is a post from my morning pages completed at http://750words.com. These early posts are frequently disconnected, semi-cohesive train-of-thought ramblings, and they very seldom see the light of...
View ArticleBrush Strokes
What she meant was never clear. As she stumbled, in suspended animation, her long hair falling despondently ahead of her into the chasm that opened before her, the garbled sentiment seemed heartfelt...
View ArticleThe Information Addict
I walked behind her, the city swirling in the human ejecta that had arrived predictably from the office buildings as the workday drew to a close. She brushed awkwardly against the tide of pedestrian...
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