Really, I am not sure Steph and Alek should be allowed to post images of so many cute things. It doesn’t help when you’re catching up with their site over lunch! These images from a Counting Crows video make me want to watch music television all day just to see if it is shown or not.
2005: A Giddy Schoolgirl
2003: Gem
2002: Weather, Weather
Matt Haughey has a superb picture of San Francisco on Ten Years Of My Life (entry for 1 September 2004) which – for some reason – is making me yearn to go back there. I once visited on a rainy week in 2000. It was a business trip and my first time in the US so there were so many other things going on that I didn’t really appreciate it as much as I would have liked to. I do remember the view from the top of the Marriott but it’s certainly not as good as Matt’s view from the plane.
2003: Things I Want to be True (1)
2002: Ban Me?
I spent the holiday weekend in Copenhagen and I will write something about it eventually!
In the meantime I feel I have to post about my favourite headline of the day which is at Digital Spy: Ulrika dyes her hair. Certainly more news than I needed.
Is it right to have celebrities on a panel of jurors in a courtroom when a man is charged with murder? Oprah Winfrey thought she was too opinionated to serve on the jury but the lawyers said it was fine for her to serve. I wonder if anybody has looked at the psychological impact on the other jurors. Oprah is not just a jobbing actor you might have seen in the background on EastEnders. She’s a global star with a massive following, highly regarded in the field she is in and her opinions are reported worldwide. Surely, this means that people will listen to her. Does that make others on the jury more easily swayed. I am sure most of them would say ‘no’. I would say that her presence wouldn’t effect me – but I don’t think I’d be telling the truth.
2005: Gay Music Stars Still Stir Headline Writers
2004: Technology Gets The Better Of Me
2004: Another Chart
2002: A Haddock is A Wet Fish
The story goes that cool URLs don’t change. Valid in theory and very hard in practice – somebody always has a better idea two years down the line. That’s why it’s very encouraging to read Tom’s article on the reasoning behind URL’s on the new BBC Radio Three site. I’m hoping they do something similar for the other radio brands for it would be very useful and is a great example to other web designers/developers and producers. I guess many people are not afforded the luxury of the time Tom and company spent thinking about this so his post should be committed to memory. Now if only rest of us could learn …
2005: Goodbye Richard
Over the past two weeks I have had cause to contact two online companies that happily take my credit card details for services (and I happily pay them as I want to use the paid for features). You may recall I’ve mentioned contacting Yahoo. I also have had cause to contact Sonic Selector. So far, both companies are rating 0/10 for their customer service when it comes to billing enquires. At this moment it is at the point I would cancel both of the services and find alternative providers – especially as I just got an invite for a gmail account! Such a shame that companies behave like this. Just reminds that sometimes a real-world store that you can walk into is better.
UPDATE: Interestingly – and totally unknown to me until I posed this – the ‘On This Day‘ link is also about poor customer service.
2005: links for 2005-06-22
2005: You Make Me Sweat
2002: Shopping Madness
Things that caught my eye today:
2005: links for 2005-06-18
You know all the cool kids are signing up for gmail accounts through nice invites from people. I didn’t get one and I even know somebody who works at Google. Still, nice to see trusty Yahoo! greet me this morning when I logged into my Yahoo mail account:
Virtually unlimited storage
A whopping 2GB means you should never have to worry about managing storage again! Keep thousands of messages, photos, and documents – think of it as your online archive.
The new Yahoo interface is cleaner and I am about to start experimenting with using it as an online archive for something (although I haven’t yet decided what). The only problem I ever have with Yahoo is actually getting an answer out of them for a query – which in theory should be OK for free services but I do pay them for some services and can still not get an answer. Ideas for ways to test the extra storage!
2004: Two Years Ago
2003: Shrewsbury Carnival 2003 Mobile Pics
2002: Spiderman and Death by De-Capitation
Not that I really needed another excuse to show this picture again but, hell, it’s Friday so who cares? AdAge is reporting that ‘the hunk’, Jason Lewis, is claiming Absolue used the fake ad as genuine one:
The actor who posed as the “Absolut Hunk” in a fictitious ad that appeared in an episode of Sex and the City is suing the Absolut Spirits Co., alleging it promoted the make-believe ad from the HBO series as an actual advertisement without his permission [source]
Previously: Silent For A Week.
The Scotsman is tonight reporting:
The former lead singer with boy band Brother Beyond was charged with trying to pick up a street prostitute in LondonÂ’s seedy KingÂ’s Cross red light district. But friends of the former model claimed the accusation was ‘ludicrous’ because he is gay. Moore is to appear at Highbury Corner magistrates court in north London tomorrow charged under the Sex Offences Act. [source]
Also of note, Nathan Moore is now the manager of Phixx, Eurovision entry James Fox and Pop Idol finalist Hayley Evetts.
UPDATE: 6 JUNE 2004: Moore pleaded guilty to soliciting a prostitute at Highbury Corner magistrates court.
2003: The Government Could Learn Much From Big Brother
2003: Workings of Parliament