How come every private members’ club in London is a total POS? I have not been to one which did not feature either surly staff, pretentiousness leaking out of every pore, or lots of braying, loud, coked-up, smoke-puffing media types. I just want a nice, quiet place to work and drink and relax and get […]
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I just sent someone in the US a fairly large sum of money (four figures) via PayPal, and want them to have the money in their hands immediately. I wasn’t informed of this while I made the transaction, but it’s going to take until at least June 2nd for the funds to clear. This is […]
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If you’re reading this on Internet Explorer, the text on this site is shifting to the left as one moves down the page, and I have no idea why. (If you’re reading this in Firefox, it’s fine; in RSS, it’s irrelevant.) Thanks to Alice Bachini, a clever Englishwoman in Texas, for the tip-off; suggestions on […]
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And so I share, in the fervent hope that somebody, somewhere needs to know what I know, and that this knowledge will become a part of the web’s long tail, to be shared by others across the landscape of time.
So writes Terry Heaton in a heartbreaking post about his recently deceased wife, Allie.
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If you feel queasy when you hear words like ‘authentic self’ or ’spirit’ or ‘Oprah,’ please look away now.
So I stumbled upon these thoughts for the day, and I don’t think we should limit ourselves to just one per 24 hours. Here are a few of my favourites.
“We are all failures—at least all the […]
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Thanks to Jim Treacher for bringing this to my attention:
And so my life of sloth blends imperceptibly into my pathological flip side, my workaholism, and this is the odd thing: I can just as easily argue and believe that I work, not too little, but entirely too much. My sense of my own laziness may […]
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I don’t care that the Dalai Lama didn’t write it; there is nothing in this list with which I can disagree. Worth printing out and keeping visible, if you’re into that kind of thing (I’m not, but perhaps should be).
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I saw her last two tours, but will be skipping this one, mostly because of the ticket cost and because I am over her. She’s just boring now. I mean, how predictable was the whole crucifix thing? It’s not offensive because it’s particularly shocking, but precisely because it isn’t.
Browsing in the newsagent’s today, I […]
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Former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey’s book sounds pretty interesting.
The closet starves a man, and when he gets a chance he gorges till it sickens him…I knew I would have to lie for the rest of my life - and I knew I was capable of it. The knowledge gave me a feeling of terrible […]
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If ever there was a “Guess you had to be there” post, this is it. That out of the way…
Antoine was putting some boxes in the loft and bringing down our summer clothes. He had a deadline, because people were coming and…yadda. I was two floors away, in the kitchen, and heard him laughing. I […]
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How Robert Scoble decides whether a comment stays or is deleted, as drawn by Xplane CEO Dave Gray.
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I just took delivery of a shipment of Hugh MacLeod-drawn business cards. They’re fantastic quality, and the drawings on offer are so good that I couldn’t resist ordering two different versions (this one, which is a good conversational prompt about the value of business blogging, and this one, which is just me down to the […]
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Jeff Clavier links to Heather Green on the subject of trying to give a talk at a conference and seeing most of the audience peering into their laptops instead of giving you their full attention. Heather writes:
Maybe people were blogging. Or maybe they really had no interest in anything I or the other folks on […]
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Terry Heaton has an excellent, thoughtful post on why those inclined to mess with the bottom-up nature of the internet in the name of ‘rectifying’ the digital divide should think twice before doing so.
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