Recently readOne more thing: I’m looking for a blogger who knows his or her pop culture, can make people laugh, and wants to get paid mad bank to do so. (’Mad bank’ in this case meaning enough to let you upgrade to a nicer apartment or buy a handful of new overpriced gadgets every month.) If […]
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One last thing: I’ll be at the American Cinema Foundation roast for Cathy Seipp in Los Angeles on September 10. If you’re a friend of Cathy’s and haven’t had your invite, please email theadvicegoddess@aol.com to apply for attendance. It’s gonna be a doozy…
(If you don’t know what a roast is - and almost all of […]
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I’m off to the French Alps for the week, with no laptop and no innernut. I may be able to get to a ‘net café in Aix-en-Provence at some point to check email, but it’s not a goal. See y’ when I see y’.
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I’m always troubled by those who are so insistent on rubbishing any new thing that comes down the pike. And so it has gone, predictably, with Dave Winer’s River of News idea and implementation.
Lots of people hate on Dave (”Dave Winer? Most aptly named man in the universe,” sniffed one internet industry CEO the […]
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An athlete has received a formal caution for making the sign of the cross at a football match. Why? Because a few people complained that it offended them. The footballer, Artur Boruc, received a formal caution for breach of the peace.
From the Guardian:
The Crown Office said a caution was issued as an alternative to prosecution. […]
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Thanks to Sam Sethi for pointing me towards Performancing, a very handy Firefox extension which is similar to Qumana, but allows you to blog right in your browser. Its GUI isn’t overly slick, but it works and makes sense. You can set it up to let you post to multiple blogs, save posts as drafts, […]
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I have just finished reading Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, a book I nearly did not buy from my local Children’s Society charity shop, but whose £1 price tag compelled me to try it anyway. I’m so glad I did.
From the back cover:
The ‘marriage’ was that between the two writers Vita […]
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Check out my hot friends. The good news for me is that I’ll be seeing those two foxes next month - and sharing a hotel room with one. Purely innocent fun, of course…
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From Dr Seuss (via Tim Taylor):
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
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When I was in Silicon Valley recently, I was lucky enough to get to see a lot of Ian Kennedy, who I first met when he was working at Six Apart. During our conversations, he was very animated and obviously enthusiastic about his new gig as product manager for the Yahoo Publisher Network. We talked […]
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My dear friends’ teenage daughter is heading to Israel on Sunday to begin a year of study at seminary. If you are at all inclined to believe that the well wishes or prayers of others are a good thing, please do me a favour and spare a few seconds to wish this girl well. Her […]
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1) I have great commenters, who led me to an excellent new mobile phone. I took delivery of my Sony Ericsson K750i this morning, and so far am loving the ease of use and fantastic two megapixel camera. Finally, a piece of electronica that lives up to its immense hype.
2) I booked yet another trip […]
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In the scheme of things (war, death, famine), my day has been pretty good. In the scheme of life as I’ve grown accustomed to living it (free of drama, passive-aggressiveness, and other wastes of time), it’s been bad.
One friend, across six thousand miles and with nothing but her instincts to go on (we hadn’t […]
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The title says it all.
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