Memories

Someone has just submitted a software defect against our project saying that the letters on the keytops are in upper case and that its quicker to text if they are in lower case. Does anyone else have trouble with this?

For some reason it seems that the Scotish Indie Scene is really big over here at the moment. Is this just the Japanese getting into something obscure, or are there some really good things happening north of the border?

The futures bright, the future is orange…

It must be summertime again, the bright orange girls are out with their infeasibly mulleted boyfriends. I wonder what happens to them over winter? There were a few around but nothing like the number out now.

This evening I went along with Chris to Damians street gig in Shibuya – he’d negotiated the Yamanote line with his box and drum, including a hairy juggling moment attempting to pass through the barriers out of Shibuya station. The other half of his band was there already, and mostly set up, ready to go. […]

Oh, and I didn’t tell you about the dream I had the other night, where I was cursing a PocketPC for crashing while I was trying to control a space shuttle with it. It had dreadful UI lag too.

Fade in the Muse

Last night was the leaving party of Okawara-san, one of the cute girls on the testing and usability team. We were a little late for the trek up to the restaurant so headed up later with Bo, who had a scruffily drawn map on a huge piece of paper. We were in roughly the right […]

Among those dark satanic mills

While I was in McDonalds[0] earlier I had the surreal pleasure of hearing a recording of the hymn ‘Jerusalem’ sung in Japanese chorus. This is so deeply wrong that I want a copy. [0] Yes, I know, but it was another late night at the office, following a 30minute phone call to Finland to try […]

‘ten years for ID fraud’ headlines are being deployed to help Blunkett present a tough…stance “So shall we recap? We will have a new, stiffer penalty for an offence that gained a new, stiffer penalty just last year. A large proportion of those caught carrying false ID will, as previously, be swiftly ejected from the […]

Why…?

…am I pressing reload? Everyone apart from Dilbert is in Whitby at the moment, and he’s already turned up today. Anyone who’s there and reading this tell everyone I know that I say ‘hi’.

I don’t know whether to be impressed or depressed that KLF sampled Uriah Heap.