lots of people on the bus are wearing jeans. do combats count?

Jeans for Genes - a national one day appeal on 5th Oct 2001. We're taking part in this at work tomorrow. I scoured the net but couldn't find a bad word to be said about the event anywhere. So I suppose I'll be wearing jeans. I wear jeans to work most days.

A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again. Good to see the Onion have still found a way to be funny. In the UK Private Eye went for all-out bad taste.

Absolutely Fabulous. Not As Good As It Used To Be.

The Giles shower curtain. Collaborative weblogging at its best

New shoes! They come with a design philosophy.

"We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age. Trouble with that scheme is, it’s already been done. The Soviets took care of it. Make the Afghans suffer? They’re already suffering. Level their houses? Done. Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done. New bombs would only land in the … Continue reading 5756120 →

Heritage Open Days. We took Fabian to see the extravagant bathroom at Gledhow Hall and the Sikh Temple in Chapeltown Road. Tomorrow Leeds Library and Town Hall.

A shopping centre with an airport attached (but barely visible). "We have to catch the plane," says parent. "But I'm shopping," protests child

Circle Line, King's Cross to Liverpool Street. Boy 11ish is playing the accordian for money. Badly. He looks exhausted. Most of us ignore the upturned baseball cap. Boy 9ish gives him a half-finished pack of mints

Pantscon, Hackney. Toast and lashings of marmite

Looking for an old e-mail I found this gem from Matt B - The Well-designed Logical Robot Child. It's tempting, but I think I prefer my illogical child.

Blogging on HMS Belfast. Great view of new GLA building

A record six - better make that seven - posts in a day thanks to wapblogger. All over the world there are people jabbing their phones with glee, keying in phrases like 'Whouaaah! Mijn eerste post met m'n wap-phone! :)', though my favourite has to be this confession to using wapblogger through a WAP emulator. … Continue reading 5218552 →

In the Granary Wharf cafe. Blogging goes underground