Comments
Anthony has suggested that I put comments on the site. I'm not sure about that, for a few reasons:
- It'll clutter up the page, eventually turning it into one of those comical blogs with one line of content and a whole page of metacrap around it.
- It means I have to update the code, either to write my own comment engine or to merge with Blosxom.PHP*.
- It leaves me open to comment spamming, which I can't be bothered with.
- I'm unlikely to get many comments, because people don't have the time or inclination to write them.
- I'm not sure what value it would add to the site.
Of course, I may be wrong. You could always
tell me…
Posted at 2004-04-08 12:19:00 by Richard • Link to Comments
Anthony's wit shines through
Ah, Anthony: such style in mockery!
you, mr first reviewer, are an absolute cretin. why did they let you own a phone?
Amazon 3650 review
Posted at 2004-04-08 12:08:07 by Richard • Link to Anthony's wit shin…
Women
From
The Virgin Suicides, a completely accurate description of those scary things that like make-up:
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl; the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing what colours went together.
We knew that the girls were really women in disguise; that they understood love, and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
We knew that they knew everything about us, and that we couldn't fathom them at all.
Posted at 2004-04-08 12:07:30 by Richard • Link to Women
Scholarly pain
The artist who creates something creates it for ever, but the scholar is at the mercy of expanding knowledge and changing habits of thought.
C.M. Bowra
Spotted in the Daily Mail, unfortunately, but it's a good quote.
Posted at 2004-04-08 07:47:33 by Richard • Link to Scholarly pain
Helping out
This morning I received a little stick from my Mum: she asked if I could help out her cousin (an adult man, who I have never met) with his new computer, which he'd bought from Comet and couldn't get to work. Naturally, I said no.
My time is very valuable: I have things to do. I'm also not a tech support worker — what about the support that came with his machine? I'm very happy to help out close friends and family, particularly as they do things for me, but I wouldn't dream of going to a distant relative and asking them to change the oil on my new car.
Nobody would expect a decorator, plumber, mechanical engineer, etc. to do dogsbody work for random strangers for free; this is a trait that seems peculiar to the IT industry —
oh yes, my son's a bit of a computer expert, I'll ask him to have a look
. Can you imagine that happening to an electrician?
I bet he'd reconsider if he heard my rates.
Watched
Underworld last night: it was a lot better than I expected. The trailer shown in cinemas really didn't do it justice.
Posted at 2004-04-08 01:37:02 by Richard • Link to Helping out
