evolution of dance

There's only one ..

.. Phil Taylor / Wayne Mardle / Barney.

I bloody love the darts!

Saturday 22nd December 2007 (Second Round)
1pm: Andy Jenkins 0-4 Alan Tabern
2.20pm: Jan van der Rassel 4-1 Denis Ovens
3.40pm: Peter Manley 4-1 Alan Warriner-Little

7pm: Roland Scholten 4-2 Mervyn King
8.20pm: Phil Taylor 4-3 Mark Walsh
9.40pm: Wayne Mardle 4-1 Jamie Caven

.. reminder of last years final.. fan-bloody-tastic.

Doodles are the new paisley

New Size? Collection artwork by Burgerman

“The collaboration came about after I doodled a column in their Nottingham Store late last year,” Burgerman tells CR. “I think this is further evidence to the fact that Doodles are the new paisley,” he adds.

Boring Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen's suggests that ordinary sites would waste their time adding so-called Web 2.0 features if they haven't got the basics right.

The bottom line? While a modest 2.0 infusion can be beneficial, advanced features are rarely the most important contributor to good user experience or profitable websites. If you get caught up in the hype, you divert attention and resources from the simpler things that really matter. This opportunity cost is the real reason to take it easy on Web 2.0.

Before throwing spending money at "2.0" features, make sure that you have all the "1.0" requirements working to perfection.

I love the first comment from the guardian site..

Jakob has got to be the most boring person on the web. His website is boring, he talks about boring things, he states the obvious and makes it sound even more boring. He even makes something exciting like Web 2.0 sound boring.

His Christmas tree is probably 4 foot high because if it was 6 feet high it would be unusable - because he couldn't reach up to put his angel on it. It's probably a boring shade of grey too.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/12/18/jakob_trashes_web_20.html

New BBC homepage

In beta.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/beta/ Still seems to be some functionality missing.. but overall not too shabby.

Ooowhh

Ricky Hatton could have..

James Lavelle

James Lavelle (UNKLE, MoWax) talks about his year

Guardian Mp3

Norma Bar - Faces

Israeli illustrator Noma Bar depicts the faces of the famous using only a few lines, colours and drawn objects, translating their personalities, physical traits and careers using only a few well-executed lines. I think the Maggie Thatcher one is great, the Tony Soprano one not so great.

Noma Bar's Guess Who?

Led Zeppelin at the 02

Bit weird that this is the end of newsnight.. but seems to be one of the better videos..

http://www.ledzeppelin.com

TomTom and Google Maps

TomTom and Google Maps have launched a new service, where people can use Google maps to find businesses or addresses and then send that address to TomTom

As I've got a Tom Tom this is good.. although you need to use TomTom home and sync your TomTom - not tried it out yet, so don't know how painful this all is... seems like a goodish idea

Royal Albert Hall - Tennis Masters 2007

This weekend I've mostly been tennis-ing. Played indoors and on clay and spent yesterday and today at the Royal Albert Hall for the tennis masters. Probably 15 or so hours of tennis this weekend!! - you can't be serious!

What was taken from Fasthosts?

Nothing new really.. but some more bad light exposure for our favourite
hosting company.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/12/07/were_personal_details_
stolen_in_the_fasthosts_breakin.html

now that's Lucky

Extras Christmas Special

Trailer for Extra's Christmas Special, view the trailer

Lo-Fi's disappoint

Saw the lo-fi's last night and they were rubbish

I am hugely dissapointed as they were my gig of the year in 2002(?)

The original singer never made it pass the recording of the first album, but when I saw them, I guess not long after their peak.. when ER played a song of theirs.. the singer they had then was amazing, the gig at Scala was I couldn't stop playing the album.. last night was just awful.

http://www.lofidelityallstars.co.uk/

Customer focused?

"If I would have listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse."
Henry Ford.

"Drag"on

The new British flag? In the UK Parliament yesterday, culture minister Margaret Hodge pledged to consider a redesign of the union flag to incorporate the Welsh dragon.

Welsh MPs claim that their constituents’ identity has been suppressed by the current design which does not include a symbol to represent Wales. Albert Owen, Labour MP for Ynys Mon was reported in The Guardian as claiming that “We in Wales do not feel part of the union flag because the dragon or the cross of St David is not on it”.

I was id'ed

YAY!

I was ID'd in Tesco Extra at the weekend!!

It was 21 and not 18 .. but I'm still chuffed.

The woman seem mortified when I said "..but I'm 30". .. No don't appologise you've made my day.

She said that apparently it's very difficult to tell on a Saturday night!