Tuesday, January 14, 2003

More Celebrities Trouble. Mike, Pete, Gary - you all seem to be in bad shape these days. How very sad. Who was the other bloke who's on bail (or still in prison?) for rape? The news announcer? Well, this would never happen in Germany. New Barrymore pool death inquiry. The death of a partygoer at the home of television presenter Michael Barrymore is to be re-investigated by police. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 4:43:02 PM   London | |

Married with Simpsons. Oh no ... please don't. The Prisoner was enough already. ReMarried with Children. The Simpsons will get a surprise visit for their 300th show from old neighbors on the Fox schedule -- the Bundys. Fox will air a one-hour "Married ... with Children" reunion special Feb. 16, the night "The Simpsons" marks its 300th episode milestone. [linkfilter.net] I'm actually looking forward to it. 4:37:14 PM   Cult | |

Exactly. Bloated code. The DTP application Calamus for Atari ST/TT fitted comfortably on two Floppy Disks; was much better than today's Quark and used only little RAM. In fact, Calamus still has functions I'm missing in Quark and InDesign. So why do we have all these huge big applications nowadays? Perhaps I'm just stupid. After all I'm not a programmer. But I'm an Art Director and I know what I want. Mozilla Hurt By Apple Blast : AOL Time Warner's Mozilla project is facing new questions about quality after Apple Computer's release of a browser based on rival open-source code. (ZDNet via MyAppleMenu) 3:56:48 PM    | |

Toys, toys, toys. My favourite shop here in London is without doubt Comet Miniatures. They're specialised in all sorts of Science Fiction and Movie Toys. Oh - there's only one Time Machine left, so you better hurry. 12:28:32 PM   Cult, London | |

Oh Ronnie! Biggs "kicked to floor in prison attack" [This is London: London News] 12:06:14 PM   London | |