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02.04.07Hearts, flowers, cupid etc etc yadda yadda yaddaGiven that we're now definitely well into February, I thought it was about time we brought back the biliousness of the season, in the form of the infamous Be My Anti Valentine site, now back for 2007. Huzzah. Still full of snarky, sarky cards to send to your loved ones and people you know, it's much the same as the site you may remember from years gone by, only this year (hopefully) with added stability. Massive kudos and a cast-iron promise of precisely NO pukesome pastel toys holding heart-shaped signs saying "wuv oo!" in Comic Sans to the lovely geek ...
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01.29.07Tales from the OCD-esque music frontlineThis is where I reveal slightly too much about my OCD-esque tendencies when it comes to music. Although it's been a while - too long - since I had the pleasure, there's something unspeakably pleasing about flicking through a stack of LPs, standing heavy vinyl in their smooth carboard sleeves, succumbing to gravity as they tip past your fingers. I can almost hear the fluhmpf of air escaping as they tumble to rest against each other. A sensual pleasure. And although CDs are rather unloveable in their plasticness and ubiquity, there's something weirdly calming about seeing row upon row of one's own ...
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12.30.06Born, eat, shag, dieJust a reminder that The Mayfly project is back again for the end of 2006. Can you sum up the last year of your life in just 24 words?
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12.11.06Return of the Mayfly Project for 2006Gather your thoughts and focus your words: The Mayfly Project is back once again, this time powered by Wordpress in an attempt to curtail comment spam activity. The aim: sum up your 2006 in 24 words. Can you accept the mayfly challenge? If you want to have a go, buzz off over there and leave a comment.
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12.04.06Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaLike Santa sliding down your chimney, so quietly you'll barely notice him until he empties his sack in your stockings, festive topical blogging at 'Tis the Season is back once again, this year covering fascinating festive facts. And if you want more to read, I can do little better than point you to the copious archives for the last few years which demonstrate both a) a hearty fondness for the festive season and all the silliness and tradition it entails and b) a tendancy for the authors to get tired/run out of steam/disappear to frozen wastelands of Scotland etc a couple of ...
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10.20.06Making Moo-gnetsSo, when I received my Moo mini cards a couple of weeks back, I was so taken with how they felt and looked and how they worked together as a set, that I didn't want to give them away. I seem to remember saying at the time that they were so sumptuous I wanted to eat them. Ahem. That got me thinking: what if I did something else with them? What if I could use the cards' form, but not for their intended function? So I got to thinking about mounting them, somehow - lining them up and framing a load of ...
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09.03.06The sound of frustrationI've been trying fairly fruitlessly all day today to better integrate the album cover challenges I did a few years ago into Wordpress. There are a bunch of image gallery plugins knocking about for WP, but pretty much every one is overly-complex and polyfeatured. I just need something which creates a different album for each directory, and then shows thumbnails, and allows prev/next on each image view. That's it. I don't need comments on every image, or captions, or even flashy transitions between images. The hunt continues. In the meantime, I've added a contact page to the nav bar above. Say ...
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01.06.06Above and BelowSo I realised the other day, standing on the beach at Carsaig, that I have slowly been building an unwitting collection of photos of the same places from the air and from the ground... Anyway, I finally got my arse in gear this evening to start matching them up. Each photo links through to the relevant full-size picture on Flickr. Continue Reading...
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02.02.05Curmudgeonly MerchandiseYou've sent the e-card, now buy the t-shirt. All proceeds to the Tsunami relief fund - we reckon it's better to send the money there than to line the pockets of florists and card companies. Go on, have a heart.
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02.01.05On the WhyIn response to several questions about the VD cards: How long have you been offering VD cards? This is the fifth year. In 2001, my then-flatmate Dave and I created a bunch of cynical cards to send to our friends, with slogans like "Destined to die alone and unloved in a room heavy with the tang of cat wee" and "Oh my god. Thirty and still single." They were just downloads, really, but we had fun making them. The next year, we did it again, only this time we added an automatic send function - a free thing, supported by ads. Not ...
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