February 5th - February 11th 2006
Sunday Piccadilly Circus
Saturday Sharpened
Friday Piccadilly Circus
Thursday Stage-struck
Wednesday Piccadilly Circus
Tuesday Diet
Monday Piccadilly Circus
Sunday 11th February
Piccadilly Circus, Winter 2007
Saturday 10th February
Note to gay men: next time you find yourself shocked to find yourself paying pink prices for a round of modest sharpeners for yourself and your friends, take a moment to think how much you'd rather be in their company than paying £100 to share a Treasure Chest cocktail with Prince Harry and his chums at Mahinki.
Friday 9th February
Piccadilly Circus, Winter 2007
Thursday 8th February
The 5 Stages of Receiving Catastrophic News
- dedicated to the redesign of the Times website
(with apologies to Elsabeth Kubler-Ross)
Denial
Yeah, no, I can see its not working on your machine. Or my machine, true. It's obviously something to with our network access. Get someone outside the building to look at it. Mom, it's me, do you still have that computer I gave you last Christmas..?
Anger
Yes, we KNOW the type is infinitessimally small. Yes, we know the style-sheets aren't operating. No, for the thousandth time, it isn't meant to look like that. It's fucking BROKEN, ok? (The lime-green? Yeah, that's meant to look like that.)
Bargaining
It's not like we didn't argue with them when they said they wanted to relaunch everything in one go. I TOLD them it was a bad idea. No, not in an email, I said it verbally. Not in so many words, no. But I frowned! I distinctly remember frowning!
Depression
I never wanted to work in IT anyway. I was going to be a vet. Or a roadie.
Acceptance
Fuck it, who's gonna remember this in a month's time? Well, alright then, a year'sh time. Five years, whatever! But the good newsh is: nobody could get onto the site anyway! So who gives a fuck if the fucking fucker's fucked? Whoshe round is it?
Wednesday 7th February
Piccadilly Circus, Winter 2007
Tuesday 6th February
Humans deciding what to eat without expert help - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, distinctly risky if you're a nutritionist and just plain boring if you're a journalist.
Lengthy yet trenchant analysis of the "great Conspiracy of Confusion" for anyone who's ever worried about what they eat, from Michael Pollan, writing in the New York Times.
And the bottom line?
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Monday 5th February
Piccadilly Circus, Winter 2007
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