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I've been meaning to blog this for weeks. I R teh slack. Anyways go and have a look at "Thou shalt always kill": great song with really brilliant lyrics. Go see! YouTube link here. Myspace link here.

(One day all this will be wordpress and I'll be able to blog vids directly, and it will be good.)

I've been off work this week. More a time out than a holiday, but nevertheless I was hoping to enjoy the some of the unseasonably nice weather we've been getting lately. However Sod's Law has been in full effect. It's been cloudy and grim every day this week, for the first time in weeks, and I've come down with some sort of nasty cold thing, for the first time in months. It's all so very unfair.

There is always a better way to do any given thing. If I had a mantra, it would be (a snappier version of) that. That's part of the reason I love the web and the markup and styling in web work; there's always a better way. From more refined fail-safe and unobtrusive scripting, to the latest CSS3 selectors to whatever exciting but nebulous functionality HTML 5 will bring. I'd call myself a perfectionist if I didn't I believe perfection is intrinsically unattainable. So while I take this approach to markup on a day to day basis, it can in fact be applied to just about anything.

So I spent yesterday at the Future of Web Design conference in Kensington, London. It was pretty sweet! The talks were divided into:

• 5 presentations on useful and interesting stuff (or 185 minutes in total)


• 2 dodgy product plugs (45 sell-out minutes)


• 3 company showcases looking for prospective employees (95 flashy minutes)


• 3 kinda flops with not much point (150 loong minutes)

Not much futureness to be fair but a lot of ideas and a good buzz. Considering the bargain basement price-tag it was pretty amazing what those Carson folk pulled off! When I find a good resource online or somone waxing wise about what people had to say I'll link to it, but all I've found so far are fragmented notes in a couple of places.

In other news: though it's still very early days and it won't be announced for ages, the rumour mill is in full effect over upcoming glasto line-up, and I'm getting pretty psyched. Woot!

STOP RIGHT THERE!
It's fine. It's lovely and hot and sunny and it's just fine as it is, thankyouverymuch. Please do not get any hotter than this, I beg of you. There's just no need for the sweatiness, or the sun burn, or the underground being so hot that you feel you might gag on the thick air, or the commuters around you slowly turning a pale green as they stoically battle the claustrophobic nausea of a million trapped armpits in desperate need of a shower.

Right now people are out in their thousands enjoying the balmy climate, lounging in the park, walking by the river, or in the street-side cafés watching the world go by with a newspaper and a latte. It's all fine. It's perfect! Please leave it like this.

(Though as it's still only April I very much doubt that'll happen, more's the pity)

Nobody Glasto'ing? Huh. To be honest Bestival just looked a bit too dancey to me, but what ev :-) (Not sure when I stopped liking dance…) Either way it's well past time I checked out what all the glasto fuss was about, and I'm pretty chuffed to be going.

In other news: don't have "relations" with giant insects.

Short but SWEET: Anyone else heading to Glasto this year?
(I'd blog more but it's just too sunny outside right now.)