December 2008
44 posts
Duncan, Phil and Mike are on their way to a casino…
“Your next Edgware Road service is approximately 27 minutes away.” WTF?!
God bless Ben Folds.
At work while everyone else is at play at The Times Xmas party. They did send us some grub and booze though. Ain’t Rupert a sweeeetie!
Planning to visit Woolies and buy my first music single in years this weekend. C’mon Jeff!
Stuck at High St Kensington, listening to Stephen Malkmus, feeling particularly unfulfilled by today’s Guardian. Sob sob.
That’s it. I was going to give it a chance this year. But no. Christmas is shite.
I was annoyed at tube delays but now I’m just feeling awful about the person who threw him/herself under the train.
I just joined the frontlineclub Twitter Group http://tgr.me/g/frontlineclub and you can too. Please Retweet.
Twitter makes The Times (finally) thanks to @sathnam - http://tinyurl.com/56fayq. But he’s protecting his updates…
Yawn. Night editor phones in sick so despite the fact that I’ve been in bed all day with flu, I’m having to do double the work tonight! Grr.
Was today’s jobs section in the Media Guardian the smallest ever? 2009 doesn’t look like much fun to me…
Not sure whether I dreamt it or not, but I think I heard David Miliband being interviewed on the Today programme about how fast he walks…?
By page 7 the Metro have already dribbled out both ‘X-cited’ and ‘X-alted’. I feel sick.
Oh god. ‘To be or not to be Foxy, as she stars in jail movie’. Now I remember why I never read freesheets.
And wait! Pick of the day - ‘TV’s 50 Hardest Men’ on Sky1. Times Online will be gutted they didn’t think of that first…
RT @philbrownuk: Frost/Nixon screening at the Frontline Club on Janaury 6 - only £10 http://tinyurl.com/5wwa6q. It’s selling fast!
Pain. Constant loss of net connection. How did people work before the interwebs was invented??
I’m not a big fan of sunglasses anyway, but wearing them on a cloudy day in December?! And they look like the old free ones from McDonalds.
Very cold. Managed to miss two trains. Wish there was somewhere to get something hot at Clapham Junction. Yawn.
The Decemberists sound better than they did last month…is that on purpose?
Just walked past the Bountiful Cow…Had never heard of it before but am sure someone mentioned it on here today?!
The Seven Stars still has really rude bar staff but the beer is bloodly lovely. Mine’s a pint of a lovely porter ale called ‘Over the Moon’.
On a random bus down Oxford St. Hope it gets me to the pub. Crazy amount of shoppers braving the freeze…
Having a particularly ineffective day as the internet keeps dying at Frontline. Off to the lovely Seven Stars pub near LSE this evening tho!
can I get a show of hands please…how many of you would come to talk about the ICC?
RT @Jaynie: Interesting talk from Obama’s Director of Comms this morning: http://tinyurl.com/65mupn
Last work-related tweet/rant…but I am actually training someone who doesn’t want my job, how to do my job…and then I get shown the door!
Never look a pirate in the eye…and other awful tips… http://tinyurl.com/5zopa5
Aren’t job cuts fun?! Whispering galore in the newsroom tonight. Consultants present their findings tomorrow… Ho ho ho merry Christmas!
charity porn….?! http://tinyurl.com/6zymgo
can anyone recommend a digital compact camera for under £100?
I wish I had tickets to see Ben Kweller tomorrow night…
Is stuck in the middle of a fight between new and old media. It does result in me getting paid to do very little though…for now…
Every time I see a ‘Top 100…’ on Times Online I am filled with rage. Need to get over it but it’s such a pathetic attempt at hits!
At the V&A to see the Cold War exhibition. Very exciting place…
Not having fun. Lost my mind hours ago. Surviving on nettle tea and comfortable sweater. Rock’n’roll!
About to start the night shift. Everyone’s ill or on holiday so here’s hoping it’s quiet. Queen’s Speech, recession and snow only please.
In the jazzy Headshift offices. Need more coffee…
god bless Innocent…their new veg pots are great http://tinyurl.com/56rl9t
Lots of printed copies of this - http://tinyurl.com/5qqvd2 - in the Times newsroom. Lots of sad faces too…
listening to Christmas songs…but only the good ones…lots of jazz and swing
Stumbling through Movable Type. Wishing I had the body of an Olympian and the brain of a coder.