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Archive for March 2003

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Sunday 9 March 2003

I've been trying to squeeze out of my few remaining brain cells a witty puzzle to celebrate Diamond Geezer's birthday, but I'll admit I could not come up with anything that could match his 7am brainteasers.

I'll go all artsy-fartsy in his honour instead, and take this opportunity to educate my bitful readers with a lesson [...]

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Saturday 8 March 2003

Exhibit A is a Masturbator Sleeve.

Exhibit B belongs to G. the flatmate; it is a novelty item which sole purpose is to slip off your guests' hands amidst much giggling whenever they try and pick it up the coffee table.

Or so I thought until now.

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Friday 7 March 2003

I managed to get my hands listen to an advance leaked and illegally downloaded copy of Dannii Minogue's Neon Nights. Electronic and 80's and dancey-poppy and soooo Kylie but with a 2003 feel to it. Love it love it love it.

I had sort of neutral feelings for la miniMinogue so far (apart from seeing her [...]

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Thursday 6 March 2003

While looking for remixes of I Begin To Wonder, I came across this and many other sites which confirmed my gut feeling that I'd heard and danced to that tune for quite a while already. It was in fact originally released by JCA in 2002 (that is, only a few months ago), which makes Dannii's [...]

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Wednesday 5 March 2003

Just heard on Kiss 100 FM: Dannii Minogue's I Begin To Wonder mixed with Dead Or Alive's You Spin Me Round (Like A Record). It works fantastically well. I want it!

It's reassuring to know that their heavy rotation means I'll probably hear it again in 12 minutes.

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Tuesday 4 March 2003

I think Dr Bitful and I passed the IKEA test with flying colours yesterday.

First and foremost, we have the very same pattern in our visits to the Swedish store: first a trip to the restaurant for some meatballs, gravy and cranberry sauce, then the browsing through the store and finally after checking out, a stop [...]

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Sunday 2 March 2003

I've got a broad smile on my face today, because:

I have not had a cigarette in over four days - cold turkey from 30 a day to none - and I have not killed anybody. Yet.

The sun is shining

I'm going for drinks at a friend's friend's friend's place in Covent Garden (that's technically gatecrashing), then [...]

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Sunday 2 March 2003

Tomorrow is March 3rd. 03/03/03. And "3" is rumoured to be launched on this very appropriate date. I must say that none of their adverts so far make me feel like upgrading my "sensible" mobile phone (as Ian, owning the very same model, described it) so that I can get streaming videos.

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Sunday 2 March 2003

I swear I had not seen this when I designed Bitful (if you can call "design" the action of randomly selecting a colour and writing down three lines of code).

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Sunday 2 March 2003

From The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Saturday March 1st 2003, page 15, article about Nick Nolte:

The "date rape" drug, GHB, popular apparently with bodybuilders…

…bodybuilders? Am I missing something here?

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Saturday 1 March 2003

When Movie Posters Collide. The last one (Spider-Doo) is brilliant!

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