Defenestrated - July 2003 Archives

July 2003

White Teeth wins at TV awards (18:34) - The BBC is reporting that the TV adaptation of Zadie Smith's White Teeth has won several awards at the Monte Carlo Television Festival. I've yet to see the TV series but if it's anything like the book, this is a... | 0 Comments

Why the Beeb is so great (16:57) - The BBC is so impressive because it possesses a reach and versatility that I simply haven't seen anywhere else. And, for that, Britain and Britons should be proud, and the rest of the world (and I hate to even type this, but it's true) should be grateful. | 0 Comments
High-speed walkway in Paris (13:06) - The French are sick and tired of walking, so they've invented a fast-moving walkway (check out the neat-o animation). Actually sounds like a great idea! Aside from the fact that it moves people around faster, it'll persuade people to walk... | 0 Comments
Great Britain? Yeah, right... (12:59) - So today is July 5, and I'm in America. Last night we went to see the fireworks (viewed from the top floor of a car park; less crowds) and today we're watching the Macy's and Washington Monument displays on TiVo,... | 0 Comments

Telecommuting (15:52) - Want to work in your slippers? | 0 Comments
SMS from AIM and iChat (15:31) - As seen on the Interesting People mail list, you can now SMS folks through AIM (and, by proxy, iChat on the Mac). Apparently you can't yet SMS non-US phones but that's bound to happen sooner or later. As it is,... | 0 Comments

Why The Fella exists (16:19) - we need a conversation about being a fella. Seems to me that the stereotypes of bruiser or loser are irrelevant, and have been for a long time. I created this blog to highlight the things I find interesting, and to focus on what has become central in my life. In thinking about many of those things -- family, children -- I started wondering whether there was any place we fellas could actually converse about them. I found nothing that seemed to fit the bill and The Fella is a response to that lack. | 0 Comments
Two reasons to be cheerful (14:51) - These guys are Alec and Owen, our twin sons who were born on May 18, 2003. I'll write more about their long, hard journey to be born, and how we traveled it with them. For now, it's enough to note... | 0 Comments
What's all this? (14:43) - It seems that I've managed to install this Movable Type gizmo and can henceforth inflict all manner of nonsense on anyone hardy enough to visit these pages. The next step is to come up with a sensible idea of what... | 0 Comments