Collected Entries for July 2003

Gay Marriage: [July 30, 2003]
Why are traditional marriage supporters so afraid?

Business Like Apples: [July 29, 2003]
I am always impressed by the loyalty of the Mac user. How have they built such a great brand?

Dannii Minogue 'invents new dance': [July 29, 2003]
After the show, Dannii said she had wanted to stop singing and shout for help, but was then relieved to see the man was safe. [Source: Ananova] So, she was miming then?...

We Love Pizza: [July 28, 2003]
Apparently, eating Pizza can be good for you. What great news.

Buffalo Soldiers: [July 27, 2003]
Sadly, this film did not live up to the promise

Another Russian Birthday: [July 27, 2003]
Another year has passed and it's my Dad's birthday again. Last year he was somewhere in Russia - actually he's in Astana which I know isn't Russia - and I was asking if anybody knew Happy Birthday in Russian. Well,... [2 comments]

Not Another Teen Movie: [July 27, 2003]
When we returned from Pride in the Park 2003, wet and exhausted but having had a thoroughly fantastic day, PY and I set about eating and watching a movie on Sky Box Office (more Pride in the Park at The...

Pride: [July 26, 2003]
For the first time in many, many year, the Pride festival took place in Hyde Park and I was there.

Home again: [July 24, 2003]
Back form a few days away and there are things to catch up on.

Britain's Net Pioneers: [July 22, 2003]
Finally, I've just uploaded my review of the 'Dot.Bomb: The Rise and Fall of Dot Com Britain' and posted it to Amazon. We'll wait and see if they publish it....

40 Days and 40 Nights: [July 18, 2003]
I watched Josh Harnett in 40 Days and 40 Nights

Consumers Around Your Product: [July 18, 2003]
Donuts, porn, p2p and the music industry. Somehow a few blogs can make all these items related.

No More Netscape: [July 18, 2003]
The iconic Netscape browser is about to disappear. Netscape owner AOL has made redundant most of the staff working on new versions of the venerable net browser.

Rain Breaks Heatwave: [July 17, 2003]
It's been very hot in London recently which has been lovely really but a little sticky if you happen to be working in an office that has no air-conditioning.

Gay Consumers Are Good: [July 17, 2003]
Gay men and women are tech-savvy consumers who use the Internet and tech devices at significantly higher rates than their heterosexual counterparts for shopping, banking, entertainment, and community building

Paris Photographs: [July 16, 2003]
Photographs from my trip to Paris are now in the gallery.

A 4 Minute Warning: [July 15, 2003]
I was delighted to see the recent increase in activity on the ex-Take That member and Celebrity Big Brother winner Mark Owen's page over at the Man of the Moment section. And it's all because he has a new single out!

1789 And All That: [July 14, 2003]
A post to say Happy Bastille Day to my French readers - quite simple really

Wind Power: [July 14, 2003]
A big expansion in the amount of electricity generated from offshore wind power has been announced by the UK Government

Power of the Idea: [July 14, 2003]
It's good to see that good or amusing ideas can still shine through on the web

Summertime in Paris: [July 11, 2003]
Off to Paris for the weekend ...

Mark or Dermot?: [July 10, 2003]
Looking at who gets the most visits, I see Mark Owen's page is catching up on Dermot O'Leary

Well Thank Goodness: [July 07, 2003]
Apparently, road and rail targets are not being met by this government

He Know Where They Are: [July 01, 2003]
It seems that - at this very moment - Tony Blair is unable to show where Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction are