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In perhaps one of the sexiest applications of all this blog technology - RSS feeds and the like - Mikel Maron has created geoblog.

This has been getting plenty of blog exposure so I'll admit I just like the fact that when I post this entry I'll see it pop up on the map over the southwestern tip of Africa just where I'm sitting.

Too darn cool!

My fiancee Shannon is blogging her way through her first few weeks here in South Africa. She's got a nice pink colour scheme going on. Or as she'd write "color scheme".

I was just reminded of perhaps my first web-project, called - topically enough - 'Carnival'. Tim, Ken, Saj and I decided to create a web forum for creativity in 1996 or so. Fortunately no digital record remains of my sad early effort at web design - although I still maintain that the many animated GIFs and dodgy backgrounds were very fashionable at the time. Anyhow Tim just found his story Grammar of Cities, the only thing that deserves to remain from the whole sorry experiment. It was the first time I had read a piece of Tim's fiction, and I like to think that right then I realised he was destined for greatness. I certainly remember I thought it was pretty cool anyway - the last paragraph particularly.

My friend and sometime road companion Christian de Sousa - has, in his own low key fashion, published a new work on the web. I am not especially professional nor refined in my vocabulary of photojournalistic criticism, so I'll just say I really like these.

My particular favourite represents that which is so remarkable and simultaneously insightful and creative about Christian's work. Do I sound pretentious enough yet?! No? Shame.

Of course when I get my digital camera I'll be merrily blogging reams of high quality images such as these and Psi's collection from the same New York weekend. I'm waiting until I can afford one small enough to secrete in my lower lip and trigger with a mere pout.

You know this quiz seems remarkably insightful:

Which OS are You?

Happily timguest.net is back up again with lots of new fun content.

Not so happily the site appears to have been hijacked by Tim's less friendly alter ego, the onetime "Puffy G".

We can only hope that usual service will be restored soon, and I will no longer feel impelled to leave comments making use of the word 'Bitch'.

Pretty clock

Useful clocks

(Several deadline looms and I'd rather go out and get drunk in Rio with Shannon, so that's about all I'm mustering today)

datamage news is a site I've set up that aggregates together news feeds from some of the news sources I find most interesting. The precise combination won't be to everyone's taste, but you can also bookmark subcategories when you've selected them on the left.

Have a look - let me know what you think...