Before we all pack the decorations away and begin the laborious task of vacuuming pine needles out of the carpet, let’s have a final Christmas related journal entry. This post is mostly for the attention of boingboing.net subscribers who read the story about the Catalan caganer tradition and the caga tio character. Excerpt: Customs surrounding …
Are you still trying decide what to buy this Christmas for that friend who has everything? Time’s running out, so here’s a suggestion; how about a cave house in Spain? My good friend, regular inspiration and fellow architect, Tom Booker (who you may remember from the entry about the key to the MI5 tea cupboard) …
Fashion crisis: I need a pair of purple, velvet, flared trousers. I need them by 2000 GMT tomorrow. Help.
Here’s an interesting confluence of writing/linking1 worth visiting; last week Joel wrote about the threat to the future of Chinatown in London, The rents in Chinatown have already risen steeply in an attempt to force people out, and if the eastern part is demolished it’ll be a domino effect all down Gerrard Street and that’ll …
Link to an image of Tschumi’s constructivist follies: courtesy of Dave Morris’ flickr photostream.
Tonight at 18:09, Pillow Fight Club II.
My timing is a little off. I chose to launch the extra image RSS during the same week that moblogUK had the mother of all disc failures. It’s all fixed now and you shouldn’t have to see the image the repeats any longer. I knew we’d get there in the end.
Either I’m getting weaker, or banana skins are getting stronger. Tonight’s entry is inspired by my previous comments about Oscar Naddermier, my first architectural history lecturer. I returned to his notes and decided that they should be shared with you. Oscar preferred his students to be listening rather than writing, so he always typed out …
The RSS problems continue. Normal service will resume shortly. I hope. If anybody out there is a wizard with the planetplanet aggregator, drop me a line. Ahem. I’m an idiot. The reason the RSS wasn’t working correctly is because the redirect command I’d put in place was also redirecting the redirection, hence the repetition of …
The timestamp problem continues. For the moment we shall remain text only until I’ve got the photo feed to work.