A blog chain letter of sorts is being passed between friends at the moment, the jist of it is…’Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 5 facts about yourself. Then choose 5 people you want to tag and list their names. Then leave a comment on their blog letting them know they’ve been tagged.’

I was tagged by Cookie, so here are five ‘interesting’ things about me…

1. I was rejected from the school choir at the tender age of 9 due to my then deep voice.

2. I ate part of a pigs womb whilst in Japan last year, it was very, very chewy.

3. I’ve started to get the taste for the gamble, having recently started to enjoy more than the occasional game of poker.

4. I worked at the ‘Elephant and Castle’ public house from 1994 - 2004, a fine place to drink and eat. During my time there Martin Gore of Depeche Mode, and former Arsenal player Andy Linighan made infrequent visits.

5. I have very long eyelashes, like a lady.

Here are five people I would like to know some interesting things about…

My fellow pleasetakenote contributors, Alex Light, Buzz, Willow & Nathan

So my first working week (well 3 days) for 2007 is near completion, I can smell beer o’clock from here. This week I have mostly struggled with adjusting from a 12 hour sleeping pattern to a mere 6 a night - it has been tiring to say the least, hopefully my attention and energy levels will return next week!

Part of my distraction this week has come from virtual views of the beautiful game, table tennis. Check out the alternative tables showcased on the vvork blog or tune into Ping Pong Cup skillz here.

…at we make money not art.

Well sort of, it seems that nic and situl managed to get into creative arts magazine. I don’t buy it myself, but it was left on the coffee desk at work. Nic manages to get in on a couple of photos at AllOfUs and Situls in there for that swarm project he did for his degree at university.

Yay new teaching year! buh-bye summer. hello blog procrastrination.

One Good Turn is a lighthearted forum website we have just launched for Orange. The site suggests numerous good turns Orange employees and customers can do to brighten other people’s lives up.

The good turn I am doing you in this post is bringing to your attention the super animations from Mr Bingo that are sprinkled across the site to illustrate said good turns.

Dimitre was staying here with me for a few days, amongst other cool things, he showed me a site he’d done for Carlo Giovani. Carlo’s work is really neat and worth a browse.

http://carlogiovani.com/

I saw this at the weekend (not in person, just the site) and loved the idea, very simple idea and it works (retro!)

Paper record

“Dateline” works with a civilian watchdog group and local law enforcement to unmask would-be pedophiles using Internet sting operations. An adult poses as a teenage boy or girl online and invites a predator for a tryst. The suspect finds himself in a cozy suburban kitchen filled with snacks, only to discover the “Dateline” correspondent Chris Hansen and hidden cameras lying in wait. This is then all shown on NBC!!!!

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Forget flash (well i have for a long time now!) I’m using javascript for almost every project I can get my hands on, but I think the benchmark has been set -> fluxiom

this is amazing, even to non-programmers this should be impressive (and not just the pricing - ouch!)