chez dafyd

Lots on over the last week or so.

Hence not a lot of blogging.

As for what I actually have done … watch this space!

Boris Johnson has been slagging off the BBC.

Is this Britain, my friends, or is this some Central American dictatorship, circa 1970? I can think of only one reason for having a television in Oxfordshire, and that is so that I can refuse to pay Goodbody his confounded £126, and thereby show the BBC [...]

David blogged about last night’s Eurovision Song Contest this morning, and I posted a comment. Problem was, my comment ended up being about twice as long as his post. So I thought I might as well post it properly… The quotes, by the way, are from David’s blog:

Why are we one of the [...]

Daffy Duck:

Yours truly: (an old and particularly bad photo…)

I think you’ll agree that there is not much resemblance…

However, it can’t be denied that Dafyd can easily be shortened to Daf … which can then be easily lengthened to Daffy Duck.

I blame the parents.

I have had 9 months (if you take the end of my time [...]

In true Newsnight stylee, I thought I’d have a look at this morning’s front pages. Today is a pretty interesting day, because yesterday there was officially only one piece of news in Britain. Two quite famous and marginally important people are going to get married.

The Daily Express brings the dead back to life, once more:

The [...]

So, I came across the blog of Petite Anglaise today – it is, to quote, “a Brit’s-eye view of Paris”.

Ce site est le journal d’une anglaise, mariée à un français (The Frog) et vivant à Paris. Sa vision de Paris vu au travers d’un regard très British est assez désopilante.

(says [...]

I’m starting to get tired of the grey colour of this site – it does all look very 2004…!

So, I’m starting to work on redesigning everything… slowly, over the next few weeks/months. I’ve got quite a bit on at the moment (especially the Castle JCR website), so I’m not going to say I’m going to [...]

David broke Media Player. All point and laugh. A fundamental component of Windows that most of us can’t get rid of if we want to, and David manages to screw it up when he needs it. Hee hee. (Smug laugh – I still have Media Player. Don’t use it, though.)

I would go and give him [...]

Bad weather, debt, seasonal blues and failed resolutions mean today is miserable Monday, says one scientist. Cardiff University tutor Cliff Arnalls says his formula proves 24 January is the grimmest day of the year. The formula for the day of misery reads 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA. [...]

…Amazon looked like this?

Or when the White House website looked like this?

Thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, you can look at how sites used to look. What fun!

Hey, even I’m in there – with such exciting designs as the first iteration of dafyd.me.uk, from back in the days of yore, or even the [...]