4 April 2004: I moved the whole site to waylar.com last week. I saw Passion of the Christ last night and am still reeling. Mel Gibson must be stopped.
29 December 2003: I've written what I hope is a suitably scathing review of Return of the King. I'm very cross with people for liking this movie. They're increasing the chance of Hollywood foisting similarly disgraceful rubbish on us in the future.
15 April 2002: After a brief period a few weeks ago when I thought I was losing my grip on reality, ie going insane, I am now trying to improve myself. Stimulate body and mind, that's the ticket. I am also attempting to modify this site to make it more, erm, suitable for public consumption.
16 March 2002: I've recently returned from my second trip to Sydney, and now I finally have ADSL at home. Maybe 2002 won't be so bad. 2001 was an extraordinary year. I saw Marilyn Manson, the Divine Comedy, Nick Cave, Ute Lemper and Pulp in concert. I also saw Gina Gershon as Sally Bowles in NYC, took up rollerblading and kickboxing (the latter was shortlived), bought a piano, had my photo taken with Claudia Black and Virginia Hey, and saw Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Angelina Jolie. I heard Beethoven's second Symphony in Sydney town hall, and also went to America three times, incorporating two Farscape conventions and a trip to Universal Studios Hollywood. I also discovered one of my favourite books, which is Glamorama, and the movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
2 December 2001: I want to go back to Los Angeles. England is so cold and uninhabitable I can't think why I stay. It's not even cheap. Last winter when I lived in Derby and nearly froze I swore I wouldn't go through it again. But now I've moved to Ipswich, which has lovely winds straight from Siberia. Oh the joy. I did see Pulp last Thursday in London though, although I'm still recovering from some filthy cigarettes I bought there.
29 September 2001: I've just come back from a holiday in San Francisco, LA and New York city. It was utterly fantastic. I've decided to rename my website "Ed's Web". After all it is my name.
28 September 2000: I've just spent a week in New York. Which was nice.
12 March 2000: I now have free Internet access from BT Internet! No more spending a fortune on phone bills and monthly subscriptions. I've had a busy weekend moving this site to www.btinternet.com/~eb3. I've also added a nice new search engine to my contents page.
7 October 1999: Bit of a landmark today: my website now consists of 999 files.
4 September 1999: You can say what you like about Microsoft, but I like them, especially as they keep giving me free stuff. First there was Win98 SE, now they've sent me a huge box containing two CDs, a book and a clock-cum-brush. It's all jolly good fun.
15 August 1999: I'm despondent because Steffi has retired from the WTA tour. The funny thing is she announced this two days ago, which happened to be a Friday, and my mother was saying "Friday the 13th, that can't be good", or something similar, and I was thinking "yeah, sure, like anything's going to happen." Rats.
6 August 1999: I saw The Matrix for the fifth time yesterday, and was literally on the edge of my seat all the way through. My hands were tingling for about fifteen minutes afterwards. What's even more exciting is that it's coming out on DVD on 21 September.
18 July 1999: I've just been to North Wales on holiday. Highlights included knackering myself climbing Snowdon twice, building the biggest sandcastle ever on Anglesey, and seeing five leopards at the Welsh Mountain Zoo. Today I made a new movie posters page.
8 July 1999: These 21st birthdays aren't all they're cracked up to be, I think I'll wait for the next one. But ten days ago I piloted a glider at 3000 feet- now there's something you don't do every day.
1 July 1999: It's been a fucking beautiful day: Steffi won at Wimbledon, I found out I can get Windows 98 SE free, I have a new email address and a new web address, and Ted's Web hit 300 pages. And next week it's my birthday. Could things be better?
24 June 1999: I'm back from Dublin! It's a great place, very crowded though.
17 June 1999: I've just created a whole new links page. And to top off all the fun, I'm off to Dublin on Monday for a few days. Well you know I've been sitting around for so long, it's time for a break.
2 June 1999: I'm now officially an MCP! I had a big pack from Microsoft today with a flimsy certificate signed by Bill Gates (that chap really gets around). It's all great fun. But the day when I'll have to find a job is getting closer.
13 April 1999: What ho, what ho! I say chaps, you'll never believe this. Thanks to this new simply topping piece of software I can now play Tekken 3 on my pc. Really, no rotting. Office 2000 is finished as well, but won't be sold until June. It's just as well really as I don't have £300. Tally ho!
12 April 1999: I'm having fun (?) adding meta tags to all my pages, and I have to say it just marginally beats being nailed to a wall.
14 March 1999: I read in today's paper that Labour have generated 6.8 billion pounds through selling arms around the world, particularly to Indonesia, where civilians are being blown to smithereens with said weapons. Bunch of twats. Of course they revealed this on budget day, when no-one would notice. In other news, some film director bloke has been knocking Diana. I like him already.
13 March 1999: We were driving past my old school today, and I realised that it's nearly 10 years since I went there, and a whole lot of sights, smells (?) and events came flooding back to me. Christ, 10 years, that's half my life, but -hideous cliche alert (get the smelling salts mother)- it seems like yesterday. I truly wish sometimes that things could just be the same forever, but that cannot be, people move on, they forget, they meet new friends, they develop strange tastes in architecture. And that's the way it has to be, in order to survive we must adapt and change or life soon becomes boring.
6 February 1999: I saw Little Voice at the cinema last night for the second time, and it is truly spiffing. But Michael Caine says they cut his favourite line. When Mari finds out her daughter LV is agoraphobic, she says: "If you're agoraphobic you can get out!" Pure class.
3 February 1999: I read in today's Times that Yahoo have bought Geocities for 4.6 thousand million dollars. Damn! I was saving up for it myself.
It's been apparent to me for a while that my present income cannot possibly sustain the lifestyle to which I have become accustomed.
9 January 1999: I was reading today about Trey
Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park,
and how they are "sick of this whole attitude of 'mankind sucks, we're
destroying the rainforest, we're killing each other.' The entire point is to
sit back and say 'you know what, fuck all of you.'"
And they have a point. So stop being so bleeding miserable and have fun while
you can. And if it's at the expense of others, then so much the better. Tally
ho.
3 January 1999: A new year is upon us, and I swear I'll never drink again after last week (except for the odd glass of water). I've got a new computer which is good. I'm expecting a credit card bill the size of Bournemouth tomorrow, which isn't. I must get a new job, I'm sick of the Blockbuster Mcjob (Mcjob: a low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no future job in the service sector -excerpt from Generation X)
29 December 1998: I saw The Wishmaster last night, and most interesting it was too, even though it was more funny than frightening. It seems to me that the way to deal with Djinns is simply to say 'I wish that this wish will not be granted' and while he's puzzling that one over, kick him in the nuts and make a run for it.
17 December 1998: I've just been to New York City, well actually I've been back three days but what with sleeping for 14 hours the first night, assembling my new computer and working for Blockbuster, time has flown by.
7 December 1998: All I get, all day, is people complaining to me. 'oh my back hurts, I hate Fortran, I'm having a crap day' etc. etc. I wish they'd just shut up because frankly it's boring. Life can seem dull at times but then someone does something that makes you feel alive, makes you feel how it used to be and can be again with enough drugs, giving you a raw visceral thrill that makes you want to shake them by the hand.
26 September 1998: Let joy be unbounded, I now have a job working at Blockbuster Express in Matlock. (does anyone detect the mildest hint of sarcasm?). I have been to Hell and back, and I have to say the weather there was awful.
31 August 1998: I've just added some audio clips from Friends and some charming images, of a duck, a penguin and a.. ahem!.. squirrel. I've been working for hours seemingly and am now blimmin' starving. Still, it's to be hoped the punters appreciate my efforts.
23 August 1998: I went to Blist's Hill Victorian town near Ironbridge yesterday, which was fun, and I managed to find this rather inspiring poem. See what you think if it.
18 August 1998: My site now comprises 176 pages, and most of them are rubbish. Still, it's always the way, isn't it? Just look at satellite tv. I am currently working on movie star biographies and my ridiculous views on everything. It's tricky as I can only make up so much stuff before it becomes unbelievable. I may just have to resort to claiming that everyone was brought up by wolves near Milton Keynes. Although come to think of it this is closer to the truth than most people imagine.
One day in 1998: Those kind people at Demon decide to give everyone 15 Megs of space. This allows for outrageous expansion.
11 November 1997: The "great" move, from billi to stopthepigeon
29 June 1997: I created a plethora of Friends pages. Odd that.
1 May 1997: on this day I added a counter. I had previously reached the conclusion that they are crap, but that was before I knew how to get one.
Sandra's role is diminished as the theme of the site shifts to ... well I dunno really. Whoops
Thinks: Let's make it a Sandra Bullock Page 'cos let's face it, I've not got
the brain to think of anything
else.
T'will be a laugh if all else fails, and it keeps me off the streets. To work.
Three weeks later: the so-called infrastructure is complete.
March 1997: Aye aye, what's this? 5 megs of web space. Tidy.
Ed's Web was authored almost entirely using SoftQuad's HoTMetaL Light 3 until last week (August 1998) when I purloined HoTMetaL PRO 4.0 . But joking apart it was actually a legitimate purchase.
Well that was until last week (October 1998) when I absconded with HoTMetaL PRO 5.0.
Spell-checking is done by myself and my old friend the Collins Concise English Dictionary.