Have you heard? Sophie Ellis Bextor is dead!

Police suspect she was killed by a headbutt from a French footballer, no less.

The headline read, “Murder on Zidane’s Floor.”

So I’ve been busy, and haven’t had time to set up that t-shirt store yet. I did make this one today, to complement the design I’ve had with an Olympus XA2 on it. It’s way better than the XA2 shirt, which will now need some rethinking.

Oh and don’t see Pirates of the Caribbean 2. It’s a spectacularly bad waste of money (both yours and the studio’s).

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Lomo LC-A: Think Later

Currently only available through CafePress.com. I’ll make and distribute them locally once the store opens.
USD$20
Buy here

Some images hosted by flickr.com

This blog and haikulog.com are now running off the new server, and everything is going well. I lost all my mixtape archives, and the silly videos that were in my Random folder, so I will have to start filling those up again. No big issue; I’ve got room to grow and bandwidth to burn now. I may even redesign this site while I’m at it.

I’ll be starting a proper t-shirt store once I find a reliable supplier and printer, as well as sort out the small problem of building up a good library of designs. The URL to that will be posted once it’s ready.

Kimberly is back safely, for those of you who know her. It is indescribably good to have her around again. And I have 2 very cool new shirts and some other miscellaneous cool presents. I’ll post pictures to flickr later. Ok, time to get some sleep before the World Cup finals and what should be a busy work week.

Just a quick update now that things are mostly working again. My host had server trouble over the last weekend and decided to move our data to another datacenter. Then, partway through migration, the old datacenter deleted the untransferred data. So my site was lost, but I still have everything off-site thanks to blogger, with the rest on my harddisk. This is why I will always trust blogger over any other client-side app.

The host claimed that our stuff will be restored from backups shortly, but I’ve had enough. So ten minutes ago, I bought a shitload of space somewhere more reliable, and will be moving all my sites over in the next few days. During that time, this site will be inaccessible or not very well behaved, so bear with it a little longer.

I entertained thoughts of abandoning the domain name and starting a new anonymous blog elsewhere, but ultimately I’m too attached to it. I did buy a couple of new domains though, for new projects rolling out soon.

Remember that Studio Ghibli-produced anime movie that you cried like an idiot at? You know, the one set during World War II, with the two freshly-orphaned Japanese kids with no survival skills. They lived in a cave, in their blissfully naive fantasy world, eating “fruit drop” candies out of a metal tin until the candy ran out. And when they filled the tin with water, and drank the fruit flavored water, you totally lost it. Yeah I know you did. You knew that the end of the candy signified the coming end of their pathetic struggle against starvation. For the record, I laughed with the glee of a disenfranchised mailbomber because I really hated those stupid characters.

Well anyway. Now the candy never has to run out, because you can buy loads of the shit from Play-Asia.com with free shipping for approx SGD$4.80 a tin. I’ve ordered two!

Link

My web hosting company has been having some problems, and I wasn’t able to publish from Saturday up until this morning. They’ve also changed the terms of our contract and reduced the amount of disk space I have, so I’m thinking of starting a whole new thing on a whole new domain and server. I might keep this and all the other text blog sites going on this current server since I’m paid up till the company folds. I’m quite attached to this domain now, after having had it for 4 years.

Anyway, here’s a t-shirt I made today:

It’s USD$14.99, if you can be bothered.
Also available as a Baby Doll tee.

Waiting area
Originally uploaded by sangsara.

I noticed today that it has not occurred to me all week to meet up with people for a drink after work. This is in stark contrast to a few weeks ago when I needed a drink at the end of every boring, mind-numbingly stupid day as an Information Architect at a company that didn’t even want to buy its employees a water cooler.

The reason, obviously, is that I’m enjoying myself. The days seem to be over all too quickly, and before I know it, I’m here past 6pm and not minding it. I don’t dread next mornings, next days, and I don’t count down to the weekend. In fact, the coming weekend feels sorta like an obstacle between me and the next work week and its opportunities. Well, I’m curious to see how long it lasts too. I remember feeling this way at my last internship, and it can only be taken as a sign that I’m on the right track for myself. Stevie J told a Stanford class at their commencement to “stay hungry, stay foolish”, and I am. Hungry to get Insanely Great™ things done despite my natural limitations. Hungry to stay employed, really, if we must put first things first.

Anyway a bunch of hot russian-looking models came in today to get test shots done, and a bunch of “sporty” tertiary girls are coming in tomorrow for a briefing session I will probably attend. Kickass.