Diary - Wednesday 14 August 2002

Tom emailed to tell me that he'd been playing around with MT Sparkly:

'Sorry' been playin' with sparklytrainers if you don't like the new look, pick another from here and read the instructions at the top... easy to do...'

- hence the new colour scheme, courtesy of Tom. I really really must decided on 'my' visual identity'. natch.

On my way home I decided to talk to him about rejigging Sparkly so that the front page points visitors to 'selected services', including Burning Man as having put the effort into consolidated all the info from the BMCCC mailing list (the main topic of conversation today was coming up with ideas for costumes to complement this year's theme - 'tides') I really ought to share it. The snag is that I don't really want them to discover this, given that BMCCC is drawn from Haddock and I'm not that confident about this - both the content and the structure, for it to be scrutinised by the 'shadowy new media elite' that it haddock (please note tongue in cheek).

Now I come to think about it, I really think Tom ought to install MT for himself seeing as he has so much fun fiddling with mine!! Perhaps he regards it as his surrogate Blog.

Met Hazel after work and we headed to Strada in search of al fresco supper. Clearly the rest of CJ's young profs had had the same idea, so we opted for an inside Italian, accompanied by a chilled Ros'. Back to H's for Class Mates - a reunion of the class of 1988 from some swanky home counties boarding school. Not the school world I knew, but I'd love to go to a get together of my Tudor Grange contemporaries. Admittedly on a mission to show I'm not the quiet super studious square I was in my early teen years.

Spent an hour or so doing MT Sparkly entries (to publish tomorrow!), and at 00:29 I'm listening to the weather forecast' we're in a heatwave!! Hey, everything's relative!! Ok weather on Tuesday, and a lovely warm to hot day today. More tomorrow!!

Aieee, my shoulders ache - I can feel them soooo tense and tight across my neck and my back. I need a Yossage.