Paul Annett

One of the things which struck me when I worked as Lead Designer in-house Harrods.com last year, was the length of time it took to get a new design approved in such a large organisation.

Today I was musing on how the opposite is true for the work I do now that I am self employed. For instance, I maintain easyworld’s website for BMG Records, and when I received the news that their new single has gone to number 1 on The Amp music TV channel and is heading the same way on The Box, their website was updated almost before the channel knew themselves! No approval process required.

And BMG are bigger than Harrods.

Just read about a supposed time traveller who has returned to our time from 2036, where the world has been ravaged by nuclear war. It would be nice to think he’s genuine and that time travel is possible (although that would obviously mean death to us all, so maybe not that nice) so this document is provided so that we can asses the validity of his claims, if and when they happen.

2004/2005 for civil war in America, anyone? From what we see on the news and what Michael Moore has to say, it doesn’t seem too improbable.

When something bad happens, rather than it being “something bad” it seems to have become “something to blog about”.

For instance, when we made Bad Stew. By “we”, of course, I really mean “Relly”, but I feel that “we” somehow eases her burden.

It is Sunday. The day has barely begun (for me, having gone to bed at 4am), and already the kitten has pushed from the work surface a large antique platter which was one of the first things Relly and I bought as a couple when we lived in Clapham Junction, London. Needless to say, it’s now a quaint but slightly less valuable set of several smaller platettes.