This is the celebrated journal of Mr. Simon Collison A.K.A Colly

Here are my excuses

14th December 2005

This is another one of those posts where the owner of the site waffles on about loads of stuff only relevant to him/her by way of excusing the lack of new and exciting articles on said blog - a post in no way new or exciting, and designed purely to buy more time to do more of said stuff only relevant to him/her for a few more weeks. Here are my excuses…

Emma’s put her foot in it

Emma has (since some time back in November) been the owner of a very badly broken foot (a spiral fracture, to be precise). As a result, she is immobile. Cue Colly to the rescue, finally doing my fair share of cooking, cleaning, fetching, carrying, driving, running all manner of errands and more. She’s definitely worth it, but bloody hell does all of that get in the way of writing…

You know about this one…

Been putting the finishing touches to my chapter for Andy’s forthcoming book. The world of second drafts, tech reviews, copy edits and all that jazz is not a forgiving one.

You don’t know about this one…

I’ve landed myself a very interesting solo project that I can’t possibly talk about right now, and won’t until probably Spring next year. This means all hands (well, I only have two) on deck now and throughout the festive season. Remember, you heard it here first, but you didn’t know what it was…

Life at Agenzia towers?

As for the day job, amongst new environs (a swish new office) and a million other projects, it’s a big fat bundle of web work for Poptones and a major band featuring a guy who used to be in another major band, and who looks like having the major band of 2006 on these shores. Thus (you guessed it), no spare time at the office. Is there ever?

Bloody End Of year Lists!

Oh, because it’s nearly the end of the year, I have to start thinking about all sorts of end of year lists, and then all sorts of prediction lists. Best albums of the year? Favourite bloggers? If I name check X will he reward me with Y? Will we care about drop shadows in 2006? I’ll drop my lists on you at the end of the year AND NOT BEFORE! ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN BETWEEN NOW AND 31st DECEMBER! D’UH!

It’s fucking Christmas

I love Christmas, me. I got my first ever real christmas tree, instead of the usual plastic rubbish. It’s enormous. That said, there are sodding presents to buy, bloody people to visit, bleedin’ doo’s to go to and get drunk at, and then there’s the eternal question - who do we go spend Christmas day with? Can’t go anywhere nice because of the broken foot… and work… and cash….

Anyway, that’s it. These are my reasons. If you stayed this long and are still reading, you must be bored rigid by now. I thank you for your love, and promise to return with some mind-blowing articles (even some about CSS) in the New year.

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