myspace

wow reading festival is more audible from here than i thought. guess i'll be a awake for a bit so i may as well blog about something.

ahh myspace.. what was once a whirlijig of activity, is now only an embarrassing byword, if it weren't for their music pages still holding some dominance in the music scene (which is an impressive feat to still hold). for what it was worth (which isn't all that much anymore), i quite liked the customisation element of the site, though on most occasions people took it tooooo far. i think i just liked that you could embed flash onto it because i used to like annoying people with it.


myspace seems to be in a time bubble of its own - i logged into it after being reminded about it yesterday, and similar to the childhood toys and games that get left behind, it gives an eerie snapshot of what i was like all those years back.

cold, apparently!

ye wha?

i must admit, i laughed when i first saw this pairing as a facebook recommendation.

a useful intrusion

google street view has caused quite a bit of controversy since its inception, what with people not wishing to have a picture taken of where they live, and the need for blotting out faces, mainly for making embarrassing photo captures anonymous. that said, i found a really good use for it today.

i was going to send a letter, but the number of the house completely evaded me. its funny because i could picture the house in my mind, and even know what the next door's house looks like by and large, but the number? well, heck no. however! street view allows me to see the house as i remember it, but with the number marked somewhere nearby. good-o!

i'm still disappointed that they didn't catch my cat bumbling about outside, when the google vans trundled past my home home.

phil 3:15-21, eph 4:21-24

a blank verse i wrote about the gradual sanctifying work of god in people, and the idea that it's not always recognised straight away, until old ways of life are, by grace, made alien and distant.



some things are like a glove
you can observe that it used to fit a lot better
years and years ago
but something is different
and now
what used to fit so perfectly now seems
not quite right
out of shape and
it cannot be pinned down, only it is just
wrong somehow because it never used to be
this uncomfortable and yet
you don't remember changing but
the glove sure hasn't changed



so
something must have happened