Slack With REG
I have a confession to make. I’ve been a very bad webmaster of late. Most of this year in fact if the truth be known. It could be argued that I’ve had a lot on my mind – and I have actually – but that shouldn’t really detract from my everyday webmastery duties.
Of course it could also be argued that the main website I run, The REG Temple has been relatively quiet the past three months or so, with only a few “events” happening over that time.
The REG Temple is the official website of popular British actor Richard E. Grant – star of Withnail & I, Spice World, Hudson Hawk and about 50 other films. You might not be familiar with the name but you most certainly would have seen his face – especially if you’re into Scorsese or Robert Altman (REG has been in four of Altman’s films to date). REG was also one of Daphne’s brothers in the last episode of Frasier and has played Doctor Who twice.
The Temple first started off as a fan site in 1998. My ex, Dominique, used to do music and movie reviews for a fanzine here and one time she went to review a REG film (not sure which one) and wanted to get some background info on him. To her surprise she found that there was very little about him on the web, so she decided to start up her own web site dedicated to him – hence The REG Temple.
Dominique then got in touch with Richard through his publisher (he’s also written two books) and struck up an online professional relationship with him where he would send her updates on what he was working on at any given time. Dominique also got a ton of stuff – articles, interviews, fan artwork etc. – from many of Richard’s fans from around the world, which she would add to the site.
In 2000 Dominique flew to England to meet REG and help out with a charity event over there, Withnail For Waterford. The event was very successful and Dominique got to meet many of the fans that had helped out with the website. A month or two after the event I suggested to Dominique to see if REG would mind making The REG Temple his official site. He agreed wholeheartedly and the fan site became the official site.
Later on that year the workload of keeping everything updated with the site became too much for Dominique so I offered to help out – eventually taking over the complete control of the site not long after that. Since I took over the running of The REG Temple it has grown dramatically in size – about 20 times the size it was when I first took over. It has been an integral part of my life for the past five years now. At first there was a lot of work involved to organize it the way I wanted it, but nowadays it’s just plugging in bits and pieces here and there which doesn’t take too much time at all, really. All the work I do on the site is voluntary, but I did manage to get a wonderful Clamshell iBook laptop sent to me from REG when Amy and I spent three months in the U.S. in late 2003. That Clamshell follows me everywhere nowadays as it’s just so cool and convenient to use – especially now that I’ve put a wireless card in it.
Which kinda brings me to THIS….
WTF ?????
The FIRST lifestyle notebook? Worlds FIRST designer laptop??? As we say in this country “PIGS ARSE!!!” Apple was doing this sort of thing SIX FUGGING YEARS BACK!!! Not saying that these computers aren’t good – all the specs look good to me and the designs ARE cool – but still. The peeps who wrote the copy line to these really need an injection of COMPUTER FRIGGIN HISTORY 101!
Sheese!
Still, if I had the cash…..actually make that IF I had PLENTY of cash to SPARE then I’d prolly pick up one of these just on looks alone. Hell, why not get a set, huh? I could see Carrie from “Sex In The City” tote one of these babies around if she didn’t already have a Mac – As long as it went with her shoes, of course.
Anyhow, that’s my rant for the day.
Cameron Miller – Apple user since 1990.
kind of reminds me of apple developing a two button mouse…
“Now, according to Apple Insider, unnamed sources are reporting that Apple is ‘feverishly working’ on a two-button mouse.”
not that they are claiming it’s the first, but they’re “feverishly working on it”?! they make it sound like it’s some kind of cutting edge idea.
The idea of “feverishly working” on a two button mouse is a worry, yes! It’s long overdue!
Not that an Apple mouse needs to be two button, per se’ – but it does increase your options. It’s just Steve Job’s ego that stopped a two button mouse from being developed at Apple, methinks?
I hope it comes with a scroll wheel? I have an **hhhmmm** Microsoft optical mouse cause it was cheap and works well. Unfortunately it’s nowhere near as sexy as the clear Apple mouse but them’s the breaks.