Me and some of the people I work with done a ski trip to Morzine at the weekend. It was brilliant, and even better, the flight back was delayed, so we had to stay an extra night. Bonus.

Being too tired and hungover to actually do any real work, I measured people’s general state of recovery through a totally pointless, genius, email based straw poll. Draw from it whatever conclusions you want.

Bringing up the rear was Hungary’s own Gabor, of Warpigs fame, with a meagre 30%.

Doing the agency proud was Rob Pawson with an impressive 73%.

The girls just outdid the boys with an average of 54.8 against 48.9 for the chaps. The agency average was 53.3.

Good work everybody. I feel a rather painful 45% and need a cuddle.

Skiing.

Nice.

Normally I find all the tfl ads to look a bit cheap and low rent. But I really like this Tfl & iTunes stuff that I’m sure everyone’s seen down the toob.

Nice idea and the 3D stuff brings the visuals out a bit more than usual.

Tried to come up with a few more, but they’re mostly rubbish! Anyone got any better ones?

• The Holloways Road
• Charing Kris Kross
• Clapham Your Hands Say Yeah
• Warren G Street
• Aldgate East-ie Boys
• The Liverpool Streets
• Kings Cross of Leon
• Maximo Green Park
• Queensway of the Stone Age

Inbetween work bits and bobs I managed to do a bit more on the Papervision tilt maze game. It’s looking and working much nicer now.

Managed to get in a real 3D ball instead of just a 2D dot. Also managed to texture the floor and add a background for some extra depth. The main platform now has some shading with a top down light source.

Oh, and perhaps I should mention that you still can’t actually ‘win’ - so I guess it’s still more of a toy than a game. CLICK HERE for the latest version.

Much love.

I’ve been using twitter for quite a while now. It’s great, not lost interest in it one tiny bit.

I have kind of noticed though, a decent chunk of people’s tweets could quite happily sit into two camps: Things they like or are happy with, and a nice bit of the old vitriolic hatred.

This made me think, wouldn’t it be nice if you could somehow analyze your feed and be able to reflect on it a bit. You’d be able to see if you were happily living in peaceful harmony, or a bit of a miserable wanker.

My first thought on how to put this into action would be to get people to add tags to their tweets. Maybe adding something like ‘@grr:’ or ‘@yey:’ or something like that to each applicable message. Simple, job done. Couple of problems here though. Firstly people will have to remember / bother to do that… and they probably wont. Secondly, once people find out about the idea, it’d take ages for them to start seeing any kind of interesting data. Pretty counter-intuitive.

Then I thought about We Feel Fine. It’s a project that spiders through blogs picking up on different emotions in sentences, then displays them all pretty. You can filter them out, it’s all very cool stuff. On a similar kind of sentence analysis principal, maybe you could write a script that analyzes the twitter feed, then fires back some nice meaningful statistics about it - all interesting and pretty. That way it could look at much more than just whether the messages are positve / negative.

See what you’re like, compare yourself to your pals. Could be really interesting.

Oh, the image at the top, if you didn’t notice, it says love one way up, and hate the other way round :) Clever stuff. Found it on tinternet.

As promised, I’ve quickly chucked together a little clip of some of the stuff I got up to in Seville. It was an awesome trip, managed to squeeze in 30 jumps which was pretty good going considering it wasn’t that busy and I didn’t hire a packer. Had got a bit bored of formation stuff (making different patterns in the air) so was working on the freefly skills (all other orientations - a lot faster and more fun!). Did a bunch of coaching with Jim Harris of Outbreak - current british freefly champion and general skydiving leg-end.

Skydiving - Seville Xmas 07 from mbenney on Vimeo. It was sweet :)

Done a skydiving adventure, Christmas and new years and that. Nice. Felt like I’d been away from work for ages. One day back. It feels like I never left. Anyway, good to be back to a slightly less destructive routine and connected to the ol’ matrix.

Seville was great, I’ll do a proper post on it soon when I capture all my video footage and get it online.

Bought Paul Arden’s latest book to amuse myself on the plane over there. Good little book - quite different from the others. I was a bit dubious about it, I’m not really one to go wild over religion. It’s a bit more about spirituality than relgion though, its not too preachy and did provoke a lot of interesting thoughts in my dirty little mind.

I really liked this page:

Have that organised religion! In other Christmas news, this amused me:

Oh, and happy new year =)