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Monday March 28, 2005

With all this traffic whooshing through my site at the moment, pausing casually to look at the pretty flowers and then zooming off never to be seen again, I thought I'd better do something about the content. With the sudden, horrifying realisation that I have actually got very little to say, there was nothing else to do but hijack the talents of others.

So, starting in the next few days, and continuing as long as I can persuade people to do it, begins "Seven and a half questions for [insert name]".

Thinking about it, I may have stolen the idea from The Web Standards Group. However, they have thousands of readers, I have three, they ask ten sensible questions, I've asked seven and a half dumb ones. So let's call it a node of inspiration and hear no more of it!

Who will be first? Well it seemed only right that it should be a Brit.

  1. Rob Mientjes

    1380 days ago

    Coolness. Looking forward to it. Am I allowed to say dirty words to the interviewed celeb?

  2. Chris McLeod

    1380 days ago

    sounds like fun :-)

  3. Jon Hicks

    1380 days ago

    Any chance you could interview…

  4. Sebastian Schmieg

    1380 days ago

    You didn’t ask for suggestions, but who cares? I would like to see you interview
    * Kevin Potts
    * David Hellsing
    * Adam Howell

    Why? Because those could be interesting interviews, I guess.

  5. Turnip

    1380 days ago

    Sounds cool, but what the fuck did you do with your watering can? Cause the flowers are nowhere to be seen… :(

  6. Julian

    1380 days ago

    Beautiful flowers all over the page, was it a temporary bug?
    (Why does the preview tell me, I had written my post 1 hour ago? And of course, it’s not the preview alone…)

  7. Turnip

    1380 days ago

    Ah right. I was getting worried you were going to do another live redesign ; ).

  8. Schultzy

    1380 days ago

    How about someone less famous just because I think we already know alot about more popular people.

    Just a thought.

  9. Rob Mientjes

    1380 days ago

    Schultzy, because we’re not interesting ;p

    John, what’s wrong with family besides the fact that they’re unlikely to be involved in web standards.

    Also, I bet you’re making a modem-safe version ;)

  10. Schultzy

    1380 days ago

    I wasnt thinking of me. Nah more like leaders of good sites (unlike me lol)

    Family would be cool.
    Any way Rob you are famous.
    I just come here to try to be.

  11. AkaXakA

    1380 days ago

    Why not indeed interview the people behind well known sites.

    Not the ones who have their own well read blog (think Dave of the Zen Garden), but other folk…

    ...can’t think up who exactly…

    ...will come up with actual names later.

  12. Schultzy

    1380 days ago

    The maker of jamie olivers site.
    It aint too bad and its a big named site.

    Sites like that..

    They dont have to be 100% standards complient. Just on the way there.

  13. Indranil

    1380 days ago

    Oh boy!
    This is gonna be cool.

  14. Tom

    1380 days ago

    this is going to be cool :)
    hello, mr.oxton, remeber Big T?

  15. Abel Rios

    1380 days ago

    Make it four readers! :)

  16. Max

    1380 days ago

    Five, actually.

    “With the sudden, horrifying realisation that I have actually got very little to say…”
    The point is, you have a very entertaining way of saying very little. And there’s the flowers, of course. =]

  17. Kman

    1379 days ago

    The person who designed http://www.msn.com , It’s using CSS now! and It almost validates xhtml

  18. Luc

    1379 days ago

    I agree with Schultzy: why not interview one of the less famous out there? We already read the interviews with the “gurus”. A tip to start: gordonmac. He’s an extremely talented guy :-)

  19. Gordon Mackay

    1379 days ago

    Hahaha, well I could tell you all about the principles of the Social Work Scotland Act if that would be any use :p

  20. Gordon Mackay

    1379 days ago

    :D Alive n kicking, Mr Oxton… hehe, just not so much on the webby side of things :)

  21. Luc

    1379 days ago

    Well a good choice and still alive (except in the weekend lol) so …. ;-)

  22. Kev

    1379 days ago

    Very interesting sounding project John. Looking forward to this one very much.

  23. Dustin

    1379 days ago

    Commenting on flowers design: Beautifully done, and although I’m not sure why, I like the Fireworks-esque vector handles incorporated into it…

  24. eddmun

    1379 days ago

    Interview Jon Hicks!

  25. Tim

    1379 days ago

    Phil Gyford – he’s one of the guys behind Jamie’s Dinners.

    Otherwise you’ll just have to interview me ;)

  26. Keith

    1379 days ago

    Just make sure some of the questions dig up some dirt! I love informative interviews, but a little scandal never hurt anyone.

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