March 19, 2008
More SUP horrors
Wow. OMG Just wow. I am utterly speechless.  Now everything SUP has done wrong with LJ becomes perfectly clear.Here is a news interview from the head of SUP, and there is a translation of it in full…
March 17, 2008
email headaches
I’ve just spent the best part of whole bloody day trying to configure my email client to work with different email addresses (aol, yahoo and gmail). This is something tht’s not worked properly in…
Fic Rec
Following all the recent wank about the Jane Eyre plagiarism case (I finally learned how to spell plagiarism correctly), I was passed this Serenity/Firefly fic rec featuring - you guessed it - Jayne…
March 16, 2008
amazing video
I just have to share this. It apparently appeard on the Ellen show, and basically is about two guys who raised a lion cub called Christian, but when the cub got too big they had to release him back…
company party
1) I didn’t win anything. I wasn’t even on the nominees list. *pouts*2) No photos. NOBODY was taking photos at all, and I would have felt like a weirdo or something, getting the camera out and asking…
finally
It’s only taken two whole weeks but I finally have Semagic set up again after the crash wiped it all out. Which means that it will now be an automatic thing for me to crosspost everything between…
March 8, 2008
Cosplay!
Today I went with Kat to Collectormania, a sort of science fiction convention at the G-Mex. It’s not much like the cons I used to go to in years past, but there WAS a Cosplay contest (you know, what…
February 27, 2008
Quake
There was an earthquake in England last night.  It lasted about 2-3 seconds, at about 1am, just as I was about to go to bed. The whole house shook (I later discovered that the whole country shook), as though a massive freight train was going past except it was quiet. Since being in Manchester (1987) […]
February 14, 2008
Bad domain names
Chosen by people who really didn’t think before registering them…
January 31, 2008
and the nominations are in…
…for the award ceremony at work, in March. Now last year I was in the top 10% and got an invite, but I didn’t get my invite until the last batch, about a week or so before the event, and I didn’t win anything. This year’s first batch of invites are out and I’m in […]