talkin' blues

TMI: Monthly curse

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:34:53 -0400

TMI: Monthly curse: TMI: Monthly curse
Number of minutes slept last night: zero
Reason for that - the monthly curse decided to kick me in the abdomen just as I was going to bed. I hoped it was going to let me just sleep…

Several things.

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:07:46 -0400

Several things.: Several things.
Internet died last night. We phoned support to find out if it was them or us. The call-handler (who I can only assume is working out his notice or something) said that one of the main…

wondering why I can’t get into IJ and what does “optimization” mean?

Mon, 05 May 2008 18:44:00 -0400

wondering why I can’t get into IJ and what does “optimization” mean?

thinking that I ought to update this more often

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:26:44 -0400

thinking that I ought to update this more often

wow

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:26:53 -0400

wow: Went to bed early last night, slept over 12 hours. Woke up without any feverishness, which is a definite improvement on the last 2 days, although this sinus headache can go away now thankyou.

Sad states of America

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:05:06 -0400

Sad states of America: AT&T decides to relocate it’s callcentres back in the USA instead of India - and cannot find 5000 Americans of enough skill to fill the vacancies.

dreaded lurgy

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:31:10 -0400

dreaded lurgy: So I thought I’d got over this tonsilitis thing; my throat was feeling okay yesterday, good enough that I went to the folk club after work and found my singing voice to be in fine fettle. Today…

Chicken Soup

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:24:12 -0400

Chicken Soup: Well, Anad has tonsilitis/strep throat, and last night I felt that horrible feeling in my own throat so I know its coming. Ugh. This morning we took a trip to Morrissons and bought everything we need…

Why I am Scared of Livejournal

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:20:23 -0400

Why I am Scared of Livejournal: When SUP took over Livejournal, and there were rumours flying around about SUP being connected with the KGB, I was worried, in a sort of conspiracy-theory-paranoid sort of way. The sort where you…

awards dinner pic

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:19:13 -0400

awards dinner pic: There was apparently one photo of me at the awards dinner on Saturday, taken by the professional photographer. It’s quite a nice picture, aside from the watermark, but I’m not sure it’s worth paying…

More SUP horrors

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:16:57 -0400

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…

email headaches

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:13:55 -0400

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

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:13:06 -0400

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…

amazing video

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:12:37 -0400

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

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:12:33 -0400

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

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:12:33 -0400

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…

Cosplay!

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:50:43 -0500

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…

Quake

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:24:20 -0500

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) […]

Bad domain names

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:45:16 -0500

Bad domain names: Chosen by people who really didn’t think before registering them…

and the nominations are in…

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:09:18 -0500

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 […]