Just before teatime, I was outside, chucking some stale bread into the field for the crows to get rid of. There was a bit of a hubbub audible from the crow colony at the top of the ruined castle; that was suddenly broken by a high-pitched whistling “Pweeeh!Pweeeeh!” of a buzzard. Then the buzzard appeared […]
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In February / March, the newspapers were full of horrified speculation about the uncovering of decades of abuse at the Haut de la Garenne childrens’ home, with former residents telling their stories of brutality and rape ther. There were even bodies buried there, said some. Police started digging, a dog trained to sniff out cadavers […]
….I click my way through to Prophesies.us, where any anonymous nutter (almost entirely American, to judge from the posts) can post their predictions. Today, I spotted this gem on their front page, from Feb 22nd: IN the last couple of nights Right before I begin to fall a sleep,I begin to feel a sense of […]
I’ve not been posting for a while – my knee ligament has decided once again that it doesn’t want to play any more. Additionally, the car has been off the road for the last week, being prepared for MOTting and taxing. So I’ve been pretty much housebound all this time – I can just about […]
When PTerry announced that he was giving £500,000 to the Alzheimers Research Trust, fans decided that they would match his donation, getting500,000 people to give £1 each. So they launched Match It For Pratchett. As of yesterday, they’ve already raised almost £50,000. Keep going!
So, spent most of the evening designing my new site. The results are here (the links aren’t working yet). I quite like it… Still haven’t decided where I’m going to keep this blog. Shoving it onto a new domain would be the simplest answer, but I’m worried about the expense of hosting; putting it onto […]
Yes, I’ve been away from this blog for a week or two. Been busy with various stuff – getting the Elfin Diaries site up and running (yes, I know it looks just like the old site, but I have managed to give it a much more stable backend; there’s nothing I can do about the […]
Arthur C Clarke’s last recording, made on the date of his 90th orbit around Terra’s Sun: Wherever you are, Mr Clarke, may it be full of stars…
I’ve spent the last three days doing almost nothing but test out various Open Source CMS packages. Fot a long time, I’ve been thinking of using CMS for the
If spam is any indication of what most of the world’s population really want, then we’re in trouble. I’ve been looking through the latest batch of comment spam caught on this blog; out of a hundred or so, there are only four subjects. In order, they are: 1) Pr0n; 2) Fake designer handbags; 3) Penis-enlarging […]