….groan. Got loads of stuff to get on with. This morning, I’ve been working on the redesign of the Oakleaf Circle site, copying over hundreds of URLs. And checking them, as well. I’ve got a useful little freeware program that checks links, but it can only tell me if a link is dead or not. […]
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Well, another one over. At last the nights are going to get shorter – at this time of year, we get 15 hours of darkness; those nights when I’m lying awake and hopelessly chasing sleep, it feels like the sun will never rise… Thursday night, we had our usual Yule feast chez Carol’s. We squeezed […]
…..we don’t need to examine the Universe as a supernatural creation. It is enough — more than enough — to examine it naturally. The sense of awe, beauty, wonder, and joy we feel when we view a Hubble image of a distant galaxy is a natural product of our sense of discovery. It is more […]
I’ve finally sorted out the software problem that was stopping me from uploading pictures from my camera – turned out I needed an update for my motherboard, in addition to the card-reader driver. So – here’s a recent picture, taken a couple of days ago. It’s the field below my house, and the loch is […]
So I’m going to take the plunge and switch to WinXP, as soon as I have enough cash to replace my current measly 40GB hard drive with something bigger (and when I get the time needed to install everything). If I’m going to carry on with web design and development, I have to have IE7 […]
In cas you hadn’t heard of the lady, Sylvia Browne is a famous American pyschic greedy heartless fraud. She appears on a weekly TV show, sells books, and does phone readings for a mere 700 bucks a pop (if you can’t quite run to that sort of money, her son does phone readings for only […]
Another day of illness – sometime in the early hours, I woke up with another tachycardia attack. I’ve had these attacks on and off for about thirty years, but they seem to be getting worse. They’re certainly lasting longer – just a couple of years ago, I could expect the attack to be over in […]
I’m well behind with reading the regular SF-news newsletters from Dave Langford of Ansible (and if you have no idea what an ansible is, you ain’t an SF fan and wouldn’t be interested in the newsletter!). Anyway, this little list of writing howlers from SF novels, collected by Dave and his indefatigable assistants caught my […]
Kevin Leitch has been digging up evidence of a growing alliance between the Unification Church (AKA“The Moonies”) and Scientology. What Kevin has uncovered so far sounds a lot like the working alliances that sometimes spring up between certain types of anti-porn feminists and fundamentalist religious groups. In this case, it’s not fear and loathing of […]
Funny thing is the human mind. Or at least, mine is. I remember, four or five years ago, I was walking home one day. It was just an ordinary day; I’d finished work, had stopped off at the supermarket and was walking home with a couple of bags of shopping. An ordinary middle-aged mum walking […]