Ramblings

It’s possible I’ve played too much Starcraft for one sane mind to contain… while walking to the shops earlier today (yesterday now, I suppose) I thought for a brief instant that I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a Hydralisk. It was in fact a Noisy Miner. My mind’s pattern-matching is a bit… Read more

I’ve been pretty slack, the last few weeks, in writing here. It’s not from lack of events or other things to write about – quite the contrary, I’ve got a big backlog of things to enter here. More just that I haven’t been in the right sort of mood, and have been reasonably busy… or… Read more

I was just walking to the shops this morning when the left earbud started playing up, turning off and on. I thought it was my iPod – a reasonable assumption given the general unreliability of the little bastard – but now that I get home and play with the earbuds with my Powerbook, no, it… Read more

So I did survive the trip. It went quite well in fact. I don’t have time to write anything right now, but I’ll try to throughout today, and get some photos up.

I think I mentioned a little while ago that I cop a surprising amount of flack as a result of things I write here. Quite often it’s about things that I never even slightly anticipated being an issue. Then last week I apparently put Sarah out quite a bit with my write up on paintball.… Read more

So let’s go through the net connections I’ve had in my life: 33.6k BBS – Lord-Data used to run a BBS, which was my first encounter with digital telephony. It was awesome. A hodge-podge of warez, games, forums and so forth, which everyone who was anyone frequented. He had only a single phone line for… Read more