I bought a big bag of potatoes around about the first week I was here. I happened to look at them the other day, and discovered they’d developed tentacles and were escaping from the bag. Apparently potatoes, despite having a reputation for being sedentary and impassive, are actually physical conduits into this world for Cthulhu.… Read more
I just spent an hour or two perusing the largely dodgy websites of the various major airlines, trying to do an exhaustive check of flight prices for both Thanksgivingish and Christmasish. It pretty much just confirmed my earlier suspicions – the cheapest I could find, on any route with any airline with any ridiculous number… Read more
My car insurance got cancelled last week. Hooray. The reason being that the necessary people apparently never got the copy of my drivers’ license I sent forever ago. They were kind enough to give me all of about four days notice. I sent it off again, and this time confirmed they’d received it, but they… Read more
I didn’t get up to much today, in terms of exciting, extraordinary events. Mostly I was working on the Keychain framework… there were mostly-brief periods of Halo & Starcraft, but I was coding mostly, honest.. ;) By dinner time I’d had enough of Xcode for one day, so I nipped off to see Resident Evil… Read more
I just got back from the Arcade Fire concert I mentioned previously. LCD Soundsystem also played, and a band called “Wild Light”, that no-one had heard of. I didn’t mind them much at all, but no-one else seemed particularly impressed. All in all it was pretty good. LCD Soundsystem were pretty good, and the Arcade… Read more
I tells ya, it’s a harsh world – several weekends with nothing much happening, and then I run into Gus at work and realise he’s not in France like I’d thought, and now he’s doing the movie thing tomorrow night (Resident Evil 3, which despite all logic I want to see :D ) and yet… Read more
I spent most of this afternoon and evening trying to get the myitunes.swf widget to load it’s actual data from somewhere other than the iTMS. Part of that was writing a fairly simple Cocoa app to generate the XML data I wanted – i.e. a “feed” or my actual favourite music, not a list of… Read more