I don't have the icon for this combo of amazing, mindblowing, de-ja vu -ing thing ( Read more... )

Guess what? The fan on the new computer's psu has gone wonky. Why do these things always happen to me ( Read more... )

I'm still worn out. This wasn't helped by "work" where we barely broke even and the balance sheet probably is going to negative figures once we deduct utility costs etc. The joy of being a small independent heritage-sector fish in a rather apathetic pond. I can't remember anything so pants -- we cut our "season" to minimise days like this and we ( Read more... )

If you haven't noticed, Sky have been putting up little "extras" for their production of Pterry's Hogfather on their website. I'm not sure Mark Warren's delivery does that much for me, but boy is the whole thing gorgeous.

It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest possible ( Read more... )

You're honary Europeans / Canadians anyway. *grin ( Read more... )

The b is still wincing because the bbd threw out the Sunday Times before she could read the irate letter from a Mr Terry Pratchett, and so she offers up this gem instead, quoted from this month's Ansible (formatting and asteriks Dave Langford's own):
TERRY PRATCHETT, by a strange coincidence, chose the H*rry P*tter ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was reading the Discworld Monthly that Pratchettian clacks new sheet of extremely high repute and was upset to find that in May the Times Higher Education Supplement had published a Pratchett short story ( Read more... )

Gacked from the APF interview of yore. And here because I think it's a)interesting and b)full of god advice (which, knowing me, I'll probably ignore).
- How do you write ( Read more... )