( Chocolate is evil and people who put chocolate in front of me at work are wonderful, kind but ultimately evil people )

As those who have been keeping track of me in person over the last few years will know that I have been steadily gaining weight. I sharn't go into the specifics other than to say that I am now a prime suspect in the mysterious case of Who ate all the pies ( Read more... )

http://threepanelsoul.com/2012/11/13/on-paying-the-bills/

So yesterday started when I got home from work. Work was uneventful, it doesn't count. Getting the nice new memory I ordered for my PC, that counts ( Read more... )

It took me 6 hours to travel about a mile this evening. I was all ready to leave work early and show up to Consternation II as it began to book games, see people and watch interesting panels ( Read more... )

So it's a lazy Sunday afternoon. While I'm waiting for the fridge to defrost I'm watching/listening to the Andrew Marr show and browsing the internet. I find I keep pausing the hour long TV program with pictures of the people talking to watch short videos people have linked to, the latest is this:

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(talking starts at 1:50 for those who don't love ( Read more... )

Sometimes I make New Year's Resolutions. Not because I lack willpower to make major changes to my life at any other point in the year but because I lack imagination. Nonetheless here's some resolutions ( Read more... )

1) I have a coffee table. I've just dragged the damn thing across town, so if you saw a guy in a thermal hat and blue anorak this afternoon very loudly dragging a children's bench from Boarders to Arbury then it was probably me. Photos later, suffice to say that it's exactly what we've been after for 20 months and only slightly scratched from the ( Read more... )

On the subject of the copyright notice thankyou for all your comments. I've decided to stop adding it for the time being. Ideally I'd have gone for something along the lines of what people were suggesting about using the notice with a less intrusive colour scheme or some form of watermark, however Picasa has precisely one option and I don't want to ( Read more... )

I've really enjoyed doing a picture a day project in 2008. After a false start at the beginning of the year I got into the swing of it with the C1050 (and a new camera phone) and managed to take 400 photos during the second half of 2008, I'm afraid the collage at the bottom of the post doesn't quite do the whole thing justice, I'll have to see if I ( Read more... )