I actually finished a short story. And indeed started it. There's a middle, too.

(Wants to mature for a bit before editing, mind)

I believe I shall be really quite pleased with that outcome.

Job well done, I think.

I trust that there will be a myriad interesting bloggings detailing what one might have missed, handy for the next nomination season.

(JFC, but they're a bunch of bell-ends.)

I gave a talk last night. Based on the understandings and commonplaces of hacker-camps and similar, it fitted into the model of 'lightning talk only with a tolerable amount of preparation.' However, I'd say about 50% was made up, which is entirely against the spirit of those events ( Read more... )

Airship shape & Bristol fashion available RSN from all good shops and some crap ones, etc.

Marmalade-fettling last night. Low sugar and sharp as a bastard, but runnier than I'd like therefore ( Read more... )

Probably a moderately doomed experiment - generate post titles from an Oblique Strategies site/app and see what happens.

This is exactly the sort of retrofuture that I'd like to live in, (in which I would like to live? Up with which I will not put?) which should not even be a slight surprise since it contains old SAABs, an empty countryside and ( Read more... )

It would seem that the wonky message-passing rig that I/we've been working on for a while is a bit of a hit with the Devops types. Which is nice.

Well I say 'nice'. I mean 'HA! GET IN! I WILL BE UNBEARABLE AT WORK COME MONDAY! ETC!'

Or, y'know, in bed because of being paged at silly-am by some shitbox website.

An anthology with one of my stories in. Electronic only, but we live in the C21st and I guess our various parents will have to wait for a PoD version.Bristolcon was a rare old time. I had to bunk off before the drinking started properly, so as not to say anything else unfortunate ( Read more... )

Went out for real ale sampling with the chaps last night. It turned into drunken devops shouting ("I'll 'ave the feckin' lot of yer VMs all at feckin' once with me 'ead in a feckin' Ruby manual yer feckin' Gentoo-fondler!") after the second pint of Scruttock's Old Dirigible ( Read more... )

... And that, I think, is an illustration to myself exactly how easy it is to get out of the swing of writing stuff down. Well, in weblog/LJ format, anyway. Writing stuff down longhand about things I made up on the spot has become much less unproductive ( Read more... )