Yeah, novel-writing kind of ate my blog. Sorry about that ( Read more... )

I forgot to go into this earlier: server outage (probably hardware) is causing my website to be unavoidably down for quite some time while we work on refurbishments/replacements/whatever dark purposes we intend to implement. This is hardly a crushing announcement, obviously, because it's not as though I maintain a lot of traffic, and it's actually ( Read more... )

I forgot to post about donating my labour for the pure joy of nerdery working in the laboratory! It was slightly surreal. I got to wear a lab coat :) as promised, which was of course too big for me, but not comically. I also did not explode anything, nor cause any other major havoc. Most of the morning was spent getting a little used to where ( Read more... )

I used to spend about half an hour each night after I had finished working organising all the stuff I needed to do the next day. But I've realised that I'm not very good starting off something very early in the morning (say 4:30) unless I've really been looking forward to it - in which case it's not work and I've usually stayed up the whole night ( Read more... )

If anyone's feeling generous (*winks at random people*), I want these for my birthday:

Two of these....

And one of these...

:D

(NB my birthday is not til May so this is TOTALLY cheating. Maybe JP could get me one for doing his website hint hint.)

I think very large quantities of my life are organised through my computer and the internet. I keep having these funny moments where I wonder what I would do without my main form of communication (it's sad, but true: I type words to people more than I speak or write to them), without my main source of information on everything from news, to science ( Read more... )