Mr. Morrison (who I don't know squat about, besides this article) makes a few good points and he does include a surprising amount of info about fan fiction and its variations, but they're pretty much outweighed by the boatload of errors and misconceptions his article is peppered with:

In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels ( Read more... )

Their latest updates - so far only affecting S1 based layouts (i.e. the standard ones), but threatened to be coming for S2 layouts soon - remove the subject lines from comments, as well as the Parent and Thread links, and Preview of a post is no longer possible. The new version of the user picture browser is a comparably minor issue to me (not to ( Read more... )

I just got back from yoga and found, after turning my laptop back on, that somehow Firefox managed to completely lose all info about my last session - no possibility to open recently closed tabs or restore the previous session, and today's History only includes tabs that I actually looked at - and no even all of those; I distinctly remember looking ( Read more... )

( Just need to get this out of my system so please ignore unless you like swearing )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8293784.stm

Public to monitor CCTV from home

Members of the public could earn cash by monitoring commercial CCTV cameras in their own home, in a scheme planned to begin next month.

"This is a private ( Read more... )

I can't access the main file repository on our craptastic webpublisher software, and of course the guy in IT who could help is at the congress center along with almost all the rest of his team, and I can't reach him on his mobile nor, for some reason, leave a message. I hope his colleague listens to his messages and can tell him to call me back ( Read more... )

Could you bloody football fans stop hooting when you drive by?! I don't care if your team won (heck I don't even know who played and I don't want to know), and if there are guys standing outside a house down the street waving a flag at you - it's 11PM and I should go to bed 'cause I need to get up early tomorrow, but it's not worth going if you ( Read more... )

Am very pissed off and disappointed with the garden center in the next valley where we (Mum, me, sometimes sister) usually get a good part of our plants for the balcony. Yes, the one where we bought some plants almost a month ago. They royally fucked up this time with the plants we left for them to bring up to their shop here, where we could pick ( Read more... )

I really don't know why I still even bother to go to bed early when I'm knackered, because invariably I'll just end up waking up sometime in the middle of the night and spend the rest of it dozing at best, wide awake at worst!

Oh and since I'm ranting anyway, I've SO had it with the constant to and fro between spring-ish weather and more snow! We ( Read more... )

Who the hell is responsible for the new episode title sequence on the British Blood Ties DVDs? Particularly, the very annoying, totally unsuitable song that replaces the nice, simple melody they used in the original? That person should be slapped around, HARD. Yeah, so the lyrics include "want to live forever", big deal - but the style is just ( Read more... )