I've been following the Ongoing Catalogue of Woe generally referred to as "RaceFail 09" since a little after it started. For those who aren't up to speed on that particular trainwreck, it began as a discussion on cultural appropriation and racism in fiction (particularly SF/Fantasy), and proceeded to rapidly go downhill from there in many ways soon ( Read more... )

I really wish the current fad of auto-posting Twitter.. erm, output... came with nicely fashionable Twitter filters to put 'em in. I am *so* not interested in reading endless "I'm listening to a CD by Truffaut the Wonder Dog right now" or "I must remember to get pickled yak noses when I go to the market next" or "Goodness, isn't the sky big today ( Read more... )

Yannow, I'd be much more likely to update my lj reasonably frequently if LJ weren't so bloody flaky that there's half an hour of waiting-and-resubmitting-over-and-over every time I try to post something. *sigh*

From A Beginner's Guide to Faking Your Own Death on the Internet (with thanks to baratron for the link): Heinstein's Second Law of the Internet ( Read more... )

So while digging around on my laptop I found a bunch of little icons and doll graphics that amused me enough to keep them. And so here I present them for your amusement.
( cut for gratuitous icons and dolls... )

I've been awfully slack about keeping my lj up to date lately. Probably it is due at least in part to me not having anywhere near the time available for online pursuits that I used to. But I daresay there's an element of slackitude on my part involved as well. Anyway, I'm planning to do a bunch of posts over the next day or two with updates and ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that a large part of the reason why I've not been posting much lately is a sense that possibly the stuff that is interesting me most at present is unlikely to be terribly interesting to my readers. I mean, there's only so much one can say about the knitting of a scarf, no matter how absorbing I may be finding the process myself. But ( Read more... )

Whew! I've just finished indexing my entire livejournal using the new tags tool. Every single post.
That was quite a job.

Lets hope it turns out to be useful... :-7

My knitting project is coming along rather well. It's actually progressing quite rapidly, which was helped this morning by my having to sit around and wait for over an hour for the bloke from the RAA to turn up with a replacement battery for my car when it refused to start. Oh well. *shrug* With any luck, my little blue-and-white hat will be ( Read more... )

I have taken the liberty of setting up an lj community for the sharing of stories and memories of Iain. I'm hoping that those whose lives have been touched by him or who cared about him will post their stories, pictures, memories and suchlike there, and that folk who've observed posts elsewhere (on LJ or other places) that honour Iain will post ( Read more... )