We had a bit of a surprise last night. While nobody was in the kitchen one ( Read more... )

One of the things with having been online for some time now is that I've got lots of different bits of web presence spread over the web - Twitter, LiveJournal, Blogger, my own domains, Flickr, Facebook, etc... PixelPipe looks like an interesting way to have at least a central way to update all of them.

Blogging, microblogging and ( Read more... )

I'm looking to move away from LiveJournal towards using my own hosting. Of late I've mainly sent mini posts from Twitter, anyway, but I'm currently playing with Drupal and may start using that more instead of LJ - I've got hosting for other bits anyway ( Read more... )

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

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I'm still waiting to find out exactly who the axe is falling on... given that they're looking to reduce headcount by 20% and have only notified 23 people, that suggests only about 4 of those 23 will not be axed. If what I've heard about one of the Manchester team being offered an alternative role and 2 in the other chambers being offered a chance ( Read more... )

Let's see, I started the year going to physio etc to have treatment for injuries following an accident in December. Then tooth ache. Then spraining my thumb. Then a fall later that same day where I think I broke my finger (it's not quite the same shape). Finding that the tooth ache requires surgery to remove the wisdom tooth. Next, finding that the ( Read more... )

Transform has release a report, (here),  indicating that the costs of prohibition of drugs overwhelmingly outweight the benefits. Their report (focusing specifically on Heroin and Cocaine) doesn't just attack the government policy, but it makes efforts to estimate or quantify the relative costs of different approaches ( Read more... )

I've largely been using Twitter when I've had anything small I've wanted to say ( Read more... )

I got up, looked out the window, and prepared for another day on public transport. Given that I was up late, that was going to mean late in at work again, and getting home at nearly 8pm, just in time to put the kids to bed. Not really ideal ( Read more... )