I've basically given up hope of ever truly reviving this journal*, but in case anyone's still following, I thought I'd drop a link to this in here: I'm doing a 30-mile walk for charity on Saturday, to see details and donate if you want, go here.

* I keep idly contemplating plans to try and take up blogging elsewhere, it may happen one day. Oh, and ( Read more... )

Things have been interesting enough, not always in the way I would've hoped ( Read more... )

Overdue because I've been back from the conference for a week now. ( Read more... )

Other business first, Graham is pushing ahead with the Hackerspace project. We're trying to set up a first meeting with the handful of people that have expressed interest (via Twitter etc.), which looks like it'll be next Tuesday (the 22nd). I should probably link to the Forum and Wiki Graham has set up at some point. There, that's that done.

Okay, ( Read more... )

Soon after my last post, we tediously moved all our camping gear and other luggage back into my car, which was parked 800m away from the HAR2009 campsite, as were all other cars. We set off, got horribly lost in Belgium (again*) and eventually got to Luxembourg. There we spent a week not doing very much, and yesterday we went back to Exeter, this ( Read more... )

Last day of HAR2009 - we've packed all our bags, but left the tent standing for now, to dry out, and stashed the bags in it as we want to catch a few of the last day's talks. We're in the Hackerspaces talk - Graham's really taken to the idea and now wants to set one up in Exeter. I have some doubts as to wether Exeter's big enough to sustain that ( Read more... )

Well, don't expect updates at this sort of frequency once I'm back to sleeping under a solid roof. But for now I'll give some more updates. Firstly, I suddenly find myself with an account on Twitter. No, I don't intend to start using it regularly - Graham and I merely decided that we needed a way of keeping synchronised at those times when we go to ( Read more... )

So why not start here: I'm in the Netherlands, in a village called Vierhouten, at a former socialist youth camp, attending HAR2009 - that's the first time I've been to this sort of thing in six years. I'm here with Graham, who will be doing some blogging at his delusion of grandeur (sorry) known as GeekChique. In fact, once we have electricity ( Read more... )

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...atheists know the bible better than the Christian fundies do. I (and many other readers of Pharyngula, it seems) remember this bit about a golden calf, and how God's people weren't supposed to worship it. Certain of the nuttier Christians, clearly, don't. Not that this is entirely new, what with "Prosperity Theology" conveniently ignoring that ( Read more... )