Over a year ago, my internet provider of many years (idiom.com) was bought by Aerioconnect. Since then, the service has been getting worse and worse. Last week, we were without internet for over 30 ours. Yesterday, it failed again. I have spent far too much of my time recently on the phone with tech support, with very little to show for it. So ( Read more... )

I'm considering migrating goblinrevolution.org off of the SunBlade-which-sits-in-the-living-room-with-a-loud-fan and onto a domain/web-hosting provider's servers (yes, I no longer work as a sysadmin, which probably accounts for some of the desire to move ( Read more... )

Meme from britgeekgrrl and others back into antiquity.

Costumers all tend to have a specific era or genre that appeals to us aesthetically, which is fine, but sometimes we get too focused and fail to appreciate other eras or genres that might suit our body type,our facial features, or even just challenge us to think outside the box a little bit. So, I'm ( Read more... )

While I have occasionally said that I could easily listen to Ian McKellen reading the phone book, I wasn't aware that others shared this interest. Yet, the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich is having a seminar on meteorology on Saturday, in which "Sir Ian McKellen will introduce the day with his famous recital of the Beaufort Windscale."

So I finally have a livejournal account. It remains to be seen whether I will actually post anything journal-like here or just use this power for evil. Er, use it to comment on other people's posts non-anonymously.