After I posted a two-sentence rant on a friend's FB, I had to stop and think.

Thought one was that all of Rupert's actual friends (ie - not some mental ex-goth failing to make it as a SF writer because interesting computer things and uninteresting life things keep happening, that he last spoke to at least twenty years ago) will consider me a drive ( Read more... )

Because I've been mostly doing internet things for the past oh god what really that long years, I have had the deep misfortune to come across alleged software written by annoying children seemingly in the grip of a three-week caffeine bender. Systemd, for example. The idea is not actually a bad one; have a thing that sits there and minds all the ( Read more... )

Thus far, most of the daylight hours of the weekend have involved motorways ( Read more... )

This is fucking awful and (we?) should do something about it.

I am generally in favour of people with disabilities having adapted cars and getting on with their lives ( Read more... )

When I mentioned that 'The vitamin murders' was the wrong sort of book, I didn't actually mean 'Starts off well enough but then wanders into total bollocks and doesn't come back'. However, that is where we find ourselves. It's a shame, because yer man does take care to point out that the alleged mass poisoning of the countryside (and the sudden ( Read more... )

You know those weeks where you get to Thursday and say 'Well, at least nothing else can break', and then something else breaks? Very much like that ( Read more... )

Let's get the shit things out of the way before thinking about anything interesting ( Read more... )

It's a big planet out there, filled with a range of odd things ( Read more... )

Yesterday was mostly spent pottering about Chepstow with some unusual suspects and it all turned out utterly splendid. I wonder if the one-way-system pub crawl is a thing, and if not it should be.

Anyway.

Part of the gig was minding an assemblage of artfully constructed steampunkery in the castle. For reasons which I suspect the estimable autopope of ( Read more... )