A couple of months ago, I was probably opining about how I'd managed to successfully burn out on webdev-for-not-work projects, and how even writing down what happened made me feel carsick ( Read more... )

There's been the remains of a greenhouse piled down one side of the garage at the bottom of the garden since we moved in. Last autumn some time, those remains were joined by bits of a concrete trough, some wall and an amount of broken soil-pipe ( Read more... )

Another thing that happened is that at 5AM the morning before we were due to fly out to the Americas for the Convergences, there was a brief power-cut. The alarm next door set to peeping away like a lost robot, about which I would have been sad because they were away for $time and we would have had to put up with same, had we not also been off out ( Read more... )

An Android one of these, please: http://www.talk-o-meter.de/e/

I think it's an obvious thing to say/think/type, but no-one buys two-litre cars any more. There's no point when a modern engine around the one-litre mark has been made to punt out the same or more power on less fuel, taking up less space and using less metal. In fact, it's a fascinating time for engine technology - supercharged three-pots with soft ( Read more... )

I really should stay away from the SFX reviews. I'm either going 'well bugger I can't use that idea' over the reviews of the better books, or 'oh great christ I write like that' when viewing the one and two star hatchet jobs ( Read more... )