I'll not be posting to Livejournal any more, as I've moved my journal to my own server. All my LJ posts are archived there too, with comments disabled. You will, of course, be able to comment on any new stuff, and on the posts that I'm leaving here.

If any of you want to continue reading my words of wisdom through LJ, you should work the RSS ( Read more... )

I doubt any of you care, but I just changed the stylesheet for my webshite, and converted it to use TT2.

The world is looking for a "green" power source. Wind, waves, and solar are all great, but all require LOTS of BIG equipment if they are to be realistic replacements for fossil-fuel burning power stations. And none of them, of course, are suitable for powering vehicles ( Read more... )

Simon Cozens wrote about this news story in his journal:

" I've been getting steadily more and more angry about this over the past week, and now I'm bloody furious. Angry with what? ... with the church - and that must start with myself - for not being there to offer counselling, unconditional love and the opportunity to value life in a different ( Read more... )

It seems that H.P. Lovecraft, in addition to writing nice stories to read to your children and inventing food, was also a scientific journalist.

update: the linked film is not for the weak of stomach - yes, my large collection of B movies contains a lot worse and I wouldn't warn you about them, but those are all just special effects. This isn't. ( Read more... )

If you had a thunderbox emergency, where you'd run out of bog paper but needed to wipe away the remains of the curry you just evacuated, what currency would you prefer to wipe on?

Please rate by softness and value.

I just found my second real word that's not in the OED 2nd edition. Yay!

The first one I found was some time ago - hardbody, which appears in print in "American Psycho". The second is prannet, which as well as being in Ian Dury's most excellent little ditty "Billericay Dickie" also appears in Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta".

I'd be paying attention to the recent whitewash from the Association of Chief Police Officers, which says that the policy that lead to the murder of an innocent man at Stockwell tube station last year is just A-OK ( Read more... )

Baby cow, that is ( Read more... )

I started to make a pea soup (sort-of like that recipe but not quite) but only when I was some way in did I realise I'd run out of peas. So I am Improvising. I have a Mysterious Red Vegetable that the tame hippies delivered a couple of weeks ago. I have no idea what it is, so I chopped that up and am using it instead ( Read more... )