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Damn right
BBC NEWS: Serenity named top sci-fi film Serenity, a film by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, has been voted the worlds best sci-fi movie in an SFX magazine poll of 3,000 people. Just the way it should be, I believe. But then, I never really did like Star Wars. Getting closer to the [...]
Of Scotch and Lemsip
Flu, which I had thought was just a cold but has now confirmed itself, yes, to indeed be flu, has fucked me up royal fashion and I’m now consigned to drinking Lemsip with a dash of Scotch (alas, I ran out of Teachers and had to use some of my Grouse, which is a shame [...]
Neroblogging, birthdays, etc.
I woke up yesterday morning to find myself, somewhat disconcertingly, a year older than I had been when I went to sleep. I don’t have much truck with birthdays to be honest. As a kid, of course, they were second only to Christmas in the times-of-the-year-to-be-excited-about stakes, but, being a kid, that was pretty much [...]
Blessings
It’s rather amazing how, after a day mostly without internet connectivity, 160kbps (rather than the usual 4Mbps or thereabouts) can seem like all the speed in the world. Won’t last, though.
Frakkin’ frak
I thought we’d got away with the bad weather; that I didn’t need to worry about my broadband going down. We lost the connection briefly on Thursday but it came back up within half an hour of me reporting a fault to F2S, who were their usual professional selves. Unfortunately, in accordance with Murphy, broadband [...]
The Nothing to Post Post
Linux Loving Men Are Sexier (reallylinux.com via Digg). You heard it here first, folks. Really need to post something about this (BoingBoing), too, if I get a chance. No writing done, but plenty of ideas. Researching into synaesthesia makes my brain twang. Don’t you just hate “I’ve got nothing to post” posts? Yeah, me too…
Auld acquaintance, forgot, etc.
Apparently it’s 2007 now. I’ll let you know when that actually sinks in (usually June-ish I find). Sarah and I spent last night (or rather the night before last; I’m sat here typing this whilst listening to the opening overs of the Sydney test match – at the moment England are 14-0) in a pub [...]
Season’s cheer
… to you all. May the Hogfather (by the way, congratulations to Pterry on what seems to have been a generally well received TV adaptation, although some of the crowd in alt.fan.pratchett were a bit tough on it) bring you something you like, provided that you’ve not been either naughty or a Ghastly Heathen, in [...]
News? This?
BBC News: Young ‘forget Jesus at Christmas’ Fewer than half of children aged seven to 11 think Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, a survey suggests. Unsurprising, really, given that Christmas really isn’t about religion these days, or at least not in Britain. I’d say it’s a refreshing perspective to have. I’d be tempted [...]
Yes
Still alive but only just clinging on, limpet like, to my sanity, in the face of all efforts from those who would unhinge me. I have no idea what that last sentence actually meant, but no matter. Full update tomorrow, but for those of you that find yourself me-starved (and, quite seriously, I suggest that [...]
Rules
The rules for writing have been laid out for us, in glorious technicolour Rules for Writing by Matthew Cheney (via Neil Gaiman) There are really only three plots: the queen cried because the city became a piece of over-ripe fruit; the king killed himself because the political holiday was ruined by the weather; and the [...]
Off to London tomorrow
So I don’t have much to say now. Wrote a little Hallowe’en story last night. At 483 words it’s not particularly impressive in volume, but it does have atmosphere. I might have to try and find a market for it; I quite like it really. To keep you entertained, here are the latest search keywords [...]
Apologies
To LiveJournal users if you get spammed with posts in the next twenty four hours. WordPress has, for once, fucked up royally; I’m working to correct it but it looks like a bunch of posts have become uncategorised when by rights they shouldn’t have. Unfortunately it means that they’ve all been marked as updated, hence [...]
Feed move
I’ve updated the feeds to reflect the fact that I’ve done some directory shuffling. Apologies to Livejournal readers if things get republished umpteen times…
My kingdom for an update
Funny things, blogs. You can set one up without too much thought (I’m living proof of this, by the way) and happily pootle along, filling it with all kinds of foufouraw about your life, your aspirations and your thoughts, and never really think about what you’re writing. And then, one day, your workmates (hello fellas) [...]
Not dead, but not quite alive
Well hello! What do you mean ‘who the hell are you?’ It’s me! Um… yeah. Been away a while haven’t I? Not quite a month, but it’s getting on for being that long. Oh well, we can but press on, can we not? Consider this an apology, then, for my extended absence from the blogosphere. [...]
Ah
There appears to be some oddness going on with the site at the moment. Of course, that could mean that you can’t read this… I’ll keep you posted.
Up and running (?)
Right, that should be everything in place now, after much WordPress hackage to get things working again (I should really have taken the time to find out why it wasn’t working, but I didn’t; I just Made It Work). Anyway, that should mean that you’re reading this, with any luck…
First Post, New Host
So everything appears to be up. WordPress is misbehaving a little, but no more than is to be expected… If you see this then it’s all up and hunky dory, which is, naturally, good. If not, then it’s all rather academic, isn’t it?
On T’Move
I’m moving grahambinns.com onto a new host with Wesh – not the cheapest deal around, but certainly the most fully featured for the price per month whilst still allowing me to pay monthly instead of in one big wodge. Thanks for the advice, folks. Anyroad, as an upshot of this the site may disappear and [...]
Prom time
Prom time Looks like it’s prom time at Our Lady’s High School in Lancaster. Either that or they’re building a giant enclosure to corral all the pupils in; I can’t be sure. We never had a prom when I was at school. It wasn’t until I went to University that we had the chance to [...]
Apologies
To the LiveJournal readers, who got a sudden influx of entries today for no readily apparent reason that I can discern. More webhost problems, I suspect.
