Kits and Mortar Tumblr Strange Attractor Del.icio.us links TwitterI haven't blogged about the Asian tsunami disaster, primarily because I couldn't think of what to say. Emotions range from sadness to incomprehension to helplessness. I want to do something, but what can I do? I have made a small donation, but I feel bad because I can't afford to give a lot.
But then it […]
It's been a long whilst since I've done any work learning Polish. I've been so busy that it's been months since I last looked at my books. That does, unfortunately, mean I've forgotten much of what I learnt earlier in the year. Not so useful.
Part of this lapse has been technology related. I had been […]
Just to prove that people really do use my IRC channel, #suwcharman on irc.freenode.net, and freely admit doing so.
Marekj, mid-chat.
Ok, so this is not a party trick you can do at home, but it's still worth pointing out. Given the right equipment, you can shrink coins. Unfortunately, shrinking the coins also means blowing up the gear, but hell, it's a price worth paying! If only they'd done this sort of thing at school…
(Via Maciej, […]
I'm useless at sending out Christmas cards, and like Joi I don't like sending mass emailings, so here are my season's greetings for all of you. Cards, having been bought at least, may follow in due course for those friends I have addresses for. I'll try to get them done by the end of January, […]
Asimov's three Laws of Robotics are frequently quoted thusly:
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence […]
I was gutted earlier this evening when a bright green line appeared on my PowerBook's screen, about a fifth of the way over from the left, top to bottom, one pixel wide. I've done a number of restarts, advised by the Mac types in #joiito to hold down certain keys whilst doing so, but no […]
Euan picks up on a meme from Liz Lawley where you type each letter of the alphabet into the address bar of your browser and see what it suggests. It creates a nice little snapshot of recent browsing history, and illustrates just how right Hugh MacLeod was when he called me 'probably the most blog-obsessed […]
My Secret Santa this year was ScaryDuck, and I'd like to say a big thank you to him for his generosity. I got a copy of Ben Schott's Original Miscellany and Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces, both books I've been wanting for a while. I look forward to finding the time to […]
My friend Kate has just won tickets to see Duran Duran at a “special concert for Radio 2 at the Hammersmith Palais, London on Thursday the 13th of January”. Kate and I have been pals in Duranniedom for years, going to see them whenever we could, but it has invariably been at huge venues like […]
So now the nights are drawing out again. Yay! The ascent into Spring may be slow, but at least now it has started.
Merry Midwinter!
Welcome to Richard Conolly!
(if you're wondering, if this was a post used to demonstrate trackbacks to Richard during a Big Blog Company Blog Boot Camp.)
I'm delighted to say that I am going to be at the NorthernVoice blogging conference in Vancouver on 19 Feb. I'll be sitting on the panel Promoting Your Blog and Building Traffic with Jeremy Wright, Derek K. Miller and Darren Barefoot (moderator). There are going to be some really interesting people speaking at NorthernVoice, including […]
The number of unread posts in my feed reader has got to the point now where I am tempted very much to mark them all as read and start over. Thing is, for some obscure and unarticulable reason, I don't want to ditch the data regarding which blogs I am out of date with, and […]
You might have been wondering what I've been up to lately that's kept me so busy that my blog has had to take such a back seat. Well, there have been a few bits and pieces happening, not all related to certain cute east coast geeks.
One of the projects that I'm involved is the Corante […]