Chocolate and Vodka

Taking those poxy blue sandals back and getting the nice brown ones was definitely the right choice, don't you think?

Just watched last night's Dr Who and I have to agree with Tom that not only is Dr Who is a bit of a tart, but he's also a bit free and easy with gender/species/group sex distinctions. Good for him, I say. Bit jealous really. I never get to dance, let alone set up an […]

I used to run UControl on my PowerBook, which allowed me to both switch my USB mouse to left-handed and remap the Mac's fn-delete (i.e. delete the character to the right of the cursor) to shift-delete. UControl doesn't work in Tiger, and I can't find a way to remap fn-delete to shift-delete. I know I […]

Back in Dorset now, after a journey characterised by a variety of blisters and missing public transport connections by a matter of seconds. Always feels somewhat of an anticlimax, coming back here. Makes me wish I had somewhere 'proper' to live. Still, not long til I'm off to San Francisco. Nine days, in fact. Eep, […]

I woke up with a jolt this morning. I was having a dream involving a person I actually know talking to me about a situation that actually exists, except that this person was telling me something that could not possibly be true in the waking world. It woke me, because as revelations go, it was […]

The sandals are shit. The strappy straps don't stay strapped. They are going back to the shop tomorrow.

Woke up preternaturally early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. One of the side-effects of summer, I suppose. All that light.
Anyway, on this trip to London I'm staying with Sam, an old school friend, and Mark, her husband. They live in Teddington, on the banks of the river Thames, and have a little […]

My friend Kate has some tickets for Duran Duran at St Andrew's Stadium in Birmingham for Saturday night. We were supposed to go, but some work stuff cropped up which meant I can't go, so she's trying to give the tix away. Interested? Drop her an email at tylluan (at) gmail.com.

I hate buying clothes. And shoes. I'm just not very good at it. Where some women delight in trying on a gazillion outfits, I would rather that the first one fit so that I can buy it and get down the pub/to the Apple store/back online.
I have hardly any clothes at all - if you've […]

Why is it that the night you really want to have good night's sleep, because you have to get up early the next day to go to London, is always the night you toss and turn and wake up too early and can't get back to sleep?
I made the mistake of giving in to chocolate […]

Ok, so after all my impatient bitching, the iBook came and is wonderful. I love its sleek white lines, the clear bright screen, the speed, the memory, the 80 gig HDD, the general wondrousness of it all. Who needs men when you've got an iBook?

One of the first things you do with a new Mac […]

I meant to blog about this before, but time got away from me. Anyway, went to the Copyfighter's Drunken Brunch and Talking Shop again earlier this month, and it was, as usual, a scream. I spoke again at Speaker's Corner and it was a lot less pant-wettingly scary than last time, even though there […]

Dydd Sul, felly dydd teledu. Ond fydda i ddim yn dysgu unrhywbeth o gwbl os dw i'n blogio yn lle canolbwyntio. Merch ddrwg ydw i.

Finally, and at long last, Nothing Travels Faster Than Bad News - the film that Vince and I spent much of last year making - is finished! I blogged the trailer in November last year, but it's taken a while to get the thing cut together and polished up, primarily because we royally screwed up […]

Some fantastic photos of a tornado in Bunbury, Western Australia. (Via Cam.)
UPDATE: Thanks to the commenter who pointed out that these photos are part of a set that's been doing the rounds on email/blogs for a while. Wherever they come from, they are fantastic photos.