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I have to take a break for a while – I have a 551 unanswered emails in my inbox which I must sort through. I may drop in with the odd link I come across, or one-liners if I think of them, but long entries aren't going to happen for a while. Besides, Blog-City's up […]

I’ve had a few people ask me lately how I got my w. After all, it’s pronounced “soo”, which sounds just like the usual shortening of my name, Susan, so why spell it differently? It is the influence of Welsh, as in the name Huw? Well, in a word? no. My first proper job out […]

Just a few links I’ve been hoarding over the last few days whilst the blog’s been down. An absolutely stunning trailer for a film called Casshern which looks utterly and amazingly cool. Sadly, both trailer and website are totally incomprehensible to me, but they have prompted a sudden urge to learn Japanese. It’s either that […]

I can’t seem to leave a comment on my own blog board at the moment, so in reply to Pandora’s question, I use a Canon Ixus V3 which is small yet perfectly formed. I then tweak in Photoshop, but often the levels don't need changing anyway so it’s just a matter of a bit of […]

So, how did you spend yours? How are you spending yours? An extra day in the year, and a Sunday too. A beautiful day, weatherwise, here. Sunny. Blue skies. A little cloud but not til the afternoon. An extra day. A gift. A treat. A day to be spent doing things you wouldn't perhaps otherwise […]

Listening to all my Blur albums tonight. Hearing things in the songs now that I don't remember noticing before, remembering things I thought I'd forgotten, feeling feelings I haven't felt for years. Makes me want to get my bass guitar out again, to feel the surge of bass run through me like electricity, making all […]

From a conversation on #joiito, it seems that yes, Orkut* really does mean ‘orgasms’ in Finnish, but better still, ‘join Orkut’ actually means ‘Joi’s orgasms’. I’d been wondering what the screaming was every time I opened my emails… *Orkut-the-site is named after Orkut-the-guy, who developed it.