A fairly complete update

May 1, 2006

If you've been wondering what I've been doing, workwise, of the last few months, and want a fairly full and comprehensive update, then I've put it over on Blogiculum Vitae, my portfolio blog.

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Errors and omissions excepted

April 23, 2006

Due to technical difficulties, such as the shops being shut on Monday morning when T'Other and I had a scrap of time to go shopping for my birthday present, I didn't get my Moleskine until yesterday, but to make up for the delay, T'Other bought me a nice (and reasonably priced) Lamy pen. We can't […]

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Do you ever get mornings

April 21, 2006

Where you wake up late, (due to being woken up by chavtastic neighbour's daughter's ex ringing all the bells available and bellowing to be let in), look at the huge pile of unread email that's come in and just think, “Eww, do I have do?”. The sun's starting to come out, it's Friday, I had […]

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Tortured canary in my washing machine

April 18, 2006

I think the fanbelt is going. It squeaks like a canary with its tail feathers caught in a cat's teeth. I also am starting to realise that working from home seems to correlate very strongly with quantity of blogging. Whether it's because I feel more like I can blog, or whether it's a time thing, […]

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Pass the Darwin Award

April 18, 2006

It's generally a bad idea, if one is covered in a flammable gel as part of a medical treatment, to then light up a ciggie – the resulting flames are usually bad for one's health. Update: And indeed, a Darwin Award is now under consideration.

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Learning to be happy

April 18, 2006

Article on teaching teenagers to be happy, from the Guardian. I wish adults would spend more time learning how to be happy, and that more bosses would decide that happy employees were important. Instead, we have this mad mindset that says happiness in the work place is obviously a sign of skiving, and should be […]

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Office policy

April 17, 2006

Not really all that work safe at all, I'm afraid, but very funny. (Thanks KM.)

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Bank holidays

April 14, 2006

The weather forecast said there would be sunshine from 10am this morning. The weather forecast was four hours out, but finally, the cloud has cleared and the warm rays of the sun are making the new Arsenal stadium glint like a, er, big new stadium in the distance. It's Good Friday today. Most normal people […]

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Auctorial aspirations

April 13, 2006

So, if you're a long-time reader of this blog, you'll already know about my writerly leanings. You'll have seen me talk about my scriptwriting; you'll have seen me writing about learning languages (still not finished); you'll have heard about my acquiring a literary agent (whom I still have, by the way, and who is still […]

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Posting from an QTEK 9100

April 8, 2006

So T`Other`s brother (ooh! that rhymes!) has this really great PDA/phone called a QTEK 9100 or an XDA mini S depending on who`s selling it to you. I've been thinking of getting one of these for a while and now I'm getting to play with one and I have to say that so far I […]

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On a mission

April 7, 2006

Adidas have reissued the Gazelle. I have a pair of Campus which are over a decade old and which were still serving me well until Christmas in Brugge when one started to leak. I loved them, and the Gazelle is a very similar design. I am on a mission to find a pair. Right now. […]

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Dying silk

April 4, 2006

I rather stupidly put 70 quid's worth of silk skirt through the washing machine. It is, to say the least, a shadow of it's previous silky black self. I mean, the dye hasn't washed out completely or anything, but it now has a grey sheen to it that it didn't have before but which makes […]

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Goodbye, Cleo

April 3, 2006

My darling Cleo died on Friday after a short illness. She is already missed.

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Cory Doctorow donates RAZR and first ed. of Eastern Standard Tribe to ORG

March 30, 2006

Cory Doctorow, ORG Advisory Council member, famous novelist, copyright activist and one of the driving forces behind BoingBoing, has kindly donated a Razr mobile phone and a signed fist edition of his novel Eastern Standard Tribe, to the Open Rights Group for us to auction. We have duly put both together as one lot on […]

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Fooled

March 28, 2006

The clocks have gone forward. I've got that strange, dislocated seasonal jetlag feeling. The sun is only just now going down, and it's 7.30pm. It feels like 4pm instead. I suppose I should go home and get some dinner. Or alternatively, I could enjoy the high-speed wifi here at Stanhope whilst I still can, and […]

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