Month: August 2008
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Back From BiCon
Just got back the The Cottage after the drive home from BiCon. Where'd we get to at the end of the previous post...? Ah, yes...
Naked Lunch Saturday was amazingly oversubscribed. One attendee, a regular to Naked Lunches for the last 10 years or so, described his experience of coming into the room and, at the … -
BiCon Fun And Games
It's been hard to find time to post a blog entry here, with everything that's been going on. Here's the quick rundown so far:
Thursday. Arrived. Checked in. Accommodation is a lot like Penbryn, for those who know what I mean, although with bigger (but more sterile-feeling) bedrooms. Caught up with loads of folks from last … -
Off To BiCon 2008
Right; I'm off to BiCon again. Just like last year, I'll probably blog from the event and let you all know what's going on. See a lot of you at Gareth & Penny's party on Saturday!
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Year One - A Happy Post That Everybody Will Misunderstand To Be An Unhappy One
Ruth and I celebrated the first anniversary of our being a couple, this weekend. She came down to Aber and we took the steam train up to Devil's Bridge, wandered around the waterfalls, and spent a good few hours sitting in a pub (pretty much the pub in Devil's Bridge, tiny place that it is) …
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ZibraZibra
If you haven't already, take a listen to ZibraZibra - they've got the silly little player on their MySpace page, so you can tune in there. They describe themselves as "Space age. Sonic Synthesis + Guitar Shredding + Scandinavian and American Mentalities + Soaring Vocals + Hott Beats + Jumpsuits + Circuit Bending + Classical …
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Swimming To Work
Dan's coworker Gareth leaves a window open and floods the office.
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What Not To Do When You Lose Your Mobile
Maybe this is just a pet hate that is exclusively mine, but there's something that really gets on my nerves and it's happened under one of the two scenarios below at least three times within the last month. It's as if the very second you let people loose on social-networking site Facebook they immediately lose …