Month: November 2010
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Leslie Nielsen was admitted to hospital earlier this month
You: To Hospital? What is it?
Me: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
Sad to say, he died yesterday. The world has lost a fantastic actor and comedian.
Just a short post, here: the wedding this weekend was amazing, but I'll be writing about that at a later point, once I've caught … -
Action Stations!
It's the morning of the wedding. Somehow I've found myself only the smallest number of tasks to be responsible for between now and the ceremony itself, at 10am, but I'm sure we'll find some way to make that balloon soon enough! My primary mission in the meantime is to act as a communications hub in …
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Off to a Wedding!
Ruth, JTA and I are on our way to Telford where, tomorrow, they'll be married. Ruth is bouncing with excitement. The car's chock-full of suits and dresses and cases and wedding favours. It's been a crazy few weeks and a crazy morning, but the ball's rolling now.
I'm feeling really energised about the whole thing. Bring … -
Hectic (so let's look at Paul, instead of writing a proper blog post)
Between SmartData work, Three Rings work, freelance work, strange new bits of voluntary work, and the rapidly-looming wedding between Ruth & JTA (along with handling all of the crises that come with that, like the two mentioned on the wedding blog and the threat of rail strike action on the weekend of the event, which …
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Favourite Firefox Four Feature FAIL!
I've been playing about with the beta of Firefox 4 for a little while now, and I wanted to tell you about a feature that I thought was absolutely amazing, until it turned out that it was a bug and they "fixed" it. This feature is made possible by a handful of other new tools …
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Googling for Suicide, Part II
You may remember that earlier this year I wrote a letter to Google suggesting that they ought to publicise the number of Samaritans to people searching for suicide-related topics: sort-of like a free Featured Link, but just advertising the phone number of a support service that, in particular, provides emotional support to those who are …
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A Video Game Movie I'd See
Video game movies are notoriously bad, no matter how awesome the game that inspired them. Wing Commander took a classic video game series and completely ruined it. Doom was incredibly dull, even though it was based on one of the most popular game series that have ever exited. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time …
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Skinheads
A few years ago, I was lucky enough to hear a reading of a fantastic piece of erotic literature, Skinheads, by a friend of mine, Jacqueline Applebee. The story isn't just wonderfully naughty, it's also full of edge-of-your-seat apprehension on behalf of the protagonist as she explores a terrifying taboo. This week I was delighted …
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Ruth & JTA's Stag/Hen Party Weekend, Part III
With their wedding just around the corner, Ruth and JTA had a combined stag/hen party weekend, a couple of weeks back. You've probably already seen part one and part two - here's the finale! Click on pictures if you want to see them larger.
Sunday
A Simpler Breakfast
Compared to the big fry-up of … -
Ruth & JTA's Stag/Hen Party Weekend, Part II
With their wedding just around the corner, Ruth and JTA had a combined stag/hen party weekend, a couple of weeks back. I wrote a little about it already - here's the second of the three parts. As usual, click on pictures to embiggen.
Saturday
A Mighty Fry Up
Matt, Paul and I kick-started everybody's … -
On This Day In 2009
Looking Back
On this day in 2009 I'd just announced that Claire and I had broken up after our seven year relationship. I attacked Virgil's omnia vincit amor (love conquers all), countering that our love for one another was not sufficient to prevent the difficulties we'd been having. That the breakup was among the most structured, … -
Ruth & JTA's Stag/Hen Party Weekend, Part I
With their wedding just around the corner, Ruth and JTA had a combined stag/hen party weekend, a couple of weeks back (yes, I know it's taken me a while to blog about it. Here's some of the highlights. As usual, click pictures for bigger versions.
Friday
Jordans
Most of the party was to take …