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An Update From Gareth
We've not seen so much of Not-Gay Gareth of late. He's sent me an e-mail to let me know why this is, and he's allowed me to share it with you all, so anybody who cares can see quite how busy he is:
AAAARGH!!!! I feel I should owe everyone an email to explain exactly … -
Murder Mystery Night 2
Last night, Ruth ran the second of her murder mystery nights, which was cool. It didn't work as fluidly as the first - partially owing to, in my opinion, a less well-conceived pack, and partially because it turned out that Paul's character, who's gender Ruth had changed to facilitate the number of people available, was …
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Of Unusual Troma Nights
Well, Paul's mid-Troma Night fire was still on, so after watching The Wicker Man we all raided the nature reserve for wood, raided the filling station for petrol (mmm... accelerant) and went and set up on the beach.
Hollywood Pizza were good enough to bring us our pizza on the beach, which was awfully nice of … -
Fun And Games With Google Suggest
Ah, the fun that's to be had with Google Suggest:
Some interesting facts we've learned:
"Gay people are gay" results in more hits than "Microsoft is bad".
The only things people seem to say about Wikipedia is that it's slow and that it's down.
The only people who don't distrust or hate eBay … -
Reb Is Still Alive
Curious. I haven't really heard from her since July 2004 but it turns out that she's still alive and on the internet - I just received the following e-mail from my girlfriend of 1999-2001ish, Reb:
From: Rebecca ******** [*********@hotmail.com]
To: ***@sc*tmania.org
Date: Mar 24, 2006 3:10 PM
Subject: Hey you!
long time no hear, hows life?
Wanna talk?
xxxxx
Well, that's … -
A Winemaking Idea
For centuries - and particularly in Wales - people have made silver birch wine from the sap of the silver birch tree. We have loads of them around here, and this is apparently the perfect time of year to collect their sap. If enough people feel like helping me harvest sap and making wine, we'll …
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Spring Is Here: The Gulls Say So
Well, Spring's finally coming around: the tell tale sign for me is that the black-headed gulls are back. One flew over my head as I crossed the bridge on the way to work this morning; for your reference, they're the ones that look like this:
Their reappearance is a good sign that the weather's taking a … -
Dark Side Active Listening
Disclaimer: we don't endorse any of this.
Following my post about active listening a few weeks back, JTA and I have been discussing the potential of what we're calling Dark Side Active Listening - that is; the use (misuse?) of the skills taught by practitioners of active listening for the purpose of upsetting, infuriating, disorienting, or … -
Aberystwyth Webcams Widget
There's a reason that people shouldn't show me new programming languages and development platforms: I try them out. Even when I've got other things I should be doing. Ah well.
And so I'd like to present: the Aberystwyth Webcams Widget [update: link dead], which collates the images of the three Ceredigion Country Council webcams into … -
Another Weekend In Norfolk
Right - Claire and I will be out of town this weekend: this, combined with Pagan Wanderer Lu's upcoming gig in the Cooper's Arms, Aberystwyth (which I'm sorry to be missing!) on Saturday, means there'll be no Troma Night this week. Sorry, guys, but hey - you should be at the Cooper's Arms anyway.
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Claire, “Friends Only” Weblogs, And Employment
As Jon said, people like Alec and Suz have made their weblogs friends-only for the purpose of attempting to hide what goes in in their lives from employers, prospective employers, or the world in general. On the purpose of hiding such things from employers, I think that Claire's most recent blog post (which talks about …
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Grr! Money!
After getting myself all pleased that the first of the month was coming and I'd have some money to pay the rent, the bills (phone/ADSL got disconnected this morning; BT are unreasonable cunts), etc., guess what - I'm exactly as poor as I was yesterday.
Fucking shitty wank arse buggery. I'm owed £300 by a client, … -
Vespers
Some time ago, I recommended Photopia as a great text-based adventure for both beginners and veterans: with a great, sweet story (with a slightly depressing ending) and a short play time, it's just great to show people why text-based adventures are fun.
Here's my latest recommendation: Vespers. It's dark, cold, and disturbing - insanity, bubonic plague, … -
Features UNIX Has That Life Needs
It's come to my attention that there are a lot of things that computers in general - and, in particular, UN*X-flavoured operating systems - offer that are sadly lacking in Real Life. I'm hoping that Life 2.0 will include a number of these features. (Life 2.0, of course, will not be like Web 2.0 - …
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Active Listening
I just thought I'd take the time to share with you all some things I've learned about active listening over the last few years: techniques to benefit more fluid communication with less scope for conflicts - and with the capability to help de-fuse arguments before they get out of control. I know that I've spoken …