Thought I would login and see if Livejournal still works.

It seemed appropriate given that the dancing badgers have been my LJ icon since LJ allowed animated gifs to be used as icons.

20 years since the original Badger Badger Badger flash animation. 20 years in which Flash has been banned by pretty much all browsers and no longer exists. ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that I haven't updated this in quite some time. I keep meaning to but never seem to get around to it.

Well what better time than when I find myself sitting in a bar in Barcelona drinking Norwegian beer, in a bar owned by a Danish guy talking to the owner and a woman from Germany. Well I was until 5 minutes ago. Now I am drinking ( Read more... )

This is a screen grab from the Daily Mail website. Despite it being the DM, I'm almost speechless.

This should be nominated for a Hugo.

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OK what the fuck just happened? I was gong to write a post about how at 9.45pm I decided at the very last minute to vote Green, rather than Lib-Dem, but it all seems irrelevant now ( Read more... )

This weekend was spent building a canoe*, freezing my face off**, watching the Avengers***, and disappointing an old chap I'd never met before.****


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Zonked this morning having got to bed about 1.30am. Yesterday we got up early and caught the 6am train for a day out in London. The main reason for going was to visit the British Museum, which was having an exhibition on the history of clocks. It was fascinating - I love the engineering behind old mechanical clocks and watches, and am in complete ( Read more... )

Looks like we survived this morning's solar eclipse without going blind. Will have to wait until tomorrow morning to check whether or not the earth has been overrun by alien plants ( Read more... )

Interesting - so Ed Milliband now says he http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31906463wouldn't enter into a coalition with the SNP were there to be a hung parliament in May. The SNP have already said they won't enter into one with the Tories, and it seems highly unlikely the Lib-Dems would be willing to work with the Tories again ( Read more... )

Oh crap. Terry Pratchett has died.

I didn't expect that for a good few years.


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This is brilliant.

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