Back from an incredibly uplifting, memorable weekend with the choir. Lots of singing, fun... an absolute delight ( Read more... )

My ISP is set up to use Netscape, and converting it to IE looks like Hell on Earth. However, I use Netscape 4.7 and it's refusing to handle accents lately and is otherwise being a PITA ( Read more... )

And another one:

http://www.thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.This makes your own slogans ( Read more... )

I can't remember laughing this much for a long, long, LONG time.

Was given this link: http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/ via a mail group. It turns text on websites into dialects such as Cockney, redneck, etc. And... it WORKS!! Just sent it the URL for an article I wrote, and have been sitting here with tears in my eyes at the cockney version ( Read more... )

Frustration is a power cut lasting 30 minutes when a deadline is due in. Bliss is having saved what I was doing literally a few seconds before everything went black, so didn't lose a single phrase. Yeahhhh ( Read more... )

Shamelessly robbed from alexpgp but as I don't know how to do references to specific posts (and yes, that's on my list of things to learn, like LJ-cut), it's here. It's wonderful. Thanks, Alex ( Read more... )

Work day. Bleh. How to transform hot air into sensible prose, in fact. Not sure if I've succeeded, to be honest.

However, I've posted another short Professionals piece to my website, Christmas SpiritIt's light, silly, very short, and includes references to elves, James T. Kirk and the Salvation Army (don't ask but where would Pros fiction be ( Read more... )

... inspired by mininisoo writing about identification with characters, and some of my thoughts here are in my reply to her (excellent) post. However, I've been wanting to ramble about it for a while ( Read more... )

Translation can be a strange animal. Just got a job sheet from an agency asking me to translate two words, i.e. "Wasser bewegt ( Read more... )

This is hilarious. Irreverent and in bad taste, but oh God, it's funny.

A light light relief is always welcome, and it's well worth reading (unless you're a major fan of George W).