Another blog post showed a friend's skill with close-up digital photos of flowers. This reminded my of my recent holiday to Cornwall where I had mixed success with the same. Here we go:

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Years back, one of my main interests was Napoleanic Wars - mainly the naval. I couldn't get enough of it. Fortunately a rather excellent series of books existed by an author called Alexander Kent - following the career of Richard Bolitho from young Midshipman to his death in 1815. (The author has carried on with his son, but that was enough for me ( Read more... )

Damnit, they've taken out the Christopher Lee scenes from Return of the King - unforgivable!!! The rest of the film had better make up for that ...

Code Delphi, begin hereIt's funny how things often follow another event. I'd just finished reading a few entries of Silmaril's diary. One entry described how some dude had made a threat of gunning people down or something ( Read more... )

Ah, more like it. My Babylon 5 villan..


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Now one for Babylon 5. Can't say I like this one so much, he was not my favourite character, but his attributes are okay.


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A Pirates of the Carribean "what are you" thing:


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Code Delphi, begin hereI can't believe what I've just done. This sort of entry I'm about to write will make anyone reading it feel better about being a geek. No matter how much you might consider yourself a geek, I've just gone insantly geeky ( Read more... )

Code Delphi, begin hereBack in the 1980s whilst I was at middle-school my brother and I had an Atari ST-FM computer. In the period before Dungeon Master came out was a type of game in a style before that first-person-real-time thing - a sort of real-time turn based game ( Read more... )