Well, I appear to fallen foul of the "get a haircut" craze that's been going around lately (okay, slight exaggeration: two other people have recently mentioned haircuts). So, after about ten years of ponytails and getting annoyed at the wind, the locks have been lopped off. No buzzcut here, thank the lord, but I think my longest hair is now closer ( Read more... )

Oh my, I just reached half-way... 25,000 words (plus eight, but let's round) in, ooh, about seventeen or eighteen days... I'm not at all sure where they came from ( Read more... )

Hoorah ( Read more... )

Gah ( Read more... )

It's just occurred that I sat down to write that last entry with a particular topic in mind, only to digress outrageously and forget all about it.

This month is, as hawkida told you some time ago, is NaNoWriMo ((inter)National Novel Writing Month). Somewhat foolishly, I've decided to give this a go too and, somewhat predictibly, I'm already behind ( Read more... )

I just got back home today after spending the last week up with my parents in the north. I travelled up last Friday. The journey is just shy of 300 miles by car, and took me about seven and a half hours ( Read more... )

Work is being stressful lately. Today doubly so, but I'll leave 'part two' alone for now cos I just had an idea about where to take 'part one ( Read more... )

[...] tomorrow I find out if the first 30GB went to tape successfully...

It didn't - the tapes don't store 30GB, they store 15. Remarkably, this information doesn't seem to exist anywhere on the net; in the end I called the company who made them and asked them direct! What is this, 1990? =)

Speaking of 1990, Meg Ryan playing DeDe in Joe Versus ( Read more... )

Okay, I really tried not to start writing this, even held it off for about 20 minutes or so (entry backdated to make calendic sense), but it's no good; it has to be said: I really, really hate doing tech support work. Incidentally, I've also developed a loathing for Windows 2000, and I don't even have it on a machine of my own yet ( Read more... )

Yesterday I prepared two new PC's for use by their new owners, today I did another five. I think this is a new record for me...

Please kill me now.