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The Goose of Winters Past
So we've got unusual weather this year: snow and frost in late March, in London ( Read more... ) -
The flood is rising: go and build an archive
For those of us still left on LJ, the LJ-Archive tool has been repaired: this captures the comment threads as well as the posts (and the community content) and saves it all for posterity ( Read more... ) -
Lo! A light shines in the darkness!
Lo! A light shines in the darkness!
Photons stream outwards, out into the universe: some will be absorbed, becoming part of greater things; some will interact with other things, and be the thing that we perceive as light and warmth; most will carry on, out into infinity.
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Life through a lens
I've been told I should get some kind of Flickr or Photobucket account, and start posting some of my snapshots - and the occasional well-composed and interesting picture - online for the world to see.
It seems that there are several of them (and several online consumer comparisons, of varying degrees of reliability and credibility):
- Flickr
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On LJ: and still on LJ
I've updated my profile on LJ - or rather, inserted a preamble about the current state of LJ, and my 'take' on that:
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Not Dead But Sheeping
I should post a bit, seeing as I've travelled across Canada, fallen deeper in love, done new things, rediscovered an old one (and found that I'm better at it than I ever was, years ago), been exiled from East London, and have some truly excruciating work-related suckage to unload into the echo chamber ( Read more... ) -
The Twittering Classes, and a classroom for principles
I followed a link from a tweet by @KayGeeUK:For those who don't yet know why I love Stuart Hall, go read this interview.
Bear with me on this one: I clicked anyway, because I rather like @KayGeeUK, but left-wing academics rarely interest me and the thought of reading an extended Guardian interview with one of them fills me with dismay ( Read more... ) -
Writing down, down, and down the rabbit-hole
Odd the things that you can follow from Twitter: Charlie Stross linked to A parody of Twilight, set in Ian Banks' Culture, written by
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More Paypal news that isn't in The News.
This deserves a wider audience: you can't pay for Dreamwidth (or support the Diaspora project) using Paypal. Or Google Checkout. Here's what Dreamwidth have to say about that:
We've seen a bunch of people questioning why we don't accept payment via PayPal. We used to, but PayPal closed our account with them, after demanding that we censor our users ( Read more... ) -
No Comment
Regrettably, I will no longer be able to comment on LJ, except on those rare occasions when I settle down in front of a Windows Laptop at home; I mostly read LJ on the move, and the new LJ comments page does not work on any browser I can run on my Android phone ( Read more... )